Nat the campus went on lockdown as police and swat teams rushed to the scene. Students and employees sheltered in dorms and class rooms. Blocking doors with whatever they could find. They distributed images of what they saw on social media. And spoke to news organizations from their hiding places. Voice of Kevin Vasquez Ohio State University student its very hectic here right now. Theres like 40 cop cars, everyones very frantic. All the swat teams are getting together and cops are still pulling up. Before noon, the shelter in place alert was lifted. Witnesses beg they saw. Mos its not supposed to happen. Sorry and authorities started piecing together details of what happened. Craig stone chief, Ohio State University police a male suspect drove a vehicle over a curb on west 19th, west of college avenue, struck pedestrians, he exited the vehicle and used a butcher knife to start cutting pedestrians. Our officer was onscene in less situation in less than a minute. He engaged the suspect a
First stein must come up with 3 and a half Million Dollars by tomorrow to pay for it. We just got that new cost estimate its triple what was initially thought. Also within the last hour, stein has sued the Wisconsin Elections commission in dane county court, asking a judge to force clerks to do the recount by hand. Gore now, its wisconsins turn for a recount. Its going to reassure wisconsin voters that we have a fair system, that were not counting illegal votes, were not counting dead peoples votes at a special meeting, the Wisconsin Elections commission lays out the timeline after Green Party Candidate jill steins recount request. Stein must pay a fee up front, by 430 pm tuesday. Clerks in all 72 counties would then start recounting federally mandated december 13th deadline to certify the results. Right now, president elect donald trump has a 22thousand vote lead over Hillary Clinton in wisconsin. If a recount contest is not completed by the 13th, federal law provides that congress is
Happened. The new generations have to learn to be like him, because he gave everything to us. Gomez says translated it is a great source of pain. It is something that had to occur because we all must die, but sometimes it is hard for us to accept that fidel has died. Castro also honored here with a 21gun salute and a planned mass gathering in the plaza. Its a stark contrast to the parties and celebrations weve seen in parts of miami where many young cuban americans are embracing castros death and looking ahead to possible political the time, and its definitely in the hands of the young people to take it over. Those reformers hoping castros death will pressure president elect trump into following through on his Campaign Promise to roll back the recent outreach to cuba. Trump saying on twitter that he will call for the release of Political Prisoners and greater freedoms for the cuban people. But the white house is warning it would be a mistake to roll back the progress made in the past f
Everyone turned off the lights and we sat down around the wall. Around noon the University Officials announced that the scene was secure and no longer an active shooter investigation. We have a man with a knife running around cutting people. Elizabeth police later confirming the suspect was shot and killed and rumors about a second suspect unfounded. A male suspect drove a vehicle over the curb, west 19th, wes struck pedestrians. He exited the vehicle. He used the bumper knife to start cutting pedestrians. There were multiple injuries related to lacerations or cuts. Likely from the stab wounds from the butcher knife. Elizabeth they are not releasing the suspects name but say he is a resident from live inm columbus, where we are live in columbus, where we are learning more about the suspect. What do we know about his relationship to the university . What we know now is we just actually talked with some federal sources who have released the name to us. We know this is an 18yearold somali
Your phone. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Michelle the storm watch 7 team is keeping an close eye on something we need in the area. Rain. We are tracking the signing of what is coming our way. Steve it will be eight hours before we see the first rain drops across the meet metro area. If you have plans, maybe shopping and the temperatures will be in the 40s. Clouds will increase and the sun has now set for the day. For the overnight. Temperatures will fall to the 40s. Look what happens later to the evening hours and early, early tomorrow morning. Temperatures will increase because a warm front will move overhead. With the warm front we are looking at rain. No worries out there now. Lets widen the view out a little bit. This is on the way for the day today. Its a wet rush hour commute for tomorrow morning. Midday rain, once again and driving home tomorrow evening we talk about another round of rain on wednesday and the highs near 70 degrees. More on that coming up in a few minutes. La