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Supercell thunderstorms in the midwest produced destructive tornadoes. One ripped across Northern Illinois yesterday killing one person and injuring several more. Take a look. Crews rescued dozens of people from homes and buildings that are now barely recognizable. Officers and volunteers are going door to door to help survivors account for the residents. Other tornadoes were also reported yesterday in iowa and missouri. Oh you wonder about the Warning System. I was hearing on the radio and im o...

For the university. Homeland security is already notified the school it could be kicked out of the student and Exchange Visitor program leaving its overwhelmingly foreign student body scrambling. It means for those students that their visa status is no longer valid unless they can somehow find another school in which to maintain fulltime enrollment. Reporter wang will be formally sentenced in the fall while a dark legal cloud hangs over the university he once ran. Now, the school will have an op...

Youre an emergency or telwork ready employee. The this is a look at the map of the School Districts in our area. You can see all that in red nearly every Single School district is closed. However, washington and al allegheny schools are open as of right now. Schools in Mineral County West Virginia are open as well. Frederick county maryland schools on a two hour delay. The School System said it will plan to reevaluate later this morning. You can watch for news alerts on the nbc washington app fo...

Todays meeting is at 1 15 in the public is invited to comment on the proposals. A man who threatened to jump from a san jose freeway overpass was arrested after a six hour standoff with police. Chopper 5 buzz over the scene yesterday afternoon. Police found the man on the connector ramp from 680 to 101. Officers say the man was aggressive and threatened to jump. Police tried to talk to the man and calm him down but when they tried to move closer he pulled out a knife. Finally after hours of tryi...

Drought surcharge and a rate hike could also hit customers this summer. Water wasters could face 100 fines per month. East bay muds goal is to have customers cut back 20 compared to their 2013 water use. Third of our water use is outdoors. The best way that we can achieve a 20 cutback in water use is through outdoor restrictions starting now. Reporter contra costa water customers could face a mandatory 25 cut when their board votes tomorrow. Back here live right on cue. We have the sprinklers go...

Alone. San jose international is also near the top when it comes to Security Breaches including this now infamous breach when a 15yearold hitched a ride to hawaii in a planes wheel well. The fence line those issues the fence line doesnt keep people out who want to penetrate the fence. Reporter aviation consultant Mike Mccarron says the key is constantly updating airport security. Any mechanical system is going to last as long as you maintain it there is a big variableness are the people who oper...

Could approach 20 below zero. And because of all this cold weather, a lot of kids will be out of school once again tomorrow. And we can expect even more closings and delays as the night goes on. And if all that wasnt bad enough the snow is falling again, as the temperatures struggle to stay above zero. Also developing right now, a woman was hit and killed at an intersection in Fairfax County. Police are looking for the person who hit her. Were going to get to that developing story in a minute. F...

Hurt, but infront trailer of the u. P. S. Truck and its contents of packages are all a total loss. Officers in the east bay are on the lookout this morning for a man who crashed his car and then ran off leaving a woman and a child trapped in the wreck. This is whats left of a black sedan driven by a man who tried to escape officers this morning in hayward. The chp says the officer decided to help to stop him, rather for an expired plate after they say someone threw a cigarette out of the car at ...

Of an earthquakes location. Some people with phones that detect a motion from the earthquake agree with each other that we all see the same thing. Locate its magnitude and send that warning to people farther away. Reporter a simulation looked at a big quake along the hayward fault, and found an alert came within seconds, enough time to duck or brace yourself. Right now the system only looks at large quake, magnitude 7. 0 or higher. A Pilot Program was just funded in chile, where 7. 0 quakes have...

Toyota, hit klecker. The driver hit a second person hit a car. Witnesses say it was unbelievable. Police say it did keep going. Pursuit ended up going into the Southern District aroundth and harrison. At that point, they believe the vehicle went onto the bay bridge. Officers have since located the vehicle on treasure island. It was abandoned but confirmed that that was the vehicle. Police say they were able to recover two guns that may have been tossed out by the suspects. But again, at this poi...