Coming down towards hilltop drive, and no slowing has showed up just yet. And theres the bay bridge toll plaza, and they had a little slowdown. Theres a trash reported that i will check on, and not as bad as 580, which is fine. Your ride on bart could soon become safer. Bob is live with the details. I am hearing a lot of Police Officers are ready to roll out . Reporter bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers this year alone, to give you perspective, thats the same number of new hires at the previous two years combined. Look at the numbers on your tv screen. Bart has been recruiting more officers after an independent review, and they want to hire 94 more officers over a fiveyear period and the report recommends they create a team to patrol just the bart stations. Under the most recent fouryear labor contract, new recruits receive a 15,000 signing bonus, and bart Police Officers received a onetime 6 Salary Increase and annual raises ranging from 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Many wouldbe hires
we are back with the second hour of cr chris jansing report reports live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. at this hour, breaking news, we are waiting for a pentagon briefing expected any moment as we learn new details about exactly who might be behind the leak of classified u.s. intelligence documents of government secrets online. plus, in the hot seat, former president donald trump s deposition in a high stakes civil lawsuit here in new york what it could mean for the fate of the family business and days of flames, the fire at an indiana plastics recycling plant, pumping toxic black clouds into the richmond skies for a third straight day the danger and how the community is responding. plus, a 50-year flood event. we re live from fort lauderdale, florida, where officials just issued an emergency declaration after that massive rainfall. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, let s start with that breaking news officials have identified a
William and harry pay tribute to their mother, 20 years after her death. Early today starts right now. Good to be with you, im frances rivera. Another threat emerges, a major Chemical Plant near houston has exploded according to the plants owner, arkema, local officials reported two explosions and smoke coming from the site hours ago. Nbcs julia bagg is in houston near the Chemical Plant. Whats the latest from there . This morning we know about the two explosions and i saw the plume of smoke myself coming up from the plant earlier this morning. Now firefighters have pushed us back to where we are, where its apparently safe, theyve blocked off this road between houston going northeast to beaumont. What happened here at the plant is that Hurricane Harvey dumped so much water it flooded the generators, they lost power, that means the refrigeration system failed. And then the chemicals that they use here got too hot and thats what put this place at risk for explosions and potentially a fir
Well work our way lieu the cloud cover, get back to more sunshine. Still not an overly warm day. Its not that cool of the morning. Were in to the lower to mid 60s. I think temperatures will fali a few more degrees. I think well level off near 60. Were free of precipitation. Mild 69 this afternoon. Progressively more sunshine. This is some of the warmer days for this workweek. Well talk about that in a little bit. The first check of traffic now with kelly blanco. Good morning, south florida. As you make your way ou the door are, were accidentfree. Construction. Up until 5 30 a. M. , all lanes blocked on palmetto expressway 52nd avenue, all lanes blocked off. 395 drivers eastbound right at alton road, you are going to find that ramp complely blocked off. This isnt going to last until 5 30 a. M. This should clear up within the next 15 to 20 minutes. You can follow me. At this hour the search is on for the man who took off in a car with a baby inside. He ditched the car but that child is s
Ives dairy road. Directions still unknown. Ill make some phone calls for you and see exactly how it will be affecting your morning commute. This is the palmetto expressway northbound where we have construction at kendall drive. As far as 826 northbound and u. S. 27, okeechobee road, things nice and clear. No construction in this area of the palmetto. No major issues southbound. Lets take you over to our maps. Southwest 7th street, the ramp is completely blocked off, blocked off since monday after that garbage truck incident. You southwest 17th avenue, brickell avenue or biscayne boulevard as your alternates. 836 ramp to 826 is completely shut down. It should be reopening within the next five to ten minutes. Its 5 33 on yours thursday morning. President obama is headed to cuba next month. That historic trip will m mrk the first time a sitting u. S. Nation in 30 years. Nbc 6s julia bagg is live in Little Havana. Julia, safe to say theres a lot of chatter about this planned trip by the pr