The image of the dead woman is too graphic for television. Part of her clothing appeared to be around her ankles. They discovered the body this morning and went on to look for evidence. At this time its labeled aas a suspicious death and we are working the scone all day long and we hope to have more in the cause of death and manner of death at some point this evening. The drone was deployed to search from above and medical detectives were used to look at the ground. Neighbors were stunned by the developments. You never expect to see a dead body its kind of scary it takes you back a step. Tim walsh says the park is bustling with activity at all hours of the day usually children in the daytime but other times other unsavory acts at night. A large section of the park was blocked off with crime scene tape on a day for playing in the pleasant weather, the crime scene left a chill. You never expect to see this. And i have been here a very long time. And an autopsy will be performed and polic
Mote has a long record going back to 1985, arrested dozens of times and convicted before on resisting arrest charges, the d. A. Says that may explain his attempt to get away. I am suggesting he was engaging in this type of behavior and he has been in and out of the prison system he knows he is on his way back. Mote continued to struggle at the hospital spitting at the nurses and the police are justified in making an arrest and even deadly force at times and there does not appear to be anything excessive in the way the officers handled mote. My review of his history and the handling of this case, he is very dangerous. Reporter they understand why motes family may be upset viewing the video but there is no evidence of Improper Conduct by the police but continues his investigation. David henry channel 6 action news. David thank you. To texas now where a few hours from now prosecutors said that Sandra Blands death was a suicide. Bland was found dead in a jail cell three days after being ar
The phone that he was giving up. There was a threeminute incounter i would say. They said they loved each other and at that point mr. Tyree said he was going to surrender, his words, to come out. Reporter but just before noon six hours after the standoff began, he came out shooting. It appears given the way the man chose to die that what happened here may have been a matter of death by cop. Steve langford, cbs 2 news. Garland tyree has a long criminal history. According to investigators, he has 18 prior arrests and had been in and out of prison. He had been on probation since last summer. A newspaper clip he posted on instagram shows he was arrested in the 1990s for the shooting death of a neighborhood rival but was convicted on a lesser charge. And that firefighter injured in the shooting is recovering at Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island. Thats where cbs 2s Christine Sloan joins us live. Christine. Reporter thats right. The lieutenant firefighter is here at this hos
Today Hurricane Irma. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And lester holt live from florida. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of today on sunday morning. Lester and al are in tampa. If used just visiting us, its going to a special day on the florida state. Lets get the very latest now on the storm. It has been battering the florida keys all morning long. But its center just made official landfall there at 9 10 a. M. Eastern time. Utility officials in florida now say more than 1 million customers have lost power as irma has hammered that state. That number is expected to keep rising throughout whats going to be a long day down there. And to give you an idea how big the storm is, a Tropical Storm warning was just issued for atlanta, georgia. Yes, thats 600 miles north of southern florida. It is inland and north of the storm. And yet that Tropical Storm warning for atlanta. We have correspondents all over florida beginnin
Communities are bracing for more flooding. Reporter so we are on, i would call it the good side, you know, they always refer to the east side of the storm as the dirty side, because its rainier. But the eye is almost even with us. But east. So were seeing a little bit calmer wind at this point. The real concern here is the storm surge. So how high will that storm surge be . We saw that water earlier today tra drain from the bay and push out into the gulf. That water will be pushed back into the bay. How quickly will that come back in, what will that storm surge look like, what will that look like for the Barrier Islands. A lot of the Barrier Islands are lowlying areas. You probably have been seeing me in the area covering flooding. But when you think about the rain theyve gotten today plus the storm surge, these houses, it wont take much to put some water on the road. And we are expecting to see a little bit of ponding on the road. Were already seeing water sitting on the low edges of