The earth caving in outside a packed restaurant. Cars swallowed whole. Good evening and we begin tonight with the racial tensions on one University Campus reaching a boiling point. The College Football team refusing to play, faculty, the student body joining them, demanding action at the university of missouri after mounting claims of racial slurls shouted on campus. A swastika found in a bathroom. And then, this image. Football team the demanding the president resigning. That president forced out, resigning today. Just a short time ago, the coach of that team saying, i did the right thing, id do it again. Abcs alex perez, leading us off. Reporter today, an emotional celebration on campus. Im resigning as president of the university of missouri system. Reporter the breaking point, members of the Football Team going on strike, vowing, no more games until president tim wolfe resigned. The coach who supported the players, speaking out tonight. I did the right thing and i would do it again
Critical to figuring out how this russian passenger jet crashed. Is it a bomb or is it something were hearing where the airplane is physically coming apart . Airport officials in Sharm Elsheikh say a key baggage scanner was often not working or unplugged to save power. They say the biggest weakness was human error, not searching workers, officers and friends. The individual attacks on israelis by palestinians show no sign of letup. Seven israelis were wounded in three separate attacks in the west bank yesterday. This one was caught on camera after a young woman stabbed a Settlement Security guard. Look again. She pulled a knife from her purse when he asked to see some identification. He was slightly injured but was able to shoot her. She is in serious condition. Thats probably going to be one of the topics when the israeli Prime Minister meets with president obama. Its Bibi Netanyahus first the adoption of the iran nuclear deal. Thats why israel is asking for a new security agreement.
Broke apart. It is a new piece, to find out if it suffered a Major Mechanical failure in flight or if a bomb was detonated on board. There is concern it was an act of terrorism this week. Several countries suspended flights to that part of the country popular with tourisms. Bill neely is in Sharm El Sheikh with the latest. Flowers in the desert where so many died. Search teams paying tribute today as investigators spoke for the first time about the planes last moment. At that moment, on the cockpit voice recorder, the cvr, some extraordinary. A noise was heard in the last seconds of the cvr recording. Reporter every fraction of that sudden noise will now be analyzed and compared with the sound of other crashes. Listen to it against catalogued explosions that have occurred on other aircraft to see if they can define whether or not this was an explosive device that created this sound or this was the sound of an inflight breakup. Reporter investigators dont know what caused the crash. The
Another Police Officer got in his car and went to drive away and he still had his pump in his gas tank. The whole gas tank fell over. The brake didnt work i dont know what happened. After that the whole gas tank caught fire. Reporter police say the fire was extinguished within 10 minutes but forced those inside this mcdonalds next door to evacuate. Scary cause this is next to the gas station. Reporter the Temple University cop car was towed away and now police are investigating exactly how this happened. Now, the gas station owner tells me its unclear how much this damage will cost and for how long the pumps at the stations will be closed. However, the mcdonalds and the Convenience Store that are also in this parking lot are opened for business. Reporting live in north philadelphia, christie auletto channel6 action news. Back to you. Thank you for that report. Philadelphia police are calling last weeks deadly shooting in Fairmount Park an apparent crime of passion. 25yearold Shakoor Ar
Around here. Anchor prosecutors say he told another woman he harmed his girlfriend and it was that woman who alerted police. I am not going to try him in the court, in the hallway of lynn district court. He denies causing any death. Reporter residents call the murder senseless an tragic. Tonight he is being held without bail. He returns to court in lynn innocent month while the investigation is ongoing. Were live in lynn, steve cooper 7 news. Anchor state police have announced the car that took a deadly plunge into the Charles River a couple of days ago was not part of a recall. Two people died when the car went off the bridge and into the water on saturday. Police are still investigating what caused the crash but they do say the driver ran a red light, sideswiped another vehicle before crashing through the barrier on the bridge. Anchor mayor walsh putting a big ban on toy guns in public. Replicas. This comes after a tragedy in cleveland last year when a 12 12yearold was shot after wai