Reyberger. Heavy rain and hail made the street in Colorado Springs look like a fast flowing muddy river. The water was so strong that several cars actually got swept right down the street. The rising waters made it to yards and close to home. It went a few feet into everybodys yard. Covered the sidewalks. Took our mailbox all the way down to 30th street. Cell phone video caught one man stuck on the roof of his suv as the flood waters swirled around him. According to the Colorado Springs Fire Department several people throughout the city had to be rescued from stalled or flooded vehicles. The coast guard is showing off its historic haul. 66,000 pounds of cocaine. There were bales of it all seized from smugglers lined up in rows. The largest known drug seizure known in coast guard history worth billions of dollars. Youre looking at 33 million lines of coke. This could be the center piece in a stellar year for drug busts. The numbers are massive. Its rated at 2 billion of coke. Authoritie
On the table thats signed by all parties to move forward. Reporter the proposed changes to restore pension and disability benefits were designed to help the Police Department retain officers and boost recruiting. Now the unions say the city wants to delay the process, even bringing up the idea of putting the issue to voters in 2016. The poa says the recent spike in Violent Crime shows the city cant wait. Those 48 hours where we had major crime scenes, major violence in the city, wiped us out. The calls for service arent being answered. Theyre sitting in a box and theres no cops to respond. The city manager has declined to discuss details but emphasized talks are still on. I think were still close. I mean every every step of the way weve had over the last few months a few bumps along the road. I think this is another bump. Reporter the city manager says the city council will now meet in a special closed session friday. Its hard to tell if the dispute will return negotiations to square o
Misdemeanor probation accused of grabbing and bruising his wife arm. As of today he has not filed a report or paid a fee to regain his driving privileges. The Sheriffs Office gave a statement saying quote the sheriff only learned of this from the press when the accident 0kuvrmentd he contacted the inshurnts company and was in formed that everyone, everything rather was in order. His office describes the accident as fender bender. The sheriff is running for reelection in november. Big announcement by google today. Mountain view giant is rebranding itself as alphabet. New Umbrella Company with geeling as the largest subsidiary. You wont notice a change if you google something you will start hearing about a lot of things the company is doing beyond the google brand. Hears lillian kim. Google will now subsidiary of alphabet. Holding company lining burke share hath away. Cofounders page ceo and brine will be president. Google said that alphabet was reference to the many different parts of t
Crews coming in to play here. Were expecting an update at 7 00 and unofficially some of the firefighters tell me they do expect well see a larger fire once those new estimates come in. As you can see right now, the wind is really blowing and its really spreading east. Weve watched it come over this ridge here just in the last hour. Joe, back to those fires merging together, i know that would be a good thing for firefighters if it did but the last thing i heard, it ties in with your little weather update up there is the bigger concern is they wont merge together, that this fire, the jerusalem one is actually moving in the other direction. Right, if they merge together and the fire were to continue in the path it was going which was north by northeast, thats a good thing, now were starting to feel some shift of wind, it might be moving a little bit southward. Its hard to know this close to the fire but that would be a major concern. Obviously theres a break on the north side. Nothing but
Campaign trail. Kpix 5s phil matier is in oakland with why a big union says sanders is their choice for president. Thats absolutely right. And this is sort of a stunner because just a couple months ago it was bernie who . And now it is bernie. Hey, this might be something. Reporter as campaign boosts go, it was about as big a bumpup as Bernie Sanders could have hoped for. The 187,000member National Nurses united through its endorsement for the little known senator from vermont over the big name in the race, Hillary Clinton. That we endorse doctors, medicine, not in the profits of Drug Companies who make every Public College and university in america tuitionfree. Telling wall street they are going to have to take their fair share of taxes. Its attracting thousands of supporters like this rally in portland, oregon yesterday. It shows hes got the unions with him and thats important in terms of overall strategy. It gives you a whole big base for moving forward. Reporter and Hillary Clinton