Ms. Huckabee sanders good afternoon. The president is constantly monitoring Hurricane Irma and the federal government is working closely with our state and local partners to ensure the safety of the coastal communities. In his weekly address to the nation this morning, the president noted this is a storm of historic destructive potential. Hes asking that everyone in the storms path remain vigilant and heat all recommendations from government officials and Law Enforcement. Our message to the American People is this, with gratitude for our First Responders and prayers for those in the storms path, we are behind you 100 . With that, id like to bring up the president s Homeland Security advisor, tom bossert, to discuss specifics on the federal governments ongoing preparedness and response efforts. After, ill be up to take questions. Thanks. Mr. Bossert thanks, sarah, thanks to each of you for being here. Cant add too much more to that. Let me jump into my thinking here. As youve heard me s
Morning. James fletcher is here with your forecast. james after a very busy day yesterday with multiple storm cells and lightning, we are starting out the day on a quiet note. Radar shows that the only cells still going are off the coast. The combination of instability, moisture, plus daytime heating will lead to at least a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms through tonight. Rainfall amounts will be generally light under a tenth . The system giving us this weather will track farther to the northeast on wednesday which could shift the focus of the rain. Outside of the risk for rain, a noticeable cooling trend will start no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya and this morning we are getting a look at even more lightning strikes that happened across the bay area. Plus some new reports of damage. mark Tiffany Mcelroy is here with some of the best video this tiffany. tiffany we saw lightning in virtually every part of the bay area. This i
See here. The area is cordoned off and we have been watching the last 20 minutes as officers have been marking the scene. Were right in front of the safeway, and officers are trying to determine what happened to their fellow officers tonight. Around 8 30, someone from the Safeway Store off lieu welling boulevard summoned patrol officers in the parking lot about a shoplifting suspect. He was apparently carrying bottles. A female officer tried to contact him in the parking lot, and thats when he got into his car. The subject was able to start his vehicle, put it in gear, and drive away with the officer still in the doorway of the vehicle. Both officers sustained injuries from the vehicle running them over. Both officers are at the hospital right now being treated. Reporter as soon as soon as he backed up, thats when the officer got hurt. He fell on his knees. I dont know if he got run over or fell on his knees or what because he couldnt get up. Reporter again, that was two officers, a ma
Think limits make us better. I love editing more than i love writing. And i think shorter is always better and honestly having that limit forces you to keep it safe succinct so i dont like it even if i was one of the chosen few which im not. Spat im interested to see about this test phase. Ive seen people who done it on my timeline and it looks weird. It looks like a novel. Everyone elses tweets are this and it doesnt look right. That was so special about twitter. We will see. Lets go ahead and start the story we were covering as breaking news yesterday. Almost 24 hours later the brush fire that broke out in east oakland yesterday afternoon thankfully there is no more happening there. Fire officials tell us the fire is now 80 contained. We are live in east oakland with the investigation into how this class started. Reporter good morning. Investigators are looking into the possibility that yesterdays brush fire here in the Oakland Hills was possibly related to construction work happenin
Was a snake. The snake was paving but still. After 911 was called a sergeant put on gloves and went in action. A snake went into a bag and then a second bag. And went to the shelter and then a hesitant reporter meets said snake we met the shelters director of operations, her take on this guy he is pretty calm, very handleable. To me, he has to be someones pet. If not well cared for a snake can become aggressive or scared. Very laid back and well fed. 12 pounds and a relative baby the species could reach 22 pounds in length, where his home is despite our best efforts he remains silent. Well let norman have the last word. Nothing surprises me in south philly anymore this here proves it all. If you are missing a burmese python, the people at act shelter would like to hear from you. Live in hunting park. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. All right thank you. In other news investigators in bucks county are trying to figure out what started a deadly house fire the flames broke out on the