Start this friday morning. Snipers opened fire on Police Officers during peaceful protests over the shootings of two black men. 11 injured, 5 officers dead. Here in the bay area, Oakland Police faced off with protestors throughout the night after they caused destruction and shutdown of freeway. Well get to that in a moment. First authorities in texas have ended the standoff with a suspect connected to the fatal shootings there. Officials say two snipers positioned themselves above crowds gathered yesterday to carry out the attack. Don champion has the story reporter Dallas Police say officers were ambushed thursday night when snipers opened fire on police during a protest downtown. [ gunfire ] reporter people ran for their lives. Its almost like the gunshots were coming at us. Reporter officers used patrol cars to take cover. We know that rifles were used to injure and kill dallas officers and a dart officer. Reporter 11 officers were shot, five died, including Brent Thompson the first
Course, cbss don champion is live in dallas with what we know at this point this morning. Don. Reporter good morning. People here in dallas are waking up to a city thats essentially on lockdown. As you can see behind me, several parts of downtown are now considered crime scenes as authorities try piecing together what they call a coordinated attack on Police Officers. Reporter Dallas Police say officers were ambushed thursday night when snipers opened fire on police during a protest downtown. [ gunfire ] reporter people ran for their lives. Its almost like the gunshots were coming at us. Reporter officers used patrol cars to take cover. We know that rifles were used to injure and kill dallas officers and a dart officer. Reporter 11 officers were shot, five died, including Brent Thompson the firstever dart officer killed in the line of duty. Another dart officer misty mcbride was shot in the arm. Her young daughter spoke to reporters outse of the hospital. Im just glad that shes alive r
Get off that protest line. What hes telling black men to do instead. To the race for the white house. Donald trumps v. P. Pick could be days away, while some republicans leaders look to block his nomination. And Hillary Clinton looks to unite democrats against trump, picking up a crucial endorsement from Bernie Sanders today but a new poll suggests her email scandal could keep haunting her. Good morning from studio 57 newsroom here at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you, im annemarie green. Well, president obama travels to dallas today for a Memorial Service honoring the five officers killed in last weeks attack. The mother of Micah Johnson said his time in the Army Reserves changed him. Funeral services will be held this week for at least three of the officers and a candlelight vigil to honor the victims was held last night. Don champion is in dallas. Good morning, don. Reporter good morning, annemarie. At that vigil last night, they say it will not tear this commun
We are also told that some bulldozer crews are en route to help fire crews move around from this to get better access to actually whats burning. We havent seen the bulldozers yet but well keep an eye out for that. An active situation. Once again more than two hours since this fire started in newark. Believe in newark, im mark sayre, kpix 5. One of our directors was flying over the scene of that fire today and he got this video from the sky. The faa said that they have not restricted flights yet. They may impose flight restrictions however which would impact local aircraft but not flights arriving at oakland. Now to the latest on the dallas officers ambush. Heres what we know right now. Among the five officers killed, a newlywed and iraq veteran. We also know more about the gunman. We know his name and that police now believe he acted alone. Were also learning there have been targeted Police Shootings in georgia, tennessee and missouri. We have a series of reports. Our Team Coverage beg
Serve. We look at todays eyeopener, your world in 90 seconds. It is a sniper from up here somewhere. It is a sniper . You hear the shots. Get down. Get down. Target and Kill Five Police officers in dallas. Police say the snipers were targeting officers in an effort to injury and kill as many as they could. Get down officer down. Police started shooting in one direction, whoever was shooting, was shooting back. Thats when the war began. A peaceful protest. No one was acting up or crazy. Watch out we was running, they kept shooting. We dont know where it is coming from. I didnt see anybody else. It was just the cops. I believe i speak for every single american when i say that we are horrified over these events. Lets be clear. There is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks. You see video footage running towards gunfire, with no chance to protect themselves. To put themselves in harms way to make sure citizens can get to a place of security. All that to say the Police Office