For nearly ten minutes missing after going into the deep. The urgent search right now. Good morning america. It is a busy wednesday morning and a lot to get to. So much of the country still being hit hard by severe weather. That is the most powerful storm on the planet right now churning in the pacific and ravaged a u. S. Island. We begin with that news just breaking this morning. The man who helped that minnesota dentist kill cecil the lion speaking out for the first time this morning after appearing in court. He faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly having that illegal hunt. The dentist is still in hiding. His home vandalized and abcs david wright has been following the story and starts us off this morning. Reporter professional hunter wore dark glasses to court. He lost his hunting license and now faces criminal charges for allegedly luring cecil the lion out of the safety of Hwange National park by dragging a dead animal from his car as bait. Speaking to reporters bronkhorst
Would. Heres a live look outside, westbound 92, lot of folks hitting the brakes there and a high wind advisory for san mateo bridge along with the bay bridge this morning so it is wet and windy here today. Westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze up to about 25 minutes, 16 across the bay bridge, and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo, youre still in the green at just about ten minutes. Couple different issues on southbound 6890, one out of the trivalley, one a little closer to fremont. Ill show you those coming up next. On to breaking news now. A vallejo familys been forced from their home overnight after it was hit by a big tree. Lets get right to abc7 News Reporter amy hollyfield. Reporter the family is okay. A huge oak, though, scared them when it fell on to the home just a few hours ago. A family was asleep inside. They are all fine, though. The house the tree did not break through the home, but officials have red tagd it until they can get the tree removed and they can inspect it. Th
People in tampa. Outrage over a snapchat video exclusive to abc news that was posted to social media minutes before the driver, pablo cortes iii, lost control of his car and crashed into a familys minivan. Team coverage. We are live at tampa general where the victims are recovering. We go to lindsay logue, with more. She joins reporter good morning. Truly shocking to see this video. Watch it again. It is taken of pablo cortes as he drives over the Howard Frankland bridge. The posted speed limit is 65 miles an hour but according to the snapchat app, he was clocked at 115 and the video coconut palm drive. I will show more of the video. It was taken by his girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat and you can see the speed filter on the app, it is popular. It shows as cortes hits 82 miles an hour and then 115. Shortly afterwards, he lost control of the car and witnesses said they had no time to react. It was going so fast. It hopped behind me. I escaped. Its traumatic. Reporter the car sl
After right steve when mar, see year lamars father spoke and said that the family exercised so much pashsens that she asked the judge to proceed as soon as possible. I talked to the family. Media is outside waiting for the family to come outside and they said they would make statement after the judge makes a decision so they should be out shortly. Defense attorneys for torrez requested dna evidence which would possibly postpone the trial until october 10 m. The motion to postpone the trial was again denied. Four years ago morgan hill teen sierra lamar disappeared while walk together bus stop on her way to school. A grand jury indicted Garcia Torrez in the case. Police presume lamar is dead but her body hasnt been found. Defense attorneys today argue that they need more time to look over cds and a cell phone that they found in discovery but again the judge just a few minutes ago said she will not grant the postponement of the trial and she said she will hear a motion starting august 31s
Last night, a half a block away another pipe broke this morning. Berkeley residents watched the asphalt rising as the water poured through the streets. We come out this morning and its totally rushing down the street, and its like there is a volcano in the middle of the street that, like, when anybody gets close to it pulses. Its coming up through the street all over the place. I lived here for 18 years. I lived through el nino. This is as bad as el nino to see the water at this level. Reporter crews turned off the water near cornell and gilman street leaving about 50 families dry for the day. According to east bay mud, the stretch of pipe broke in three places. The cause likely the old age of the castiron pipes. The pipe that broke here on gilman was 79 years old. It was installed in 1937, so its possible that age was factor. Reporter east bay mud has been trying to replace pipes before this kind of break happened. One of their projects is just around the corner. I hope it doesnt happ