Interstate now. Jack brandon ellingsons family has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Highway Patrol of negligence. The family has also had some help from iowa senator chuck grassley. This past fall, he wrote a letter to the special prosecutor asking for an update on the investigation. Well keep you posted on the latest. Jack there are new details in the search for whoever was behind the wheel in mondays hit and run in ames. Jack 18 year old emmalee jacobs killed at the intersection of ash avenue just off of the iowa state campus. Ames police have been taking tips and reviewing nearby Surveillance Footage for the past five days. The video captures the ashlincoln intersection. Police say it was dark and rainy at the time of the hit and run. Police have also county auto in hopes to catch the vehicle involved. Unfortunately none of that video captures the intersection. No eyewitnesses, no video of that thats whats proving difficult at this point emmalee jacobs was a freshman at iowa sta
Impact. Reporter he works with a Security Firm says there are profit and other motives tore for companies to get involved. For the intellectual challenge alone i think industry has a lot to gain by getting engaged in the fight. Reporter one student accepted to stanford and princeton says the talk got him thinking about joining the cyber service. He wants to try it first and i think thats one of the biggest obstacles to students getting involved with helping the government and military is that nobody really knows what its like and it seems like a rigid structure hard to get into. But i think making it easier is the best part of it. Reporter in addition to the call for action the secretary broke some news here this afternoon revealing for the first time that the pentagons Computer Networks were recently breached by a group of russian hackers. The hackers were eventually kicked off the system. The secretary said. But investigators are still trying to determine how much information was los
Yesterday. Cornell bernard is live where Fundraising Efforts are trying to help one couple who lost almost everything. Cornell . Reporter still no cause to this fire but just a short time ago, a woman who lost her home in this fire, made an amazing discovery right here in the ruins. After a long search there is nothing left of the house heather and Evan Thornton was about to start their new life in, but suddenly a miraculous find. Heathers ann gaugement ring discovered in the rubble. Oh, my gosh. We apologize. We came back a little early. Hopefully well go back to cornell with right now . After a long search there is nothing left of the house heather and Evan Thornton were about to tart their new life in but suddenly a miraculous find, heathers engagement ring. Oh, my gosh, i saved my Wedding Dress and having this, felt like everything will by all right. Our wedding will still happen. She also rescued her Wedding Dress moments before the fire destroyed their home. What a fire it was. S
Live from the kgo Broadcast Center this is abc news. All of a sudden the flames started to race up the hill and it was really intense. A fire comes dangerously close to homes in contra costa county. Tonight, firefighters warn this fire season is only going to get worse. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. It burned fast, hot and still watched by fire crews tonight. Abc 7 News Reporter is live in contra costa with more on the fire that got close to homes. Lisa . Reporter very true. The backyards of these homes on fascination circle suffered the brunt of the damage. As you can see, the fire crews are back there checking the lines. They will be doing this all night long to make sure this fire stays out. They fought the fire from the air and from the ground as it leapt to life on this dry, grassy hillside. It was i scary, absolutely scary. Reporter homeowners also leapt in to action without much success. I dropped the hose and took off. Reporter it burned several retaining walls and tr
To the world stage. It has a huge door open for our bay area native chris. Chris is such a great inspiration to all kids. The u. S. A. s next match is on thursday, so another big screen and plenty of beers to go around. In San Francisco, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. Coming up in sports well have the highlights of the exciting u. S. Match as well as todays other games. Today security was tight at the stadium in rio before the game between russia and belgium. This after about 100 fans were able to barge into the press box before the game between chile and spain on wednesday. Today more than 3,000 security personnel blocked off the streets and kept fans in place. Some in rio are in the dark after the power went out in a city popular for tourists. 0 Spokesman Says they department know why the power went out but crews are working to fix the problem. A sister network, espn and espn 2 are carrying the monday world cup mavs live. At 9 00 a. M. Australia and spain, and netherlands and chile on e