Good evening, as we head into this weekend, all eyes on ferguson,missouri. The grand jurys decision could come any time now. Will they charge a Police Officer that shot an unarmed black teen . Overnight, dramatic images of tension in the streets. This demonstrator, under arrest. And just moments ago, president obama urging calm, sitting down with george stephanopoulos. What is your message to the people of ferguson and others looking to protest . I think first and foremost, keep protests peaceful. This is a country that allows people to express their views, and protest actions they feel are unjust. But using any event as an excuse for justice is contrary to the rule of law and contrary to who we are. Meanwhile, Steve Osunsami on the ground in ferguson. Reporter its almost time. Abc news is learning that the grand jury, meeting behind these windows, could come to a vote soon. Deciding possible charges in the racially divisive shooting death of michael brown. Today, missouri prosecutors
Good evening, as we head into this weekend, all eyes on ferguson,missouri. The grand jurys decision could come any time now. Will they charge a Police Officer that shot an unarmed black teen . Overnight, dramatic images of tension in the streets. This demonstrator, under arrest. And just moments ago, president obama urging calm, sitting down with george stephanopoulos. What is your message to the people of ferguson and others looking to protest . I think first and foremost, keep protests peaceful. This is a country that allows people to express their views, and protest actions they feel are unjust. But using any event as an excuse for justice is contrary to the rule of law and contrary to who we are. Meanwhile, Steve Osunsami on the ground in ferguson. Reporter its almost time. Abc news is learning that the grand jury, meeting behind these windows, could come to a vote soon. Deciding possible charges in the racially divisive shooting death of michael brown. Today, missouri prosecutors
Lean lead to this one falling over. This arborist says the ground is super saturated, but what is toppling many of these trees is the wind. Especially swirling winds that arent coming from the standard direction can really cause a lot of damage. A huge tree came crashing down along dwight way and fell on to a passing Berkeley Police car driven by this officer. I heard a couple of loud cracking sounds and saw a couple of pedestrians pointing upward. A couple small branches fell and hit my view and hit the brakes. The abs activated and then a tree fell on top of the car. The officer walked away uninjured. The damaged car was towed. It was a similar scene across marin county with a 50foot tall acacia tree in tiburon and another in larkspur. In east palo alto, a giant oak hit the dirt along this creek and missed some nearby homes. Arborists say they worked 12 hours on Christmas Day in response to all of the calls for downed trees. We are working long hours into the night just trying to kee
Days of rain too much for trees all over the bay area. In this case a tree fell on a police car, briefly trapping the Police Officer inside. Im dan ashley. Carolyn has the night off. We need this break from the rain as a chance to dry out, but the storms have certainly left a mark. We have live Storm Team Coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel in a moment. First to abc7 News Reporter Leslie Brinkley who has more on downed trees that have become a bad problem. It is a bad year for falling trees. The saturated soil and the lean lead to this one falling over. This arborist says the ground is super saturated, but what is toppling many of these trees is the wind. Especially swirling winds that arent coming from the standard direction can really cause a lot of damage. A huge tree came crashing down along dwight way and fell on to a passing Berkeley Police car driven by this officer. I heard a couple of loud cracking sounds and saw a couple of pedestrians pointing upward. A couple small br
A Palestinian Refugee camp entitled they are human too. As well as a novel about Palestinian Refugees. And you should see this photo book. It looks like gaza today. I mean, nothing has changed. But its very interesting that it was put out by i a conservative out by a conservative, explicitly conservative ideological publisher. And then there was what priced israel by alfred m. Williamthal who i believe is the founder of the American Council on judaism which made what was back then the mainstream jewish argument against the idea of a specifically jewish state. On the other hand, we see the same reversal. Now, you can see how things have been reversed. But on the west there was another reversal going on. Albeit in the opposite direction. In the beginning in 1948, the american left was very much proisrael. Henry wallace made support for israel a major issue in his president ial campaign that year as the candidate of the to of the leftist Progressive Party which had the fulsome backing of