Highway. Thousands of gallons of fuel exploding into a fireball. Traffic brought to a standstill for hours. What caused this massive explosion. Tearful testimony. Im sorry. The emotional day in court. A former Police Officer showing remorse for shooting her neighbor. I wish he was the one with the gun and killed me. Will the jury believe it was a case of mistaken identity . And gone wild. An aggressive elk charges into a group of people. Oh, my gosh. Somebody, help. Repeatedly striking a woman with his antlers. A quickthinking hero who rushed in to help her speaking out this morning. Hey, good morning. So many fastmoving developments this morning in the white house whistleblower investigation so lets dive right in. Heres what we know right now as we come on the air. Overnight the u. S. Special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, stepped down. Volkers name was mentioned in the whistleblower complaint, and he is set to speak to investigators next week. Also this morning, the democrats have is
Shop. Like so many people in San Francisco, she and her husband are being priced out. Going out just around the community will be, youll spend 100nd a weekend which is something that personally i cant afford to do that. Reporter she works for a nonprofit teaching english to adult refugees. She earns 25 an hour. I want to teacher forever. I cant see myself doing administrative jobs. Reporter she reached out to her neighborhood communitys social network asking for help how to get a second job. I have done everything from dog sitting, housekeeping. Reporter city hall has heard more off its share are of stories like that one. The city maintains the only way to keep people like her in San Francisco is to build more Affordable Housing. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development set a goal of 10,000 affordable units by 2020. As of last december, the city had completed 7,300 and 86 units and now it has confirmed that 2,827 units are in the pipeline expected to be completed by 2020.
Reporter word when officer will be released in oakland. Pam this is been a particularly tough year for Oakland Police department. So far this year officers involved in shootings six times prior to todays case the officer involved shooting happened earlier this month on 27th st. Martin luther king way suspected armed robber shot and killed after police chase and alleged carjacking attempt one of the six officers involved shootings this year in oakland of them for our fatal or have been fatal in a row and a vote today virginia the television station w b d j mourn the loss of their two colleagues gunned down by a live broadcast tested at. Catherine is your show us how they are trying to cope with this loss. Dian catherine was a Morning News Team was to honor the reporter photographer killed on air 24 hours earlier. Catherine said parker murder during a live broadcast left behind loved ones with colleagues. Parker and relationship with the stations evening anchor. The entire world to know
To come out of the house. I asked they called 911 they said no. Reporter the seconds it took him to grab his phone and call 911 tabatha had gone back in. To get the dog . Apparently get the dog dog. She did not makuta out. She did not. She was located on the first floor. Her dog perished as well. Her husband was out here for awhile for most of the morning just staring. You can see he was kind of in shock. Then i think when he found the news out that his wife did not make it, he just lost it. Reporter 39yearold tabatha seen here on her Facebook Page couldnt bear to see her frightened beloved dog run back into those flames alo alone. I just came up and its just bad. Thats all. Reporter it cost her her life. But so many pet owners understand why she did it. They love their pets. They want to go after their pets. Her dogs were her were everything to her. We always tell people once youre out stay out. I know its hard to do. You got stay out. Reporter well tabathas husband and her motherinla
Were dependable. Reporter the commuter train system has hit some delays over the years. It was projected to open as early as two years ago. The latest holdup was over a 50 million safety feature called positive train control. The control is designed to automatically stop trains if it senses a potential collision. The feds gave approval yesterday afternoon. If a train is going too fast around a corner, the automatic system will stop the train of the theres no human error in this will stop the train. Theres no human error in this. Reporter they are the first to use it and it will be the safest train system in the world. But not everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. The smart train is going to be a white elephant. Reporter what do you mean by that . I think its going to cost a lot of money, and i dont think they are going to have much of a ridership. Reporter ridership for the Golden Gate Bridge Transit System is down 10 . But smart train officials are confident people will choose this ov