When we return, were pulling up stakes and heading to big bend, then to the great sand dunes, which are nowhere near the coast. After that, florida everglades, here we come. This is the coolest places on welcome back to the coolest places on earth. Brewster county, southwest along the rio grande, is where you find big bend, americas most isolated National Park. If youre taking a road trip to big bend, make sure you have plenty of gas, food, and water because its a long way between towns, miles and miles of dirt road. Youre virtually in the middle of nowhere. Who wouldve thought nowhere was so magical . Amazing desert land, Majestic Mountain ranges, blooming animals make big bend a mustsee. It may be remote, but it gets 300,000 tourists a year, and, while vegetation might be sparse, rock formations abound. Its a geologists dream come true. The two most common critters famous to this region are the turkey buzzard and the javelina, also known as the collared peccary, often mistaken often
Away from our station. You are keeping tabs on our commute and kris sanchez is there we are on day two of light sprinkle watch. Well see more coverage of rain today. Well see this storm system starting to ramp up. We start out the morning with dry conditions. You can see there are clouds and light showers across the region. Thats that system that will later on bring us rain. Temperatures now are in the upper 50s to low 60s heading into the upper 60s today. Up to 68 in the north bay. 70 in the south bay. Ill talk more about that rain, what to expect as we head into the weekend. The first half looks soggy. Thats coming up in a few. Lets head over to mike for a look at the morning commute. For the freeways, we are looking all right. On the maps, overall youre okay. San jose there is an issue on thec tracks. We are getting words from vta there is an issue, bus, bridges because of the activity right by our station here. They have the intersection closed. Folks getting to and around our sta
You may not need it this morning, but this afternoon well see showers and storms firing up. There is this weak system thats producing thunderstorms over the sierra. We may see that rotate into the bay area later on today. Highs expected to top out at 63 in the peninsula. San francisco at 63. Well talk more about that rain and it continues tomorrow as well as saturday. Thats coming up in the microclimate forecast. Lets get a view of bridges for your drive. San mateo bridge. We have a couple of crashes. Theres not a lot of slowing. Well give you more details on 92. I want to talk about the south bay. Vta lines stopped right here at the component station because of the activity. Talking about the breaking news affecting the bay point Pacific Center station lines. It is what we are covering this morning. That man certainly impacting traffic in san jose. He is refusing to get off of on top of a vta train. Happening right outside north first street. Its a very busy commute area. Hes been up
Bob, right in front of our studios, really. Bob, tell us whats happening now. Well, unfortunately, this could go on longer, scott and kristi, because T Santa Clara county Sheriffs Department plans to wait this man out. Right now, hes on top of that train. You cant see him. Hes out of sight from our vantage point, but hes hunched down, hes been underneath a yellow tarp within the past few moments. He was apparently showing those two crisis negotiators there in the cherry picker a cell phone that he had. Is not sure what that is about. But those two crisis negotiators, they feel that forcing him down would be too risky, too dangerous. Now, this is a change in behavior from earlier when he was standing up in nothing but shorts and shoes, causing commotion, saying that he wanted to ruin the morning commute. Now, the Sheriffs Office has been able to identify him as kyle lewis, a 25yearold man from boondale. Hes out on probation for what we believe is a nonviolent offense. This vta train was
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. The test maximum accused of killing a Police Officer for no apparent reason will be arraigned shortly on capital murder charge. Houston area police have no motive for the execution style killing. They ordered flags to be flown at halfstaff. We just learned that a funeral will be held on friday. The suspect does have an allegesy criminal record. The mother of shannon miles said that her son could not be found guilty. She said he has got an alibi. Shannon miles prepares this morning to meet a judge for the First Time Since he was arrested for friday nights executionstyle murder of 47yearold Harris County Sheriff Department aaron goforth, the suspects mother said that he was with her. Witnesses say it was around 8 30 friday night when someone shot department goforth from behind as he filled his vehicle tank. Shannon miles and his mother said that they were shopping and had difficulty getting home because the police were