My civic duty. I should have called the cops when i heard those noises immediately. It wasnt small caliber. You could tell by the sound. nia wong and an hour later over at parkway villas on greene lane. Police say a fight broke out between two men. Once metro arrived. A 44 year old man had an head injury and died in the hospital. A witness and one other person involved with the fight were detained. nia wong as the blue cut fire is gets under control. Our way this afternoon. Heres katie boer with this mornings forecast. nia wong our 8news now back to School Countdown begins today will make a Campaign Stop in the nia wong clintons vp pick, virginia senator tim kaine, will make a Campaign Stop in the valley this week. Tomorrow hell speak at the local 525 plumbers and Pipefitters Training Center on leg plan for jobs and the economy. Doors open to the public at 9 am. The event starts at 11 30. nia wong and remember. 8 news now is your local election headquarters for all the local races and
And me. The first night of the rnc. Greta goes on the record right now. Tonight, on the record, we are coming to you live from the Republican National convention in cleveland. And 13 months ago donald trump launched what many, if not most said was the impossible. His campaign for the republican nomination for president of the United States. Now he is just days away from making it official. But not all republicans here in the arena are happy. Today when the convention kicked off, chaos broke out on the floor, a battle over the rules. [chanting] over the angry objections of antitrump forces,
republican Party Leaders approving the rules for their National Convention. And, tonight, all eyes are not on donald trump but on his wife, Melania Trump. Very soon, she will be taking the stage very first night and add to the excitement here in the arena, donald trump has decide to do arrive here early to introduce his wife mellane i cant. A few hours ago, trump tweeted this, looking forward to bein
Mrd of all Police Officers. And theres a conspiracy. Is he tied to one of these groups . Like we talked earlier, ari, they already broke up a conspiracy of four men who were breaking into a gun shop, stole eight guns in a plot the kill officers. We dont know if they are members of a group, but they were in conspiracy to kill officers. They then had the lone wolf who was reading from the black hate groups on the web. We know, jim, we dont know at this juncture where this fits in. Baton rouge is the shooting of alton sterling which the Justice Department is investigating. Tensions are high around the counted, and i want to emphasize what nbc has confirmed. We dont have reports from elsewhere. We know and we are covering it in part because of the possibility of interest and we dont know what was in the mind of these suspects. We adodont know if it was susp or suspects. One thing is that white house Officials Say that the president has been briefed on this shooting of Police Officers and i
Are dead. Flee more a three more are wounded. Officers are stationed outside area hospitals where their wounded colleagues are being treated. Officials telling us in a briefing a short time ago that one suspect on scene is dead. Officers sent in a robot to make sure there were no explosives. Not that they have word there were explosives, but they just dont know what theyre dealing with here. They clearly believe theyre dealing with a conspiracy. They call the scene contained but active. Meaning theyre still working it, but the suspect who is there is deceased. And were now getting dramatic audio of police calling in the shooting. Listen. Shots fired officers down got a city officer down shots fired shots fired thats the audiofrom scene. The white house we leasing a brief statement on the attack essentially saying president obama has been briefed and will be updated throughout the day as more details come in. The white house also offering Baton Rouge Police any assistance they might nee
Nonlife threatening. Theres an unnamed officer who is in Critical Condition in a local hospital. He is continuing his fight. The situation here began at 8 40 a. M. Local time with a 911 call alerting authorities to a man walking down the street with a long gun that turned out to be an ar semiautomatic rifle. He was in black and a mask and ready to do battle. Thats why he was here. Boris sanchez has the details of what brought these three officers down. Boris . Reporter good morning, chris. To give our viewers an idea, were just down street from you, about a mile away from Baton Rouge Police headquarters. This Convenience Store behind me is where all of this unfolded yesterday, where it started really. Police chased the suspect down through several businesses in this area, bravely going after them, even as he targeted them. You see all these cameras here, but the scene has really clear kd up. Theres no indication that any of this happened less than 24 hours ago. Were told the investigat