Police officers across the country are beefing up their security after the ambush in baton rouge. Good evening. Im eric thomas. The gunman was shot and killed by police, but not before taking his deadly toll. 35yearold Montrell Jackson, Brad Garafola and matthew gerald. Our Team Coverage tonight from baton rouge. Good evening, eric. As you can see here, it is still very much an active crime scene in baton rouge as investigators are trying to piece together the details and understand how the shooter gavin long, an exmarine traveled from kansas city, missouri here to baton rouge on his 29th birthday and opened fire. [ siren ] [ gunshots ] target blue again. One subject, all black carrying an ar. Officers in baton rouge responding to reports of a gunman dressed in black, found themselves suddenly in his sights. Officers down, shots fired, officers down. Got a city officer down. Shots fired. Unknown where the subject is shooting from. Walking into the line of fire. Im hit. Back here. Deput
Stability and peace in turkey. All u. S. Citizens there have been told to stay in their homes and not attempt to go to the u. S. Embassy or the consulate. Turkey is a key u. S. Ally. Stay with abc 7 news and follow us on abc 7 news bay area for updates throughout the afternoon and evening. And with that, we say good evening, im larry beil. And im ama daetz. Wayne freedman is in San Francisco with local reaction to the coup underway right now. Reporter good afternoon. With short notice, this is as close to turkey as we could get, the ala turka restaurant on gary street where the food is turkish and the people who work here are turkish and the only thing they are talking right now is the coup going on in turkey. Let me show you video. A lot has changed since the revolution in 1984. But they are using social media to watch the playbyplay as it evolves. We want a democratic country, we dont want a dictator this is good for the country. You are saying the revolution is good . Yes. This is e
Good evening. The attack happened a few hours ago in the coastal city of nice. Its 3 00 a. M. There. The driver of that truck fired on the crowd before Police Killed him. The truck was filled with guns and grenades. At least 76 people are dead and 50 others are injured. The consult apartmeant is worki authorities to see if any american citizens are hurt. We are in new york with the latestn this breaking story. Reporter people running for their lives in nice fleeing what french government officials are calling a criminal event. Witnesses say they saw a truck driver slam his vehicle into a crowd who were celebrating the French National holiday. Other witnesses describe a scene on the citys famous promise nad and bodies everywhere. Police firing on the driver of the truck and he was reportedly killed. The city put in the antiterrorist protocol advising everything to shelter in place. No one is taking responsibility so far for this attack. President obama has been briefed and u. S. Officia
Good morning to you. Im diane maceda. And im phillip mena. We begin with that major announcement by president obama taking a step with normal relationship with an old enemy. He announced the end of an arms embargo with the country, something vietnamese leaders had long sought. Abcs bob woodruff is traveling with the president and he joins now. Reporter good morning, yes some very big news this morning. A short while ago, president obama announced that the u. S. Has agreed to lift the longstanding arms embargo which made it illegal to sell lethal weapons to vietnam. That ban is now officially over but there are lingering concerns about vietnams human rights record. Its interesting that obama was made really to improve the relationship with vietnam not because of chinas increasing aggressive ideas in the south china sea. Despite that wording china is major concern in he region, china has been converting reefs into artificial islands not far away from the vietnamese coast. So the relation
Tonight, because of our stories, metro is changing how it follows up on crime, but are they calming the fears of riders . Tom it has been a bad few days for safety news for metro. You go down that way, south of year, there was an assault and robbery. You go up that way, there was a rape on the red line. We know that metro will change its policy about how it informs the public about Violent Crimes. Safety is at risk, not knowing that people are doing that. S are upset that metro did not tell them about the red line rate. Raping ais accused of woman 10 a. M. Tuesday, april 12. Metro said nothing at the time in the public only found out monday when abc 7 broke the we have things happen every day. Manager saidral hicks was arrested hours later, so they do not publicize the rape. We caught the person. That is an escalation of anything ive heard. Tom riders say they should have been told. They least let people know have to be aware this is possible. If you are not aware, you dont pay as much