Well, i suppose it is inheriting good genes, for a start, and an outlook of. A cheerful outlook, i think, optimistic outlook on life. And as the republic of ireland move five points clear in their group with a win over gibraltar, Northern Ireland, scotland, and wales will play euro 2020 qualifiers tonight. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Three more candidates for the conservative Party Leadership contest launch their campaigns today to replace theresa may and become the countrys next Prime Minister. Ten candidates have been confirmed as official contenders to replace her after securing the backing of at least eight other mps. Andrea leadsom will set out her plans in 45 minutes time pledging action on climate change. Mark harper will call for tax cuts for those on lower incomes. And rory stewart is focusing on what he says is sensible spending criticising his rivals for offering what he called eye watering tax cuts as a cheap electoral bribe to win over party members.
Completely is not. Bryce harper, great hair. Great hair, bryce harper. A lot of players with great hair and a lot of violence were talking about on this tuesday morning. Were going to start with the chaos on the floor of the texas State Capitol. Lawmakers pushing each other around trading insults and in one case even a death threat. Yep, it all started when hundreds of protesters converged on the gallery to rally against the tough new immigration policy. The protesters were mostly peaceful but lawmakers started yelling and shoving each other and some even had to be pulled apart. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the details for us. Good morning, kenneth. Reporter good morning, kendis and diane. It was a texas clash thats already being pointed to as an example of the heated debate over President Trumps immigration policies. This morning, texas house scuffle. Lawmakers of the State Capitol monday in a heated facetoface hurling death threats. There was a threat made from representative rinaldi to pu
You can see in our forecast. 49 to 55. Look at the temperatures along the coast, 56, 58 and 56 at the coast, 56, 58 and 56 at noon, four and seven. Grab a coat if youre heading out this evening. Heres the morning commute with sue hall. Not garbage, no. Not bad at all. Here we go with a slight backup here at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see this tow truck coming in right here. We had reports of an accident just before the toll plaza. Its off to the shoulder and once again minor delays for the cashpaying folks here so so far so good. Well monitor that for you. We have a goodlooking commute for san jose, this is the headlights 101 in the northbound direction at the 880 overcrossing, traffic flowing nicely there. Well look at your mass transit coming up. Thank you, sue, new details from the south bay where some parents are upset. Students at three schools are going to have to spend another year suffering. The alan Rock School District plans to wait until june of 2018 to install it. M
And basebrawl. The moment a giants pitcher throws a 98mileanhour pitch right into a nationals stars hip. Here we go. Harpers charging the mound. The helmet flying, the two exchanging blows and both benches clearing as a massive fight erupts on the pitchers mound. This is a good one, folks. Batter and pitcher ejected. Hes not going away. He is a big, strong dude. What those players are now saying this morning. Cant touch this good morning, america. What a fight there on the baseball field. The giants pitcher, hunter strickland, you saw him, had to be dragged from the mound to the dugout from his teammates after exchanging punches with the nationals slugger bryce harper. This grudge goes back to 2014 when harper hit two home runs off strickland and this is the first time theyve seen each other since. Two strong guys throwing hard punches. You dont want to be in the middle of that. A lot more on that coming up. Breaking news out of washington and learned the communication director has res
Phone call in oregon. A person reported seeing a frightened woman running down a road. We talked to the coos county sergeant over the phone. Caller reported by her she was kidnapped at knife point in her apartment complex in san jose. We were able to get her to safety and to the hospital. Reporter investigators say the victim roberted she was forced to drive north in her own car. She also says at some point, he hit her in the face. About eight hours later, they ran out of gas in bandon oregon, and she made a run for it. She hid in tall grass next to we have seed grass and stuff next to the ocean, was able to hide in an old lumber mill site, and he did not locate her, and he just walked away from there. Reporter victim a gave a limited description of her kidnapper. Law enforcement does plan on int interviewing her again this week for more information. Live in san jose, abc 7 news. Thank you. If you rely on bart this morning, theres a chance you were late. There were system wide delays.