Plunged the eu into crisis. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Polls have closed in the spanish region of catalonia after a day of voting that descended into chaos and violence. The catalan authorities went ahead with an independence referendum declared illegal by the spanish courts only to see the Central Government in madrid send in riot police. They managed to close down some polling stations, with more than 800 people said to have needed medical assistance. Tonight, as the votes are counted, the Catalan Government said the actions of the Spanish Government made it the shame of europe. Tom burridge reports from barcelona. This is how a vote turned ugly. Spanish National Police moving in to disrupt an independence referendum in catalonia which spains government women literally pulled by their hair out of polling stations. Across barcelona Violent Police raids to grab ballot boxes. Hundreds injured when they went to vote. One of the policemen took him by the head, took off his glas
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Doctors. They were also able to figure out that he had a couple of firearms registered to him which they were able to figure out were unaccounted for at that time. Reporter police say chen rented a 2017 red nissan rogue and drove three hours north from visalia to the bay area. According to documents, chen drove to San Francisco believing one of the doctors lived there. The other doctors lived inpalo alto and menlo park. Then around 7 45 wednesday night the chp spotted the red rental car driving southbound on highway 101 in sat san jose. He was pulled over and arrested. We have no doubt in our mind based on the evidence that was collected that he was intent on coming here and killing one or more of the doctors that had treated him. Reporter some of that evidence as seen in Court Documents includes two loaded handguns with high capacity magazines and a ten pages of handwritten notes with the directions, names, and addresses of the doctors. Police also found a bag with ammunition, a rubbe
Hazy skies. Trivalley, 58. We havent really had too much sunshine, especially along the coast, but it looks like today we may catch a break in the sun, at least until the later part of the morning. I wont call it a sunny day, but it will be sunnier than yesterday. 55 for San Francisco. North bay, 53. A live look right now at the Doppler Radar, you can see the fog right now at about 1,000 feet. Its extending further inland into some parts including oakland as well. The temperature trend will climb quickly in San Francisco. Right now were at 60 degrees. Well top out at about 67 for San Francisco today. We are expecting to see warmer spots especially in the valleys. Ill have a closer look at that in about 15 minutes. Well stay tuned for that. Thanks. Police in rohnert park are warning residents about a registered sex offender who just moved into the town. The selfproclaimed downtown l. A. Predator is the new neighbor. Dan cilley is on probation for annoying a minor. The 33yearold didnt to
Syrian forces continue making gains in eastern aleppo. The military claims that the rebels have lost nearly all of the territory they seized four years ago. A Syrian Military official says the operation is in its final phase. The fall of aleppo would be the worst rebel defeats in syrias in 2011. Began here is more on the story. Smoke rises above aleppo. Syrias most populous city is on back in government hands. Iranianan army with backed militias and airstrikes launched an offensive in september. One of the most fortified rebel areas fell on monday morning after an intense bombing campaign. Onlye terrorists control 10 of the territory they used to control in eastern aleppo. The britishbased watchdogs said 130,000 people have fled. 10,000 in the last before ours alone. Thank on behalf of escaped. We were starving. I cant even move because of hunger. Reporter the fall of aleppo has been aleppo has been under siege since july. Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have repeatedly failed.