The Oakland Raiders will be okayed to move to las vegas. The nfl owners are gathering in phoenix. 24 of 32 owners have to vote in favor of relocation in order for it to happen. On friday, oakland mayor libby shall have informed the league of the latest plans to replace the cole see yum to try to keep the raiders in oakland. It calls for a 54,000 football only stadium but Roger Goodell criticized the pitch. Abc7 spoke with the raiders owner today about the possible move out of oakland. Laurel will have his response tonight on abc7 news at 11 00 she will also break any raiders news first on twitter at Laura Anthony 7. Rain a moving flew the bay area. Lets get over to meteorologist drew tuma who is tracking the rain and a dry week ahead . Yeah, tonight we are deal with scattered showers that started this afternoon and continuing right now. A couple of spots around the region. Live doppler 7 pressing in tighter along the peninsula, we see light rain from burlingame stretching into south Sa
That. A report from nfl. Com highlights more of just what goodell wrote to her in a letter friday. The commissioner said there are still significant uncertainties that need to be addressed. Chris dobbins, who cofounded save oakland sports, is also an attorney by day. He finds it interesting that goodell hinted at oakland not being a viable city to house an nfl team. Thats the same argument that was used against san diego just before the chargers moved to la. I foresee, if the vote does go against oakland tomorrow, that Going Forward theres going to be a lot of discussion about what that word viability means. Are they following their own policy, ya know, was there a done deal already . Other raiders fans have held onto hope, but their confidence in the silver and black staying in the bay areais waning. I am not expecting good things tomorrow. New stadiums are big business, and with that i feel like the nfl probably sees the economic benefits of moving to a city like las vegas. Goodell w
pkg nats this is exclusive video as a fight between soccer fans starts. You see a smoke bomb thrown. A closer look shows the two groups separated by a fence but that was knocked down. So they just started screaming at each other, saying Different Things to one another and then they started throwing the rocks and bottles and then they knocked down the fence. Then witnesses say it got worse. And the gate over here behind me was totally knocked down off its hinges and the fans came together and thats when the fighting started. That scratch here and this whole thing here. Bus driver edgar torres shows us where rocks hit his bus. Were scared for your safety . I was scared for the bus cause it was getting hit by rocks. We just got our vehicles and we got them out of the way because those rocks came hitting our buses. While police say the fight was between opposing teams. Witnesses we spoke with say the fans involved in the fight were both fans of team america. From mexico city. Fans from the
Today showers early; patchy fog. Mostly cloudy warm. Pm thunderstorm possible. Highs 7479 winds sw 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy. Stray shower possible. Patchy fog. Lows 5259 winds s 5 mph tuesday mostly cloudy. Pm thunderstorm possible. Highs 7277 winds ssw 510 mph breaking news in the district. Missing person in the potomac turning into a recovery operation. Sam sweeney is live near the key bridge, sam . Breaking overnight. Breaking overnight. County investigators say a fire in takoma park was deliberately set. Theyve questioned a person of interest, whos now hospitalized. The fire started yesterday afternoon at the Hillwood Manor apartments. Five people were rescued from the second floor. Two people are displaced. Arson investigators say they found several areas where the fire originated. Coming up at 5 30 well have a live report from the scene and the criticial clue one neighbor told us. Also breaking right now a search for survivors after an avalanche Jummy Olabanji is tracking th
Money toward the new stadium the raiders have committed 500 million bank of america will finance the rest to the tune of 650 million mark carpenter is live in phoenix at the nfl owners meeting. Whats the word out there mark . The nightmare scenario Oakland Raiders fans have been dreading for months became a reality monday morning. As nfl owners, with an overwhelming 311 tally, voted to send the silver and black to las vegas. My father used to say that the greatness of the raiders is in its future and the opportunity to build a world class stadium in the entertainment capital of the world is one opportunity that will give us the ability to achieve that greatness. And it didnt take long for mark davis to get the greenlight to move to sin city. Nfl owners opened mondays meeting at about 830 in the morning, two 1 2 hours later, the vote came down. Ultimately, the leagues top executives could not walk away from 750million dollars of nevada public money. And as far as oakland is concerned, c