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rob: chaos in hong kong. thousands of protesters threatening to shut down the international airport for the third straight day. heather: why those classes on the other side of the world are being watched closely in washington. no alcohol for 12 hours before takeoff with one airline implanting new to keep passengers safe. heather: should we need a rule for that? "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ jillian: this reminds me of summer. i don't know why but it does. rob: talking about summer. jillian: it is everything. windows down, curtains, good morning. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. rob: thanks for getting up early with us. fox news alert, the fbi expected to sweep the jail where jeffrey epstein died of an apparent suicide. heather: this after the warden is transferred in two workers placed on leave. rob: griff jenkins, we are learning records may have been falsified. a cover-up. >> reporter: multiple reports emerging this morning. the new york times and the ap both

rob: wow. new england patriots quarterback tom brady could be in for huge payday, reportedly signing a 2-year 70 million-dollar extension one day after 42nd birthday. >> 6 time super bowl champ will make 23 million bucks this season and more than 30 million next year. brady has not confirmed but tweet photo as original draft writing, never forget where you came from. rob: he was like a backup. jillian: that's unfathomable money. rob: he will retire on that. jillian: i don't know, janice, you make that much money. [laughter] janice: i love you guys. let's take a look at it, we have to potential for some stronger storms across the northern plains today, 71 in new york, 71 in chicago, let's take a look where we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for north dakota, isolated tornadoes, this area expands throughout the day today, so just keep that in mind, what to do if there's a watch or warning, we could see heavier downpours with this as well. there's the forecast, storms across the upper m

rob: so much water. every county in florida under a state of emergency, governor ron desantis taking no chances as it churns toward the coast. jillian: storm preparations are well underway. what is the situation? >> reporter: people are out trying to get their supplies, employees at this publix super markets already getting ready for what will be another very busy day. we are covering this angle of the story for three days and seen each passing day more and more people as you would probably expect heading out to get supplies. we are talking with state and local leaders about this and they are encouraging everyone to do that. get what you need before time runs out. we are seeing those supplies running low, water limiting customers, two cases per person, others running out completely but reassuring customers they are getting more supplies, just be patient, tells you how many people are doing what they need to do. jillian: thank you for that update. joe biden denies telling this allegedly false war story on

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rob: we appreciate it. a new wave of democrats heading to the iowa state fair, andrew yang, marian williamson, tulsi gabbard will be on the ground in the swing state but a lot of people talking about the democrat front-runner. >> we choose unity over division, leases science over fiction, which is truth over facts. rob: the former vp stumbled, choosing truth over facts. think about that. >> joe biden and 8 other democrats, andrew yang is the latest 2020 hopeful to meet the dnc qualifications by 2% support in a new poll. candidates come 130,000 union donors and 2% support in four polls to qualify. rob: it is hot outside. definitely august. jillian: i was sleepwalking. rob: it was very hot and janice is live outside in the thick of it. >> reporter: you must mean a little humid. it is spectacular right now. rob: that suit is sick or something. >> reporter: shorts are good right now at thompson square, here for the all-americans summer concert series on "fox and friends" sponsored by sandals. let's look at the

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rob: it is friday, august 2nd. fox news alert pushing for peace, the us taking a tentative agreement that could pull thousands of troops out of afghanistan. jillian: how close are we to reaching a final deal to end america's longest war. no punches in front of thousands in ohio. >> the democrat party is now being led by left-wing who reject everything that we hold dear. they would love to see a guy like sleepy joe biden who has no clue what the hell he is doing. rob: the president's fiery rebuttal to the highflying promises made by democrats during the debate. michael moore predicted the president's 2016 victory. jillian: the liberal filmmaker wants to enter the 2020 race to rush donald trump. "fox and friends first" continues right now. heather: i have a feeling it is friday today. what do you think of that? rob: is that all? jillian: probably not. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. rob: thanks for starting your day with us beginning with a fox news alert, the pentagon prepar

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rob: it was sweet. carley: a rocky start for joe biden who was criticized out of the gate, some people called it condescending. kamala harris's press secretary jumping on this moment simply tweeting kid. check out this tweet saying incredibly disrespectful to her. she is no kid but an intelligent and accomplished woman, jill siding with you saying it is a term of endearment in his world, let's it go. after the debate kamala harris and she didn't have a problem with that remark. >> all those things i hate. we don't have much time but i learned something new. look at this. >> why did you announce a 0-tolerance policy of stop and frisk and hire rudy giuliani? >> dipping into the kool-aid and don't know the flavor. >> kool-aid responded with this, we know the waiver. i love when brands get involved in this stuff and respond. rob: kirsten gillibrand had her scripted i'm cool moment as well. >> first thing i'm going to do when i am president is clorox the oval office. the second thing i am going to do is i wi

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rob: a lot of theories swirling around now. the governor of texas forming a domestic terrorism task force in light of the deadly shooting in el paso. governor greg abbott called the mission to, quote, root out the extremist ideologies the fuel hatred and violence in our state. the unit made of state and federal officials to analyze potential threats to form an appropriate response. jillian: show no signs of stopping today. donald trump weighing in on the conflict tweeting i know president buttigieg of china very well, he's a great leader who has the respect of his people. he is also a good man and a tough business. i have 0 -- president xi wants to solve the problem, a personal meeting. the state department has issued a travel warning to hong kong. protesters would extradite criminals to mainland china. rob: 13 states suing the trump administration over a public charge rule that expands the government's ability to deny green cards to people based on their use of public services like food stamps. carley: what is the latest? >> r

rob: you were in on it early. tracy carrasco from foxbusiness here with where to travel it for free. >> kfc trying out a new plant-based trend with plant-based chicken nuggets and boneless wings. they are testing this at a location in atlanta, depending on the feedback they will consider testing at other locations across the country. it is made specifically for kfc, made with wheat protein coded in breading. they are trying to make it like chicken nuggets. jillian: we will see how it tastes. some of the -- >> are you ready for fall? rob: starbucks, what is this? >> lattes are back. >> it is august but in starbucks it is fall. pumpkin spice lattes starting today, they have a new drink, the pumpkin spice cold brew including pumpkin flavoring along with pumpkin cream on top. jillian: i don't believe in taking a sip of these until fall. >> that have the vaulted caramel mocha and other pumpkin items, the pumpkin scan, pumpkin cream cheese muffin. i went to give you crazy stat, since this debuted in 2003 starbucks has s

rob: love it. fun time of the year, louisiana winning the little league world series with an 8 to nothing win over team river ridge outside of new orleans even getting praised from the president, tweeted congratulations to louisiana's champions, see you at the white house. and the saints quarterback drew brees sharing the video of his sons celebrating the big win. carley: another good sports story red sox david ortiz dropping at berkeley college in boston reminded her, quote, to be great, you have to bring out the best out of you every day. botched hit job in june, spent nearly 2 months in the hospital and looking like he's better now. rob: good to see him back. to the big story today and fox news alert, coming to the table china willing to negotiate after president trump's tough tariff's talk tanked a number of beijing markets and this is a big deal, comes just after a major deal in principal was made with japan, now we are looking with china, what does this mean for you and your wallet, peter mau

rob: what about the victims in el paso? >> the names to have victims in el paso, those 20 people that were killed, those names have not been released, though there's plenty of stories of heros and survivors, one of the survivors a 2-month-old, authorities say that baby suffered broken bones after his mom fell onto him to likely shield him from the gunfire, mother jordan was shot, trauma doctors working hard to treat patients, law enforcement working hard to reunite families separated during the chaos after the shooting and dozens of people donating blood to save lives. >> i'm not sure we are prepared yet to deal with the grief from this but we will survive, this will not define us, we are unique community and we will continue to be aity. a nonprofit is also partnering with funeral homes to offer free funeral services for families affect bid the shooting in el paso, so again just within about 13 hours just 13 hours 29 people killed in these two shootings, rob. rob: that's very sad, thank you so much, we do appreciate it. and

rob: do you have any allergies? home alone reboot in the works but not everyone is as excited as others. [screaming] rob: part of the tease in the beginning. jillian: overblown. the star who made this scream famous, the sequel in the works 30 years later. macauley culkin going viral. we cannot confirm or deny, coming right back. . ♪ rob: time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. we start with the good. does the occasional glass of wine make you feel better? >> hit me begin. >> would you just pour me a full glass? what are you doing? >> i told you i need a drink. >> i love that movie. raise the glass to this new study here. moderate wine drinkers soloer mortality rate than those who drink heavily and also better than those who don't drink at all. jillian: next the bad. 19 packages containing $1.9 million worth of cocaine wash up on a new zealand beach made famous by taylor swift. featured in the 2015 music video. police have no idea where the drugs came from. rob: finally the ugly. home alone is getting a reboot bu

rob: vanessa, i can hear it in your voice. obviously you're tearing up and you're shaken up after all this and i can only imagine. i'm sorry you had to witness such a thing. ou.our condolences to you. >> thank you. rob: we're going to bring back in dr. porter who just listened to that entire interview with us. doctor, what did you make of that? >> one of the things she introduced was a description of the shooter. that's huge. because when we go into a massive complex such as this mall, the officers that are responding want to have some idea of what they're looking for outside of just shots being fired. just based on the way this individual is dressed, that should be an indicator -- this guy is dressed in these types of pants, black shirt, wearing ear mufts to protect his ears from the shots that he hears in the complex. that's going to actually help officers a lot in making the identification. but like i mentioned before, we should have a feed, a video feed that's showing the officers where this person is located at this time.

rob. rob: thanks so much. >> shots fire, we have multiple people down. we will need multiple medics. >> i have people coming to you. >> we think there's one shooter, he is down. >> coverage continues now on two mass shootings, 30 people killed in el paso, texas and dayton ohio including one suspected gunman, 9 of those victims shot in popular night life area in dayton last night before police got to that scene less than a minute and killed that suspect. mat finn with more on chicago tribune, sorry to interrupt you in the show, mat we had to break away because the el paso presser was just beginning and here you're talking about the other shooting in ohio, can you bring us up to date. >> we might have to break because we expect another update from dayton's mayor on the shooting of ohio at about 1:00 o'clock eastern, the latest at dayton ohio, 10 people are dead, includes 9 victims and the shooter, 27 people taken to the hospital, some are still in critical condition and will undergo surgery today, the shooting happened at around 1:00 a.m. in dayton's popul

rob: doctor, standby for a second. el paso, texas, just about 2 hours into this, there has been a shooting at a wal-mart there, the major updates that we've just received from police are that there is no more active current threat to the public at the cielo vista mall, major update, we have one person in custody according to el paso police and we are waiting to see if that's, indeed, the shooter or perhaps somebody else and shooter is detained in some other way or killed inside in this wal-mart in el paso. multiple fatalities confirmed and we have heard stories from a couple of witnesses that were horrific and garrett tenney -- we will go with lieutenant governor dan patrick. thank you so much, lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick on the phone with us, thanks for joining us today under the circumstances, i'm sorry for that. what are you getting from police, are you getting any direct information? >> we do have the shooter in custody. 21-year-old male and we have between 15 and 20 casualties, we don't know the numbe

rob mcbride thanks very much from abroad and so for us this was. no doubt a subject of discussion in bangkok where as u.n. leaders have been meeting in the thai capital scott hide in their forests gone one of they've been saying now on this. yes it's been talked about on the sidelines here at these us young foreign ministers meetings over the last several days but you can bet it's going to be a big topic of discussion later on this afternoon that's when there's a tripartite meeting with the united states japan and south korea now as rob was just talking about focusing on the defense aspect ramifications from this latest development coming out of japan that will obviously be very important to the united states when they these 3 allies meet in the afternoon because what is going to be the knock on effect is there going to be an impact in this intelligence sharing and as rob pointed out when you see what's happening on the korean peninsula right now particularly with these most recent missile launches from north korea obviously sharing intelligence be

rob thanks very much. >> thanks, rob. >> new test missiles fierds from russia. where they were launched and what the country is saying about the military exercise. ew missil russia. the country's defense ministry confirmed that test fired missiles from two submarines today. reported lid fired from the poll ar region of the actor ocean and with part of combat training. the country says the missiles hit targets at training grounds in eastern russia. >>> britain's prince draw is defending his relationship with jeffrey epstein amid the increased scrutiny on the royal after the death. he says he met him in 199 but never saw him more than once or twice a year. the 59-year-old released a statement saying he never saw or suspected any inappropriate behavior. epstein took his own life in his manhattan jail cell earlier in the month. accused of exploiting young girls for sex. >>> a new trade deal for japan and the united states. the biggest focus of the trade talks was how far the japan and u.s. would accept tariff cuts on beef on automobiles from each other. the two side

let me tell you about rob scheer. i know rob because 5 years ago he and his family walked into my church, a small church on route 28, united methodist church. i'm not going to lie to you. when we saw them walk in we all stared at them. we were confused. we didn't know who they were or what was going on. there were two rather tall white men with four african-american children but our confusion quickly turned to admiration. rob and his husband adopted children who need a loving home and they walked the talk and carry it off with an amazing amount of grace and they are very patient with those of us who at first might stare. along with his husband, reese, rob is the cofounder of comfort cases, whose mission is to inspire communities to bring dignity and hope to foster care. when they began, our church members and friends shared our buildings, volunteered our resources and we were all in on this worthy cause in support of the mission. years later they have grown and they are all across the country as rob will tell you how

waldner ofus is rob invesco. now i have to look at the volatility and what levels the yuan is trading at to know where stocks are going to go. how do you understand where we are going to go from here? rob: i think it is important to therstand in our view that natural result of increasing these tariffs would be a currency weakness to offset it. china has been defective supporting its currency over the last several months -- has been defective supporting its -- has supporting its currency over the last several months. chinese is once the financial markets are very large, when you get some momentum going and capital outflows coming, it is very disruptive for the global financial markets. david: one of the things many of the things many of us are struggling with, connecting monetary policy and trade disputes. the market seems to assume when there is more friction on the trade side, we will get lower rates. we had mr. bullard yesterday say, not quite so fast. this is part of what he had to say. >> the nature of a tit-

so, let me tell you about rob scheer. i know rob because about five years ago, he and his family walked into my church. the small church appear hundred 28 the united methodist church, and i'm not going to lie to you, when we first saw them walk in, we all stared at them. we were confused, we didn't know who they were or what was going on. there were two rather tall, white man with four african-american children. but our confusion quickly turned to admiration. rod and his has been race adopted children who need a loving home. they walk the talk. they carry it off an amazing amount of grace. they are very patient, with those of us who at first might stare. along with his has been race, rob is the cofounder of comfort cases. its mission is to inspire communities to bring dignity to youth in foster care. when they began comfort cases, our church members and friends shared our building, we volunteered our resources, and we wereng all in on this worthy cause and charity in support of their mission. now, he years later they have

rob marciano starts us off with the very latest. good morning, rob. >> good morning, michael. this is what it did to martinique when it was a smaller, weaker storm. look at the flooding there. a passenger bus. hopefully everybody got out of there okay. that is just 4 inches of rainfall so got a lot of rain, it will have a lot of wind and getting into prime time for hurricane season so we got not one but two storms to speak of. we'll deal with erin later. more concerning is dorian right now, still 80 miles from st. croix, the u.s. virgin islands will be impacted. tropical storm warnings for the british virgin islands and all of puerto rico for 70-mile-an-hour winds especially on the east side. once it goes past puerto rico later on tonight and tomorrow in through friday. by saturday it's a category 1 in the southwestern waters of the atlantic where it's very warm, category 2 by saturday night/sunday and sometime sunday night into monday anywhere from miami up towards savannah, maybe even the carolinas. i want to show you the spaghetti models and give you an idea of what the com

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back out to rob in disney springs. rob, great to see you. >> good to see you, tom, you know, this is sort of your stomping grounds. you're coming down to miami later on in the week. it gets steamy in august. the clouds roll in the afternoon, and it's a nice balance. it's a nice way to come down and enjoy summer. lots of folks on vacation, that's for sure, and vacation out west, and they have to deal with different sorts of weather. getting into fire season, too. that's the bad part of this deal. in idaho, they got 2,800-acre fire that only has about 18% containment there. so that situation is being dealt with. red flag warnings are posted for parts of the west. the heat is obviously an issue with the wind and the dry weather. the heat dome across texas is just not going anywhere. we're rolooking at another day where temperatures are going to feel like up and over 100 degrees. heat indices will be up over 110, that's dangerous heat. it's not going away for at least a couple days. >> this report is sponsored by tuff shed

good morning, rob. >> hi again, eva. i want to show you some of the landscape here once again from our drone shot. we have a couple of rivers that have come together from the barrier islands and the atlantic ocean. so lots of water here and you pointed out towards cape canaveral where they made some adjustments to the nasa facilities there as has some of the military in this area as hurricane dorian looms off in the distance. here it is on the satellite picture, that eye couldn't be more distinct. that classic form, although the western part of this looks to be ated a little bit. maybe hitting a little dry air and some shear, but very warm waters as it heads towards the bahamas later on tonight and tomorrow as a category 4 storm and note the track of this thing. their line is there just offshore but the margin for error includes much of florida so you have to remember that as this track has been all over the place and will probably continue to be so. that ridge that we know is shoving it in this direction, the western ed

thankful that a pedophile like this can never do this to another victim again, but it is -- it does rob them of some amount of justice in being able to speak their voice in a court of law to allow others to hear what he did and all of the victims to be able to come forward and speak to a court of law. >> ariefa, we've learned a cording to a source that epstein was taken off suicide watch in late july and the question is why especially given the document dump where new, lurid allegations against him. >> not just the documents, ana, that were released yesterday that gave us more disgusting details about this sex trafficking ring and the other individuals involved, but we also know that pedophiles like epstein are at a higher risk of committing suicide in jail. so the thought that he would not have been watched, that he would not have been under constant surveillance by personnel at that yajail is very disturbing d i agree with spencer and i've been watching this story unfold this morning and watching social media and so many women coming coming forward and saying they won't have the oppor

rob are you still with us all right apologies that was rob mcbride that was about to give us an update from the situation in hong kong so what you're looking at right now is are the live pictures coming to us from the airports and just a few moments ago in fact in the past hour there were clashes between demonstrators there as well as the police and all of this has of course forced the cancellation of almost all out going flights for a 2nd straight day. well antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world but they're increasing availability has led to over use and that has made many of us resistant to these formally vital medicines now in kenya researchers say some antibiotics are simply not working reports from nairobi. this is a laboratory in nairobi run by kenya's medical research institute scientists are investigating jobs and bacteria that cause diseases with a special focus on antibiotic resistance this problem initially was only in hospitals but now we're finding a lot of people who are getting fit in the community but by the time they get into the hospital

hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. severe storms are popping in this hot and humid air mass ahead of that cold front that will finally bring some relief to this oppressive heat. on the radar, you see it in north carolina, virginia, trees down with severe storms there, another batch coming through that area. maryland, eastern pennsylvania, as well. the wave back over the mississippi. it's what brought the flash flood into kansas. that kind of drifts to the east. aghe front s of d.c. during the day tomorrow, but not even into the mid south. so, it is august, more storms along that front and south of it tomorrow, but here in the northeast, thankfully, it wil q. david? >> rob, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the horror in new york city today. a young man crushed to death in an elevator. two others had just gotten off. three people were standing behind him, still in that elevator, witnessing it all. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: an investigation tonight into how a simple elevator ride turned into a deadl

firing his 1st shots well in a moment we'll get more on that shooting in ohio but 1st let's go on to rob reynolds he's joining us live from el paso texas and the last couple of alice rob we've heard both from days in place and also president trump has been saying that there is a mental health problem and he's already spoken to the attorney general and others about what they can do. well you know as you noted in your introduction elizabeth the suspect who is in custody here and believed by authorities to have committed the mass shooting in the shopping center in el paso posted is believed to have posted online a manifesto or rant of some sort which detailed his hatred towards let tino's now this mass shooting in the united states has become something of an international issue with a very senior top mexican government official accusing it saying that this amounts to an act of terror against mexican citizens in the united states foreign minister marcello ebrard says mexico will consider legal action against the united states in accordance with international laws for acts of terrorism agains

the main government offices in hong kong we are expecting caroline as rob was discussing that we are expecting caroline the chief executive of hong kong to talk to the world's media very very soon if that happens the next 20. and it's all so we'll carry it live here on al-jazeera she's been chief executive since 2017 she has said again as rob was saying there as to that controversial extradition legislation that was on the books she has tried to reassure the demonstrators who coalesced around this particular course that that legislation has gone the way they do not trust her they want to completely remove from the statute books because they're anticipating a situation where if the relationship between hong kong and the central government in beijing tilts in a particular direction that they don't like that legislation may reappear perhaps at the point when kerry has stopped being the chief executive of hong kong as in when muslims start talking they will carry it live for you here on al-jazeera. china has issued its highest red alert warning as a typhoon makes its way towards the east

let's get to rob marciano, live in chicago tonight. hey, rob. >> reporter: so far, so good compared to yesterday in the midwest. but already a severe thunderstorm watch for eastern colorado, until 9:00 p.m. tonight. and we could see large hail like last night. and the front drifting into the deep south may trigger flash flooding. heat and humidity from it could very well be the hottest day of the year. david? >> rob, thank you. >>> and next to the republican congressman who questioned whether humanity would exist without rape and incest. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: steve king facing new calls to resign after he questioned whether humanity would exist without rape and incest. defending legislation banning almost all abortions when he said this. >> what if it was okay, and what if we went back through all the family trees and pulled those people out that were products of rape or incest. would there be any population in the world after we did that? >> reporter: king's republican challenger was quick to denounce the remarks. tweeting,

kron-4's rob fladeboe is live at the scene -- rob what do we know? (rob live) (grant)(bam) the homeless man accused of violently attacking a woman outside her embarcadero condo is being kept in jail. === despite the fact that new charges... related to a second accusation were dropped.(vicki) kron4's maureen kelly reports this latest development comes after austin vincent's case was presided over by a new judge. (grant) in the east bay. police are releasing video of a violent bbery in pinole. it happened monday night at a pizza hut on tara hills drive. two robbers wearing masks stormed in - jumped the counter...then pointed a gun in an employee's face. at one point the suspects punched and kicked the victim... before getting away with cash. but as the call was being sent out to police... the suspects' car was spotted and pulled over. officers arrested three men. two of whom were identified as the suspects in this video. all three are in jail -- on various charges including robbery. (vicki) a 12-year-old brentwood girl who suffered head injuries during

rob, back to you. rob: yeah, we don't know how many lives police saved by being so fast on that scene, mike, what is happening at the scene of the shooting today, obviously this is right in the heart of dayton, ohio? >> it is right in the heart of dayton, ohio and if you look behind me the crime scene tape is still up, the investigation of the crime scene is complete, but unfortunately what you have and very grisly what you have a situation like this a terrible mess that's left behind. what's taking place is clean-up and grisly clean-up scene and that's why the district is still blocked off to the public. rob: understandable, mike, thanks so much. >> now to el paso, texas as the city continues to reel over the shooting deaths of 20 people of hands of 21-year-old man yesterday at a shopping center, police charging the shooter with capital murder, prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty. garrett tenney live in el paso, texas with more on this, garrett. >> well, molly, we are just a a little bit

milpitas police are searching for 3 men believed to be responsible for robbing a jewelry store at the great that crime triggered panic at the mall total chaos employees and. >>shopper some of them, we're confused a thought that what was actually a robbery was an active shooter. kron four's dan kerman is live tonight at the great mall to explain this fiasco. dan. that's right and not just day here at the mall in milpitas the same thing happened at a mall in modesto when there was a robbery the same thing happened last night at a mall in southern california. >>all 3 robberies but people got confused thinking possibly the smash of the glass was actually gunfire and they thought there was an active shooter in all of these cases, panic at the mall, the good news, there was no active shooter but the suspects at least here in milpitas are still outstanding. >>i thought it was a shooting. might who are heard like a loud bang like it was a gunshot first thing that went through my mind as i needed that. >>reports of an active shooter sunday night at milpitas is great mall turned out not to be t

kron for's rob fladeboe joins us now live from palo alto with the latest. rob? ... (rob is live) (justine) just in to kron-4... a california state appeals court has thrown out the sole conviction against the man who shot and killed kate stienle on san francisco's pier 14. jose garcia-zarate was acquitted of murder in the 20-15 killing of steinle. he has been in custody facing gun charges-- but the court overturned a conviction today because the judge failed to instruct the jury on one of his defenses. garcia-zarate was in the country illegally-- and had been deported five times before killing steinle. he said he picked up the gun that was wrapped in a t- shirt-- and fired it accidentally. garcia- zarate is still in custody and still facing ááfederal gun charges. (vicki) developing news tonight... hurricane dorian continues to head towards florida gaining strength along the way. the storm -- now a category 3-- is expected to continue strengthening in the next few days. and as the rest of the country heads into a holiday weekend-- people in florida are scrambling to

let's get more on this story with our reporter rob watts he's with us here in our studio hi rob this really is a landmark case but remind us of the background here this opioid apa demick that really has been ravaging american towns and cities for years now you know is thought 130 americans die from opioid overdoses every single day i mean the cases are looking at figures like 400000 americans dying from overdoses of opioids between 199-920-7600 extension 0 of those are thought to have been in oklahoma and it's in oklahoma that we've had this very 1st occasion on which one of the drugs companies has made it to trial and in this instance it's been found against them what it's said is that johnson and johnson by the oklahoma prosecutes is that they were using marketing techniques that both played down the addictiveness of the painkillers but also played up the safety of them and played out of the benefits of them to the point where doctors overprescribing them there was more addiction and so there were more deaths johnson and johnson for their part deny that's the case they say that the

maybe cooler too by wednesday. >> very good rob. thank you. thanks for watching nightly news next then see you again at 6:00. >> see you soon. >>> breaking news tonight. terror at texas shopping mall. at least 1peop are dead >> go! go go come on! >> chaos and confusion as a gunman fires shot after shot inside an el paso walmart. >> doo, doo, doo >> shoppers hiding, not knowing where to run. dozens more rushed to the hospital the young suspect now in police custody. authorities now searching for a motive >>> plus new questions tonight on just how safe so-called soft targets are. today's shooting just days after a gunman opened fire at a food festival

rob met him on "the outsiders." for demi, it was "ghost." both take part in the new documentary "i am patrick swayze," honoring the movie icon we lost far too soon. ♪ >> the movement of it was so erotic and beautiful. and i think he had balance between strength and softness. >> i think "ghost" is his best movie. i think is his best movie. seeing that sort of rough guy give that -- dude, that speech he gives her at the end, are you kidding me? are you kidding me? >> i love you, molly. >> ditto. >> that's one of those things you can pull up on youtube and it's just like -- >> as soon as we started dancing as jt like -- >> the two-hour film shows never-before-seeme movies, revealing a side of patrick the world didn't know. >> i mean, you're only on this planet for so long. go for it now. >> patrick performed like he had something to prove. he was a gymnast, a world-class cowboy, a ballet dancer, really? >> our brooke anderson sat down with patrick's "red dawn" co-star c. thomas howell, who revealed even before "dirty dancing," patrick and jen

and rob, we call ourselves the xwchlt teb team, the boy team. whether you are going to pride or heading to the beach, rob has your forecast. >> looks pretty good. numbers starting to trend warm arer, but not too hot. right now clear skies inland. walnut creek, hazy skies for your morning. 62 degrees. a bit of a different story as we have seen the last couple mornings closer to the coast. currently 60. so numbers in the 50s along the coast, near half moon bay, low 60s inland. by the afternoon areas like walnut creek, concord, tri-valley, livermore and morgan hill that will see a chance of low 90s. santa rose northward as well starting to see the temperatures climb up. by tomorrow we could see mid-90s. and we're tracking tropical moisture from tropical storm ivo. an interesting "7-day forecast" ahead. >> thanks for bringing in walnut creek, that is where i'm heading after the show. rob, thank you very much. >>> new this morning, a teenage couple attacked and stabbed in a quiet south bay neighborhood. happened in the area of hamilton avenue and pho

rob is in chicago and tracking it all for us. good morning, rob. >> hey, good morning, robin. it was a bit rough here in the midwest as far as heavy winds where they had heavy rains. that was across parts of the southeast yesterday. in south carolina, summerville, look at this. five inches of rain falling just north of charleston, and a child care facility had to be evacuated. some of those kids frightened as you can imagine. orlando getting about four inches of rainfall yesterday as well, and flooding the streets. they can see similar action. a rough week for much of the southeast, and 60-mile-per-hour winds in tuscaloosa, and indiana. 70-mile-per-hour winds in chicago. severe weather threat spreads to the east. rapid city, sue falls, lincoln. large hail and a few tornadoes, and the potential for more heat across california. talk more about that in a little bit. >> thanks, rob, so much. >>> we turn to the dangerous scene at the i.c.e. protest in rhode island overnight. a driver running into demonstrators, multiple injuries. janai norman is here with that. janai, good morning.

>> rob we'll track it through the weekend. rob, thanks to you. >>> and 17 million people bracing for the storm. it's not just homes and businesses that are being battened down. airports, construction sites, even the kennedy space center is on high alert tonight. abc's gio benitez is in miami again for us. >> reporter: tonight, residents along florida's east coast boarding up. the clock ticking on final preparations as more than 17 million residents wait for word on evacuations. >> if you're in an evacuation zone and you're ordered to evacuate, please do so. >> reporter: many cities, including miami, handing out free sandbags. hurricane irma is fresh on gabriel velazquez's mind. >> when irma came, the whole apartment, the whole complex, the first floor was flooded. to prevent that, this year, i'm getting sand. >> reporter: the hunt for fuel is on. in southwest miami-dade, long lines at 2:00 a.m. and they're not letting up. by midday, pumps running dry at more than half of the gas stations in the miami-ft. lauderdale area. i'm l

it was nice out there, rob. >> what is the most common thing people ask you about storm ranger. >> is that thing to say, ,tenol >> don't they want to know if you drive it yourself? >> yeah. it takes a whole team, really, to get that truck out there. it was great weather for that. a little bit hot, though, out there on the festival grounds and out towards concord this weekend. we have been seeing temperatures in the 90s. but not upper 90s, which is where things were around this time on saturday. so temperatures starting the downward trend as we get back to the start of the workweek. look at that visibility. 79 degrees. winds picking up now. so you will probably need a life jacket by 8:00 tonight. san francisco right now, you got sunshine, but that strong sea breeze keeping temperatures in the mid-60s. winds out of the west at 20 miles an hour. the spread of temperatures we've grown pretty akccustomed to. the highs starting to come down a bit. slight cooling today on the order of 5 to 7 degrees cooler from livermore to concord. really not much of a temperature change for san francisco a

rob is tracking it all. good morning, rob. >> good morning, eva. dozens of wildfires burning in the west. this is the dublin fire. they got ahold of this yesterday. about 250 acres burned. there were numbers of new fires across the pacific northwest because of unusual weather patterns. big trough digging into california. erratic winds here and thunderstorms as well sparking flames. red flag warnings for northern california, oregon, washington, idaho, getting into nevada and parts of utah as well. you can see as we put the weather maps into motion. thunderstorms are expected later on today. some of which could be severe. we have some language out from billings back to the mountains of oregon for damaging winds and hail. tornados possible. we might see lightning strikes spawning more in the way of fires. in the south phoenix much of new mexico under flash flood watches because of monsoon rains. more on that and the potential of mudslides later. >>> in houston there's a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of two gunmen on the loose