xt on eyewitness news - ..a plane carrying republican vice presidential nominee mike - pence skids off the runway in new york. the latest details just in. also breaking right now - a man struck by a car in raleigh. a main road shut down. what we ve learned about the investigation. and. a raleigh woman attacked inside her own apartment. her neighbors left in the dark about the crime. .. what they re demanding tonight. eyewitness news first tonight the plane carrying vice- presidential nominee mike pence skidding off a runway while landing. the aircraft emergency happening a short time ago in rainy weather at new york s laguardia airport. good evening from te breaking news center i m steve daniels. here s the live feed showing the campaign plane in the grass off the end of a runway. here s a closer and hit a bed of crushed concrete designed to prevent planes over-runing the runway from crashing into flushing bay . everyo
was 12 years old and lasted nearly 2 years. breaking tonight wildfire burning near the larimer county boulder county line it has grown to 25 acres in size and it is threatening homes and livestock and russell haythorn shows us it is 35% contained and is still burning. believe the fire started right here with this blown transformer and neighbors and witnesses say they heard a loud pop and then it was raining down sparks the grass and underneath thh transformer it hit the hillside and took off. we heard a loud noise outside and came out and looked in the transformer was arcing it was incredibly fast. she lives within a few hundred yards. within two minutes it was out of our control she captured this video of thh fast-moving blaze with her cell phone and her mother-in-law kathy lives nearby. when i got up the hill i saw granddaughter and she said were tried to get a hold of the fire department but we have no electricity or phone service so i went up the hill and call
before he was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer at a mall in st. cloud. investigators say he worked at a security guard for one of the stores and was dressed as a security guard when he attacked saturday. the city s police chief said the man made at least 1 reference to al liu and asked a victim if allah and asked a victim if he or she was muslim before attacking. all those injured have been released from the hospital. many are on high alert because of everything that a backpack filled with clothes in the trash can caused the evacuation of a federal building in downtown atlanta. people were told to get out of building and surrounding streets were blocked off for about two hours. police brought a bomb robot to help investigate. they found nothing suspicious inside. if you are noticing heat in the skies north of the metro area, it s likely because of. this there s a wildfire burning on rabbit mountain near lyons. the 25-acre fire is on private indian mountain
all right, jen, thanks. authorities in the upstate have determined a young man there died playing russian roulette. deputies with the lancaster county sheriff s office say on january 11th, brandon reese and two others drove to a trailer park to buy a gun. the owner would not sell it to him unless he successfully played russian roulette. his companions drove to a hospital and got scared and ended up abandoning him and the truck. the skies cleared and the temperature dropped today and that kind of confused me a little bit. i thought it was a gorgeous day. a lot of people had the itchies today. they were itching to get out of work. itchy to leave. i saw people pacing around our newsroom. i m like it s friday. tend to happen on friday. chief meteorologist john farley joins us now with a look at the conditions. you re not going anywhere tonight. i have the itchies now that you say it. ok, it s clear. check it out. this is looking down towards the vista. sunset tonight
the world s largest maker of personal computers has the worst day in two years. is the company s turn around strategy in trouble? and the american worker, wages have been slashed for a decade as corporate profits rise and experts say the impact is showing up in a critical area of the economy. that and more tonight on nightly business report for thursday, august 22nd. if you wanted to buy sales of apple, google, intel, microsoft or any other stock listed on the nasdaq you couldn t. the reason, for more than three hours trading was halted because of a major computer glitch. it raised new questions about the safety of electronic trading and the impact on investor and business confidence in u.s. markets. this is the latest in a series of technical snatches that have paralyzed the market like the botched offer of facebook last year and the slash crack of the new york stock exchange in 2010. bertha comb joins us with me. what an extraordinary day. reporter: quite an extra o