Get the word out as quickly as we could. Reporter you feel like that should have been a quicker response to the public . The nature of flaring event is we had to determine what was happening and make sure that we got Accurate Information out. One thing history has proven to us is that chevron cannot be trusted, that we need to have independent investigations, not investigations conducted by chevron to tell us what really happened, what was really emitted. Reporter now, the bay area air Quality Management group says they will be investigating. Veronica, one of the issues out here is that they have monitors to test how much pollutants got into the public. But not everyone in the community here believes those monitors are adequate enough. Lots of people nervous. Thank you. Memories still fresh of a Major Incident at the same chevron refinery in 2012. A major fire sent thick, black smoke into the air. 15,000 people went to the hospital with respiratory problems. Chevron was cited for sever
Conducted under the cover of darkness, a team of Delta Force Commandos took out roughly a dozen isis fighters, including a key isis leader, the man described ass head of the terror groups Lucrative Oil operations. Abu sayyaf was his name, known to be a key associate of abu bakr albaghdadi, the leader of isis. As david martin reports, this was a highrisk operation for the u. S. Military which apparently yielded high rewards including the capture of sayyafs wife. Reporter the Delta Force Commandos went into syria aboard black hawk helicopters. Their target was a building where abu sayyaf lived with his wife and oversaw black market oil operations, a major source of isis income. One pentagon official called him the chief Financial Officer of isis. Isis Oil Facilities have been frequent targets of the u. S. Led pomming campaign, but this time, the delta commandos intended to capture the man who ran the operation. A firefight broke out and according to pentagon officials some of the isis fi
The night belonged to taylor swift at the Billboard Music awards. She won eight awards including one for top artist. The evening capped off by a hard to see and hard to hear performance by kanye west. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 18th. From abc news this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with that Severe Weather stretching some 1200 miles across the middle of the countries. As storms here dumping torrential rains and spawning dozens of tornadoes, this morning flash flooding is still a major concern. Lets start our coverage with rob marciano. Violent storms bringing rain and rescues. This man and this woman are in this home that is totally surrounded by water. Including this one in Johnson County texas. Unfolding on live tv. First responders using a drone to send a rescue line to a stranded couple. Then paddling toward them in a rescue raft. Homeowner bill talking to dallas station wffa. Theyre trying to figure out how to get the boat over
Heavy downpour, slow movers and lightning and thunder. There are many more to the west. I will diminish later this evening and tonight. It will be hot and humid with shower and thunder and heavy downpours. We will taper it off after sunset this evening and quiet it down later tonight. We look ahead to rest of the weekend and the Holiday Weekend as well in a few minutes. Alison we will see you then. New information tonight as police are searching for the man who attacked a 12yearold girl. After canvassing her neighborhood for days, it turns out the new information in this case may have come from a chance encounter by the girls mother. Maryland bureau chief brad bell spoke with the mother in the last half hour and has this story you will see only on seven. Brad . Brad alison, can you imagine as a parent that you have to deal with this terrible drama being inflicted on your own child. Suffering through a sexual assault. Then being with the child and spotting the suspect. Well, the mother
Awards. She won eight awards including one for top artist. The evening capped off by a hard to see and hard to hear performance by kanye west. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 18th. From abc news this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with that Severe Weather stretching some 1200 miles across the middle of the countries. As storms here dumping torrential rains and spawning dozens of tornadoes, this morning flash flooding is still a major concern. Lets start our coverage with rob marciano. Violent storms bringing rain and rescues. This man and this woman are in this home that is totally surrounded by water. Including this one in Johnson County texas. Unfolding on live tv. First responders using a drone to send a rescue line to a stranded couple. Then paddling toward them in a rescue raft. Homeowner bill talking to dallas station wffa. Theyre trying to figure out how to get the boat over here. Reporter the sound of debris waking them up. That c