Linked to that passenger jet. Flight 8501 took out from surabaya, indonesia sunday morning bound for singapore but it abruptly dropped off from the radar 42 minutes into the flight. Moments after the pilot reported poor weather. There were 162 people on board. The search for the missing plane now in its third day. The search area in the java sea has also expanded. Nearly two dozen planes and helicopters along with 30 ships have been scouring the scene. The uss sampson is also on its way at the request of the indonesian government. The san diegobased destroyer was already in the western pacific and is expected to arrive in the area within the day. If we get any new information that goes into our newsroom regarding this debris and the plane we will keep you posted in this newscast and tomorrow morning on today in the bay. Now to a story youll only see on nbc bay area. New details tonight about that rare coyote attack last week. Two people were bit nen fremont before police were able to k
Train. Pulled out a gun, slapped it against my face. E. Tonight, a rash of attacks now has septa adding more security. Plus right now, one of south jerseys busiest roads is shut down. What you need to know to get around it. Good evening. Roughed up and robbed. Armed thieves are targeting women and men who walk alone. Nine victims in a week. The most recent attack, a woman as she walked to the train. And, yesterday, a woman as she went to church. Tonight, septa is stepping up patrols in frank ford section of philadelphia. Doug scheimeil joins us live tonight. Reporter both of these women give very similar accounts of two gunmen maybe even a third, just inseemed to appear out of nowhere. Somebody came up behind me and pulled my hair. Reporter regina was victim number 8. I didnt take him serious until i saw the gun. I didnt take him serious until he hit me. Reporter and jennifer was the ninth victim 6 30 this morning. Philadelphia Police Say People are being robbed at gun point as they wa
The hospital. Im shomari stone and ill have that story all new at 11 00. And the massive search for the missing plane and what the u. S. Is planning to do to find it. A spike if homicides in the district and tonigd yet another person has been shot and killed. Good evening, im jim vance. And im wendy rieger sitting in for doreen gentzler. Weve had three homicides in less than 24 hours. Who two in southeast and the latest one in north d. C. Jackie bensen in an area thats seen much violence. Petworth has been hard hit by the violence of the last week and thats especially concerning to residents because theyve been working for many years and very successfully with police to improve Public Safety here. The latest violence includes a homicide sunday night in southeast washington. And another murder just this afternoon in the 600 block of division avenue in northeast. The district has averaged a murder a day since last week. Weve had a higher than normal number of homicides since christmas ev
Years ago. Reporter i spoke with a medical company owner, and shes concerned that what happened with the sars outbreak is going to happen again, and that demand is going to keep them from keeping it in stock. He is seeing a rush on ebola protection gear at this medical supply store. Masks are in demand. It will help to protect against the respiratory virus. Reporter gloves are going fast too. Boxes of them. People say theyre wearing two pair. And protective gowns. They havent seen anything like this since the sars outbreak in 2003 when demand outstripped supply. They did ration. We had to refuse people. I hope we dont have to do the same thing this time. Reporter some passengers are sticking with traditional safety measures. Any one whos sick, try to avoid them and wash your hands. If it keeps getting bad and keeps coming into the United States, possibly, but as of right now, no. Reporter some say they already sometimes pack a mask. I do when i take an international flight. Reporter bu
Situation. The drenching downpours are taking their toll this evening. Police closed off ford road in Fairmont Park because of flooding and the rain isnt letting up. Lets get right to meteorologist sheena parveen. Will it clear out for the morning . For some of us. But through the overnight hours more rain is moving in. Right now we do have showers on radar. Some hev rer rain starting to move into parts of new castle county, smyrna. And parts of berks county through bernville along 78 here, some heavier rain starting to move through. Even along the shore just light rain out through parts of Atlantic County up to burlington county, but we do expect more rain as we go overnight tonight. Its all moving in from the south. You can see the motion. We wont get rid of the moisture within the next i would say eight to 12 hours. A very slow moving system. Its actually a cold front. It will take its time getting out of here, so we still have more rain to the south than moving up overnight tonight