With dave. A developing story across the country this morning . Several Police Officers were . Ambushed over the weekend. Three. On sunday alone. Including one in st. Louis. The 46 year old officer was targeted while he sat in his cruiser last night. He was sitting in traffic when a car pulled up, and the other he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but hes expected to survive. Officers has been out all night searching for the shooter using helicopter patrols and swat teams. They believe he was driving a silver vehicle. Detectives are also going over traffic and surveillance cameras. The officer is a 20 year veteran, with three children. And earlier on sunday . Another officer was shot and killed. This time in san antonio, texas. Police say 50 year old detective Benjamin Marconi was writing a someone executed him. The officer was pulled over, when another car pulled up behind him. That driver then walked up and shot the officers window. Hitting him twice in the head. The
No closed captioning is were following a developing story out of sanibel this morning. Someone shot an officer during a traffic stop. It happened around 8 last night. According to police, the officer was conducting a stop, when someone opened fire. The gunman then took off, but was later found in a nearby into custody after a shootout with police. The officer was taken to lee memorial hospital, where he was treated then released. The motive for the shooting is still under investigation. And in st. Louis the search is on for the person who shot a Police Officer there. According to the st. Louis police chief. The sergeant was shot during what is being called an ambush style attack. It happened last night. The chief says the officer was . Not involved in a call or a traffic stop. He was sitting at a stop shot twice in the face. He is currently in critical condition, but is expected to survive. And in san antonio, texas. Authorities there are looking for the person responsible for shooting
Its the worst fire to hit tennessee in one hundred years. Right now more than a dozen fires are burning near gatlinburg. Lets get you caught up with some of the latest numbers. At least three people have been killed. More than a dozen are in the hospital. One resort was destroyed. Their homes. As a wall of flames closed in on gatlinburg. Its being fueled by the areas worst drought in a decade. Demarco morgan is in tennessee with the latest. 47 52 bruce Wilson Sullivan county fire chief 1 10 1 16 greg lanham gatlinburg, tn resident 1 16 1 33 Demarco Morgan cbs news, gatlinburg, tn hit the gas hit the gas youre watching cell phone video taken by two brothers as they escaped from a vacation resort area in the mountains of gatlinburg, tn. They say they had no warning as the wall of flames surrounded them last night. And their only choice was to ride through or die. Please lord let us get off this mountain by early evening, wind speeds suddenly doubled turning into Hurricane Force winds tha
Overnight. There working to control the fire is burning in eastern tennessee. President elect trump said that people who burn the American Flag should they still time. Allison kropff is in the newsroom with this comment. People really get fired up over this and on both sides for and against. The big issue is what mister trump is proposing because is thissi flagburning back in 1984 to give you background, there was a protester who was at the 1984 Republican National convention and he doused the flag and kerosene and lit it on fire and it caused a big uproar and turned into a case that made it to the supreme court. The court ruled that flagburning is indeed an act that is protected under the came right back with the flag protection act of 1989 which the higher court struck down as well. He didnt just impose aforementioned jail time. Hes talking about taking away citizenship as well. That is another issue. The government cant just take away certain things because a person decided to burn
Pulling contaminated water out of the aquifer and pushing it back into the plant where it will be used to process the fertilizer. They have an Extensive Network of monitoring wells they say and the contaminated network has not reached the monitoring wells indicating much of it has been captured. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection was mosaic has notify firstdegree federal eps as well as polk county. We have a crew on the way. This gypsum stack was built back in the 90s with a liner. But when a sink hole develops beneath it, there is no way the liner will hold. Steve andrews live in our tampa news room. Thank you. More breaking news now. A fatal crash is causing some big problems on i75 in hernando county. Newschannel8s paul lamison is in eagle 8 right now over the more about it. Paul . Reporter good evening keith. Here, take a look. We can finally see the accident. These are three of the six cars involved. You can see the back car hit the middle car, crashed up against a