When these freed hostages land overnight in the d. C. Area, they will be immediately offered help from the Defense Department at adjusting to life on the outside. And so far we havent heard anybody say anything but positive things that americans are heading home but there are a lot of complaints about the deal to get them here. Ransom payment 6 billion. A billion bucks per prisoner. President biden says today five innocent americans imprisoned in iran are finally coming home after many months of difficult and principled american diplomacy. Americans since held 2015 says im dying to find out what gadgets now exist. When i was taken hostage the iphone 6 s had just come out. You cannot imagine what an 8 year itch feels like. The returning americans have already spoken to President Biden and Secretary Of State blinken. I can tell you that it was for them, for me an emotional conversation. To get the Five Americans home, President Biden worked to unfreeze 6 billion in iranian funds. That ar
The flames were so big. We just packed up and everybody is gone. Flames scorching more than 80,000 acres so far. Fueled by strong santa ana winds, gusting up to 60 miles an hour. Low humidity, and bone dry brush. With this area, it has been years since anything has burned at all. Several firefighters injured, desperately trying to save houses and lives. This one collapsing in the street, overcome by heat. Some residents with hoses in hand, staying behind to help in the firefight. We all came together west put out the fires. Any hot spots we could. Reporter and the strong winds arent expected to let up for a few days. In fact theyre likely to intensify into tomorrow. What is the situation at this point . Are they really making any progress . You have four fires to contain. Winds completely out of control. Give us the big picture situation for the next few days. Reporter right. Theyre really not making as much progress as they would like to. Three of the major fires are still at zero con
A professional athlete, leaping over fences and ground obstacles and giving police a good run. Officers were using a loud speaker to tell him to surrender, but he kept going, thinking that the construction site ahead of him might give him cover to elude officers. A construction foreman says his team of 70 workers were ordered to scramble as the suspect was believed to be armed and dangerous. We heard the helicopter over there. We didnt think we were in trouble or anything, and they came over here like 20 minutes ago. So they told us to evacuate everybody on site, police are on site with guns, ready to shoot. Get everybody out. This is a Perfect Place to hide. You can go under a sheet of plywood and they could have never caught him. Reporter but Police Officers nabbed him. Its not clear if he sustained injuries during the foot chase, but we did see him on the ground with the First Responders checking him out. What an end to the day after police spent two days looking for a man who robbe
The only one. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Abc7 News Reporter david lewis has been following this after it began yesterday following a bank robbery. He joins was the latest about the arrest that happened just an hour ago. David . Reporter larry and ama, this is the scene here at 7th and 10th street. An active police scene where theres been a foot chase going on. As weve been reporting here on abc 7, the sheriffs off lookin Unmarked Police vehicle that was stolen early this morning and is somehow connected to a bank robbery in Scotts Valley yesterday. It turns out that a San Jose Police officer a short time ago saw that vehicle here in downtown san jose on santa clara street, they followed it and made a stop here on Taylor Street just north of san jose in japan town. Sky 7 was overhead as one of the suspects broke loose and started running away from police, going from an apartment complex into a new construction site. Witnesses said he sprinted like a professional athlete,
3 3 3 3 a heads up for drivers this morning in tampa. A closed. From lois avenue to armenia avenue. This is closed until 5 30 this morning. Until then, you can take kennedy boulevard as a detour. 3 the lanes closed last night. So crews could finish working on reopening a brand new lane. And any drivers who have been stuck in traffic jams on i275 the past few weeks. Could finally see some relief. When i275 reopens this morning, that new lane is expected to reopen along with them. Again, thats around 530 this morning. And of course vanessa will be with us later this half hour with much more. And updates on those lanes. All morning long. 3 and an update now, on a big traffic problem in pasco county last night. A truck hauling a crane slammed into an overpass. That shut down i75 for several hours. Near overpass road, just south of state road 52. One lane reopened around five pm. And all lanes were back open by 11 last night. 3 this is a closeup look at the damage that crane caused when it