Your commute. brian loftus and. Were off to a hot start this week. But that wont last for long. When we could see some rain in southern nevada. Kirsten Joyce 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader, starts right now. now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader. Im brian loftus. Kirsten Joyce and im Kirsten Joyce. Several situations developing overnight in new york city and new jersey. The explosions in new york city could be an act of terrorism connected somewhere overseas. Kirsten joyce meanwhile. Fbi agents are also in new jersey investigating a backpack filled with suspicious devices. Shutti ng down Train Services. 8 news now nia wong joins us live in studio with the latest updates. Nia . nia wong good morning brian and kirsten. The fbi is questioning several people in connection to that blast in new york city. As of this morning. Theyre focusing on one suspect on the loose. The fbi is now loo
3 our . Top story at 5a former teacher accused of stealing thousands from a school choir. Makes his First Court Appearance today. Philip olson was fired from Brookfield Central High School in april of 2015. 2015. Cbs 58s julie parise is live in the newsroom. With a look ahead. Julie . Olson is charged with stealing over 47 thousand dollars over five years. The money allegedly choir for which olson was the director. Olson worked for Elmbrook School district for 23 years. This is a photo of him from his first year with the school back in 1992. Today hell face a judge in Waukesha County courtolson is accused of embezzlement. According to the criminal complaint, olson was involved with fundraising for the Choir Department and in dealing with parental donations to the school. The School District performed an internal investigation last year and fired olson, turning over all available information to the Brookfield Police department. According to documents olsen used the stolen money at casin
Jersey would make this the 4th incident authorities have had to inspect in the past 36 hours. The citys mayor says two men called police about seeing wires and pipe coming out of the package around 9 30 last night. nats authorities in new jersey stopped Train Services overnight. After a backpack with five suspicious devices inside. Was found at the train station in elizabeth. nats boom explosion the citys mayor says one of the devices inside went off unintention ally. As a bomb squad an the development came as the fbi and nypd took several people into custody during a traffic stop in brooklyn sunday night. In connection to saturdays explosion in new yorks chelsea neighborhood. This Surveillance Video obtained by nbc shows people running for cover after the Pressure Cooker bomb was set off. nat sot im wanting to help. Come with me. Im holding you, ok . 29 people were injured. A second Pressure Cooker device was found four blocks away, was dismantled. So far city officials are not callin
Has declared a state of emergency and is closing the borders in france. Much. The french president closing the borders as we mentioned earlier deploying the military throughout paris and this is an ongoing situation as ryan mentioned no mention whatsoever of any of these attackers being apprehended or killed at this point in. We have heard several different death tolls at this point. And to the point where i think its safe to say now that dozens have been killed. The numbers have been jumping all i dont have the place. As we look at these live pictures you can see that officials are out across the streets. You can see police stand being machine guns. The bbc putting out a report that there were one individual who actually got out of the theater where the 100 people are being held hostage updating his Facebook Page this individual to say the gun men inside using a rifle with a pumping action shooting one person at a time. So this is just incredible right now. Chilling details from those
Bill we have every angle. Kevin corke from the white house and william la jeunesse is in mexico with the caravan. Thats where we start today. The caravan left this morning at 5 00 in the morning trying to make 43 miles today. The Group Remains 5,000 to 7,000 depending who you believe with numbers. Mexico says they have offered asylum to 1700. Those will take some period of time and about 500 have been returned to honduras. As for the president s claim the group has been infiltrated by criminals and those from the middle east. The Border Patrol say any of the large groups they are arresting in texas or california and arizona, it is not unusual to find people in those large groups with a criminal record. As for those from the middle east ill tell you this, i saw maybe a handful of people from haiti, from east africa, and probably bangladesh or india. Were talking the vast majority remain from honduras and guatemala. I havent seen no talibans over here like he think that we are terrorists