We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Lets begin with nbc bay area. This is a very popular spot. Reporter its one where many families are spending out the final days of their summer vacation. Although the camp is full, theres an overwhelming feeling of emptiness. Tragedy in a place of peace. They awoke to the snap of this tree. A limb came crashing down on the tent below killing two children. It was loud and snap and crack. It was immediate screaming and hollering and panicking. Reporter the two killed were sleeping in their tents when it happened. Tonight flowers in their place as park rangers try to determine what happened. They were kids. Thats tough. Reporter rangers arent saying how old the children were or where theyre from. They see trees are inspected but could not comment on whether this tree was checked. In this particular situation people were simply in a camp site here in upper pines. They were in a designated camp site. They were camping out just like people are doing right
Inspector who told me theyre waiting to serve a warrant on a car and hotel room. A police found 3. 5 kilos of cocaine. Someone called 911 worried about suspicious a attemitems in a ro. They found a loaded semiautomatic handgun many the hotel room. Four came back to the hotel room. Police took all four into custody. Right now, its unclear who if any will be charged at this point. There are four being questioned. Theres an Ongoing Investigation inside the hotel. Quite the disruption to a busy night of fun for a lot of people down here. Serious crime scene as well. Im drew smith, nbc 10 news. Tonight at 11 00, plan b. Pow to get around philadelphia when roads are blocked and Public Transit is limited . The mayor said you should be prepared to walk for miles. This is a map that shows the green section which is where cars allowed. How can you avoid hours of walking . Randy set out to figure that out. Hes live at city hall. Whats incredible, youll see zero cars in the city. Thats basically n
Get your [ bleep ], or you join a gang to protect you. The police say the smoegs ke condition was caused by a smoke grenade. The suspect fired at least four shots from inside that apartment, and then more than five officers returned fire as he apparently emerged from the building, shooting at officers. As for the fire lieutenant, hes expected to be released from the hospital sometime tomorrow. Back to you. Listening to that video, it sounded like a war. Thanks so much. Tonight, mayor de blasio under fire for what he was doing during that standoff. Apparently, getting a workout in at the gym, as all this drama unfolded. Michael george is live at city hall. Reporter clearly, the mayor wasnt happy about getting that question. He says he was on top of the situation by phone all morning. Some say this is an example of a mayor whose priorities are in the right place. Others feel this is a big fuss about nothing. Was the mayor out of line . Reports came out that after de blasio was briefed ab
Removal. A rescue caught on video. The man who ran to help a truck driver as he tried to escape a ball of fire. News4 at 11 starts now. Knew tonight, victims of a frightening attack in d. C. s noman neighborhood are outaged for what happened to their attacker after he got arrested. A Police Report says he randomly assaulted six people. And officers told one victim that the attacker appeared to be high on synthetic drugs. Jackie bensen is live with a story we reported first right here at 11. Jackie . Reporter i got a call this morning from one of the victims of wednesdays attack. She says a friend, who was with her at the time says she thought she saw the man arrested walking in this neighborhood yesterday. It turns out she very likely did see him. The victims of the violent random attack near first and k streets northeast about 5 00 p. M. Wednesday say they are shocked to learn that the man arrested near the cnn loading dock, 24yearold allen martin of northeast was given a misdemeanor
Here at the table with me to share their insights and reporting, cnn is breaking the story for us. Former assistant to robert muell mueller. Sarah murray. This is fascinating reporting and we should give the context that over the weekend the president tweeted that he fired his former National Security adviser Michael Flynn because he had lied to the fbi which of course raised the question we are talking about now. Did he know that flynn was being investigated . What are you hearing . We understand that doug mcgann spoke with sally yates in january. After that meeting he informed the president that he believed that Michael Flynn had misled the fbi and lied to the vice president. We understand that sally yates who was the acting attorney general never characterized flynns testimony and he never saw flynns testimony. This was his belief. He did not tell the president he believed flynn was under investigation or that he committed any crime. Thats the general essence of what we know. They l