Tonight. And weve just learned, there are casualtie breaking news. A disastrous earthquake rocked italy tonight and this are casualties. That earthquake destroyed buildings. Right now some people are buried under debris. Veronica de la cruz is tracking the latest developments. Veronica . Reporter the quake traveled to rome and italy, measured in a 6. 2. This is all thats left of some structures in the Mountain Town of omatrice tonight. The mayor said that past the town, no longer that half the town no longer exists. At least two people have died and a fear is that the death toll will climb much higher. Right now there is a desperate search for people trapped under the rubble. Several aftershocks followed the 6. 2 quake including one that measured at a magnitude of 5. 5 with blackouts in the area. Again, a magnitude 6. 2 quake rocking italy tonight. We will bring you updates as soon as we get them. This taxi plowed into a bay area sidewalk and plowed into pedestrians this afternoon. Two
The latest on campaign 2016 in a moment. But we begin with breaking news from germany where president obama ask set to announce the u. S. Is significantly increasing nns military presence in syria. Margaret brennan is traveling with the president tonight. Margaret . Id reporter tomorrow the president will announce that the u. S. Is sending up to 250 military personnel to syria to join local forces fighting isis, bringing the total number of u. S. Military personnel to 300. This as the president today was pushing for a major trade deal here in germany. President obama and german chancellor merkel are pushing a controversial trade deal that brought more than 30,000 e otesters to the street this weekend. They fear the so called Transatlantic Partnership would weaken Environmental Standards and consumer protection. But president obama defended the pact that would create the Worlds Largest free trade zone. If you look at the benefits to the United States or to t rmany of free trade around t
Reporter one shopkeeper told me she noticed a strong smell in the area monday that grew stronger during the week. Sheriffs deputies have been here all afternoon, but so far, theyre not saying much. The medical examiner has been called, but the body is still here. So far, no reports of any 911 calls or shots fired at this location earlier. Reporting live in saratoga, im chuck coppola, nbc bay area news. Chuck, thank you very much. And a scare for an east Bay Community this morning after a tanker crash caused a hazmat situation. The Alameda County Fire Department says a tanker hit a fire hydrant in newark, causing gasoline to spill on to the road. This happened just before 4 00 this morning at the intersection of newark and cedar boulevards. The crash also caused water from the hydrant to shoot 80 feet into the air. Crews were on the scene most of the morning cleaning it up. The Golden State Warriors had an easy victory this afternoon at oracle arena. It was no problem for them to beat t
Hyatt regency. This is in burlingame. Good morning, bob. Reporter good morning to you, scott and kris. Within the past 30 to 50 minutes, id say, its gotten a little more tense out here. You have a number of protesters, either antitrump protesters and at least a few hundred, possibly more and what they have done is they have blocked both entrances to the Hyatt Regency where donald trump is supposed to speak at noon. You can see the police within the past minute, id say, they have blocked this part of the road so protesters cant come over here where you see behind you. They have linked arms and they are shutting down access to the road. More police have come out here. We are expecting them to issue perhaps an order for them to disperse, to do something to remove them because right now there is no way for Donald Trumps motorcade to physically make it into the hotel at this time. Now, when we were out here a couple of hours ago, the protests were peaceful and then this happened. This was a
We start this morning with breaking news a worker for caltrans hit and killed and now there is a possibility that the driver was drunk. We are live with the latest. Reporter yeah. We are here at the scene of that deadly accident which is 580 westbound near lake shore or lake shore boulevard. We are joined right now you may have seen one of the chp officers who has been monitoring, george smith. If you can walk us through it. Yeah. The vehicle was traveling on westbound 580. Eastlake shore. Vehicle lost control and struck a worker. Reporter as i understand it that vehicle was westbound on i 580, went across all lanes of traffic at one point. Thats correct. The vehicle lost control. Veered to the right. Struck the wall and went back, across all lanes to the left and went into the Construction Zone and struck a worker. Reporter and did the driver stop here at the scene . Is he in custody . The driver was put under act for suspicion of driving under the influence. Reporter one other aspect