When cathy lanier retires next month. Tom spoke with newsham about his plans for the future with the department. Reporter Peter Newsham, 52, assistant police chief now but a young holy cross graduate when he answered a newspaper ad back in 1989. I saw the Police Department was advertising for Police Officers in the paper and i took that opportunity and, ive got to tell you, truly and honestly, its the best decision i ever made in my life. Reporter Muriel Bowser named him as assistant chief. The union and community has endorsed body cameras. When you go out to the community meetings, most of those people in the meetings are saying positive things about the Police Department. Reporter the police union has fought with chief cathy lanier over staffing and worked well with newsham. Whether its the interim chief, the permanent chief, whoever thats going to be, they want a chief thats going to back the i think the number one priority is public safety. I want people to feel safe. Reporter news
191919 christina moore, runner we might just do our own run but yeah im a little frustrated that its not here its always fun to interact with everyone and do a group event. Butt with 193050 Fredrick Johnson im a runner i love running i lout here so io get here. People were baffled as they drove up, walked around encountered other confused runners. Many of them were disappointed because they wanted to run but there was also anger there. Some of them paid upwards of 60 dollars to do this. Now they have to contest the guarantee theyll get their money back. We wanted to reach out to the event organizers but wouldnt you know it, their website was down. We sent an email to the Registration Service that posted the event. Havent gotten a response. At Sam Boyd Stadium David Schuman 13 action news. Lets head to 13firstalert meteorologist karla huelga now with the latest on whats turned out to be a pretty hot weekend. Karla . Hot and dry will continue to be the theme for the rest of the weekend w
Positive things about the police department. Reporter the police union has fought with chief cathy lanier over staffing and assignments and says it has worked well with newsham. Whoever that chief is going to be, they want a chief that is going to back the working officer. I think our number one priority as an organization is public safety. I want people to feel safe. He was named assistant chief in 2002. Hell replace lanier who citywide has been very popular and visible. I intend to be very visible. I intend to be as visible as i can be. Im not cathy lanier. Im Peter Newsham and i hope that the community will see me for what i am. Again, he officially takes over on september 17th and hell be spending a lot of time in the next couple of weeks with chief lanier as she gets ready to be the security chie she has a lot to share with him and leave with him. One thing im thinking of and im curious to know what you think, that he will not follow from the chief. Ive never seen any police chief
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And we have breaking news from in Sussex County. There are reports a tornado hit the town of waverly but state police are still working to confirm that we do know that several structures were destroyed in waverly Marcella Robertson is live there gathering the latest word that there is another Tornado Warning in effect here and when i can tell you that the wind has really started to pick up again here in waverly and take a look here theres damage we are back in the downtown right now in waverly and i mean you can see me in all the bricks and the white in all the damage and destruction that has really been caused by the storm here again this isnt downtown a lot of store fronts here have been damaged and this is really just kind of devastating for a lot of people here in the community at this point you know a lot of people that we spoke with the damage to their homes on the e u know when we first came out here there are a lot of people they cannot hear the rain just in complete shock on b