The friday before a holiday weekend, thats friday night news dump on steroids. And im here to tell you we do have some exclusive news of the friday night news dump variety to report to you in just a minute. It concerns a big honking threat against the Democratic Party from somebody who is frankly in a position to hurt the Democratic Party pretty badly. Weve got that coming up exclusively in just a moment. But the more pressing news of the evening is about president ial debates. President ial debates are one of those things that we think have always been with us. You look back at old foot an of kennedy versus nixon, the old iconic black and white footage. You think, oh, president ial debates in the general election, theyve always been with us, theyve always happened. But that 1960 debate footage is actually a pretty singular thing. We all remember those debates because that footage is so compelling and because those debates ended up being so important in that race. It was the sitting Vi
What are the difficulties . You have weather, you have coordination with a number of resources here, local, state, and federal, getting the documentation. Its much like a crime scene. You only get one chance at it so we want to make sure we do everything correctly. Thanks to the cooperation of all of these agencies standing next to me and behind me. Weve been able to start on the right foot for that. Constitutes a major event . Significant loss of life. Thank yall. Okay. That was a quick News Conference from the scene there in texas where police are saying, as of now, there are no survivors in a fiery hot air balloon crash in Central Texas which happened earlier today. We are working to confirm more details. But from what you heard there they have the ntsb on the ground. Theyre following this crash. The ntsb will investigate, take a look at the weather conditions and other factors as to what led to this crash. Now its believed that there are 16 fatalities. Although officials on the gro
Fbis use of Confidential Sources to target the Trump Campaign. Here is senator goodlatte with maria bartiromo. They have been scrambling because there is a lot of pressure on them. As the investigation proceeds there will be more things we identify that we want. They need to keep it up and keep supplying us with information. Arthel gillian . Reporter the doj and fbi have produced records related to the russia investigation and they have shared them with the house intelligence judiciary and oversight committees. This information had been under subpoena for months and was shared only after they were threatened with contempt charges. The new info is welcome but incomplete. Obviously there is a lot of question about the cooperation of the fbi and the department of justice because of the concern there are people still there who do not want some of the information that we need to be provided. Reporter a new statement with speaker ryan reads quote our efforts have resulted in the committees g
Based on my last conversation it looks like a hate crime. Hard to believe, we will see what happens and what comes up. At this moment it looks like a b hate crime but my deepest sympathies to all of those affected. We will get to the bottom of it. It looks like the person was apprehended. Jesse marianne is in our west coast newsroom for the latest. Officials confirming just a while ago that one person has died, a woman in the shooting at the synagogue and a suspect is in custody. They are calling the incident a hate crime say the community will come to the tragedy for patients were transported to the Medical Center and one of them has passed away. There is still two adult males in a curren little girl in stable condition. It is unclear how many were inside of the synagogue at the shooting. But the San Diego Sheriffs Department says at least 100 witnesses are being waited to interview. Were still hearing from the witnesses to hear whatwi happen. The 19yearold white male suspect was enga
Determine if, as i said, others are involved. What you now have is a crime scene and they have to process that crime scene. And as a part of that crime scene, it is also trying to talk to possibly the one person that has been detained, to try to determine what was that persons motive. They also are trying to determine if other individuals at the synagogue knew the individual who came in and is responsible for the shooting at this state. Arthel eric is going to jump in. We want to point out that today is the saais sabbath, as well as final day of passover. There would be a large number of people at the synagogue. Eric according to the website of the synagogue, they were starting a passover celebration at 11 00 a. M. This morning, pacific time, a half hour before the shooting was first reported. That ending later on today with a passover dinner. So ted, two things. You have a possible large group of people in the synagogue, starting this passover celebration, a suspect comes in, allegedl