Journalists during a live broadcast. The shooting killed Alison Parker and ward. He later killed himself. The aff said he obtained his gun legally. President obama calls the shooting heartbreaking. Don champion is in roanoke. Good morning, don. Reporter good morning, alison. Theres been a huge show of support from the community. Many here in southwest virginia watched at what was supposed to be a live feel good story turned into anything but. A memorial of flowers and balloons degree overnight. The station still cant believe two beloved colleagues are gone. All day the community has provideded an outpouring for us. Reporter reporter Alison Parker and photographer adam ward were ambushed and killed by a former disgrunted employee of their station. That employee was a fellow journalist. Vester flanagan. He went by the name Bryce Williams while reporting for the station. The 41yearold was let go two years ago. Andy parker says his daughter died doing what she loves. Its hard to wrap your
Warnings from 8 00 tonight to 8 00 saturday morning over the higher elevations. We will give you a closer look at how bad it will be in a few minutes. Thank you, spencer. Live in the east bay where schools are adjustings schedules and pg e is gearing up for outages. Most noticeable things today is the haze in the hills in central contra costa county. Leslie . Dan, you can see mount diab low for the first Time Starting to emerge from a heavy haze. It is obscured all afternoon long. Almost invisible from every angle. Because of that haze coming from a distant fire. Things here are just starting to warm up. As it heats up on the outside, it gets even hotter on the ideas of this dry cleaners in walnut creek. With just a light breeze, workers are surrounded by hot steamers. We have the staff come in early in the morning and begin all of their pressing and the cleaning process. What are time early . Normally we start at 6 00 a. M. Today being a hot day we start at 3 00 and 4 00 a. M. That ar
Today is just the start of a heat wave that dominates the sevenday forecast. The haze that is blanketing the bay area and the smell of smoke. Its everywhere. We have live team coverage. Lets start with spencer christian. Some of that haze is because of smoke from the north and much is because of unclean air. Its just that simple. Sunny skies and hot conditions. Even at this hour, temperatures at or above 100 degrees. San ramon and concord and upper 90s in many other locations. Its going to get worse. The 24hour temperature change shows most bay area locations from 13 degrees to 22 degrees warmer than they were yesterday. On we go to the heat advisory for much of the day area through tonight. Some of the areas outlined in red is excessive heat warning. Speaking of that, we have a warning for all of the bay area except the coast from thursday through monday. Hottest spots see temperatures between 105 and 115. There will be a heat advisory for the coast from 11 00 to 9 00 p. M. High fire
Bad. Reporter it is being called one of the most powerful storms recorded. It is tracking to south florida. Good evening everyone. Hurricane irma lasted the Eastern Caribbean today including the Virgin Islands antigua and puerto rico. Tomorrow it will hit the Dominican Republic and haiti. We have live coverage tonight. The latest from florida and the caribbean. We start with bill martin tracking irma in the weather center. A big hurricane coming on the heels of harvey. It is staying to the north of cuba or san juan. Is staying to the north of the Dominican Republic. That is huge. The most damage in the storms comes from the sidewall. The strongest winds are in the highest storm surge. That right front quadrant is where the heaviest rain and the heaviest wind and those strongest storm surges are. There staying away from these islands. Im looking for some silverlinings. In a way it is a good thing. At least at this point it is moving to the north of those main islands. If you look at the
With basically no wind. Occasionally you may run into a patch of fog or two, especially in many soft more rural areas, but that will burn off very, very quickly this morning. Storm scan3, a few clouds, mean no harm, will be moving on, looking at day of sunshine today, temperatures today little milder than they were yesterday morning at this point. 16 degrees in philadelphia, everybody else, in the 50s, now, except for the poconos, at 49 degrees this morning. We have a day that shapes up, just about perfect, 69 degrees, 9 00 a. M. By noon, 79 degrees, we just add another 10 degrees to that. And then we hit 84 degrees, this afternoon, we have zero weather problems coming up for us, and i mean, zero, so let me give you another look at the temperature, 84 degrees for the afternoon high temperature. This i just stop, because there might be one or two clouds, thats it. Thats it all day. And we run this all the way out through tomorrow morning when a few more clouds may be coming into the pic