Right now at 11 00, an emotional night in the bay area as the community is coming together in two separate vigils to honor a fallen officer. This is tragic accident and as a family, we feel like we are caught in the middle. The family of the man who gunned down officer Stephen Johnson speaks out for the first time. Im jillian wang in for raj mathai. And im jessica aguirre. What are they saying . They are classifying it as a shoot g shooting. Reporter more than 100 people gathered for a candlelight vigil with San Jose Police officer Michael Johnson was gunned down, but the tragic shooting has been hard for the family of the suspects, too, 57yearold scott dunham. We feel like we are caught in the middle, because we are mourning for the officer, and for our uncle. Reporter they responded to the call of a suicidal man when dunham shot and killed the officer. He does have bipolar and the alcohol ixand all of it took effect, and we want the community to know that we do care and we are sorry.
Children working in dangerous and deadly conditions in coal mines a half a world away. Welcome to alJazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Today begins the second full woke of the Government Shutdown and just 10 days until the dead ceiling deadline when the Government Faces the possibility of not being able to pay its bills for the first time ever. Congress is returning to work today to try to resolve the crisis, but Republican Leaders wont pass a budget unless president obama is willing to negotiate. Erika ferrari has more. Time is running out. October 17, the United States will reach its Borrowing Limit and for the first time, the nation will default. As the Government Shutdown enters day seven and with no compromise in sight, House Speaker john boehner is demanding any plan include spendings cuts and changes to the Affordable Health care act, also known as obamacare. Theres no way were going to pass, the votes are not in the house to pass a clean debt limit. The president is not negotiat
Japan as boeing loses one of its most loyal customers and in the rat holes we go to the cole mine to see the dangers faced by child workers. And multiple attacks on security targets across egypt and gunmen killed at least five soldiers near suez canal and it was north of the city of izmalia and explosion at a Security Headquarters at south sinai and in cairo we are getting reports of a rocketpropelled grenade attack used by the Egyptian Army and we have more from correspondent who joins us on the line from cairo and not naming her for security reasons. What more can you tell us about this . We have spoken to the general in charge of the Security Headquarters in the south sinai where there was a massive explosion and he has been tells us there are two dead and at least 28 injured. This is on the south sinai area called altour and an unusual place for Something Like this to happen, in there are attacks its usually north sinai and people dont recognize the south sinai for tourism and its
It quickly went up the side of yes, sir bough buena Yerba Buena Island. There was lots of communication equipment at the top of the hill. Fire commanders dispatched a boat that attacked from the bay level and despite some of the traffic snarl the fire trucks were able to get over the bay bridge from San Francisco to back up some of the crews that were already here. Right now the fire is largely under control. There is no reason for anyone to get concerned about the residential area. We had nibble reports from telephones. There could have been fireworks involved, but we had two spot fires that were going on the side of the island. The chief says the first reports again did come from San Francisco. The good news is that there are nor injuries and there is even more good news even though the flames were traveling toward federal property and they never got quite close enough to threaten any buildings because the fire crews were able to cut them off and then contain them and chase them back
Firebreaks out on yerba buena eye land island giving firefighters a challenge and making a mess for drivers. The fire started before 8 00 tonight near the bay bridge. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Right now the good news is that the fire teams have a pretty good handle on the flames. As you mentioned it did create quite the traffic snarl and it continues to be the biggest problem. You can see the lower level of the bay bridge, traffic is pretty slow moving, but the fire teams got a handle on the flames here in the last hour. Now this was a fire that you first reported at 8 00 this evening. It quickly went up the side of yes, sir bough buena Yerba Buena Island. There was lots of communication equipment at the top of the hill. Fire commanders dispatched a boat that attacked from the bay level and despite some of the traffic snarl the fire trucks were able to get over the bay bridge from San Francisco to back up some of the crews that were already here. Right now the fire is la