New this Morning Police around the country are now grieiving the death of one Stephanie Johnson is at the breaking news desk with what happened overnight. Stephanie . Doraofficers are paying their respects to a fallen officer who was shot multiple times while on duty overnight in Tacoma Washington the suspect who killed the officer is still on the loose take a look at videoscene is active suspect has barricaded himself inside of his homeauthorities believe the suspect is armed and dangerous the neighborhood is on lockdown the officer on the police dept. For seventeen years. The officer died around 9 pm at a tacoma hospitalthats the latest from the breaking news deskill continue to monitor this story as it developsdora back to you. With deaths among Law Enforcement on the rise lawmakers in the us senate have approved a new bill co authored by Chuck Grassley. The Public Safety officers benefits improvement act hopes to reduce the backlog of familes awaiting survivor benefits. The Program
A thousand families going into christmas with a new sense of hope and optimism is a pretty good present from president elect trump. Trump set for a victory lap after saving over a thousand american jobs. When you start doing this, other people are going to say, im not sure i want a call from the president of the United States. I think they do want a call from the president of the United States. 13 tornadoes tore across mississippi. We picked this up. Went through a wall. Death toll rising in tennessee. Seven people have been killed in the wildfires. Scorching parts of the great smoky mountains. Just blew here like a torch, you know . Protesters marching in North Carolina after prosecutors said a Police Officer would not face charges for the shooting death of a black man. In tacoma, washington, police shot and killed a barricaded we sauvered greuffered a gre doing our best to not have anyone else injured. A pilot that crashed the plane in colombia told air Traffic Controllers he ran out
60 in milwaukee and mid 50s inland under a clear sky and a light breeze. Today is another perfect day with sunshine, low humidity and highs in the 70s. It is a top 10 clouds increase tonight with tshowers after 2am and lows in the light traffic on dry roads incident free tonight at 7 10 pirates versus the brewers tonight at miller park. Expect congestion during the evening commute as well at around 9 30 tonight on 94 east and west through the stadium interchange. Alternate routes are Wisconsin Ave and national ave to get around these slow go spots tonight 94 eastbound starting at moorland road to the zoo interchange a full closure on 94 from 11 tonight until 6 am tomorrow morning. Alternate routes are blun shock among the local, Catholic Community after a nun with local ties is killed in mississippi. Held was found murdered in her home. Along with a fellow nun. Pete zervakis is live with more on how the community is mourning the loss. Sister margaret held was part of the School Sisters
Attack. This is the third time clinton has testified on capitol hill in regards to benghazi. So far shes faced questions about security and personnell requests for the compound that were denied. Clinton was ready to answer those questions. Those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the Security Professionals in the department. I did not see them, i did not approve them, i did not deny them. Todays hearings have those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the Security Professionals in the department. I did not see them, i did not approve them, todays hearings have been painted by democrats, and even some republicans as a politicallycharged a politicallyrepublicans as and even some by democrats, been painted hearings have todays todays hearings have been painted by democrats, and even some republicans as a politicallycharged attack on the democratic president ial frontrunner. The republican chairman of the committee is denying those ac
He poked him and said, hey, listen guy you have to a way o wake on this bus. He said im fine, im not sleeping. I have been here 17 years. I do this all the time. Anchor twops tell us at one a teen area the driver and suggested he pull over if he needed to get some air. Im glad as a parent of the children that i was there to actually see this. The kids attend Saint Joseph Catholic School in medford. The adults told the driver they would not be returning to the school with him after they finally made it to plymouth. Some say the driver grew belligerent. He got a little frustrated and then he called someone and then he just left. You guys had to stay there all afternoon, right . The driver works for north suburban transportation which is doing an investigation. The camera is right here. Its adjusted right here. The owner said the driver has a clean safety record. He has been here for over 15 years and we never had an incident with the gentleman. Something happen, what happened i dont know