To help the people on the cypress freeway, and it was also a reminder that the big one is yet to come. Right here where we are standing, 42 people perished in the cypress collapse. Reporter oakland mayor libby schaaf led ceremonies today honoring First Responders and citizens who went to help when violent shaking from the loma prieta deck brought the upper deck crashing down on to cars on the lower deck. And im watching telephone poles moving, and im watching streetlights bouncing up and down. Retired deputy fire chief mark hoffman was a outside fire station 1 when the quake struck. He and his crew sped to the collapsed freeway and immediately began the search for victims. I felt my best role was to bird dog and go from collapsed section to collapsed section, to try to get an assessment on how many bodies need to be rescued. Meantime, neighbors in the cypress mandela neighborhood also went to work. We moved quickly in the community to see what was going on and how we could help others.
what donald trump rather see the border crisis fixed or campaign on it? take a guess. the lead starts now bipartisan senate border deal at risk of death with donald trump urging senate republicans to kill it so he can use the board as central campaign issue against joe biden . all the latest from capitol hill coming up to cnn on the ground in the streets of ecuador where gang violence plagues the country. this month gunman took over a tv station, see what our crew captured as police try to crackdown damaging auto leak, what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said on a hot mic that could ruin negotiations to free hostages held by hamas. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper you we begin with the 2024 lead, the immigration deal reported on the show for months which republicans insist on being part of a package to aid in ukraine in israel that whole deal might go up in smoke why? partly because senator mitch mcconnell, one of the powerful replicants other than form
Is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where President Trump has spoken about the appointment of a Special Counsel to take over the russia investigation into any potential ties with his campaign. He said the entire affair was a witch hunt which hurt the country, as he put it, and he denied ever asking the fbi director to end the investigation into his National Security advisor Michael Flynn. From washington, aleem macqbool reports. The president s just not happy with the scrutiny he continues to come under over his links with russia. The entire thing has been a witch hunt. And there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. Did you at any time urge former fbi Directorjames Comey to close or back down the investigation into Michael F
Sunshine. Enjoy it while it lats it last. Rain to the west stays there. And rain south of nantucket continues to lift north and thats where we are looking at rare yays of rain areas of rain filling in it wont be until late morning and midday along the south coast. The rest of us wait until the afternoon for scattered showers and a few downpours. They will stick around for the evening commute. Scattered in nature and temperatures in the 50s throughout the course of the day today. More wet weather tomorrow. We will time that out for the weaning coming up. No reporter we are still watching that accident on 24 north at 128 up here in randolph. Its blocking the right holder. See the backup is really building fast. Traffic is now backed up to exit 18 and route 27 in brockton. This is going to add 25 minutes to your morning commute. Good news is you can avoid 24 north a couple good alternate routes will be route 138 or 28 you can take those both back up to 128. This morning his uncle is heade
After a commuter crash. A live look from hoboken station in new jersey where investigators are collecting evidence from the crash. Tonight investigators are still piecing together the moments before impact. Jadiann trying to figure out why that crash was speeding into the station. We have information on people on the train and technology that could have prevented the crash. We start with john hoboken, new jersey. Reporter it is quieted dan here in hoboken but this investigation is far from over after that crash here at this station where high speeds are eyed as an early culprit. The rush hour commute in hoboken, turning chaotic after a train came screaming off the tracks, plowing into the platform. I have every structural damage and trapped on the train, and on board, most headed to manhattan, instead of slowing down, jumped off the tracks and sent debris flying. Came in at high high right of speed and went through the bumper block through the air and took the ceiling out. An explosion