Peace to ferguson, missouri, following another night of whats described as preplanned deliberate violence. Police used tear gas to break up an unruly crowd protesting the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown. The trouble started with a shooting some three hours before a curfew was due to take effect. Police say protesters fired on police, used molotov cocktails, and vandalized numerous stores. The New York Times is reporting a private autopsy found Michael Brown was shot at least six times including twice in the head. The autopsy was performed by dr. Michael baden, former medical examiner for new york city. Baden tells the paper one bullet entered the top of browns head, suggesting his head was bent forward. The bullets did not appear to have been shot from close range. Susan mcginnis is in ferguson. Susan, good morning. Reporter good morning, lauren. Were at a police staging area in ferguson. Right now it appears mostly calm on the streets here. Ferguson School District will
Already about 100 demonstrators have gathered right up the street, they are standing on the corner of 14th and broadway as we speak. Theyre holding up signs that say arrest Darren Wilson. They also have the loudspeakers. People are honking. I tell you theres already a lot of emotion being expressed here on the streets. People often come to oakland to express their feelings. We just ask them to respect our community. Reporter oakland mayor jean quan is call on everyone to keep the peace following tonights decision in the Michael Brown shooting case. Demonstrators are already showing up outside frank ogala plaza to react to the announcement. We expect a peaceful demonstration. We have had nothing but fairly Peaceful Demonstrations the last two years and the community, i think, expects that from people that come from out of town now. Reporter police are out in force tonight in downtown oakland ready to facilitate Peaceful Demonstrations, but also prepared to step in if things go sideways.
I am not going to let criminals define this neighborhood. President obama is sending eric holder to ferguson tomorrow. The fire is threatening homes near yosemite park. Arrested two students who allegedly were planning a shooting at a South Pasadena high school. I would never imagine something happening like that at our high school. Benjamin netanyahu has ordered his military to strike gaza after reports that three rockets were fired into israel. Kurdish and Iraqi Forces Retake the mosul from isis. Yeah baby. Officially ushering in the new era of clippers basketball. Do we have any clippers fans here . In mexico city hail was enough for people to shovel. It piled up to nearly two feet high. Heroics on a highway in mississippi. Grandma and baby girl trapped inside a burning car until a stranger came to the rescue. All that taylor swift, take it off is the single off her new album. Rough night for the rookie. Need to be smarter about that. And all that matters. This is saturday night liv
Temperatures hour by hour. Now for the i95 corridor, south and east, its well above freezing and if anything, the temperatures will go up as we heard toward midnight. Were not concerned about any kind of icing from i95 southward. And down toward the shore temperatures are well into the 40s. So any threat of freezing drizzle or light freezing rain is generally over the next couple of hours because temperatures are expected to go up as the evening goes on. Light icing, north and west by 7 00, even though philadelphia 35 and the temperatures creep up later tonight. Rain, fog, other issues for the morning rush but not ice or snow. And more issues with rain more part of a weekend with the sevenday that sheena will have in just a few minutes. All right. As glenn and sheena just explained to us, communities north and west of the city are the areas expecting to see snow as well as a wintry mix. We sent nbc 10s doug shimell to bucks county. What kind of weather have you encountered today . Weve
Plenty of reports drizzle, 60s on your temps. Here is sal. All right, steve good morning to you, we are looking pretty good. Tomorrow may be a different story but right now we still look good. If you are driving on the east shore freeway, the traffic moving nicely, heading up to the mcarthur main, dense fog out there, you might want to take note of that. Bay bridge toll plaza is light coming into San Francisco, that big crash they had that has been going for two hours, southbound 101 has cleared up, you may have heard about it, maybe you are ready to hit the road, its gone which is pretty good news, the lanes are open. Westbound 580 that traffic is off to a good start. 4 31, lets go back to the desk. Frustration over a canceled Berkeley City Council meeting fueled a fourth night of protests through the city. Around 7 00 a 7 00 last night hundreds gathered around city hall, they made their way down to telegraph, down oakland and highway 24. It took the chp about 10 minutes to clear the