In the news tonight, im mafia muslims are holding more than 100 hostages in Washington People washington, d. C. A muslim Religious Center and Washington City hall. Radio news man was killed in the city hall takeover and at least 11 persons were injured. The invaders demanded and got cancellations of the premier of a new movie about the islamic prophet muhammad. Later in the newscast we hope to bring you updated reports as they develop in washington. Susan you have just written a book about the siege in washington, american caliph, march 1977. What interested you in this story . Shahan it was all interesting when i found it. I did not know about this. Like a lot of people i found, did not know about this. I and counter the story in 2015 and this was right after the shooting at the magazine offices in paris. If you remember, them french magazine had published some cartoons that people found to be offensive. It led to actually, they were attacked several times. In 2015 two men entered the
Temperatures were warmer yesterday, and this morning were carrying that over, up by six degrees in concord, livermore, up by san jose up by four as well. Again, mostly clear overhead and a weaker breeze will lead to a pretty big warm up for our inland mounts. At the coast we will be warmer too but beautiful for pacifica. We will go 71 in the city of San Francisco, upper 70s to upper 80s for our bay side communitys and as we go inland, nearing 100 in ant i dont care today, livermore expected to go to 97. We will cool off as we get into the weekend. I will look at the extended forecast in just a few moments. Lets look at the highways with sal. Good morning, sal. Good morn, rosemary. Traffic is right now moving pretty well around bay area. We are looking at the pass and hoping alighter friday. Right now, the traffic looks pretty good, and 580 coming through the area. It is not a window commute and it continues to be it is not a bad commute, and it continues to be very nice. We are also lo
To get things done. His defense team says what the feds call influence peddling and kickbacks are just friends helping friends. He is a big, public figure people know. Hes got a Top Legal Team on their side. And you never know what a jury is going to do. Reporter silver stepped down as speaker when he was arrested. He is pleading not guilty to all of the charges. This trial is expected to take four to six weeks. Were live in lower manhattan, lisa evers, fox 5 news. Back to you. Dari Quentin Tarantino is saying he will not be intimidated by Police Groups calling for a boycott of his film. This is the first time he commented since he spoke out about police brutality, referring to cops at murderers. The director says the Law Enforcement groups have attempting to bully him instead of dealing with the problem of police brutality. Identified the remains of a marine from queens who fought in world war ii in november 1943. James riley took part in the battle for an island. The 20yearold was am
Fire fighters. We have encountered a lot of ice and crews are walking gingerly on the ice. We were able to get salt down right away, but were waiting for the major salt trucks to get here. Reporter smoke alarms alerted occupants of the home to the fire allowing the victims three elderly relatives to get out safely. Now they are staying with family as Fire Fighters finish the job as investigators work to find a cause. And back here live you can tell crews have since left the scene. So pretty clear here other than restoration crews looking at that age, again they imagined to get out of the side door but unfortunately that 76 yearold woman was stuck on the front porch. The investigation is still underway. The cause of the fire is still unknown. That is latest from yeadon Delaware County, Nicole Brewer for Eyewitness News at cw philly. Nicole, thank you. 703 67 89 lets head outside to the sky deck and katie you were saying less wind today. Less wind and that means even though it is still c