His lead widens on the field. Hill Hillary Clinton weighting in with comments last night on late night with seth myers. I have to say, seth, i no longer think he is funny. Yeah i carted stash. Maria well have latest developments in San Bernardino, california. Fbi focusing on a lake near the terrorist attack. Divers looking for missing exciter hard drive. In sports, Arizona Cardinals clinch ad trip to the playoffs. They beat the Minnesota Vikings 2320. Back to our top story right now. Islamic state militants stolen up to one billion dollars from bank vaults in syria and iraq. They made another half a Million Dollars in black market sales of oil. This according to a top u. S. Treasury official. What is more, syria and president Bashar Alassads government are merging in millions and millions of dollars in oil trade with isis, despite being at war with one another. Want to bring in congressman lee zelden, good morning to you. Good morning, maria. Maria what is the take on relationship betw
Streets flooded, drivers stranded, washes damaged. Storms cause problems on staten island. And the next round of rain is already moving in. Tomorrows rain will likely be much worse. Valerie castro is in the south beach section of staten island. Reporter the rain here caused a lot of damage this afternoon. You can see this classic cadillac that was caught in the flooding. The water reaching halfway up the door. Beyond that you can see the Citys Department of Environmental Protection is on scene, pumping out the last of the water. Every time it rains, it becomes like a native american. Reporter johns home has flooded again. It was still in disrepair from super storm sandy when the wednesday afternoon. The house along with four of his plastic cars took the brunt of the flooding in the south beach section of staten island. In ten minutes it flooded the whole block. Here, this is what happens of reporter you can see one unlucky driver found himself waiting on the roof of his own car when it
When without saying a word those officers pounced. Just rushed. Reporter the former tennis star shaken and furious. 35yearold james blake says he was tackled and pinned to the ground by nypd officers outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on east 42nd street wednesday morning, taken down in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Reporter have you had any conversation with him at all with the cops yet . Not yet. Reporter the harvard educated tennis player, once ranked fourth in the world was waiting outside of the midtown hotel for a car when the Police Lieutenant rushed towards him. He says at one time he was held down by five plainclothessed officers. It was when a detective nearby recognized blake and identified him and the officers let him go. Police commissioner bill bratton says blakes account is disturbing. One of the officers now placed on modified duty. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do. Its not what were supposed to do. Reporter bratton says the officers were fr
Over at the big board with a first look at the forecast and news of a warm start to the week. Yes, shirleen, something to look forward to as we get ready to say goodbye to all family and friends and head home after enjoying the holiday and these temperatures milder as we get to monday. If you travel or know someone traveling we have the forecast covered for you. No issues. In fact we have the green light from boston logo to washington d. C. And reagan and dulls. There we widen out the picture minneapolis to dull Essence Carson east ward to atlanta no conditions to talk about due to the weather. Theres a frontal boundary moving through and conditions should stay dry. Closer to home, its 57 in city. Thats warmer than High Temperature. You have the southwesterly wind that is working its way to much of the delaware and lehigh valleys and high today in the city 56 with southwesterly wind flow overhead. Temperatures warming up and theyre warmer than they were earlier today. And 57 in philade
With travelers open the roads, rails and skies. Millions of people headed home today from a long weekend. And sunday night. Im shirleen alicott. In for sarah bloomquist. Im walter perez and the big story on action news is end to the long Holiday Weekend. Travelers spent the day headed home from the thanksgiving destinations and even at this hour plenty of folks are still on the road. Good news is. Good news is. Sure sgleen weather has been cooperating action News Reporter Kenneth Moton has been checking out the return trip home and we will have a live report in just a moment from him. But we begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee at the big board with details of milder start to the workweek and return to work tomorrow. Shirleen and walter we have a really nice day overhead. We had that overhead today and if you step out roads or air were not rack tracking weather related delays after the thanksgiving holiday. High earlier today in philadelphia, 56. Now were coming in 59 thanks to south