Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Well start with the Severe Weather thats on the move right now with at least one tornado touching down overnight. The wet and Stormy Weather will not quit in the southern plains. Looking at the radar you can see the massive system in oklahoma and texas. Yeah, you can see that widespread area of rain and heavy thunderstorms and this was just the start of whats expected to be several days of severe storms. Taking aim at the southern plains. Overnight a possible tornado touching down along the oklahoma texas border. This new video showing heavy winds and hail tearing apart trees. Further south the flood emergency remaining in corpus christi, this morning after a foot of rain since the weekend. The flash flood threat will remain throughout the week according to accuweathers paul williams. Surge of gulf moisture is going to make for flooding and flash flood threat all the way to thursday. So this is elongated event even beyond the storms just happening for to
Last week. Were told the number of shootings on east bay highway now totals in the mid20s. Folkare upset, they are frustrated, they want something to be done and they think not enough is being done. That is the latest from antioch. Im jodi hernandez, nbc 4 news. Dramatic to see the highway shut down with the officers on the freeway. That Pittsburg City Council meeting. Heres some more details. Its right along highway 4. If approved, up to six cameras would be installed. This is for surveillance. Theyre hoping that adding cameras would perhaps lessen the shootings. Pittsburg mayor is supporting the plan. The surveillance project comes with a 100,000 price tag. Were following a developing story out of the peninsula. A dead dog after a grooming trip to petsmart and we learned the groomer has been arrested. Robert handa joins us live. What do we know about this . Reporter we are at the store in san mateo where there has been a lot of drama. Police say on sunday evening they responded to th
Car in that shop. Youve got gasoline, oils, spray paints, spray lube cants, solvents, waste oil, all of that stuff is combustible and flammable liquids. This is on almaden avenue. No injuries to tell you about, the crews will need to stay on scene to make sure the combustibles do not catch fire again. Now to a story youll only see on nbc bay area. The Obama Administration today said isis is losing ground, but isis is still recruiting americans, some of them from neighborhoods right here in the bay area. Marianne favros here now with the exclusive investigation from nbc datelines special. They met a man who claimed to be an isis defector. He gave nbc news a thumb drive he said he stole from an isis commander. In it contained the personnel fires of thousands of foreign fighters who joined isis in 2013 and 2014. Terrorism exports verified those files are authentic and contain the names of two citizens from the bay area who went overseas and joined isis. One of the bay area men is alberto
Area, and they go over here to this rock, and thats when they discover this torso. Now Oakland Police say that they arrived here at about 12 00 p. M. Information is very limited. They tell us that the torso belongs to that of a young male, and it looks like its been floating in the water for at least a month, based on the decomposition of the body. There are still plenty of unanswered questions. Well try to determine what happened. Are we looking at somebody who had an accident, maybe through boating . If we had a suicide or missing person, or if its connected to a crime. Reporter there were early reports that a bay bridge worker spotted the body. But cal trans denied that, saying it was a separate contractor that spotted that torso. Well have more on this discovery coming up live at 6 p. M. Were live. And a handful of east bay mayors meet after another shooting. Several cities are expected to ask the governor to open up the states checkbook to help solve the issue. Mayors from five ea
Evidence and now a large section of the freeway is a crime scene and officers have been walking along that highway looking for shell casings and other evidence but the most amazing part with those bullets flying, no one was hurt at any of the locations. But the major fallout is a traffic nightmare. Chopper five giving you a live look. All westbound lanes of highway 4 are blocked in pittsburg. Late word from c hp, the lanes will remain closed for at least another 30 minutes. We are live in the traffic backup along highway 4. Juliette. It is a mess out there. Reporter it is. One of the detours, you can see the police cars are blocking the entrance on highway 4. Moving traffic along in different areas and it is going to take a long time for the folks to get home. You know this comes at a time when tonight the Pittsburg City Council wants to bring up a vote of adding cameras along highway 4. This after a series of freeway shootings. Last week a pregnant mother of 4 was murdered when someon