Leaders from the naacp and other community groups. All of this comes after a particularly violent week around the country that sees the tension rising. Two more black men gunned down by police in louisiana and minnesota. Both captured on videotape. Then a man shot five officers and the focus of the conversation tonight will in part be figuring out ways to help young black men survive. Tonight, i dont want to talk about the problems. We know what the problem is. Its all about solutions. That is the only way to make a difference. The cops need to be train in a certain manner and we need to have the knowledge to know what to do in situations like that. Roz on the theme of survival im told they will have a live demonstration by police and others in the community by what to do if you are pulled over for a traffic stop. Im roz plater, abc7 news. Maureen thank you, roz. Meanwhile tonight, local communities are showing support for their police department. One man called the Prince Georges Coun
Weekend. Chief meteorologist doug hill has the latest track on this. It looks like its coming right at us. Doug its coming up the coast. Its not coming at us. I will stay southeast but it could be close enough to have effect on the area. It had looked like it would by a out to sea and wed have sunny and warm weather. It may not happen. Let me show you why. Computer model gets in line here. One of the major models today started singing that tune, too, once the storm makes landfall up here on the upper florida coast tomorrow night it will take a track to the northeast for the next couple of days. That would have an effect on the beaches, the atlantic beaches, virginia beach, the North Carolina beaches. Maybe the delmarva beaches. A major impact. Cant rule out effects to the area. Tracking further west. Wet forecast for the weekend. Worse at the beaches. Clearing for labor day. Good news for you there. As far as what were watching the top winds now are 40 miles per hour. Showers and thund
Well, good thursday morning. We begin with breaking news. A powerful weather system putting millions of people in danger overnight. The severe storms spawning numerous tornadoes in oklahoma. A terrifying scene. Twisters forming over neighborhoods causing damage and knocking out power to thousands of homes. Also reports this morning of a tornado in arkansas near the mississippi border. You can see the size of this system on radar quickly heading east right now. Its bringing heavy rain and flooding from new orleans to detroit. Overnight severe storms on the move. Its forming, oh, man, look at that. Reporter the large twister touching down in tulsa, oklahoma. Oh, my gosh. Reporter just one of several tornadoes spotted in the state. We got a tornado on the ground in stone canyon and theres going to be damage. Were watching debris fly into the cloud right now. Reporter this morning the Damage Assessment under way. Pictures from inside this church the roof of another church ripped right off.
Of the month 2016. 2 actually pretty nice outtty ce o there. Mild this morning, 55 degrees. De going to be even more mildild over the next couple days, might be a little wet, though,to too. Well talk with tuck about that and of course trafficf with erin coming outpatient onto the five at 7 05. E at good morning to you, im hollyol morris in for allison seymour. O im steve chenevey. Cne this is the scene from skyfoxm x within the hour. Wi this is route 29 at legatoat road near the Fairfax Countyount parkway. Pa started as a traffic stopic s around 6 00 a. M. M not sure where that was butas bt police say the driver took off. Officers went after him. Ent aft. This is where it ended. S wher the driver is in custody. Cto no word yet on why policeolic wanted to stop that vehicle in n the first place. P there is also breaking news right now overseas. At least a hundred people areere missing following the collapse l of an overpass that was under ud construction near calcutta,tta, india. India.
Mauricio Marin for a lucky winner who might win the jackpot saturday. The lump sum pay out would be just under 430 million dollars. The odds of winning the jackpot are one in about 290 million. You have a higher likelihood of getting struck by lighting. But people say it just takes a little luck to make them the next big winner so thats why lines are out the door here in primm. They close here at 7 45 tonight. The drawing is saturday at 7 59pm. Tickets are 2 bucks and have to be purchased an hour before the draw. Headng here traffic wasnt too bad but that could change as the weekend approaches. Reporting live. Mauricio marin. 8 news now. paul joncich mauricio any word on winners of small prizes from last nights powerball game . Mauricio Marin actually if you bought your ticket in arizona there could be four of the Winning Tickets sold in arizona are worth 50 thousand dollars because they matched four white balls and the red powerball. So be sure to check your tickets. Back to you. Deni