Approaching 70 years insistence Largest Armed conflict in history. The link ring hard feetle forwardfeelingstowards japan ace pacific. Police in memphis tennessee are in mourning, amid a manhunt. They still have not caught the shooter eve of an officer. A Memphis Police officer shot and killed after pulling over a car. Sean bottleon was showed multiple times on a street in the southeastern part of the city. The driver of the vehicle has turned himself into police and has since been released without charge. Passenger of the vehicle who is believed to be shooter is identified as 29yearold jermaine wil wilburn. My brothers life was just beginning only for it to end in a tragedy. Theres enough eac eestles in ed and he fought it to the end of his life. Bottleons death speaks volumes of the depth of police work. The fact that there are so many guns in our streets in the wrong hands np any given minute in a 24hour day, they are dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement. Sean bottleon
This is Aljazeera America good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are working to contain hundreds of wildfires burning across the state in california. Theyve burned more than 100,000 acres of land, destroying homes and roads along the way. We have more. Fires are burning all along the west coast but the worst hit area is northern california. The largest fires burning north of San Francisco where it has destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday, thats what it looked like. The flames are fueled by lightning, trees and high temperatures. We have seen a couple of spot fires and those escalate, got pretty big and took up the mountain. Firefighting planes are making the rounds, including dc10 tankers releasing fire retardant. An Evacuation Order has been issued north of San Francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an
This is thanksgiving. Good morning, live from new york city im random pinkston. In Northern California, firefighters are racing to contain the rocky fire. It has trade 67,000acres, but thanks to a slight dip in temperatures and a little rain, theweekold wildfire is now 20 contained. 3500 firefighters are on the scene, but Officials Say it is still burning strong, spewing smoke and hot ash that flashes the fire in all directions. Jacob ward is there. Firefighters areyearold on Northern California. Theyre from democrats all over the state and when they get here, they find out its a different world. Yesterday the fire jumped highway 20 burning north. Theres a large big pocket of green in here. If that is established its a chance to make a big push. I. C. S. Is basically an agreed upon structure a way of bringing hundreds of departments together at a moments notice. This is the equipment warehouse. If you need a nozzle, clamp or piece of equipment you come here. It doesnt matter where your
This is al jazeera live from new york city, im erica pitzi. A man that attacked a Movie Theater hat a history of mental illness. He had at least one arrest as well as multiple commitments to Mental Health facilities in his past. He had moviegoers in tennessee ducking for cover. [ gunfire ] thats the sound of the latest theater shooting suspect being shot dead by police in tennessee. It was a lot, oh lot of shots. It was coming from outside the theater. Police began receiving calls after 1 00 p. M. In the nashville suburb of antioch. Witnesses say the 29yearold vin tente David Montano walked into the movie wearing a surgical mask, as well as two backpacks and a weapon. He was armed with a hatchet and armed with a weapon that strongly reassembles a semiautomatic pistol that we know now after examination is an air soft gun. He was allegedly armed with pepper spray. The gunman apparently unleashed this pepper spry throughout the theater, as additional officers to swat team entered that the
And a nation pauses to remember more than 100,000 People Killed in hiroshima 70 years ago today. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im erika pitzi. The pentagon says the initial deployment of u. S. Trained Syrian Rebels has become an embarrassing setback. Many of the forces a are deserting after coming under attack. Reporter the pentagon is releasing very few details about the friday attack on troops in northern syria, but it is becoming increasingly clear that this was based on a massive miscalculation by the pentagon that sent some of those troops in an area where they would be attacked by the alnusra front. What the pentagon is saying is when these initial troops, the first trained and equipped by the United States were colocated with other Syrian Forces in the region, they came under almost immediate attack from the alnusra front. They were able to call in u. S. Air power to repel the attack, but the pentagon now admits it cant account for many of the new recruits.