Talibans leader is dead. Michel plantiti will run for fifas presidency. Well tell you why not everyone is happy about it. Hello there, a warm welcome to the news hour. There were no survivors when mh 17 was wrought down over the skies of Eastern Ukraine last year. Now plans to try to bring justice to those responsible have been halted. Russia has used its veto at the United Nations to prevent an International Tribunal from being established. In all 298 people were killed when a plane crashed a little over a year ago. Governments were quick to accuse the prorussian splittists using a missile to bring the plane down. Something that kiev denies. Russia would use its veto quashing the resolution just minutes after the ask to find someone accountable for the killing of those on board flight mh 17. Kristen, we heard arguments from the the malaysian transport minister. He was representing the Investigative Team into looking who is responsible for the downing of this airliner. He said it was e
Being. Whats needed to help protect the animals. We begin with a potential blow for the taliban in afghanistan. Afghan Officials Say that the groups reclusive leader, omar, is dead, and he has been for two years. The white house said that the reports are credible. News comes as talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government are set to resume. He was the spiritual leader of the taliban. Famously reclusive, only a few photographs of him exist. Fbi offered millions of dollars for his whereabouts that remained a mystery in the last years of his life. It was never clear if they were his wordsful as a young man, he was a fighter battling the soviets. How mullah omar game the self ro claimed emir of afghanistan. The need to have a leader, because he hadim and weapons to use, and the second reason, he was famous. His 30 fighters became thousands. The taliban took over afghanistan in 1996. Under mullah omars command, they established order in a company ravaged by instability and violence.
Marianne favro has more. Marianne . Reporter it was an emotional and meaningful tribute. One including a video made by maddy herself. The sound of bag pipes pierced the silence as Maddy Middletons mother joins 1400 others to celebrate her daughters life. Maddy was just eight years old when she was murdered last month. Just a few months from her home in santa cruz. Her 15yearold neighbor is charged with raping and killing her. The message is not to de demonize anybody. We are here together. Today many, including artists, turned to music to express the grief. An American Idol finalist james durbin sang for maddy. Everyone got to know the little girl a little better especially when her mother read from her diary. Dear diary, today was christmas at school. I went to all of the fun centers. It was amaze ppg. She even showed a video showing her creativity. She is wonderful, smart, had many friends. Even strangers say they have been touched by maddy. My family and i came out because we were t
Record set on june 14, 2000, when the temperature hit 103 degrees. Bay area schools took precautions today to protect students, in san jose the district provided bottled water and fans. Some classrooms dont have air conditioning. Some districts decided to zen students home early because of the to send students home early because of the heat. With strain on the power grid flex alert was issued to coverage of serve energy. The states independent system operator made the voluntary request for people to scale back Energy Consumption between 1 p. M. And 10 p. M. Today. The agency is asking people to avoid using large appliances things like washers and dryers and dishwashers and to keep the thermostat no lower than 78 degrees. Youre watching ktvu fox 2 news at 6 30. The bay area hasnt felt this kind of heat in years. Chief meteorologist bill martin here now tracking the temperatures. Bill. The last time we had even close to this was 2006. Its been 18 years since San Francisco hit 100 degrees
Off, 1 26, whatever it was i jumped out out of bed like heck ya, it is friday. Everything is actually looking really good. Some construction, although we do have reminders it, wont hang you up too much. Any different than any other day of the week or year, seriously, my goodness, youre like the happiest most positive person ive ever met in my life. Oh, katie. This is why people tune in, though, because we all need a jilt, meisha, thank god youre here. Lets take a look at storm scan, allinall looks pretty quiet. Couple every clouds still out there. There may be few showers around, all hit and miss variety, casino every like what we had yesterday. Not everyone ended up getting hit by. That will i dont think a drop of rain was at my house, but we will finds with irmas moisture making its full departure, granted very, very flimsy at this point. May still be couple every showers around to dodge. Meantime, very summer like pattern now out there. And it is going to stick around right through