Officer. This is the danger that Oakland Police say their officers ran up against early this morning, an illegal sks Assault Rifle with a 30mound magazine and a man determined to use it. It was an investigation into a Sexual Assault at 9 00 last night that led several officers to the suspects home. At around 1 30 this morning, two officers approached the house to make contact with the 39yearold suspect, when he all of a sudden opened his front door. Immediately began firing upon the officers that were in front of the house. Reporter the shooter emptied most, if not all of this clip. At least one of those bullet hit an officer, a 14year veteran recently promoted to sergeant. His partner, a rookie returned fire and the suspect later died at the hospital. The officer is in serious, but stable condition with nonlifethreatening injuries. Our officers encounter a lot of dangerous situations. We recover a lot of firearms off of people in this city. Any one of those has the potential to go ver
Killing a lion in the same area where cecil the lion was shot. It comes a mid confusion about the state of another animal in that area. We will have the details for in you just a moment. The roads are cooperating. Dry. A cool down on the way. We are laughing about it because we are cooling down to the 80s. Really . I know youre just like whatever, but i remember the days, meisha, when we were just begging for 50 degrees day. Oh, wow. The cool down to 80. Exactly. What . I know. It takes a moment on a monday morning to get that in check. Humidity not too bad. It will be starting to ramp up on us a little bit. Because we are tracking a cold front. That will a lot of times start to get the southerly push of air, moisture source gets pushed in here, you ends up with just little more humidity. Right in you it doesnt feel too bad outside. Do you have really good start. We start things off quickly by getting you on out to whats going on with the pattern we talked about the cool down breaking
The little robot on a crosscountry journey to san francisco. The goodness of strangers supposed to get him all the way. Then this happens. How the happy little life of hitchbot came to such a sad end today, monday, august 3rd, 2015. From nbc news this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. You look so different, matt with your glasses. Well thank you very much. Matt is off this morning. Weve got carson here and breaking news at the top this morning. Its our top story. The severe storms moving east now, after producing dangerous hail high winds and tornadoes across the midwest. Heres nbcs john yang with the latest. Reporter Severe Weather turned deadly over the weekend when high winds caused a tent to collapse at a small festival in suburban chicago. We had one fatality three serious injured and 17 to 20 minor injuries. Reporter John Anderson says his van, southern jack w
Outside here when he said he is innocent and has no regrets about things he has done in his past and denies all of the charges that federal prosecutors have late out. And im glad they have made that campaign and i do know that we now have every major newspaper and civic entity in town saying that we need to prioritize poverty, and im happy that i raised that issue. The congressman talked about his accomplishments while serving in the United States congress and he talked about the fact that he will not step aside from the appropriations committee. He says that he will continue to do his job and also announced to us that he is planning to run for reelection next year and plans to fight all of these charges. That is the very latest reporting live in havertown, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Four others earn indicted last week. He is accused of stealing taxpayer money and charitable doebations and accused of taking a secret Campaign Loan and fattah denies the charges. Congressman fattah is m
Those dollars are invested in our community. Reporter fattah said multiple times the charges against him are not a distraction, that he can continue to do his job. I did ask him if he regrets that 2007 run for mayor. He said no. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Congressman fattah is married to nbc 10 anchor renee chenaultfattah, who is referenced in the criminal complaint against her husband. She is labeled as person e and an affiliate of the fattah enterprise. The feds allege renee participated in a scheme to fraudulently sell a car in order to pay Closing Costs on a vacation home. She is not charged and denies any wrongdoing. Renee is on leave from nbc 10. Turning now to the colorado Movie Theater massacre jurors have decided not to eliminate the Death Penalty as they move towards sentencing james holmes. About 90 minutes ago the jury said holmes lawyers havent presented a Strong Enough case to rule out execution. The jurys decision clears the way for another round of arguments before ch