Outside that has some bombs. You people are going get it and im going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid. No explosives are ever found. At 4 21 a. M. , police pull an air conditioning unit evacuating a group of survivors. The chief of police stressing there was no gunfire in the three hours it took for s. W. A. T. Teams to take mateen down. I think there was this misconception that we didnt do anything for three hours and im just trying to clarify thats absolutely not true. We have been training for this situation for many, many years since columbine, since 9 11. Reporter factors that add to an already complex investigation, abc news learning days before the standoff mateen spent 9,000 on jewelry, two months earlier he signed over his interest in this florida home he owned with this father for just 100. And the fbi initially releasing portions of that 911 call in written form omitting any reference to radical islam. They later corrected course after get something criticism
The breaking news out of Charlotte North Carolina tonight, any minute now we are expected to see new video footage in the shooting death of scott. The department announcing in the last 90 minutes have reversed their position and will not release dash cam and body cam or video. The decision comes amid mounting pressure scotts family says he did not have a gun when he was shot and killed by an officer on tuesday. Scotts wife shut the cell phone video. The police chief spoke a few minutes ago after previously sending you footage could jeopardize the integrity of the shooting. In the state of transparency youre going to get everything that we can deliver. Fact, footage and an explanation on where we stand today relative to the investigation. Minute now. Of course we will let you know as soon as we hear more. Also happening now at six police are charging for a gunman who shot and killed five people at a Washington State mall. Good evening everyone. It is a story weve been tracking since it
Fort meade. Thunderstorms have developed across central and eastern Pinellas County. Just north of downtown st. Pete getting rain. Largo then drifting to the east Safety Harbor area. Farther south you can see north port seeing thunderstorms all the way down south. Not at severe levels. Small hail with thunderstorms that develop on a day like this as well as a lot of lightning and local flooding. More in just minutes coming up. Well tonight voters will be able to see the president ial candidates goto to toe in the first president ial debate of this historic election. Earlier today news channel 8s Jeff Patterson was the only local fig tour to interview Vice President ial nominee tim kaine. Jeff joins us live in lakeland where kaine made a brief Campaign Stop. Reporter yeah, good evening. This is his fifth Campaign Stop in florida since being put on the ticket as the vice even he acknowledges that right now this state is too close to call. Tim kaine has served as a city council member, go
Good morning, everybody. It is 6 00. And it is saturday. We made it to the weekend. Were certainly glad youre with us. And be prepared its a little chilly out there. Definitely a change in the air mass. Nice to have you back. Its good to be back. Missed you last week. Thank you. Were back in action. Were back in action with the nippy stuff already. Kerry is wearing a big heavy winter coat. Ear must haves enter lets go to the earmuffs. Lets go the b now. The try ton regional middle school, 48 this morning. Its coming down the New Hampshire coast. Its overcast. Berlin at the Memorial School cloudy weather here in southern new england. Its cleared out the berkshires and broken clouds in southern New Hampshire. Its scattered clouds in portsmouth. It looks like its cleared up to boston. We have a lot of lower clouds in place. So a lot of the clouds happening this morning. Its still kind of on the damp side, especially south of boston. Well have the sunny evident weather this afternoon so we
See there briefly, there is his car and there is the log truck. He said he just pulled up to the scene not long ago as well. There was another officer investigating, he left to be with the driver who was taken to the hospital. The drivers injuries are not known. The trooper said he just got here, doing an investigation, not too clear exactly what happened of why the driver overturned but like i said it is foggy, dark, be still no clearcut conclusion of how that driver overturned his log truck but nonetheless, it is overturned you can see there but no lanes are blocked going in either direction, no logs scattered across the road. There is one car off in the median, the state trooper told me the car did knick one of the logs that fell off the truck but other than that, no injuries other than the driver of the log truck being taken to the hospital. Ill be out here trying to get more answers as soon as i do ill update you on air and online at wbtv. Com. Reporting live in Iredell County, As