I want to take this moment to welcome everyone to Trinity United Church of christ in chicago illinois. We are a church that believes that we are called to be in the heart of this community ever seeking the communities hard and our motto is that we are unashamedly black and christian. We dont think theres any contradiction between routing your self and your culture and also celebrating the christ with whom we serve. We are delighted that you are here for our booknotes. We had a wonderful experience here today. To Worship Services with a magnificent preacher to my left. And none other than the reverend doctor Rafael Warnock who is senator Rafael Warnock, who is the first africanamerican senator from the state of georgia. He has two publications, one being a way out of no way which is a memoir of his experience from savannah all the way to the senate, and a wonderful Childrens Book. He read to a small group of children immediately following the Worship Service today. We recorded that read
Fast. And then we got rescued on that bridge. They tell us that bridge has collapsed since. So, i know it was nothing but god. Tens of thousands in shelters. Amid catastrophic flooding brought by record rain fall. Dawn coles flooding evacuee at Houston Convention center i had to grab my baby, diapers, what i could. And try to swim. And hope that we could be picked up. Many more. Still waiting to be rescued. As emergency crews and volunteers race against time to reach those still trapped in their homes. Mos volunteer eat something and just dry out a little bit get a little bit of energy and a little bit of coffee in our system and were back out. Harvey has soaked some areas around houston with more than 50 inches of rain. Mos resident didnt expect this much water to fall. This is houston were used to weather like this. But, i believe this is a little more than we expected. Harris countys flood district meteorologist says that enough water has fallen to cover the entire 1800 square miles
The last of the detectives here. This happened about 4 30 this morning. A report of gunfire. They found an adult male shot several times. The person taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Police continue to comb this complex for clues. Were not sure whether it happened inside and apartment or outside here. Outside certainly theyll have an issue with that because it is raining as it is, but, again, Police Still Investigating this homicide. We dont have aidentity of the male who was found here shot several times who died at the hospital. Whether he lived here, was a visitor, those things will come out as the investigation continues. Live in capital heights, derrick ward, news 4. Back to you. Thanks so much. Developing now in montgomery county, three people are hurt after a collision involving a tractor trailer. Police telling us that the truck and a sedan crashed on north frederick avenue in gaithersburg around 5 00 in the morning. Medics took three adults from the scene to the man i
Festival to begin, thousands will flock to center city to just catch a flips of pope francis. We have a live picture from Philadelphia International airport where they have the stairs set up for shepherd 1. The holy father will be landing in philadelphia soon, the pope is coming. Action news has all angles covered. Good morning, im Tamala Edwards along with Matt Odonnell all this waiting, its finally upon us. This is a special edition of action news saturday morning as we get going for the papal weekend. Action news has reporters fanned out across the area from the parkway to the basilica to the airport, and were riding the regional rails along with you. You have confess about weather and traffic questions about weather and traffic, david murphy and karen rogers are here to help you out this morning. Reporter rolling out the red carpet for pope francis at philadelphia airport. As we look toward east. We have high, thin clouds, this is not a bad day building. Take a look at satellite. W
States. Brian when i come back well talk talk about a break in this heat wave. Adam thanks. Philadelphia leaders continue their public push today to get people excited for our citys moment on the world stage, we got and update on the hotel space that is left for the days that pope francis is in town. These numbers are not exactly what people may have been expecting. No, i think its safe to say that people in the Hotel Business are surprised and focused, instead of being soldout with 20 something days to go, they have inventory, and still we are told there are thousands of rooms that are Still Available for the papal visit. I have seen a lot of hotels sold out, and a lot of hotels that have over 50 , 60 of their inventory available. Ed gross heads the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association and is confident that the rooms will sellout. But the cost of the numbers is a surprise. We see that the people from the world meeting of families, a lot of them were not opting to stay through the we