some way, either they took his house or his car without warrant, and he s trying to prove to them in some way, shape or form that he shouldn t be treated the way he is. at this point in time we have a standoff. again as you say they ve evacuated the neighborhood but no injuries so far, rick. rick: we ll continue the watch the situation. apparently the man has also threatened to burn that house down. this is something we ll watch very closely. william la jeunesse in l.a. jenna over to you. jenna: a few other stories we want to get to as well. eight days after the deadly shooting rampage at a beer distribution plant in connecticut the warehouse has reopened today. workers paused to remember the nine victims in that attack. in the middle box the wildfires in russia raging out of controls and now fears the flames could reach areas by the chernoble disaster and affect things the
the blown out well is going extremely well. static kill project is well under way and all signs point to success. and another fox news alert for you. iran now refuting this morning s reported grenade attack on president mahmoud ahmadinejad saying it was just a firecracker. arab tv and a conservative iranian web site both reported homemade grenade was tossed at ahmadinejad s convoy as it drove to a stadium. some injuries and an arrest were reported at the site of the explosion, it was 100 yards from the president s vehicle. the report set off a wave of confusing rumors all over tehran. but the iranian government now says absolutely nothing unusual happened but you can t always believe them. we are learning more about the man who shot eight people to death at a beer distribution plant in connecticut before turning the gun on himself. family and friends of 34-year-old omar thornton say he complained of racial discrimination at work.
governor defeating joe heffington. republican representative joey moran are the state s senate candidates in kansas. we are learning more about the man who shot eight people to death at a beer distribution plant in connecticut and then ended up killing himself. family and friends of 34-year-old omar thornton say he complained of racial discrimination at work. he s had some instances at this company where he where he was some racial overtones there that, you know, the n word. they call him the n word and hanging nooses in the restroom. they re writing stuff on the mirror, stuff like that. right after the shooting, thornton allegedly called his mother saying i killed the five racists bothering me. union reps say he never filed a racial discrimination claim against that company. sorry, charlie. the queen of soul won t be coming to your birthday party?
times. we want to join breaking news happening right now in manchester, connecticut. police there briefing the media about that deadly shooting yesterday at a beer distribution plant. nine people were killed including the shooter who shot himself. let s listen. very tedious task and just a very time consuming and tedious mission. we have been working in attempt to reconstruct and understand this deadly incident. so far we ve recovered two .9 millimeter handguns from the premsis as well as one shotgun in the supespect s vehicle. that does not appear to be used during this assault. all the suspects previous addresses have been searched and to this point, no other additional evidence has been recovered from those addresses. although he was fairly nomaddic and he moved from place to place with no current, real, you know, place where he stayed for too
years and he was between 25 and 30 years old. he had been having some disciplinary problems and, basically, it sounds like he knew he was going to be reprimanded and fired and he came prepared with a weapon and opened fire after that meeting. again, this is out of manchester, connecticut, for those of you who may be just tuning in a workplace shooting this morning there. suzanne, explain to us what kind of workplace is that here? it s a beer distribution plant and the shooter, thomas, was a driver for the company. and so he arrived at work this morning and where did he walk in and what have you learned, what type of colleagues there of his were injured? it s unclear, still. i talked to several people. one woman who actually heard gunshots as she was running out of the warehouse. i believe the shooting happened in the warehouse facility. one man was on the phone with his son who was actually still