Who killed cecil the lion and the guide expresses remorse but calls the charges against him crazy. One year to rio, the open ceremony exactly 12 months away, natalie is on cope pa ka ban na beach. Today, wednesday, august 5th, 2015. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning, one year from today well be saying good morning d. , thats two years of the college portuguese. It will go by in a flash. Well tell you more about that later on. Well start with the top story, the field of ten now set for tomorrow nights highly anticipated republican debate. This morning it leaves one candidate not be on the big stage is slamming that process. Peter alexander is in cleveland. Good morning. Reporter hi, matt, good morning to you. Youve got the main event in prime time tomorrow night, the under card hour earlier. One candidate put on the earlier ticket is calling the entire proces
Pittsburg. The officer was chasing the suspect wanted for attempted murder. The armed suspect opened fire. The officer returned fire, striking the suspect several times. The 49yearold suspect is from bay point and is expected to survive. The officer is back home recovering. Now to developing news in lake county. This is exclusive video from a film maker. Take a look. Hes documenting the states biggest wildfire. This is time lapse video and takes you literally right along the fire line. This is north of santa rosa, Pretty Amazing to see this perspective. The fire broke out one week ago, and its burned 68,000 acres. This is less than 25 contained. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is in lake county where firefighters are using a new tactic today. Reporter its being called one of the fiercist fires california has ever seen. The 68,000acre rocky fire has been raging for a week now, giving firefighters the battle of a lifetime. The fire did for the most part what the models were showing. But it
Is doing what it intended to do. She points us to the pie chart of alerts that weve taken all of the a larts that relate to crime and put them in red. If you drill down into those, youll find alerts about people sleeping or smelling bad or drinking a beer on the train. Reporter darwin says out of the 763 alerts between april and may, only a handful were for crimes that would have called for an officer to investigate. When it comes to security wed rather have that one that was successful than deal with the 100 that is basically junk mail. Reporter at the center for human rights the app isnt just a harmless tool. He believes its Racial Discrimination discrimination, its promoting that. It furthers racial profiling by giving people an additional tool to do racial profiling. He said the 265,000 could vfb much better spent. B. A. R. T. Said it came from a grant that could only be spent on security. Other transit agencies were offering to to their customers. Our board of directors heard abou
Antioch, where flames gutted two buildings in the Early Morning fire. Da. Reporter the street is blocked off and the fire happened that way. It took firefighters about an hour and a half to put out the flames. But the danger is far from over. They are making sure the hot spots dont flare back up and the big question is how will dozens of people left homeless now live . Reporter by the time Contra Costa County firefighters got to the delta Pines Apartments around 8 15, the fire was already raging. Flames gutted the roof, melted windows and spread quickly to a second building. There is a shared attic space that quickly extended to both buildings and had both buildings on fire. Reporter 32 apartments were damaged or destroyed. Thank goodness it was early in the morning so the residents were awake. We had the assistance of Antioch Police department to assist with the evacuations. Reporter this teenager escaped with family and dog. We heard someone scream fire and it was me and my sister, w
No homes were damaged in those 30 or so fires. But they worry it was only a matter of time before things would escalate. They believe wilson could be connected to even more fires and more arson charges are likely. For now, his bail is set at 1 million. Live in concord, im da lin, kpix 5. People in antioch were chased out of their homes this morning by a fastmoving fire. Smoke filled the air above delta pines apartments. Fire started on a balcony quickly spread gutting a roof and engulfing two buildings. It happened just after 8 a. M. On sycamore drive. Flames jumped from one building to another through a shared attic space. A lot of people were already awake getting ready for work. Some ran door to door warning their neighbors to get out. Were told people in 32 apartments had to be evacuated. They were taken to a safe zone. It took fire crews from two departments with 13 engines and four ladder trucks to put out the fire and protect the other buildings. Theres Clear Strategy for firefi