Light punishment. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for joining us. Im morgan radford, live from new york city. Migrants arrive in southern europe. More than 1,000 come into the port in the past 24 hours alone. They are coming in overcrowded and unsafe boats. European leaders are holding an emergency meeting to find a solution. The italian Prime Minister matteo renzi is asking for help from the e. U. We are getting off an italian customs boat. 220 people from subsaharan africa, but women and some pregnant amongst them. We watched them taking obvious the boat into Processing Centers throughout the past hour. This is the context and the reason why there is an e. U. Emergency summit. 1,000 arrivals in the italian port in the last 24 hours, and a couple of days ago the u. N. H. C. R. Said there has been 13,500 arrivals in the past week. In the mediterranean, the weather is warmer seas calmer so theres inspection that the flow of humanity across the mediterranean will i
5 30 is when we see slow traffic coming through. Looking at the commute here on interstate 880, both directions look good from oakland or the other way around, this morning on the 580 community from livermore to dublin, still looking good, we have a little bit of slow traffic there west of 205 on the way to livermore. Were beginning this morning with a story weve been following all morning. Put your hands up. Police are searching for a gunman who fired shots at two under cover Police Officers, Oakland Police chief told ktvu the officers were investigating a homicide near 55th avenue and foothill boulevard. The three suspects sped away crashed their car a short distance. Two suspects were arrested and they escaped and said he is on the loose and considered armed and dangerous. Im provoked so it is a dangerous person we want to get him off the street. The 2 under cover officers were fired upon, they were not hurt alex savage is talking to police getting more information, alex will have a
Hollyfield just talked to spencers dad. Reporter i did and Bob Dickinson said this is the most terrifying experience of his life. You can imagine the elation he got last night at 7 52 yes he does know the exact minute that call came in. Said hi dad. Those were the first words and i was spencer screaming and he goes dad, be quiet. He goes, im on a s. A. T. Phone and only have a couple moments. Call my mom. Tell her im okay. Reporter so he still doesnt know if 21yearold Spencer Dickinson is hurt or completely safe but he knows hes alive. Spencers family knew he was headed to mt. Everest base camp right before the earthquake. It was terrifying to see the video from when the earthquake hit. He has had sleepless nights of worrying and the waiting was getting more and more difficult. Of course he did call spencers mom right away. She lives in san diego. Cameras were rolling when she got the joyful news. That was sheer joy. [ inaudible ] together for a long time we still have a lot of love an
From basketball, but mostly he was there to listen. He had good words of encouragement and lifted us up when were down. I look at him as a hero, as someone i look up to. Reporter mcraes son is in d. C. s fire cadet program. His friends say hes still planning to become a firefighter after graduating in june. He always wanted to be a firefighter just like his father and i quote to be just like my dad. Reporter but they also know losing his dad isnt easy. Hes not doing so good. Hes trying, though. Reporter some of those students are behind me tore they will be. Theres a or they will be. Theres a vigil that will take place at the Apartment Building where he lost his life organized by some of the students that were fire cadets who lieutenant mcrae actually taught to become firefighters. Reporting live from northwest washington im ellison barber, wusa9. Lieutenant mcrae had three children, two sons and a daughter. The mother of his son who is a senior at Dunbar High School died from cancer t
And theyre off to building a new arena in San Francisco. Andtheres new development on that fight. Another congressional deadline, this one were talking the patriot act. The current measure is expiring at midnight tonight. Our Political Insider on why we keep finding ourselves in this annoying position. Lots comingup in the next half hour or hour rather. But lets take a look at your Weather Forecast. Itsgoing to be a cool day, looking at the bay bridge this morning. A lot of fog, even drizzle out there. Temperatures in the lowtomid 50s all around the bay area. So were going inform see that morning patchy fog, drizzle, clouds, a mix of sunshine today. Mainly inland. Cooler temperatures all around the bay today. Well have a closer look at your extended forecast. Authorities are trying to find who is responsible for a wild sideshow this weekend that shut down an onramp to i880. Amateur stunt drivers spun doughnuts on high street friday night. Now weve caught these side shows in oakland bef