Im frances rivera. Im gigi stonewood. Breaking news overnight in north carolina, a scene of riot gear over yet another policeinvolved shooting. Hundreds gathered in charlotte in a tense standoff with police that began with chanting, but ultimately ended in a clash with several protesters and officers injured. Police dispersed the crowd with tear gas after demonstrators threw objects and damaged their cruisers. It took place near the scene where officers shot and killed a man while looking for someone else. Officers were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant when they saw a man now identified as Keith Lamont Scott getting out of his car with a gun. At this point all we know is there are in the complex parking lot this subject gets out with a weapon. They engage him and one of the officers felt a legal threat and fired his weapon because of that. His family, however, is telling a different story that he was reading a book in his car waiting for his son at a bus stop. On fac
Encountered another man, who they say was armed. Py07we chief kerr putney, Charlotte Mecklenburg police made some imminent threat to them and because of that, at least one of our officers fired rounds at the subject. The officer involved in the shooting is now on paid administrative leave. And its one of the biggest shut down lets show you what were looking at. This map shows all the road closures that will happen leading up to this weekend. There are six phases of road closures in total. What you see shaded in pink thats whats happening today those closures will be to fremont street between six and parts of seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh. This of course is all to gear up for this weekends arts and music festival. If you havent been to life is beautiful the festival isnt just contained to the concert stages. It will actually span across 18 blocks throughout downtown. The streets will reopen in phases after the festival is done thats because some of the art structures take days
The 59yearold woman suddenly falling 35 feet to her death. And after hiking those drug prices, that ceo, grilled tonight. Good evening. And as we come on the air tonight, there are new tornado concerns for the south, all the way up through new york state. Nearly three dozen reported tornadoes already, one supercell producing multiple twisters, including a confirmed ef3. Cell phone video shot from a garage showing the powerful storm ripping through a neighborhood there. And this starbucks, watch as the roof is ripped off, the building collapses. Employees and customers inside, hiding in the bathrooms. Ginger zee is standing by with the track of tonights storms, but first, abcs alex perez, in the tornado zone tonight. Reporter tonight, millions bracing for scenes like this. Oh, god. That is hitting that neighborhood 35 reported tornadoes. Oh, no, man, thats a big one. Reporter including an ef3 twister ripping through kokomo, indiana, packing 150p 150plusmileanhour winds. And just to give
Fwa the ceo addressing the epipen controversy. Tiffany beats estimates but struggling with a drop in tourism and the dollar store is under pressure, continued weak Earnings Guidance for the year. But first up, mylan taking action in response to criticism of that epipen pricing. The Company Announcing it will cover up to 300 of the allergy drugs outofpocket costs at pharmacy, reducing a patients cost exposure by 50 . Also doubling eligibility for patient assistance, eliminating outofpocket costs for both uninsured and under insured patients. Moments ago on squawk, Heather Bresch was asked why mylan didnt lower the list price on the drug. Heres her response. Had we reduced the list price, i couldnt ensure that everyone who needs an epipen gets one. So went around the system. This savings card is equivalent to cash, 300. Effectively were cutting the price in half, but were letting you take control of that. Were letting the patient take control of that. We enhanced the we enhanced already
Reflect the charlotte riots. The fox poll shows that trump leads in three Battle Ground states, including allimportant ohio. A racially tense nation. 47 days until the election. Wait until you hear the news from yahoo . Varney company is about to begin. It has been that the investigation is still ongoing, that we do not have pieces of evidence. That we want to have everything in place to complete the picture and make sure that the investigation has the highest integrity. We also wishes to the scott family and theyll be seeing it today, i understand. Stuart repeat that, that was the mayor of charlotte with maria this morning, today the police will show the body camera to the family. And that may be released to the public later as well. The anger over this incident started with a disputed social media post, give it a timeline. Ashley thats what triggered this. That woman claimed to be the victims sister, keith scotts sister, live streamed video for some 30 minutes in the aftermath of the