The flight will leave. Some passengers arent in a rush to travel. Im going to check the news. If everything is okay in istanbul, im going to fly. If not, ill be here. The inbound flight landed safely from turkey this afternoon so the plane is ready to take off if they decide to fly to an alternate location. Flights have been suspended. Wayne freedman joining us with friends of the local turkish community. Reporter aim oat the ala turka restaurant where the coup is the main topic of conversation. Lets show you video from earlier today. Every hour has gathered more news and they are gathering it by any means possible, talking to family and friends at home on social media. They dont like the social and religious oppression of the present regime but to see this whole thing play out like this we are against the military coup in our country, however it doesnt mean the government is good. Reaction, we want a democratic country. We dont want a dictator so they continue to watch this crisis evo
Take over the country. The country is under martial w law. A large explosion has been heard in istanbul as police and military exchange fire. Shots have been fired near progovernment protesters and some have been injured. A top turkish official came out and said the coup is unsuccessful and all government officials are in charge of their officers. The military has taken over state tv. This shows themmin stied of the capital city of ankara. They reported a bomb hitting parliament and a military helicopter killing 17 officers. The turkey president went on national tv using facetime and urging supporters to take to the streets but his exact location is unknown. The president is urging everybody involved in the situation to show restraint. This photo shows the president on the phone with john kerry, getting briefed on the situation. The u. S. State department is advising americans not to travel to turkey. American airlines was supposed to take off from sfo at 6 00 so now there is no word o
Agreement on carbon emissions. It went beneath the waves 300 years ago. The spanish galion that is found. In england they charge to the top of the premier league and also made a bit of history along the way. Details coming up. In the past half hour its been announced that Iraqs Foreign Ministry summoned the turkish ambassador to baghdad. Turkish soldiers near the city of mosul, mosul held by fighters by of the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. Earlier the iraqi president said that their presence violated international law. And the iraqi Prime Minister Hyder Al Abadi said that his forces are able to push isil fighters out alone. But there is increasing scrutiny by the way that it is doing so. Increasing human rights abuses against sunni arab by iraqi and Kurdish Security forces. In those parts of iraq which have been reclaimed from isil. We have more from erbil. Peshmerga troops have had success in recapturing isil. Now theyre hopeful to defeat the armed group in other parts of the
More. Rich moore. Much sjsu. Police shootings in two bay area cities. Rich Richmond Police shot a man. Well have more on the richmond shooting in just a moment, but first lets go to abc 7 News Reporter live at the scene in vallejo. Reporter well, Vallejo Police investigators and investigators with the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office have been out here for the evening, processing this scene. Lets go ahead and show you some video of this scene after it all went down about 6 00 this evening. According to the Vallejo Police officers they were called to this strip mall parking lot regarding a man throwing beer bottles and waving a weapon, when police units arrived the situation quickly escalated. They found a man standing next to a black dodge pickup Truck Holding a hunting knife. This is audio much the radio call leading up to the shooting. Reporter now, the sleep train store mentioned in that call is just a few yards away from where this all happened. Theres also a target st
News has been breaking all day. I want to begin with the statement from president obama. He is going to ask congress to vote first. In a statement on the white house lawn, the president says the u. S. Should target Syrian Government sites. He wants to get approval from congress. Lawmakers are not due back from their summer break until september 9th. President obama also indicated he wont wait for a report by u. N. Chemical weapons inspectors, nor will he look for approval from the u. N. Security council. Our whi White House Correspondent mike vaquiera, a big surprise from the president , mike. Sgl we had a tip that he was not going to announce imminent action. The destroyers were in place. Secretary kerry had laid out the indictment in the eyes of the administration yesterday. The evidence collected by intelligence sources had made some of that public about four pages worth. The president spoke to this yesterday making it clear that a limited, socalled surgical strikes, were something