Certain air. According to epa the software produced by volkswagen is a defeat device as designed at the clean air act. Mr. Grundler i understand vw admitted in august and selling the defeats devices on their vehicles. That is correct right . That sector at . I would describe it in midtolate august california and we got a heads up that they have in fact installed a defeat device and we were officially notified on september 3. And what specifically did vw tell epa they had done to the circumvent emission standards . We were told that abdul and engine control unit which allow the vehicle to operate oneway when it was being tested by the epa and a completely different way when the vehicle is on the road. You have to vw provided epa with an engine map that showed specifically how they defeat device work for each model car in which it was installed . That is my understanding but i would like to doublecheck doublecheck that for you. I understand the affected vehicles fall into three generatio
Gluing equipment. And ceo Mitchell Kaneff says arkay will need 50 additional employees to run all of that equipment. And local leaders say the announcement will help spread the word that Botetourt County takes care of business. Jack leffel it makes a statement that if we get folks here, we try to treat em well and theyre going to be here a long time. And this is a perfect example of that. Ceo Mitchell Kaneff says arkay is looking for experienced equipment operators, but he also said the compnay will consider others with passion, energy and a strong work ethic who are interested in building a career with the company. Weve included information on how to contact arkay, with this story on wdbj7dotcom. Joe dashiell wdbj7. The father of missing blacksburg teenager Nicole Lovell is begging for her to come home. Today he joined the search three days after she went missing. David lovell lives in wytheville and last talked with her a couple weeks ago through text message. Hes worried about her s
Couple investigators are at the home right now trying to figure out what happened. Fox 29s dave kinchen is near the seen in holland. Dave, what do you know . Reporter lucy tragedy unfoldingunfolding here in holland pa. Police tell us a husband and wife are dead in what theyre calling a murder suicide in fact investigators tell us they are still on the scene and in the process of notifying Family Members here at the house. Lets go to some video right now. Both victims were in their mid 60s and shot in the head according to a neighbor who told fox 29 off camera that he saw the shooting aftermath with the Family Member of one of the victims going into the house. The two were found in their master bedroom. The woman in the bed. Her husband lying on the floor again both shot in the head and one neighbor said off camera the deceased owned a july row store on jewelers row in center city philadelphia. We were told by that neighbor that the couple was supposed to travel downtown to center city
President trump is now leaning toward pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord which, of course, is the landmark deal to combat Climate Change that was reached in 2015. Nearly 200 countries have agreed to. Nbcs White House Correspondent Kristen Welker joins us live. So the president has not made a final decision, but while this news, i might say a covfefe, about his possibly leaving. The term you used, a reference to the garbled tweet the president sent out overnight. Well get to that a little later. In terms of the paris climate agreement, heres what we can report. Two Administration Sources say the president is leaning towardtoward pulling out of the agreement. It was first reported this morning hed made the final decision. If you talk to some sources here who are familiar with the thinking inside the white house, they say thats part of the frustration here. Essentially, the headlines get ahead of the president. That makes it tough for the Communications Team to message, to get surrog
President will leave the white house for las vegas. And on that front, new information tonight on the man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern American History including his last several hours alive. Multiple senior laufrmt officials are telling news he made big bets in the last weeks. On top of that were told he wired 100,000 to his girlfriend in the philippines. Much more on the investigation ahead in the broadcast. Today the president flew to puerto rico. Two weeks now after Hurricane Maria tore up that island, less than 7 of the people there have power. Less than half the population have Running Water or working sewage. A short time ago the governor of puerto rico raised the number of dead to 34, almost double what we thought just earlier today. But despite all of that, fully aware of the criticism that the federal response has been less than robust, that it fell behind early on and has yet to catch up. The president said tonight he heard only thank yous during his trip, wh