Reported, with damaging winds leaving thousands without power. Water slam against the window, debris flying everywhere. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We are coming on the air tonight with more than 25 million americans in the path of severe and dangerous storms across the south and the ohio river valley. Thunderstorms, torrential rains, lifethreatening flooding, and tornadoes are impacting states across the gulf coast. And ef2 tornado hit the city of port arthur, texas, Destroying Homes and a church. There is catastrophic damage in louisiana after suspected tornado ripped the roof of an Apartment Building outside new orleans. And in mississippi, dozens of homes were hit and one person was killed when storms slammed the magnolia state. Tonight, Tornado Watches are in effect across the region. Cbss Mark Strassmann will start us off tonight from a new orleans suburb that took a direct hit. Wow reporter as many as t
The polls today, we are going to have the political fallout. Speaking of unruly crowds, students take over miami beach during spring break while police sit helplessly with their sirens blazing. Fox friends begins right now. Good morning, welcome in to fox friends weekend. We have peter doocy in the house today. Thanks for having me. Nice to see you this morning. We were glued to the tv last night. Fortunately things did not end up as bad as they could have there in chicago. Get straight to that fox news alert. Violence erupting in the windy city overnight as donald Trump Supporters and protesters throw fists and fighting words. Dozens bloodied and multiple people are under arrest this morning. Garrett tenney is in washington, d. C. With the latest on the trump decision to cancel his rally, good morning, garrett tfrgets was ugly scene last night to be sure it really could have been much worse as you mentioned. 25,000 people were trying to get inside for this rally at the university of i
Is actually on the righthand side and the tow truck is leaving at the moment. Hopefully that will be cleared up shortly. Not chopper 4 but at massachusetts avenue and macomb street. Reports of high standing water there. Be careful as you move through the area. And if you are traveling out of Southern Maryland or on 50 into or out of the beltway area, youll find there is a lot of rain out there. Keep your speeds down. It is going to be a tricky morning, especially with slick roadways. Right now, millions of people are waking up to Winter Weather advisories. Nasty weather now hitting the northeast. Look at what people in illinois and iowa dealt with last night, part of the same system that flooded missouri and caused tornados in texas. It could drop up to a foot of snow in some places in the northeast. You can imagine the travel impact. Erika gonzalez is monitoring that from the live desk. Good morning, angie. Chuck has been talking about the nasty weather this morning. That means a nast
Statistical reports that is in your packet, i will just address the two, the chief adjudications that occurred in may and both were for neglective duty and to failure to collect the traffic data and an officer was retrained for that and failure to comply with the juvenile protocol by failing to mirandaize her, and failing to record the interrogation and two Police Officers one of whom was a Field Training officer, the other the recruit, and then the sergeant who reviewed the incident report, and were admonished and retrained. And that concludes my report. Thanks very much, director hicks and as usual it is thorough and i am glad to hear that the message is being heard in reference to the funding and staffing and so thank you for the work on that and that is very good to here. And very good to hear. Commissioner wong . Thank you. I just had a concern when i read about this second sustained complaint, it looks like there is more to it than maybe what is reported here, it seems like there
Contributed to the pending cases this year. And as of today, the occ has 331 pending cases, and the other s, but in the time that we would like to see. And as of today, the occ has mediated 26 cases compared to 24 through june 30th of last year. Moving to the occs budget, mayor lees proposed budget for the occ takes no cuts and begins to remedy the step adjustment and attrition adjustments that reduce the occ personnel budget, in 2013, 14, by, 300,000 dollars that is the equivalent of nearly 3 investigator positions. The mayor has proposed a partial remedy, by reducing the step adjustment cuts by 84,000 dollars. Which is the beginning and that will allow us to fill two of the four vacantcies of the First Quarter of 2014, 15 and in a latter quarter and we have to leave one position open, to deal with the step adjustment and attrition adjustment that would still remain. And it is my intent to continue to advocate to further reduce these adjustments and for the 2015, 2016 budget. And the