In texas that ended with the arrest of a black woman by a white Police Officer. The woman was later found hanging in her cell, and now we have learned jailers knew she was a suicide risk. We have two reports beginning with Omar Villafranca. Reporter when 28yearold sandra bland was placed into cell 95 at the Waller County jail, there is now evidence her guards knew she had attempted suicide before. According to the sheriffs office, on a jail intake form, she checked yes when asked whether she had tried to kill herself in the last year. Surveillance video from the jail shows guards violated policy by not doing an inperson check on bland hourly, including the morning she was found dead in her cell. Police say she hanged herself from a partition using a plastic bag from the garbage can. Cannon lambert is the family attorney. This family has no evidence that that is the case. None. We know for a certainty that when she went into that jail, she was ecstatic. Reporter her family says after wa
Of a controversial traffic stop in texas that ended with the arrest of a black woman by a white Police Officer. The woman was later found hanging in her cell, and now we have learned jailers knew she was a suicide risk. We have two reports beginning with Omar Villafranca. Reporter when 28yearold sandra bland was placed into cell 95 at the Waller County jail, there is now evidence her guards knew she had attempted suicide before. According to the sheriffs office, on a jail intake form, she checked yes when asked whether she had tried to kill herself in the last year. Surveillance video from the jail shows guards violated policy by not doing an inperson check on bland hourly, including the morning she was found dead in her cell. Police say she hanged herself from a partition using a plastic bag from the garbage can. Cannon lambert is the family attorney. This family has no evidence that that is the case. None. We know for a certainty that when she went into that jail, she was ecstatic. R
Were asking them to go head and leave their homes and evacuate. Take no chances. What about the response . Can you give us a sense of what youre able to put on the fire . Six air tankers and dc ten ordered to respond to this fire. 200 plus firefighters for the initial attack Additional Resources are on order to the fire. So far, no injuries that we know of at this point . No injuries have been reported into the call center. The fire is 0 contained and like i said its a fastmoving fire. Well, good luck to the crews and everybody who lives in its path. That is Suzy Blankenship with cal fire thank you. This fire burning north of santa rosa, in the town of lower lake as we look live from sky 7 hd. Were getting photos of the clear lake fire on social media now. Here is a photo taken from the lake. And another abc7 news viewer took this picture from clear lake oaks. If youre a safe distance from the fire and have photos or video just share them on social media us. If youre in the clear lake
Structure burn, you can see it right there on fire. This fire started around 3 30 this afternoon and quickly devoured 150 acres. The fire is burning north of santa rosa between highway 101 in the town of lower lake. Joining us on the phone is Suzy Blankenship with cal fire, thank you and give us an update, please. The fire is in lake county, off rocky creek and morgan valley. Its north of santa rosa in lake county. Conditions are now, the fire is at 150 acres, plus. So this fire is growing rapidly. Its a fastmoving fire. And the terrain is in the heavy brush and timber. Suzy, why is it moving so fast . The wind or terrain, or both . Its both. So winds are 11 miles per hour, but we know that terrain is dry and drought ridden. So you know the fuels are heavy. And there is a lot of brush up there. Talk more about the evacuations. Because this is a quickly moving fire. Were in the initial attack phase. We do have evacuations. I dont have a clear area of what areas are being evacuated. I wo
Taking place at the hickory 8 Movie Theater. Two officers working a traffic crash ran to the theater and one immediately went inside. The suspect raised his weapon towards the officer and pulled the trigger. The officer fired on the suspect and backed away from the theater. Reporter the inside of the theater was thick with pepper spray which police say drove out the other three people watching the movie. We heard screams in a theater nearby. Reporter customers in other movies were told to stay put and watch out for a man with a gun and a hatchet. We heard screams and then a shot and then a little while after that metro police came in and they escorted us out. Reporter the gunman went out the theaters rear door where police shot and killed him. We are very grateful that we only have three pepper spray exposure cases to treat at this point. This could have been a lot worse. Reporter the bomb squad is now on scene where they have just detonated the backpack the shooter was wearing. Police