we have some breaking news out of the occupy oakland protests that have received so much national attention this week. 24-year-old iraq war veteran scott olsen has been upgraded from critical to fair condition at a hospital in the san francisco bay area. mr. olsen was hit in the head with a projectile, apparently fired by police. the occupy oakland protest the night before last. you can see mr. olsen here on the right just before he was injured in the protest. it has been speculated that what hit mr. olsen was a tear gas canister or rubber bullets, but at this point we still don t know. whatever it was that hit mr. olsen hit him hard. it fractured his skull. in a press conference today the interim police chief for the city of oakland promised a full vgs into investigation into the zrent incident. incident. this is the highest priority for us. we will use all the resources we use when there s an officer involved shooting. we want to make sure there s a complete and comprehensive
we have some breaking news out of the occupy oakland protests that have received so much national attention this week. 24-year-old iraq war veteran scott olsen has been upgraded from critical to fair condition at a hospital in the san francisco bay area. mr. olsen was hit in the head with a projectile, apparently fired by police. the occupy oakland protest the night before last. you can see mr. olsen here on the right just before he was injured in the protest. it has been speculated that what hit mr. olsen was a tear gas canister or rubber bullets, but at this point we still don t know. whatever it was that hit mr. olsen hit him hard. it fractured his skull. in a press conference today the interim police chief for the city of oakland promised a full vgs in
structu destruction of the wildfires in texas. this now stretches across a 16-mile area. winds whipped up flames again today. a separate fire in eastern texas killed a mother and her 18-month-old child. tropical depression lee slogging its way north today after dumping as much of a foot of rain in parts of louisiana. pumps in new orleans helped prevent any major problem there. that was good. but the storm caused flooding in other towns and cities along the gulf. in alabama, lee spun off portable tornadoes and strong winds damaged at least 20 homes in thewn the television say, tornado warning, and about that time, we had an ungodly clap of lightning and the hard ligwind by. lights went out, came back on and everything opened up. it was like a machine gun going off. breaking news on the political front. texas gov senior riernor rick p poultd pulled out of a political forum in south carolina to go back to texas to deal with the wildfires. five others will take part in the
and there s no reason comey can t testify. can he talk about the notes he wrote, the memo he wrote, what the president said to him, his concerns about the president, or because there s a criminal investigation with mueller, is that stuff going to be off the table? reporter: that s exactly the concern that so many people had up here on capitol hill, this concern that because the special counsel is now investigating and appointed that that might hamstring what he s able to say and i think that still is a very open question, looking forward to this committee testimony, we have heard from so many members of congress that they want to of course hammer him hard, exactly the details of what he said in the memo, who he shared that memo with. of course those details very importa important. our old top story from just a few hours ago, that the president not only boasted about firing director comey, but said
at both anderson. do we know it is director comey going to talk about what i don t know if we know what he is talking about but can he talk about the notes the he wrote the memo he what the president said to him his concerns about the president or bus there is a criminal investigation with mueller is that stuff going to be off the table? well that s exactly the concern that so many people had up here on capitol hill. this concern that because the special counsel is now investigating and appointed that that might ham string what he is able to say. imprisoning that still is a very open question looking forward to this committee testimony. we have heard from so many members of congress that they want to of course hammer him hard, exactly the details what he said in the memo. who he shared that memo with. of course the details very important. that s going to be fascinating testimony. sunlen serfaty thanks. old top story from two top stories ago or two hours ago reporting the pres