He met with people who were injured in the shooting at the hospital and spend time with victims families. Throughout the day there have been protesters and supporters who have been lining up at this memorial behind me in front of where the shooting took place. It was thof ewh invited the president to come. Some believe it was the wrong decision. President trump touchdown and the greeting grieving border town of El Paso Texas were 22 were killed in a shooting massacre. The president visited University Medical center of el paso. We met with the doctors and the nurses. The medical staff. They have done an incredible job. There was opposition to his visit. At one point protesters clashed with a trump supporter. The president who has complained of it hispanic invasion just stay away from this largely Mexican American community. All of these horrible things he has been saying about mexicans. Hispanics. We are not like that. We are not like that. Reporter trumps visit to el paso is especially
Height. You could see from sky 7 and from the ground that there were quite a bit of active flames that the winds were really whipping this fire up and at some points we did see some structures burning. But again at this jus t the outbuildings that were burned. No homes damaged. Although it was a pretty scary time for the folks who live out here. Fire got about 100 yards from behind our house. While that was going on, i had a buddy with a hose trying to wet things down and another lady from the neighborhood was helping us evacuate our animals. We have five dogs, three cats and a pig. After that i grabbed my bobcat and 250 gallon propane tank and drove away from the fire. We had pretty good winds pushing the fire pretty quick into grassy areas and pushing it towards residential neighborhoods that we had to evacuate. Reporter and were back live here. Were showing you the number of rigs that are out here. Mutual aid was called for rather quickly because of the flames and smoke and the wind
Ligsh garlic festival. We ensured our perimeter has been secured. There may not be things that you see that weve done. Very scary event. Reporter cody is one of the volunteers. He says being out here is helping him cope to keep his mind off the shooting and focus on moving forward. Volunteering definitely helps, you know, just getting out here and being out here with everyone. All these good people. Reporter helps get back to normal . Yeah. Reporter there is no rodeo without a queen. I understand it was a tragedy but we cant let that take us over. Reporter this years queen wants a strong turnout. Her message, stay strong and think positive. Everyone has to get back to normal and live their daily lives, you cant live your life in fear. Reporter gilroy strong. Gilroy strong, yeah. Reporter indeed. If you plan on making it out, expect extra security. The fact they added to the list of banned items, you cannot bring in soda, no weapons and no animals except for service dogs. No doubt extra
Walk and look where i am walking. Reporter in addition to the 15 ausa 15 agencies ranging from alcohol tobacco and firearms the Homeland Security to the Drug Enforcement administration will be participating in fit. Hetero initiative for the tenderloin. This is important to us. Doing as much quality good work in the tenderloin as we can. The tenderloin is an area that needs our help. Reporter longtime residents are skeptical and intervention will work. It is still more stuff going on. More disasters. I feel like. Reporter the supervisor whose district includes the tenderloin released this statement about the pit. It cannot be leading operation focused solely on prosecution of lowlevel offenders. Where everything goes back to normal in a few weeks. This is the approach that has failed for decades. Up tonight at 7 pm we will take a closer look at a recent dea operation that took down not one but 200 honduran drug organizations that has set up shop in the bay area. San Francisco Police are
No estimated time as to when theyre going to reopen the lanes the good news is traffic is squeezing night only in the far right lane. But thats it and it is definitely crawling here and your alternate so theres a road monterey road that runs parallel to one oh one, and you can get your pass the crash the definitely take that instead and again this is going to be here for probably most of todays commute this morning. So what keep that in mind against south san jose. This is north one o one right before highway 85 avoid this stretch of the can let you know and keep you updated as to when we get to any more details and also theres an estimate as to when they think of lanes will be reopened lets go over to the Weather Center and get an update with john. Well rebecca skies, definitely foggy to cloudy yet again this morning youre seeing it out the golden gate bridge. No big surprise there and no big visibility issues though so this is some good news and overall even though we do have a coupl