hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. a busy table tonight. with me arejohn rentoul, the chief political columnist at the independent, ruth lea, economic adviser for arbuthnot banking group and the broadcaster, charlie wolf. welcome. thank you for being here tonight. tomorrow s front pages, starting with this. the observer leads on today s summit of eu leaders saying they want the uk to provide guarantees to eu citizens living in britain before any trade talks can begin. the sunday times reports that the other eu member states have rejected theresa may s negotiating position and accused her of living in a parallel reality. the sunday telegraph says the prime minister has rejected the demands coming from brussels with politicians on both sides of the channel warning that the talks could turn nasty. the mail on sunday focuses on pensions, reporting that theresa may will bring in new laws to prevent a repeat of the sir philip gre
a fire destroyed the plastic shed that contained tools, flames started to spread to the walls of the church but an alert neighbor called firefighters who were able to keep the flames from engulfing the sanctuary. church leaders did look at surveillance video when they say showed a man in a hoodie running away from the church. we re all kind of surprised and perplexed because this is we ve never had anything like this happen in this area to the church. we don t know who would want to do something like that. reporter: the church has not received any threats. the fire comes on the heels of an arson just last thursday just a few blocks away. two cars at an auto repair shop were destroyed at that fire. now both arson investigators from the san jose fire department and atf investigators have been called in to look at this church fire. fortunately services were not canceled today because of the fire. reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. thank you.
overnight just before 1:00 a.m. you can see the crane carefully being brought down. they attached 1 1/2 inch thick cable to the apparatus and they in a very controlled manner pulled it south of the property away from the residents. we took the precautions to have residents moved away from the tem ters of the buildings in case the crane would snap and there were no residents nearby. reporter: we also talked to the owner of the nearby showers of flowers. he is a florist who is experiencing a drought of customers this mother s day. he says he will take all of the flowers that he didn t sell today and donate them. meantime, atf investigators are expected on-site, and the developer who has said that he believes this is arson again, the second fire here in ten months is now also saying he will rebuild a third time. live in emeryville, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. all right, thank you, melanie. another fire, this time in san francisco, forced ten people out of their homes. it s
mother s day. right now fire fighters putting out hot spots at the construction site on san pablo avenue in emeryville. many neighboring families have been let back into their homes but there is still a lot of work to be done. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow is live in emeryville with the latest on this. melanie? reporter: you can see the devastation behind me. there are some residents that have power restored, but most of them are still waiting on pg&e crews. we have seen out here today diligently working to restore that power. here is some video to show you, first you can see a large generator that has been set up. one of the buildings across the street, we believe there were elderly residents in that building. those residents now have power because of that generator. otherwise, many others as i mentioned are waiting on pg&e. here is some video of the fire as it burned in the early morning hours on saturday. one of the biggest concerns overnight into today was a prec
wrote a memo detailing the request, he wrote the memos after visiting with president donald trump last february. president donald trump asked former fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn, former fbi director james comey was keeping notes on what he considered efforts to influence the investigation, he said that president donald trump asked him to see your way clear to letting former national security advisor michael flynn go. former national security advisor michael flynn was one of the sobts into the subjects of the investigation into the trump campaign s contacts with russia. on twitter this morning, the president defended his actions of giving out classified information to russia. he said i had the right to give the russians the information, it was for humanitarian reasons and i want russia to step up their fight against isis and terrorism. those are the only statements from the president so far on the ma