Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A horrific discovery at the border on a sweltering day. A tractortrailer filled with up to 100 undocumented immigrants. Tonight nine are dead and more than a dozen are in critical condition. Good evening. Im kate larsen in for eric thomas. Tonight authorities in texas are considering this an immigrant smuggling attempt gone wrong. An employee at a walmart in san antonio called police early this morning after a man walked into the store and asked for water. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow is in our newsroom with the story. Reporter in addition to those fatalities, at least 17 people are reportedly being treated for lifethreatening injuries. The u. S. Attorney office says the driver is in custody. A criminal complaint is expected to be filed as early as tomorrow morning. Officials are calling it a deadly case of human smuggling. At least 39 people inside a big rig truck parked in this Texas Walmart parking lot. Nine men died. The airco
And are missing for three weeks and police and all involved are increasingly concerned. A small baby and 16yearold mother young herself, a bran new mother and in my opinion does not have the skills necessary to be on the run, so to speak way with a 2monthold child. She needs to come and talk to someone. And work things out. It should be shown she has a history as a run away. Police are talking to her relative that claim they have no idea where she and the 2monthold child are. She is not facing criminal child here but a clients of the citys court system therefore she and her daughter must be found and accounted for. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news the search going on for a person missing in the brandywin. The person fell in at 5 00 near the falls at runs state park. Heavy rain and the brisk concern hampered the search last night. The ben franklin bring had to be shut down overnight when two men were spotted climbing up a bridge cable. Just before 11 00 a. M. Whe the port short int
Everything because that cold air just takes warmth right away from your skin. If you look behind me you can see old city philadelphia a pleasant day and a decent evening with temperatures still in the upper 30s. The high today 43 degrees. Winds out of the west at 9 miles an hour. They will turn gusty though late late tonight. Temperatures not so bad along the i95 corridor. Central pa in the 20s. Pittsburgh in the 20s. That colder air is going to be moving in late tonight. Some clouds at 7 00 oclock mostly cloudy by 9 00. By 11 00 oclock clouds an few snow showers especially south and east of philadelphia. We have that arctic front moving through and late tonight were going to see some snow developing near the baltimore Washington Area and push toward the northeast through dover, possibly into wilmington and into south jersey where we do expect accumulating snow overnight in association with this arctic front. So when you look at the details were talking about burst of snow coating to a
To said this is something that really shook her up and shouldnt happen in this area. 11 not out here. Weve had suicide, weve had students freeze to death from drinking, but double shooting. No you dont see that here, not in decorah. Again, winnshiek co. Sheriff dan marx said this believed to be an isolated incident, with no threat to the public. The office has not arrested anyone in connection. In freeport, brea love, kcrgtv nine news. Right now Iowa City Police are looking for kum and go Convenience Stores early this morning. The first robbery happened at 3 21 am at 513 s. Riverside drive. Police say the second happened just 9 minutes later at 1310 s. Gilbert street. In the first incident, police say a man used a handgun to demand cash. Then on gilbert the suspects ran away in both cases, and no one was hurt. Police believe the robberies could be connected. Officials dont know how much the robbers stole in either case. Turning now to the forecast. Forget about fall. It feels like summ
Have accidentally left a backpack behind. Its a big tourist spot here, so its not out of the realm of possibilities, but once those . Fficers looked inside, they realized it was much more serious leading to the evacuation and the bomb squad was called in and it was destroyed. Also this morning, denver 7 talking to a Family Member who tells us ansberry had been living in Northern California until 1 year ago. He then left to travel through rockies. Again, the indictment could be released at any moment. Well keep you posted. Mark steward live in the news room. Denver 7. Thank you. Were on fire alert. People are warned they have to leave their homes immediately because of this wild fire. You can see the smoke here. This is burning west of wetmore and east of westcliffe. Its called the junctions fire. The office of emergency in the fires faith. No word how this fire started. The beulah area is under evacuation. People living near highway 65 from mckenzie wet more is closed right now. And hi