Matt letourneau of Engine Company 45 joins that host of heroes and our hearts are brea breaking. A city in mourning. A fire lieutenant making the ultimate sacrifice. Lieutenant Matthew Letourneau runs into a burning building but does not make it out okay. Now, family, friends, the Fire Department and complete strangers are with heavy hearts tonight. Thanks for joining us. Im joyce evans. Im dawn timmeney. Today the city lost a real her row lieutenant letourneau died fighting to keep our community safe. Speak of the 11yearold veteran including mayor jim kenney calling him one of the best. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi is live at the philadelphia Fire Department with more on this heartbreaking story. Joanne . Reporter good evening everyone. Well it gets you right in the heart. Two dead after a fire in north philly. One of them living in the home the other one of the brave, city workers. A firefighter who died doing his job. When i came outside the fire was a blaze. The first floor, the second f
Privilege of welcoming a friend of mind peter who has done Ground Breaking work in fighting challenge in the u. K. He has been directing for how long peter . Seven years. Seven years. Hes been one of the goto guys on all Things National security, terrorism, he has done phenomenal research. Last but not least delighted to welcome fernando who is from spain, hes done tons of policy related in terms not only foreign fighter phenomena in spain but also more generally speaking counterterrorism. Bottom line youre not going to get better scholar pra thank you very much, frank. Its a pleasure. Thank you. This is a wonderful turnout. We have reluctant to have an event on a friday morning. Almost august. Peter was more optimistic about the turnout. The star power from fernando helped us to have a wonderful turnout. Thank you very much for coming. The first that the program has had the pleasure to direct here and the center of Homeland Security here. On such an important topic wonderful colleague
European foreign fighters, than number of American Foreign fighters. The size of problem is completely different. European setting france, estimated 1200 individuals. Germany, the u. K. , in the six, 700s. Even smaller countries like belgium with staggering 400 individuals. Eastern European Countries, kosovo, very tiny country, 3, 400 individuals. These are completely different numbers from the u. S. Where the latest numbers given by the government, the fbi, talking about 200 individuals traveled or attempted to travel to syria. So, were talking about a much, much smaller number. A lot of people have actually been intercepted. People that went and fought there, that 200 number should be further reduced. I think numbers are deceiving from another perspective, here in the u. S. , there are legal tools, more general a certain attitude from Law Enforcement which is significantly moring a agressive than in most European Countries. A lot of very effective tactics that the fbi use, sting oper
Release more information any moment now. Reporter they did release Surveillance Video with a white woman with strawberry blonde hair. Were going to listen in on the press conference now. The video does corroborate the story as relayed by the victim. The video is from a bit of a distance. You can see the victim seated, and the person sitting behind her that was described by the victim. At one point you do see the suspect does reach over the seat and does drop something into her lap. You see what could be a note , but it is not definitive. A [ indiscernible low volume ] i worked up bartz for 19 years. This is the first time i have ever heard of anything. [ indiscernible low volume ] this is an attempted robbery. This is a robbery that is committed by force by fear. And this is emitted by the threat of potential force being used. There is fear and involved. So it is a potential felony. [ indiscernible low volume ] it is largely based on the statement from the victim in this case. There we
Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well, good evening everyone, im Natasha Brown. Thanks for joining us. Buildings collapsing again. Another powerful earthquake hits mexico and tonight the aftershock is causing a major setback in the search for survivors. Eyewitness News Reporter alycia nieves is live in the sat center. Shes got the latest for us tonight. Reporter natasha, the aftershock not only rattled rescuers in mexico but it sent them running and put a pause on rescue efforts, efforts to find people going on four days of being trapped under that rubble. A aftershocks sent people once again running into the streets reason search and rescue crews evaporating already mounds of debris. The quake brought down this bridge. Once the ground stopped shaking, crews returned to whats left of the six Story Office Building in mexico city where more than 40 people were listed as missing. Maria mendoza has been camped out here since tuesday. Her cousin was working on the fourt