Increasing concern over what caused saturdays earthquake in oklahoma. The quake matched the strongestever to hit that state. 9news reporter Tarhonda Thomas is here with more. Tarhonda some are blaming this all on fracking. Thats right. The Us Geological survey released this map in march. It shows areas that their experts say are more prone to earthquakes because of fracking. And look right here. One of those highrisk areas. Northcentral oklahoma. Right where saturdays earthquake struck. The fivepointsix magnitak hit the small town of pawnee, oklahoma. Destroying several buildings. But reports say the quake could be felt as faraway as illinois. Fracking is seen as a more efficient Drilling Technique but not without its controversy. Now that the us gs has linked fracking to earthquakes. You can bet there will be even more debate. In fracking wastewater is pumped into the ground at High Pressure to extract oil. Today oklahoma regulators have shut down 37 wastewater wells connected to oil
Their battle for the white house as bill clinton takes a break from campaigning to hang with beyonce, today, monday, september 5th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this labor day monday morning. Hope youre enjoying great long tamron hall. Matt and savannah have the morning off. We have a lot to cover and we want to show you an interesting sight this morning. Hillary clinton back on the campaign trail with a new plane. Look closely. Its hard to miss it. Stronger together on the side. Her Campaign Slogan kicking off an Extraordinary Campaign season and now were in the last couple months. Matching plane for plane. Well have more on the president ial race just ahead. Lets get right to our top story. Hermines impact. People. The storm whipping up waves and dangerous storm surge. Well get to dylans forecast in a moment. First, nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the east end of
Identified. With pressure mounting late this afternoon, Charlotte Police released videos that show a deadly encounter with officers. Protesters have been demanding action and calling for the release of the videos every day since the shooting of keith scott on tuesday. It hasnt been released in its entirety. The police chief says the footage includes all the images relative to the shooting. In addition to the videos Police Released photos of marijuana, a holster and gun that investigators say was loaded. When they see the weapon say uhoh, this is a safety issue for us and the public. Police say lab tests found scotts fingerprints and dna on the weapon. Police say he pointed the gun at them, from the video its impossible to see what scott had in his hands. When we look at this dashcam video, mr. Scott steps out of the vehicle. He doesnt appear to be acting scene. He doesnt appear to be making gesture or motions as if hes arguing with anybody. He doesnt lunge at the officers. It appears h
Until further notice. Also tonight, i70 westbound near the eisenhower tunnel is closed because of this. Lake dillon fire and rescue says a moving van had a mechanical malfunction and burst into flames. Crews shut down the westbound lanes at milemarker 209. No one was hurt but the truck and everything in it was destroyed. It only took a few hours for the starwood fire in Larimer County to spread to 300 acres. The fire began this afternoon and is burning northwest fort collins near Red Feather Lake. Flames threatened around 30 structures. One subdivision was advised to evacuate. Crews have the fire 10 contained. They will be work on that all evening. The fire will be staffed this evening in a patrol status. Tomorrow morning we have Additional Resources coming in. And then we will continue with operations and direct suppression tomorrow morning. Roads are still open though crews have placed roadblocks in areas so firefighters can freely access the fire. Under investigation. And winds cert
Rocky cliff below steep snow fields. Rangers will attempt to recover the body if the weather conditions allow. Dreiling was reported missing friday when he failed to show up for work at the grand teton lodge company. About 100 people helped in that search for him. More than 120 people are currently fighting a wildfire near the colorado wyoming state line. The starwood fire started yesterday around noon near Red Feather Lakes. Dry fuel and gusty s few hours. The fire is about 300 acres slowly moving northwest. Its about 10 contained. About 30 structures have been threatened but no report of damage to the structures. The Larimer County Sheriffs Office says voluntary evacuation notices were sent to 43 contacts in the mill creek subdivision. If the weather patterns change and it becomes hotter, drier, windier and the fire does move, the number of evacuations may increase. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire. There were storms in the area sunday, so lightning might be a possib