Reporter im cate caugiran live at concord bart station where a teenage boy caught on fire. Well tell you why police say it was an accident. Reporter folks in san jose sleeping a little easier this morning. An arson suspect is in jail. Im kiet do with a live report coming up. And fire danger remains high in the bay area with a red flag warning continuing this morning. The latest problem area near the San Mateo County coast. Fire started in san gregorio about 9 p. M. Last night. It is contained this morning. There were no injuries and no buildings burned. Investigators trying to find out who started the fire. Unbelievably dry conditions outside, record dry conditions and now, we have High Pressure overhead. We have seen some strong gusty winds with an offshore wind. And yeah, that is just a recipe for dangerous fire conditions. So red flag warnings are up again this morning until 8 a. M. Seeing some gusty winds over 20 Miles Per Hour across some of the mountains, even had a gust of over
11 30 they were called to the concord bus station where they found the victim on fire trying to put it out himself. They say he was working on car and had gas on his clothes and police say he was in a car with another person when one of the two of them lit a cigarette. And it was that combination the vapor from the gas on the victims clothes mixed with the lighter that caused him to catch on fire. Police say he suffered nonlife threatening injuries. We know the other person who was in the car with the victim left before Police Arrived here on the scene. Live at the concord bart station, cate caugiran, kpix 5. We have developing news about the arson fires that put san jose on edge. Kpix 5s kiet do reports, police have a suspect. Reporter the arrest happened at 8 10 p. M. Last night. The San Jose Police departments covert Response Unit went in to make the bust. Apparently, this guy was under surveillance for 24 hours. He is now booked into the Santa Clara County jail. A sketch was releas
Deceased man there. Police searched the area and talked to neighbors but no arrests so far. The red flag warning for fires continues until tomorrow in the bay area. Kpix 5s Christin Ayers reports a massive brush fire burned for several hours on Kimball Island in the delta. Reporter by evening, chopper 5 showed that the fire on Kimball Island had flared to several acres. Fueled by an overgrowth of tender dry brush burning as hot as it would have during the dry summer months. George watched from across the delta in antioch. Kind of spread bilger and a little bigger and eventually it was all the way down to the end of the island. Reporter three buildings burned and a handful of people on the sparsely populated island had to be evacuated as the fire formed a ring around a smattering of structures. The lack of rain and the unseasonably dry conditions just make the fire conditions just as bad as in the middle of fire season. Reporter the intensity of the fire a direct result of severe Drough
Student suddenly opened fire this morning. A 12yearold, apparently armed with a shotgun, wounding several others, one of whom is in Critical Condition. And yet again as students were seen fleeing from another american school, inside at the height of it a teacher stepped in to a dangerous situation to keep it from getting even worse. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs mike taibbi. Reporter it was just after 7 30 a. M. , the start of the school day at Berrendo Middle School in eastern new mexico when the latest suspected School Shooter opened fire. At least two students, a 12yearold boy and a 13yearold girl were airlifted in Critical Condition to a trauma hospital in lubbock, texas, 175 miles away. The alleged gunman, a seventh grader himself and armed with a shotgun was confronted first by a teacher and then the police. Its one thing for an armed state Police Officer to enter a school and do his or her job, its another thing for a teacher or staff member to intervene in a situation li
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. They were entrusted with the this is our western edition. They were entrusted with the most powerful, most lethal arsenal in the world. But tonight the trust placed in them has been called into question. National security correspondent david martin tells us that 34 air force Nuclear Missile officers have been stripped of their certification. Reporter they are the men and women who would fire the nations arsenal of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and now they are implicated in what air force chief of staff mark welch say may be the biggest cheating scandal ever to hit the armed forces. We dont know an incident of this scale involving cheating. Reporter four months ago a launch officer at mall strom air force base allegedly texted the answers to a monthly proficiency test to other officers at the base. Launch officers have to pass other monthly tests as well, including a simulated launch, so the cheating probably sa