It happened in Downtown Manhattan during the morning rush hour in the underpass at the Port Authority terminal thats americas biggest and busiest bus terminal. This is street view of the terminal on a normal day. You get the sense it is right in Downtown Manhattan, traffic and commuters all around. It serves more 65 Million People a year. The authorities are saying a low tech explosive device was strapped to the suspects body. Here are some eye witnesses. Over my head, i heard a loud bang andi over my head, i heard a loud bang and i looked out the window and i saw people running towards the second and then everybody took off running in the opposite direction. Everyone was freaking out on the train, people were laying down, some people were looking at the exits, because it is fairly crowded in the morning. I was in a restaurant, sitting inside the Port Authority and suddenly, i see a group of people, like 60 people, running like mad and a woman fell and nobody, even cops, mad and a woma
Million a week as he sets out his vision for the country post brexit. His north korea leader kim jong un vows to complete the countrys nuclear programme, as the United States once again warns pyongyang of military action. In sport, its go defoe. Bournemouth have their first points of the season thanks to jermain defoes first goal of the season. And stav has got the weather. I think sunday will be the better day, we have showers will be on the chilly side. Good morning. First, our main story. Armed police and military personnel are being deployed at key locations across the uk after the Terror Threat level was increased to critical the highest possible level. The hunt for the person behind the attack is continuing. 29 people were injured, with many suffering from burns. The raising of the threat level means that the government believes a further terror attack may be imminent. The bbc understands that the bomb, described as a homemade device, had been fitted with a timer but failed to fu
They. The fbi, coast guard and a dozen local agency is taking part in a Training Exercise in alameda. We have Kelley Rasmus there about this disaster scenario they are preparing for. Reporter the teams are working about how they would Work Together, if someone drove on a pickup truck with a chemical weapon and started shooting. There is not in oakland, but this is the hazmat washdown station set up by Alameda County fire. And with the s. W. A. T. Team, they are coming back after their portion of the Training Exercise, most of it on the dock, in between these ships here at alameda point. The Training Exercise started 8 00 3w8 this morning at 8 30 this morning. Again, this is a Training Exercise, the victims were actors painted in red paint and a man shot at people and barricaded himself. The swath team responsed and so do cland firefighters. They have been planning it for six months and wanted it to do it on the location on the water because it presents some specific challenges they wan
Methamphetamine. 36yearold Sayyadina Thomas is sitting in jail charged with felony child abuse for allegedly forcing meth into a twoyearold boys mouth. It happened monday afternoon as a boy named griffin was with his nanny and another toddler at the play structure of peoples park in berkeley. The nanny was apparently unaware that the park is frequented by the mentally ill and drug users. Witnesses say thomas saw griffin asking if he wanted candy and then grabbed him. She grabbed the child by the back of the head and forced it into his mouth. I have a doctor of my own. I reacted and ran straight up to her. She ran straight off the boys nanny checked his mouth and found nothing. Still she called Uc Berkeley Police we are at peoples park and a report of a child having something in his mouth. She told police that thomas was a stranger to them interactions were unprovoked. Officers arrested thomas who told police she gave the bowl boy a tootsie roll. Later, she told paramedics it was actual
We often see jesse james is the apolitical. To just also taken a span and enable us to see a man who we should know is that who was during the civil war, deeply political. I is my pleasure to bring back to the stage tj stiles. [applause] question two very much. My grandfather to public speaking onetime summoned him up to him and said he wanted to go to the ballgame. A few times i find rather disappointing. I hope i dont jesse james is my first subject. I wrote about him to him because i want to write about the civil war and reconstruction is one story. I didnt want to write a boring story. s personal best through Popular Culture had a significant role in american history. Him thehan debunking way that scholars often do with popular figures, i found that he probably played a much more Important Role in recruiting people have previously realized. Very closely tied to the civil war. The reason why we know his name is because of the civil war. Im going to be talking book civil war a little