The saga of the mexican drug lord recaptured on friday took a new turn yesterday. Rolling stone published an interview El Chapo Guzman reportedly did with sean penn, who said the two met secretly last year. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez reports from mexico, where the worlds most notorious drug criminal is back behind bars. Said guzmans desire to make a movie about himselfand his interaction with producers and actorseventually led to his arrest. sot Clint Van Zandt nbc news crime analyst i think the mexican authorities want to identify as many people closely associated with el chapo as they can. A trusted source tells nbc news that authorities were aware that penn and del castillo were in mexxo to meet wwh guzman in octoberas Law Enforcement was closing inn a pllned arrest sweep was delayed to assure the two would not be harmed. When the raid eventually took place, el chapo and his Security Team escaped. We reached out to both penn and del castillo. Neither has commented. gutierrez on camera 1 23
The tigers are seeking the programs second title. Dabo says saban and alabama set the standard for College Football. Saban gives dabo props for leading the tigers to the number one ranking. Our players are very excited about the opportunity theyve created for themselves to have a chance to participate in the College Football playoff against arguably the best team in College Football, which is the clemson tigers. Our focus and attention is to try to play the best game we possibly can, which is probably what were going to need to have success. This was our goal was to have the opportunity to compete at the highest level, and not only are we getting a chance to do that, but were getting a chance to play the university of alabama, which to me has been the standard in College Football for a long time, but certainly since coach saban has been there. Theyve just been incredibly consistent. The tigers and crimson tide first played football in 19 hundred. Clemson won that game 35nothing. Series
Intensity. This evening it will be swinging south ward and eastward. And youll see there will be pockets of rain but the main intensity of the storm will have passed. Now, lets go live to Wayne Freedman to check on the impact the storms have had on the drought. Wayne . Good evening, ama. The effect of the drought is better than wed feared but not as good as hoped. While i talk in the dark, lets just continue. There is a group that keeps track of broughts around the country. Here it comes, again. Another storm, another opportunity to not complain. California continues to be a state in a state of drought. Its still early in the season. And from our perspective, we need to get rain throughout the spring in order to be comfortable going into the summer. That is pam king, who remains haunted by the memory of lake mendocino. Were still not at a 10year norm. Not here, nor lake sonoma. We have accumulated about half of what we need to be full in lake sonoma. Keep calling it a drought. And keep
Heavenly reports six inches and it is still coming down. Are we seeing any impact on the drought . Good evening, im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Were looking at the short and long term effects of this el nino enhanced weather. Lets begin with abc7 news anchor Spencer Christian. Lets take a look at whats happening now. We have a wide path of light rain covering much of the north bay. We have had down pours east of 29 now, moving toward solano county. And a storm impact scale indicates usually expected impact of the storm. One is a light storm, three is a strong storm, five is severe. The current storm is ranking number one, a storm of light intensity. This evening it will be swinging south ward and eastward. And youll see there will be pockets of rain but the main intensity of the storm will have passed. Now, lets go live to Wayne Freedman to check on the impact the storms have had on the drought. Wayne . Good evening, ama. The effect of the drought is better than wed feared but not as goo
Sign of a chaos that ensued here 5 30 this afternoon. We are zooming in. You can see a temporary closed sign is on the front door. Clearly detectives have more work to be done later on. Heres the preliminary information we have learned from authorities. A man walked in though chase bank with a gun. He said he was going to rob it but unbeknownst to him, two security guards were armed and acted. One a retired member of Law Enforcement fired his gun four times according to authorities hitting the robber in his arms and leg. The suspect was brought to the hospital and is undergoing surgery and is expected to recover. As for the scene, this happened 5 30. You can imagine it had a number of customers who were getting off work, luckily no one else was injured. We asked if the suspect acted alone. The investigation is preliminary at this time. And the investigation is continuing. Authorities will include looking at the number of surveillance ram cameras around this bank as part of the investig