Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Thing okay, greg. Greg bye. Bret good evening. Im brett bay. Antiisrael protesters College Campuses clashing with Law Enforcement several locations again tonight this after police in new york forcibly evicted demonstrators from a Columbia University building overnight. New protests have begun at another new york school, an antiantisemitic, antiisrael protesters ucla in los angeles fought with projewish demonstrators who tried to tear down their encampment overnight. In the midst of all of this, very little from President Biden himself, his staff putting out statements answering questions about the president s relative silence on the issue. We begin tonight in los angeles with correspondent bill melugin at ucla. Good evening, bill. Bill bret, good evening to you. All classes here at ucla are canceled today after a night of violent clashes here on campus that went on for hours without any kind of Law Enforcement intervention and just moments ago, we heard from uclas chancellor who descri
Yesterday s hurricane forced wind gusts and softball sized hail that fell from the sky, today will feel like a walk in the park for the areas impacted most by the storm system. but the severe weather threat not done just yet. it s all part of the larger storm system that rocked the eastern sea board yesterday. take a listen. reporter: with wind gusts estimated over 75 miles per hour, the impact was immediate. oh my god. holy [ bleep ]. reporter: in moorsville, north carolina, tyson winter captured this video of a tree snapping in half and falling to the ground near an apartment complex. heavy rain, thunder around violent winds hammered cities and towns east of the mississippi river. by monday night, there had been more than 400 reports of strong winds across the region. and more than a million customers were without power across 11 states. in states like north carolina, pennsylvania, georgia and maryland, according to power
Waking up in the dark. oh my god. that is a tree snapped in half by the wind in moorsville, north carolina. residents in indiana s orange county are digging out after tornado pummelled grainerries, ripped off roofs there. look at that. nearly 400,000 people are without power from north carolina to tennessee. maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours when those strong winds downed the power lines. now, it s just about 6:00 a.m. on the east coast here. already more than 300 flights have been cancelled. more than 700 delayed. let s go to meteorologist derek van dam now in the weather center. when you look at some of these pictures and the cell phone video coming in, you can understand how this has been so challenging for people and there is more coming. yeah, victor, poppy, after
The school? absolutely. a lot of it is (inaudible). my daughter recently did a project on pakistan. she had image, she had music, she had her own voice over. the temperature here can get really hot. 1200 degrees fahrenheit. it s a 2 minute movie. she wrote the script but it s not open a textbook and write a two-page summary about pakistan. as our cameras tour intermediate and high school the only books we found were novels. we are in the proceedings with textbooks. retired executive director for elementary education in moorsville. we look with virginia. change can be difficult but