Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Palm sunday terror in egypt. Dozens dead after isis strikes during sunday mass. Here in the bay area, a message of defiance tonight from the coptic christian community. Terrorists will never win. This action makes us very strong. This action makes us very united. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Tonight egypt has declared a state of emergency after the two suicide blasts. One tore through a church as a choir was singing. [ explosion ] that video feed cutting out as chaos erupts at the church in the city of tanta about 70 miles north of cairo. Hours later in alexandria, security cameras caught a suicide bomber detonating his bomb right at the security checkpoint outside the building. In all, at least 44 people were killed and more than 125 injured. And isis is claiming responsibility tonight. Evening prayers went on as scheduled tonight as a Coptic Christian Church in the east bay. They worry about whats next for egypt. Abc 7 News Reporter leslie br
Before highway 4, two left lanes are blocked and traffic is flowing at 14 or 15 Miles Per Hour and now backed up towards crocket, and two lanes and they are expecting a tow truck, and otherwise the i80 commute not bad into the maze. And then the egypt suicide bombings, and five more people died overnight. More than 100 people were injured in the bombings in the palm sunday celebrations. Isis claimed responsibility for both attacks. The president of egypt declared a state of emergency that is expected to last three months. Here in the bay area, evening prayers went on as scheduled at a Coptic Christian Church in hayward. Coptic christians make up 10 of the population in egypt. In december a bomb killed 25 people. The Coptic Community has been persecuted for thousands of years and it wont stop. Most muslims in egypt are very friendly and we get along really well, but you have the extreme elements that destroys all relationship between good people. Pope francis is expected to visit cairo
Clouds have taken over and will be with us over the next few days. Even without the sunshine, our afternoon highs will make it into the 70s this weekend thanks to a southerly wind. Lows will be held up in the 50s, so we wont be dealing with frost again for a while. Showers and storms are possible late saturday into saturday night. Mondays looking warm with highs edging close to 80. Well fall back down from there, wind s 1020. Low 57 alo 56 dbq 55 iow 57 tomorrow mostly cloudy and windy. A few showers and storms are possible late. Wind s 1525. High 73 alo 73 dbq 72 iow 74 beth . An iowa city woman faces up a government building. Sarrina bancroft is accused of threatening to blow up the department of Human Services building in iowa city. Shes 21. Bancroft is also accused of threatening to hunt down and kill anyone involved in a court case to remove her son from her custody. Police arrested her last night. An offduty black hawk someone while intoxicated. Court records show Waterloo Police
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The whole enchilada. I cant wait. Good morning. Thanks for waking up with us. Im talking enchiladas, now we want food. I think so. Reviewing the super bowl again, i dont know why its not about that. We talked about it. Playing today asou well pitted s all about the tribepi obviously from the big when from yesterday both are tons more about that. Lets hear a look at radar rain showers we are expected to come in last night, they kind of petered out, the showers are sending the actual cold front it self in some heavy water over the lake those will continue to slidell our way, just in time fr theim stadium. Meanwhile, even light rain being reported, we are detecting car ground lightning strikes. Look sick they faded away, that is a goodd sign. 18 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time to our south east, what a day yesterday. My goodness, its a beautiful day. We hit 75 degrees. Grounds browns and jets, 1 00 oclock kickoff rain is likely, the forecast today includes rain showers turningg