at this hour. action news takes you live at the moment, but first lets begin with david murphy out on the terrace with accuweather. a misty drizzle and light rain and not too bad right now, stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you plenty of rain around and more on the way to philadelphia and that will bring a steadier rainfall, right now the rainfall is height lighted in yellow, and mainly moving up to lancaster county and berks county and a big batch off the coast and every now and then in between. it does have a tendency to get heavy and you will be slowing down, and the wide view, the clouds and rain extending through raleigh and atlanta and the gulf coast, it s a while before this gets through our neck of the woods, temperatures right now are on the mild side, 60 degrees in philadelphia, with the flow coming in off the ocean, 56 up north in new york city, and right now we have heavier rain and a lot of people are honking behind me here, 62 by 2:00, and 64 by 4:00, an
the federal judge s ruling is something death penalty opponents have been waiting for and they say the system has been broken for some time. and matt jerry is with a group that has fought executions. we have 747 people alive on death row, but there have been no executions for the past eight years, and in fact since the death penalty was reinstituted in the 1970s, there have only been 13 executions in california. the state temporarily stopped executing prisoners in 2006 when another federal judge ruled that flaws in the lethal injection protocol created a risk for painful and failed executions, and the last time the death penalty was struck down was in 1972 when the state supreme court ruled it violated the constitution, and the voters overturned that on a ballot initiative. the people in the state have spoken time and time again on this issue and i believe the peoples voice should be heard. martin is head of the police officers association, and he is afraid the decis
i m ama daetz. don ashley is off tonight. it was mayham after a robbery. one of three women taken hostage was killed during the chase. her family identified the victim as misty sing, amir marcried mo of two. they were forced into a stolen suv after a robbery around 2:30 this afternoon. more than a dozen police cruisers chased the car as it flew across the streets of stockton. the suspects fired at them with a semiautomatic weapon and the police returned shots during the 45-minute long chase. during the chase, the suspects threw two hostages from the speeding car. we spoke to a witness that saw a victim. she was on the ground and my brother saw her and her leg was tore up and bleeding and the fire department wasn t there yet, nobody was there. the video was of driving by a big police suv type thing parked in the center divider and in front of him on the ground was a girl in gray, who was turning over and her leg was all bloody and he was standing over her and they were waiti
fires. you can see there is also several security cameras out here and what they recorded helped police track down the people they believe are responsible. video captured on a surveillance camera outside jim s coffee shop shows a man lurking in the back parking lot looking into the windows of bright cleaners on park street in downtown alameda. five minutes later, flames erupted in the same spot, ripping through the dry cleaner s and delivery van. the fire gutting the business and a restaurant next door. it s a real mess and it s too bad something like this happened here. i dropped some clothes off. i was wondering if they will have a sign up, you know, how do you put in a claim for my clothes. reporter: police arrested 22-year-old andrew gutierrez, a transient who frequents the area and 27-year-old steven peterson, who lives in alameda. police say they are responsible for torching cars, garbage cans and buildings early sunday, causing eight fires total. we made the ar
usually aware of the jet stream and storm track would be it s the physical cause of the california drought. today, daniel published an academic paper connecting climate change with formation of that ridge. the study based on models both existing and hypothetical. in one model he looked at conditions today, and another, no carbon emissions at all. there is no evidence that this is permanent. we ve shown this this will occur. what does this mean for the rest of us? proof this is a cause. from stanford, abc7 news. crews credit the rain with helping them gain ground against that massive king fire burning in the sierra. cal fire reports the fire is 89% contained. the fire charred 152 square miles investigators believe someone set that fire on purpose. the 37-year-old suspect remains in jail after pleading not guilty to arson. tonight new video, police using to investigate eight fires set in alameda. a video shows a man lurking outside early sunday morning. five minutes l