Mike pence. What he said to a heckler who called the former Vice President a traitor. The explosive new report claiming Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas accepted more gifts from a billionaire than previously thought. Plus, a major win for driverless taxis. Why you could be seeing more of them on the road. Bus route disaster. The Largest School district in kentucky canceling classes after some students were getting home at 10 p. M. And double duty. Meet the mom who showed up to jury duty with her four young kids. Its friday, august 11th from abc news in new york, this is america. This morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Im andrew dymburt. Im andrea fujii in for rhiannon. We begin with a catastrophic fire thats turned much of maui into a wasteland of ash and rubble. The death toll stands at at least 55 and likely to rise with as many as 1000 people still missing. Scenes like this have been playing out on block after block since tuesday, creating the states worst Natural Disaster
Hes in a lot of pain. Reporter another Family Member recounting the phone call her injured brother made. He called my father and he just let them know that he had been shot. He had told my father that the policeman was next to him and guiding him out. Reporter the suspects, killed in a shootout with police, are identified as 28 yearold Syed Rizwan Farook and his romantic partner, 27year old Tashfeen Malik. In black clothe, still firing rounds. Reporter abc news has confirmed they dropped their sixmonthold infant before heading off on the deadly rampage, telling her they had a doctors appoint. I have no idea. I am in shock myself. Reporter according to Law Enforcement source, all four guns used in the shooting were purchased legally. Two of them were purchased by the shooters and the other two purchased by another party. Bernardino, back to you. Thank you. Well this afternoon, we are learning more about the married couple accused of being behind the massacre. Abc news is reporting that
They could say, yes, he was wounded, but there was that set off a chain of things. One thing connected to another. Is it a direct enough cause, or is it too indirect to sustain, you know its one thing for the coroner to say his death is a homicide. Its another thing for a swrir to say that. You know, again, these are all decision that the federal authorities are going to have to make. We are a long way from that. This is something im sure theyre going to take some time. Theres no rush here because they essential know where John Hinckley is. Right. At the very least its an interesting footnote to history. Have we heard from the brady family . No, we have not. Or the hinckleys. No, this is just just happened. Interesting turn today. Pete, thanks so much for coming over. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Meanwhile, in other news closer to home, a loving mother and grandmother. Thats how a woman killed on the beltway is being remembered tonight. Mourners gathered to pay final respects to kare
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good friday morning. At 5 01. I am kristen sze with leyla gulen and meteorologist mike nicco monitoring the storm. The flood watch will show you what exactly this is going to rain. Until 6 00 tomorrow morning all of the north bay is under the flash flood warnings and under wind advisory so expect the wind and rain to pick up in the morning and afternoon with southern winds at 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour so the bridges are going to be bumpy. Scattered light showers north of san jose and you can see san rafael is dry on 101. The day planner the next 12 hours, full of rain and wind and temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s during the evening. Right now, leyla gulen has commute problems. C. H. P. Issued a high wind advisory which is what we are look at with a few big rigs. Keep both hands on the wheel. It is light and dry. The richmondsan rafael toll plaza is not showing water off the roads yet. Dry conditions so for. If you think you
Is not a matter of if, but when. People are getting ready. We have been watching them work on the storm preparation all week. Yesterday we saw people paying a lot of tax attention to trees especially those that are weakened by the drought. A lot of Tree Trimmers and working trying to get the trees down before the winds take them down. They are expecting some trees to fall during the storm. The clippers will be busy the next couple of days. If you have a diseased tree that is recommended for removal maybe vacate the house until the winds die down. Sandbags are on peoples minds. People want to get the packs up and stacked up around their homes and businesses to keep the water out. We hear people in lowlying area moan for flooding are concerned because they hear of all the rain expected to come here to the north bay so sandbags, ready to go trees trimmed back and we are ready, just waiting for it to come down and we will be here throughout the morning to show you the conditions. In the so