Music festival promising a luxury getaway. The reality cheese sandwiches and tents. Tonight, the scramble to get off the island. Good evening on this friday. Im tom llamas, david muir is on assignment tonight. We begin with the breaking news from north korea. A u. S. Official confirming that north korea has launched a missile, traveling east toward the sea of japan. The test appears to have failed. President trump just now back at the white house after an event in georgia, and has been briefed on the test. Heres martha raddatz, with the details still coming in. Reporter despite warnings, threats and the display of american might, north koreas leader is not backing down. The missile was fired from an airfield in central north korea, a mobile launched missile single stage short to medium range missile, a kn17. It broke up after just minutes in flight. This is the third time the North Koreans have tested the missile. The last time, april 15th. It exploded shortly after launch. The launch
On the run, a massive search for this prisoner who escaped from guards in jessu p. Jonathan his name is david watson. He was serving a 100 year sentence. He broke out of a Psychiatric Hospital and has not been seen since. The authorities are releasing pictures of his distinctive tattoos in the hopes that somebody will spot him. Alison tom roussey is live with the search going on in jessup. Accused of is also trying to shoot into Police Officers home in maryland. Guards tooko county into a parking lot, when he got out of the vehicle, he shoved one of them and ran into the woods. Although they have been close to catching him, nothing has panned out. This is video of Howard County police in jessup. Initially he was handcuffed and had a chain around his waist. Somehow he was able to break free. If anybody sees him, they should know right away. He not only has a tattoo on his face but also a distinctive tattoo on his arm and on the back of his neck it says evil. There are some homes within
But i know 67 to 66. The couple lows moving in and that will give us lots of drizzle. 70s and 60s, 50s for maybe a few on the coast. Lets hope todays friday light. I will prepare for that. Speaks the commute is looking pretty good around the bay area. Lets take you to the maps eventually with the dry drive looks like coming out of the tracy area. This is the tracy super commute. Coming up and over into the livermore valley. I will show you what the ride looks like, and its moving along quite nicely for all of those folks heading into San Francisco from the east bay. Emily we will take it look here from the san mateo built bridge, and its problem free this morning at 4 02 a. M. Our top news this morning, Health Officials revealing that two babies were born in the state with birth defects due to virus. One of them was here in the bay area in berkeley. State Health Officials say both cases involve mothers who had traveled overseas to zika infected areas. The mother delivered her baby at a
Mothers who have traveled overseas and zika infected areas, more on the new development now from ktvus Jana Katsuyama live in the newsroom. Jana . Reporter Public Health Officials Say they cannot release any information for privacy reasons but we have learned from a source that the mother did not contract the virus here but got it while traveling. The mother delivered her baby at the Medical Center within the past six months. She apparently contracted zika virus while traveling in guatemala. Her baby was born with a severe case of microcephaly, unusually small head. Zika virus can infect the nerve cells early on in development and cause damage. So that is sort of what is thought to be causing the small heads and brains. Reporter affected babies are prone to seizures and developmental delays. Doctors dont know the long term effects. California Health Officials say to date 114 californians have tested positive for zika virus. 21 are pregnant women. All were travel related cases. The viru
And temperatures on the climb. Of subtle changes as we head into the weekend. All have a picture 7 day around the bay forecast coming up in just a couple of minutes. Good morning george. George good morning erica. No hot spots but even though it looks like a rough ride to the bay bridge its not at all. Only 16 minutes coming from 580 and highway 24 there were Early Morning hoursproblems at the bay Bridge Street the league relies for activated a half hour above schedule. Metering lights. The Golden Gate Bridge is problem free. We usually see a little more traffic and the northbound direction but so far that does not appear to be the case. Mark now to our other top story. Another bart strike is coming closer to reality this morning as a 72hour notice has been issued. Negotiations wrapped up at around 9 last night and they are set to resume this the three unions in negotiations with bart announced the strike notice last night. This means workers could walk off the job for the second time