Im frank somerville. A combined 29 people were killed in weekend. There was a huge vigil in el paso, texas, tonight where the death toll remains at 20. 26 others were wounded. The gunman opened fire inside a Walmart Store and Shopping Mall yesterday morning. The u. S. Attorney for the Western District of texas says it will be classified as a case of domestic terrorism and prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty. The mayor of el paso has sought a local Emergency Declaration and the fbi said they are confident there are not any accomplices. Just after 1 a. M. In dayton, ohio, a gunman opened fire in a popular Entertainment District killing nine people including his sister. 27 were left injured. Authorities say the shooter wore a bulletproof vest, mask, Hearing Protection and was carrying at least 100 rounds. Police shot the gunman less than a minute after the shooting started. Amazing grace how sweet the sound. A nation in mourning over yet another senseless attack on innocen
as far as we say on the radar, there was nothing picked up on the state police intelligence, nothing picked up on the fbi intelligence. nobody called in. today both president biden and new york s governor called on doing more to stop the hate. this is not open season on african americans. the message should be we won t tolerate this. angry, upset. heart broken. jerome bridges said he was working in aisle 14 at the tops friendly market when a gunman wearing armor opened fire. i started running. when he stopped firing for a minute, reloaded and started firing again. police say it took less than two minutes for officers to arrive and forced the gunman, who was live streaming the rampage, to surrender. this individual came here with the expressed purpose of taking as many black lives as he possibly could. according to police, 11 of the 13 victims were black. the evidence that we have uncovered so far makes no mistake that this is an absolute racist hate crime.
The seriousness of the advisory. We say ready set, go. We want you ready and so we want everybody to be clear of the structures in case fire is coming by. We want to make sure everybody is safe then, property. Folks have been coming out here to watch the fire line. People that live nearby, weve talked to some of the people. Theyre rather nervous and say conditions have been incredibly warm. Here is what they have had to say. Its been 1061 day today, winds changed and blew smoke into town. Its getting hard to breathe. A lot harder to see. I feel scared because we live on the avenue. If you see heat coming our way in less than 30 minutes. Reporter that has been the unpredicability of the fire. I want to show you our map here if my photographer can zoom in on it. This is the fire map. At this point, this area is outdated. Firefighters told me this afternoon that this has filled in. There was one additional structure lost, here. Areas south have been on mandatory evacuation. Were on dam ro
Rail station at san carlos street and alma den boulevard when investigators say a man took off. These are shots of police cars responding to the scene. Authorities say the suspects shot at officers who then returned fire. Officials tell us the suspect then carjacked a vehicle, of investigators say they tried to to run over an officer. It ended in branham lane when the spec crashed into another car where he was captured. Two people inside the car were taken to the hospital but are expected to survive. The suspect was also taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries and will be charged with attempted homicide on an officer. Authorities say the suspects injuries were not caused by gunfire. Developing news in the south bay, san jose firefighters are at the scene of a three an alarm fire in the vista point area. Flames ignited just after 3 00 this morning. Fire dispatch tells abc 7 news the house is roughly 7,000 square feet and is still under construction. The cause of the fire
The government just declared a state of emergency. The rocky fire is just 5 contained. And today, evacuations are underway for residents near the fire zone. We are live with the latest. Katie . Reporter weve been out here several hours. The winds are just changing. Five minutes ago, there is a bit of a breeze that died down at this point. We can see flames picking up on the ridge line behind me. Im along the road and and am joined by cal fire Public Information officer. Give me perspective at this point. Right. Here we are on the north side of the fire. Like you said, winds have been changing all day. The south side has been active most of the day. Now, here we are on the north side. Were seeing extreme fire activity going on. Youre going to see aircraft in, laying retardant down and firefighters can get up close to the fire and put fire out. That is probably reassuring for folks that live where there is an advisory at this point. Do you think crews are able owe get a handle on the rid