News, sign up for our free nbc bay area app. Some terrifying moments for passengers aboard a vta bus in san jose. An suv slammed into the bus this afternoon, causing both vehicles to catch fire and power lines to crash on top of the bus. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo spoke with the bus driver and joins us from the crash site at the location of king and cunningham with more. Damian . Reporter it happened right in front of fire station 16 here on king road in san jose. In fact, the light pole is still perched on top of the vta bus right now as we speak. Now crews arrived almost immediately because they are across the street. As the bus driver worked to get his passengers off the bus and away from a growing fire ball. The smoke was visible for miles as crews tried to put out flames coming from a burning suv while figuring out how to dodge the live wires resting on the vta bus. The bus driver tells us an suv swerved in front of him. Looked like he was coming around the corner and he hit th
Everyone, and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im jessica dean in for Fredricka Whitfield and americans now have a clearer view of what the 2024 Race For The White House will look like this weekend. President biden and former President Trump traded sharp jabs at dueling rallies in the battleground state of georgia, which holds its primaries on tuesday. Biden won georgia in 2020 by about 12,000 votes. And the state will once again be key to winning the white house in november, trump used his rally to mark biden, State Of The Union speech tonight to go, we all heard truckee joes angry, dark, hatefilled rant of his state of the Union Address wasnt it didnt it bring us together emerging border, bring the country together . Im going to bring it together. Its not an age thing. Its a competence thing he didnt White House Reporter Priscilla Alvarez is joining us now and priscilla, you were at bidens rally on saturday in georgia what is his message now as this General Election gets
As he hits the road. And we turn our focus to this general election. Well, just these dueling rallies certainly provided a window and what were expected to see in the months to come between President Biden and his republican rival, donald trump were the president ticked through multiple themes over the course of his remarks to a rowdy audience. But one of the prominent themes and one that his Campaign Launched on was protecting democracy. And on that front, the president kicked off his remarks, talking about Donald Trumps coziness to authorities, syrian regimes, and also making clear that its a stark contrast between him and donald trump. Take a listen my lifetime has taught me to embrace The Future Of Freedom and democracy and trump and i have a very different value set of an obvious already biden is based on core values of the defined america. And the rest of the world looks at us that way decency fairness, equality were all know donald trump sees a different america and american sto
compounded for one family. a husband dies from a heart attack days after his wife, a teacher, was killed in the attack. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this friday may 27th. i m jonathan lemere, thank you for joining us. we begin with the latest from uvalda. some of the key details provided by the texas officials in the first 48 hours of the attack have turned out to be an accurate. here is what has changed. texas officials first said that the attacker exchanged gunfire with a school resource officer before entering the school and then later said that the school resource officer engaged with the attacker, did not exchange gunfire. and yesterday officials changed the story. saying in fact that there was no school resource officer at all and that the killer walked into the school through an unlocked door, on obstructed, and simply began firing. the amount of time that the gunman spent outside before entering the building is also changed. we were initially told that
school. with us, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. and special contributor mike barnicle. we begin this morning with the questions about the police response to the shooting in uvalde. some of the key details provided by texas officials in the first 48 hours after the attack have turned out to be inaccurate. here is what has changed. texas officials first said the attacker exchanged gunfire with a school resource officer before entering the school. then later said the school resource officer engaged with the attacker but did not exchange gunfire. well, yesterday, officials now said, in fact, there was no school resource officer there at all, and the killer walked into the school through an unlocked door, unobstructed, and began firing. the amount of time the gunman spent outside before entering the school also has changed. we initially were told after he shot his gra