In philadelphia. Good evening. At a time when they will be in big demand, some of philadelphias taxi and limo drivers planning to boycott the Republican National convention this july because of Services Like uber, x and lyft. Nbc 10 joins us live with more on the message they hope to send. Reporter a Group Representing some of these taxi and limo drivers say theyre tired of getting the runaround and hoping Democratic Leaders take notice when they refuse to open drivers in the three days of the convention or longer if necessary. Limo drivers play cricket to pass the time. The cars are idle near the airport with nowhere to go. Drivers are not making money. Im working about 90 to 100 hours a week. Reporter they say its because of thousands of thousdr that operate in the city but its technically illegal. Thats why the drivers previously protested snarling traffic for hours around city hall. The philadelphia limousine, cab and taxi associations plan to do it again boycotting in the National
We had a message from the captain he one person who was claiming to have a suicide belt and climbing to stop in istanbul. The plane was diverted to larneca airport, where the high jacking resulted in release of most of the passengers. The motive wasnt clear. The spokesman for the ministry of transport said it was related to an issue the suspect had with his exwife. He was talking about having a baby and wife that he wanted to talk to. Reed binnion reporting. All right. More on that to come throughout the morning. In the meantime were tracking the weather this morning as we take a live look from our embarcardero camera. Well talk about the forecast today, and you mentioned there was a chance of some rain yesterday. I know i got some out of my house. It was very brief but it was pretty nice. We had some pop up showers and also a little bit of hail for parts of the north bay and east bay yesterday. It may trigger should showers south and east. The bay brim, were starting off with Clear Co
Whipping winds as they battled a raging fire on 91st street, not that far from laguardia airport. Today in new yorks cath s s Katherine Creag has the latest. Dat. Reporter its a frantic scene, one man grabbed his kids and ran for their lives. We want to show you, the top there of that house, you can see all of that smoke damage that came out of the window. Heavy smoke and flames when firefighters first arrived here. Thats what they saw about 2 00 this morning. Two houses and three garages have been destroyed in the fire. Agthain, neighbors describing heavy flames. And it didnt help that it was so windy. Fire investigators are concentrating on work being done in one of the garages, that it might be the spot as to where the fire started. Right now, were taking a look at it, it looked like they were doing Water Repairs in the we recovered four propane cylinders from the rear. And again, its under investigation, but we are looking to see could have possibly started in the rear of the build
Us to all gather into this room and stay away from the doors and the glass, and then they held us there for 20 to 30 minutes. We werent told anything. We werent updated on anything during that, so we were confused. We were looking up things on our phone and calling people from the outside to try to find out whats going on. Reporter now, a short time ago we heard from matthew verderosa, the Capitol Police chief. He says this guy is a lone actor. Theres no evidence of terrorism. He says this guy was previously known to the Capitol Hill Police and his vehicle has been located. The investigation of that vehicle continues on. Here nis the chief. Reporter during routine administrative screening, the individual drew what appeared to be a weapon and pointed it at officers. An officer fired and struck the suspect who was subsequently treated by medical personnel. Single person who has frequented the Capitol Grounds before and there is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a crimi
Latest on the Virginia Statete trooper shot in the line of trooper. The trooper was can killed at a Greyhound Bus stop in richmond, virginia. Reporter police not pol identifying the suspect although they did say his address did not match one here in the state of virginia, but not saying if potentially he had any ties to e the area. However, a sad turn of events e tonight as we learn of trooper door meyers passing. It was just in 2015 2014 he joined Virginia State police. He leaves behind a wife and two small children. Ildr two other women also shot. T. Theyre expected to survive. Its with an incredibly heavyvy heart tonight that i annoyancena to you the loss of Virginia State Police Trooper chad deer meyer. Trooper chad door meyer was in d the midst ofoo a training exerce along with about a dozen otheren Virginia State troopers insideie the Greyhound Bus terminal in richmond this afternoon. Nd the t training encompasses for suspicion activity and in todays exercise, if you see some sus