Today. Not too much traffic. New this morning, firefighters are cleaning up after a twoalarm garbage fire in san jose. Fire Officials Say it started around 1 00 in the morning between homes on 12th and 13th streets north of jackson. The fire spread to an out building and threatened a number of homes. You can see from the aerial satellite map just how much trash was in that back yard where the fire first started. The cause of the fire right now is under investigation. Fortunately no one was hurt. Developing news this morning, Hurricane Dorian is a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. Right now dorian is still slamming the bahamas. A live look at lake worth pier provided by surf line. Thats where people are preparing for heavy rains as the storm is headed north. Dorian is tied for the longest hurricane landfall on record. The officials are calling the damage in the bahamas catastrophic. Boats ending up on rooftops and uprooted trees there. The Prime Minister said y
Rescue attempts. So well keep a close eye on the story an update you as we get more information in our newsroom. Were the only tv reporter there at the bay station. Crews have been cleaning up the power lines. Reporter good morning. We found the power lines that fell this morning, causing the major traffic backup. You see the power lines on the ground. They were stuck in the tree. There was a bunch of workers below the transformer that were involved in the incident. Around 5 30 a. M. A crane that was involved in this Bart Lafayette track rebuilding work took down the power lines. They ended up falling along westbound lanes of highway 24. All lanes closed for nearly an hour. The lanes finally reopened and the traffic is moving again. But there is a lot of work to be done. 115 people in the area are without power this morning because of this. They are on the scene trying to clean up the mess and also work on restoring the line. Bart is also investigating how this happened. A crane took d
Airports shutting down. Ginger, rob and our extreme weather team spread out across the storm zone right now. Breaking news for our viewers in the west. A major boat fire off the coast of california with dozens of passengers on board. Coast guard has two copters in route. The rescue operation under way right now. The search for answers after another deadly mass shooting in texas. A gunman going on a mileslong rampage killing seven people including this postal worker and injuring 22 others, one of them a 17monthold girl. Kevin harts terrifying crash. The actor hospitalized. His car completely totaled. The very latest on his condition. And the u. S. Open shocker. Why Novak Djokovic, the number one seed in the world, called it quits midmatch, and that moment between coco gauff and naomi osaka inspiring fans all around the world. And good morning, america. We want to get right to Hurricane Dorian. Category 5 storm hitting the bahamas heading for the southeast, one of the strongest Atlantic
Man who made threats. He said he wanted to kill 500 not three in a reference to the number of People Killed in the gilroy shooting. He faces charges of violating a restraining order. The threats were unlawful and unacceptable and will not be tolerated. A police union raffle has come under fire. The winning prize was a semiautomatic rifle. The leaders of the union says the intend was legitimate but they have canceled the raffle. The timing is horrible and once we realized it we had to act. The poa president paul kelly doing a public mea culpa after a severe backlash to a raffle. An ad offering the chance to win this 9millimeter semiautomatic rifle if a raffle is purchased for 20. By video call the judge a former San Jose Police independent auditor said it sent shock waves through the city and beyond commonning on the heels of the mass shooting in gilroy. Suspect legan used an all style weapon to kill three. It flies in the face of everything that the Community Stands for. The union said
His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver