Blocking the far right lane. Stay in the left two lanes. Its slow in the area. Just pass stone ridge is where the reported tree is. It may be causing slowing off west 580. Well show you the traffic toward the interchange and a live shot shows you a steady flow of traffic. All right. With updates on several breaking news stories. First, out of oakland two people are dead and the hunt for a killer is on. Today in the bay joinsing joinsing joining us live from the scene. What can you tell us, bob . Reporter we know according to oakland police, sam and laura, they havent taken anyone into custody. This was a last report based on a conversation we had with the sergeant not too long ago. Were on empire road taking place on the 9900 block of empire road. If youre not familiar with the neighborhood, its a small neighborhood sandwiched between 880, 98, and the san leandro creek. Its taking place around 1 45 this morning. Youll see in the video there was a car on fire. Its not clear what role or
Bloomquist is off and in the news, police just identified the man that scaled the trump tower in new york city using suction cups. And the jury is hearing more testimony from kathleen kanes former law School Boyfriend at her perjury trial in montgomery county. But the big story is a steamy and stormy accuweather forecast, an excessive heat warning is in effect and popup storms are possible throughout the day. We have seen the skies suddenly open up this morning and runners got caught in a heavy downpour in philadelphia and a driver was lucky to escape unharmed when a large tree came crashing down on ton of a car and landing on lincoln drive causing a big backup. We could be in for more storms this afternoon. Lets go to karen rogers tracking the humidity at the big board. Reporter we are looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan a couple of cells are now beginning to form out near harrisburg thark is a ways out. We see showers out near the coastline, these are storms that came through
Metro gets a 911 call. A mans body is found in a backyard on covey lane. I heard this pop, pop, pop, pop, 8 shots, very rapid succession. For hours the mans body laid here. Neighbors thought that pop pop was fireworks. I have really failed in my civic duty. I should have called the cops when i heard those noises immediately. It wasnt small caliber. Police say the victim, described as a hispanic male in his 30s, died from an apparent gunshot wound. And just an hour later over at parkway villas on greene lane. Police were called to a fight that broke out between two men. Once they arrived, they noticed he had an injury to his head. He was transported to Desert Springs and less than an hour, about 45 minutes later, he was declared deceased. Police tell 8 news now. The 44 year old man suffered a head injury. Of difficulty breathing. We have a couple of people, the witness and the other person in the fight detained. Two homicides in one day. Someone lost their life today and regardless of w
A hispanic male in his 30s. It was actually a neighbor here on covey lane that stumbled upon his body this afternoon. Police say the man died from an apparent gunshot wound. Homicide detectives as well as the crime scene unit is on scene this all unfolded around 1 o c ave and covey lane. Neighbors heard atleast six gunshots in the area. But thought they may have been fireworks. Shakala Alvaranga as of right now, police are still searching for a suspect. Sharie . Sharie Johnson shakala, do we know anything firefighters are making progress on the blue cut fire. Burning near cajon pass. In southern california. The fire has charred more than 37thousand acres. Working to gain control of containment lines. They hope to move people back into areas that have been evacuated. The fire has destroyed more than 100 homes and over 200 other structures. its terrible it changes everything i mean neighbors arent some people might not comes back Sharie Johnson more than 80 thousand people were intially
This is the fox25 morning news. And good morning, everybody. 6 00 on this thursday morning, it is august 18. We appreciate you being with us this morning. I am gene lavanchy. Sara a and i am sara underwood. Warm air sticking around today and meteorologist shiri spear says not quite all sunshine today. She is in the fox25 Storm Tracker Weather Center with where you will find the brightest conditions out there. Reporter yeah, to brightest conditions this morning will be north of the mass pike. South of the mass pike, this batch of rain that thank will be shifting it is lightening up as it goes. It is kind of losing steam and losing energy and that means patchy lighter rain. I havent seen more than a patch of rain. Close to worcester. Worcester at 65 degrees. Worcester at 70. 63 in lawrence staying dry there. Norwood at 59 degrees at risk for a little bit of that morning rain. It is not even going to last all morning long here. Futurecast 8 a. M. Showers from barnstable nicking worcester