Murder in the shooting of 17 yearold Laquan Mcdonald who appeared in video to be walking away from van dyke. Now another look back at the scene right now in chicago, you can see people on the move. We will keep an eye on the posted. Protestors are calling for the mayor to step down from office. Were going to turn to news now in our area and that former police chief who is now behind bars and being held until his bail hearing. Former Suffolk County chief james burke was handcuffed and arrested on charges that he assaulted a suspect who had broken into his suv. Long island reporter Kristin Thorne in Central Islip with new information on this story. Kristin. Dave and liz just shocking that former Suffolk County police chief james burke will spend the next few days of his life in jail in brooklyn before his bail hearing right here in federal court on friday. He will be in protective custody in that jail because they are worried that as his people in that jail that would like to get to him.
And is santa coming early this year . What is that mysterious light seen streaking across the night sky. I have no idea what that is. Reports all across the west of that fireball just two nights before Christmas Eve. Good morning, america. That would be breaking news. Santa coming early. Yes, i believe we do have reports. I dont want to take any but doesnt rudolph have a red nose. That is correct but its far away, george. Even all over the west. Well get to the bottom of what that really could be. No trouble for santa getting around obviously but the extreme weather could cause problems for a lot of us. 100 million americans heading out for the holidays and it is not going to be easy. Our team is standing by this morning. Take a look at the lines already before 6 00 a. M. Right there, already so crowded. Well begin with the weather here and rob is out in times square. Not here. 70 degrees on Christmas Eve. Yeah, were going to blow the records right out of the water. No overcoat require
And miserable. More rain and wind are on the way over the next 24 hours. Emergency officials urging people to heed signs like this one and not drive over flooded roads. Neil al karlinksy, abc news, seattle. Todays forecast with up to 7 inches of rain with mudslides and floods. Surfs up to 30 feet in southern california. Also showers in the midwest and springlike in the east. Thats a lot of additional rain. 50s in seattle, new york and salt lake city. 70s in los angeles, dallas and miami. The Holiday Season here in america has a number of modern traditions that now pop up like clock work, including the black friday fist fights, the annual war on christmas and diamonds dropped into Salvation Army kettles. This week already it happened twice. In northern wisconsin, someone dropped in a diamond ring and an appraisal sheet saying it was people are nice. But also in the army kettles, there are viagra pills, gold swiss francs and a diamond and emerald necklace worth 1300. What would you do wi
As temperatures well, no, they are not 52 they are not 52. They are in the 30s and 40s. Cloudy, but we are talking about dry conditions. By this afternoon, sure, we will be climbing into the low to middle 40s. Upper 40s this afternoon and some locations with a few breaks of sunshine. And by this evening. Sunset 4 11. We are going to notice those clouds thickening up further clouds thickening up furthermore. The risk of showers moves on in. Coming up we will take you through a timeline when to expect the rain and the warmup. A check of your traffic with Julie Grauert mroup things going. Julie sarah, looking good julie sarah, looking good. Ramps from the logan arrival and departure levels to the tunnel westbound are closed for another half hour until 5 a. M. That is why that section of the map is purple. Moving out, bright green. 93 south route 1 looks good and zakim bridge is open. 24 minutes on pike from 495 to mass ave. The pike. 22 minutes from peabody to the weston tolls. We begin w
Sarah wroblewski in for shiri this week. Sarah winds picked out of the southwest in boston and 39 feet like it is in the mid30s and hartford and we will have to watch for temperatures borderline the freezing mark in some spots and if the clouds do thin out, it could be tricky spots. Otherwise the clouds, they are pretty much hanging tough through the majority of the day despite few breaks in the cloud cover. Temperatures. Into the 40s already. Upper 40s during the afternoon, the clouds still hanging with us and then we will notice clouds thickening up but the chance of a few sprinkles overnight tonight and into early tomorrow, so this afternoon, highs looking pretty nice, typical for this time of year, if not a few degrees warmer. We will show you when the sun returns as well as the risk of rain is in the forecast but we need to get a check of traffic now with julie grauert. How is it going out there . Julie sky fox over peabody route 1, 4 cars off to the far lefthand shoulder. Overall