Immediately report for duty. The messages say the recipients will be headed to iran and threaten them with jail time if they dont contact their local recruitment office. They even include the name of the recruiter. Of course, these texts are fake and could be part of a more elaborate scam. Catherine herridge has the stor reporter the army is investigating the texts. They appear to start on monday. They dont have a source or motive, but the scam seems designed to capitalize on the conflict with iran. Imagine getting a text that threatens jail time. If you fail to report to a Recruitment Center to be drafted into the u. S. Military. Got me really nervous because im still in high school. Reporter 18yearold George Barnes received this text that read youve been marked eligible and must report to the nearest branch for immediate departure to iran. Except military drafts ended after the vietnam war. Have a completely volunteer armed force. Reporter and were abolished by congress in 1973, maki
Declaration of independence. Frenzied reaction to prince harry and Meghan Markles plans to separate themselves from royal duties and spend their time in north america. Its thursday, january 9th, 2020. We begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Iran appears to be standing down which is a good thing for all parties concerned. The president threatens new sanctions against iran. Lawmakers were briefed on the strike that killed irans general. There was not evidence presented of imminent attack. Disaster for the administrations position. Democrats fall right in line. They are in love with terrorists. Investigation continues into the cause of a plane crash in iran. Iranian officials are refusing to share the flight recorder with investigators. This is a heartbreaking tragedy. Puerto rico is still recovering after a powerful earthquake. Magnitude 6. 4 quake knocked out the islands biggest power plant. Deadly wildfires continue to rage in australia. The death toll f
Mark will tell you if tomorrow will be good for a barbecue. We are talking about a bit of a warming trend, these are minor changes headed for fourth of july but look at this, a beautiful shot here, heres the salesforce tower, like the clouds always show up here. You can see them front and center. The clouds have increased in coverage over the past few hours. Later today we are expecting mostly sunny skies, and patchy fog could be a factor later on this afternoon. 6070s and 80s, match the height that we had yesterday. Current numbers have not been moving much 50 degrees, santa rosa. San francisco, 53, walnut creek, 54. Here we go, cloud cover looking down towards sfo, we have a bit of a breeze, winds around 15 to 25 miles per hour. Today could be breezy, low clouds this morning, increasing sunshine this afternoon and theres the temperatures there, 60s, 70s all the way to the low mid 80s. A closer look coming up in a few. We are watching traffic, its pretty light so far, im going to take
The sweater with a jacket. Yes, dress in layers because it is brisk out there, you definitely want to bundle up this morning, the afternoon should be okay, scattered low clouds and the unofficial wind gauge was the right portion, breeze around 10 to 20 miles per hour. 60 to 70s and 80s and then increase in sunshine later on today. Heres a satellite showing high clouds in a Central California and a nice sunset last night. We have been watching the fog next banding coverage hit the coast. A few patches in the north bay to start out here wednesday morning. Current numbers, lots of 50s on the board, santa rosa 52, livermore 56 and here is the plan for today. Starting out with patchy fog, temperatures into the 50s and into the afternoon more sunshine, 60s, 70s and 80s. These numbers not a big change from yesterday, maybe some party clouds near portions of the coastline. We will have more of your forecast in a few minutes. 702 and we are keeping an eye on a major collision. The coroner is he
We will talk about all things fourth of july in a few minutes. If your home because you are on holiday, thank you for joining us. Welcome to the 9. We begin the newscast in the east bay were we have been following a big traffic problem on interstate 80 through heyward. Five minutes ago the backup heading southbound started to ease up after a deadly crash. We are live near the scene. What do chp officers have to say . Reporter they say this is a fatal crash and it was something that was possibly unavoidable at this point. And sadly the motorcyclist did pass away. I will say in the last four minutes, the five lanes of 880 have just reopened i want to say maybe 8 50 am. The motorcyclist turned away and been dealing started to reopen. If youre heading southbound on interstate 880 through heyward now the five lanes are open but the backup has extended. Take a look at the pictures we were able to capture as we got on scene about 8 45 am. We can see the motorcycle down the road right before i