bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news at fox reports live in dallas. one of the officers killed in the attack here worked for the public transit system. the police department, dart or the dallas area rapid transit. brent thompson is the first dart police officer to die in the line of duty in the 27 year history. with us now is gary thomas. he is dart's president. nice to have you with us. >> thank you. >> we were talking during the commercial break. the routine begins again and you have one thing on your mind. >> from our perspective it is moving the customers from point a to point b. safely, efficiently and effectively. as we wake up this morning, i think it is so important that we not forget because as we start to get back into the line of routine, we can't forget the people that -- that do what they

do every day to protect us. >> tell us about officer thompson. >> officer thompson joined our force in 2009. you know, our police force was formed in 1989 so he came to us in 2009. before that, he was a police officer in texas and was private security in afghanistan, he was a marine, so he has been with us for the last six, seven years, has been a great officer. you know, just the kind of officer that you want to have. he works well with people. he interacts well with people. he is just a good guy. >> transit police, that is a lot of your work. i mean, taking care of people, just day-to-day, where is it? what is it? how do i? right? >> it is a little different than the city police officer. we're interacting with our

customers on a regular basis making sure they know where they're going, they are getting from here to there but at the same time, protecting them. making sure they're not standing on the tracks, at the wrong time but also making sure that the wrong people aren't taking advantage of the customers. >> three other dart officers were injured that night. what can you tell us about them? >> you know, officer mcbride, officer cannon and ferp retana were all good officers. they're all good officers. i met with two of them the other night and i'll go check on them in a little bit but those officers that you want to have, they're just dedicated people. they're dedicated to what when he do. they're dedicated to our customers and as i visited with them the night before -- >> they're doing much better. >> they're doing much better.

superficial wounds is how they were described. >> they're doing much better and we're happy for that. we continue to pray for the speedy recovery but they have good attitudes and we're here to support them any way we can. >> i'm guessing, well, there are two different ways to think about this. sometimes you're just so thankful that you got so close to something that could have changed your family's life forever, and then a lot of people who get caught up in the middle of these things, especially when their whole life is about protecting and serving, sometimes there is survivor's guilt. sometimes it doesn't come day one either. >> that is true and we'll have counselors standing by to help not only our police force but the entire dart family to make sure that everybody has the opportunity as this healing period and grieving period goes on that people have people that they can talk to. >> i hear that after things like this happen, big monumental

events that you never dreamed of, that you conduct yourselves differently. i would be a little more edgy, a little more careful watching over my shoulder all of the time and i guess that is something that officers do all the time but i would think more so now. >> certainly yesterday, everybody was very focused and vep in tune with what was -- very in tune with what was around them. we try to stay vigilant every day as you would imagine and that is the fear. that is the concern is that we get too complacent, we get too relaxed in what we do. >> certainly wasn't the case in this. it was a relaxed situation with relaxed people all around. no reports of anything. officers, seen them on social media taking pictures as reach out officers would and should and all of a sudden, you can't get past this feeling of just how senseless and horrible it is. >> it is incomprehensible. this is a city that we all are

familiar with. we've lived here for a long time so while you prepare for it, you train for if, you know in the books it says that these things can happen and you work through those but you never really are truly prepared until it actually happens to you and then that training, the good thing is that training kicks in and they do what they're trained to do. >> all the best to everybody in dart and dallas. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> god speed. >> protesters are taking to the street, demonstrators in some cases across the country overnight after the deadly police shootings, a black man in minnesota and louisiana. more on that in just a moment as we have correspondents in baton rouge. in bat ron rouge, two officers shot a street vendor out a convenience store, if you remember, the mother of alton sterling's son says she doesn't want sterling's death to be a race thing. she is grieving with the families of the five police officers gunned down here in dallas. jonathan siri is live in baton

rouge. demonstrators changing tactics, i understand? >> they've changed the location where the demonstrations are focused. right behind me, you can see the convenience store. the parking lot is the very spot where alton sterling was shot during the wee morning hours of tuesday and since then in the days that followed, this is where most of the protests took place but today you can see it is more of a vigil. there are members of the new black panthers party that have arrived in town trying to organize people but we don't see a huge protest going on. all that changed last night. organizers of the protest were getting frustrated because there wasn't much of a police presence here. the police decided to give the people here some space as the protests continued but a lot of the people participating in these rallies wanted to have some face to face contact with officers and so yesterday,

organizers decided to move the protest to the police department and so you had dozens of protesters showing up outside baton rouge police headquarters last night, at times shutting down airline highway, the major through fair in front of the police department. >> we saw some of that during our reporting late yesterday afternoon. i wonder how they're responding to the demonstrations, the police. >> yeah, police came out in full force yesterday heavily armed, wearing riot gear, after the protesters shut down the highway, police pushed them back onto the corner and then after this went on several times, they warned the protesters anyone blocking the street would be arrested and indeed, they made good on their promise arresting several of the protesters that refused to get off of the highway. today, shep, when we returned to the police department, we saw they installed barricades around the perimeter.

organizers of the protests said they want to return to the police department but lodgisticly it will be -- logistically it will be more difficult today and through the weekend. >> baton rouge this morning. thanks. protesters gathered in minnesota again last night as well after the deadly -- after the police officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop this week. that is the one that was, well, the after math was broadcast live on facebook live and now the officer's lawyer is offering a bit of explanation. we'll have that on you next. >> the act of terrorism, no way represents anything about our long political peace and justice for all. a movement will not compromise the moral high ground of. [ inaudible ] ever. these are perilous times for our

nation. -- -- challenge people with few treatment options that we must deal with the mass shootings have to stop. we have much work to do. we mourn the brave police officers in dallas, we must end the black men being executed. too much violence, too much fear make all of us less secure.

demonstrators gathered in minnesota again last night for the third straight night holding what is striebd as a peaceful -- described as a peaceful vigil for 32-year-old philando castile. he was shot at a traffic stop in

st. paul wednesday night. his girlfriend live streamed the after math from inside the core. court records show police pulled over castile dozens of times for traffic violations but the documents show courts threw out about half of the tickets. there is no record of any serious criminal charges at all. we're outside the governor's mansion in st. paul minnesota and brand new information coming to us just this morning in the last few minutes, matt, we're hearing from the lawyer of the police officer who has brand new information. >> that's right, shepard. we learned the attorney for the minnesota officer who killed castile, the reason we're standing here today now says that the officer reacted to the presence of and display of a gun, not race. that contradicts everything we heard to date so far that this was perhaps a racially motivated killing or perhaps this officer was racially profiling castile.

that raises and fits into many other questions that are still unanswered right now which was why was castile initially pulled over. his alleged girlfriend, the woman who claims to be his girlfriend says they were pulled over for a broken taillight. is that true? we were looking into whether or not there is dash cam video that may contradict or align with everything we have heard so far. there is also police radio traffic recordings out there. there is a station that has aired them. they seem to sound and be authentic and those recordings indicate that the officer initially pulled castile over because he fit the description of a wanted robbery suspect in the area. and that castile's gun was visible on his lap from the get go. so we're trying to independently confirm all of the information. that would change everything we've heard so far. >> so that i understand what you're saying, matt, from the

radio traffic and i get the qualifications that we can't confirm every little thing, but from the radio traffic, it sounded like the cop had come to the vehicle and immediately notified headquarters, i see a gun in his lap now. that came from the beginning, you're saying. >> there are -- there are radio traffic recordings that the officer let dispatch know he was pulling the couple over, including the young girl in the background because castile fit the description of a suspect of a robbery wanted in the area. then as the officer approached the car, if you look at that facebook video we've seen over and over again, there is an image out there that appears, and again, we can't independently confirm this but there is an image that appears to show what might be the gun on castile's lap. and now the officer is saying he was responding or he shot castile because of a visible gun. not because of race. and of course, the girlfriend has said all along that castile immediately let police know that he had a pistol and that he had

a license to carry, but in one of the pressers that i heard later on, she ended up saying i had to scream and let officers know he had a license to carry. there is a gray area there. you know, and of course, we heard the officer say now and we've heard him say in the recording i told him not to touch it. so this is information that we're working to confirm so far by and large, we've only heard the girlfriend's account in the facebook live video which gives us a lot of insight. there is new information coming out. we are here, talking to police and we're trying to confirm all of this for you. >> a lot more reporting to come on that, obviously. matt finn on scene. much of the protests across the nation here last night were peaceful but police did fight with demonstrators at a rally in phoenix. look. >> what do weap want?

>>us. >> officers used pepper spray and tear gas to clear out the protesters. officials say they also closed the freeway ramps there to stop demonstrators from marching into a stretch of the interstate. garrett tenny has more on the protests. i understand the black lives matter group was against the protest. >> yes, that's right, phoenix mayor, the police chief and the arizona chapter of black lives matter asked organizers to delay the protest out of respect for those killed in dallas but the local activists behind the protest went ahead. local reports say by the end of the night, six people were injured and three people were arrested after throwing rocks at officers. as you mentioned, though, phoenix, it stands apart from what we've seen across the rest of the country. this is the second consecutive day of protests over police violence and in the wake of the dallas shootings, these have been largely peaceful. some of the largest demonstrations we've seen are in atlanta where yesterday thousands of people flooded the

streets downtown blocking off traffic while demanding justice for victims of police shootings. there in atlanta, like at many of the protests around the country, the victims of the dallas shooting were also on people's minds. >> prayers goes out to everybody who lost somebody in dallas. for the police force but violence is not the way to stop it. that won't do nothing. >> in chicago, protesters gathered outside of president obama's home for a die in where they laid on the ground as if they were shot in the street. to call on the president to do more to help. shep? >> and more protests scheduled for today, right? >> yeah, all across the country from oakland, san francisco, l.a., new york, and even in philadelphia. we are expecting to see more protests throughout the weekend in philadelphia, a group called the philadelphia coalition for real justice has planned what it is calling a weekend of rage to draw attention to police

brutality. garrett tenney from washington. we're learning more about the suspect accused of shooting at passing cars at a highway in tennessee. lakine scott shot and killed one woman and wounded three others including an officer before police shot and wounded him. this happened thursday morning before the attack here in dallas. investigators say scott was angry about recent police killings of black men. the family and friends say they can't believe it. in georgia, a police officer and suspect are both recovering after a shooting north of the florida border there. investigators say 22-year-old steven beck called 911 to lure officers in this case, officer randall hancock into an ambush. it happened hours after a sniper killed five officers here in dallas. officials in georgia say there

is no evidence of any connection so far. none at all. the suspects friends and neighbors describe him as a teddy bear and that is a quote. say they're stunned by the whole thing. ahead, well, ahead, we'll look alternative the weekend weather forecast across the nation. the fox news chief meteorologist.

it is hot in dallas today. we're about to do a weather segment. 100, 101, 103, 103, 103. that's your long-range forecast. have a great two weeks. i don't know what meteorologists

around here in august do. it's going to be 100. have a nice day. >> it has not hit 100 in dallas this year. you have 100 coming in the forecast. i think we'll get there by the time wednesday arrives but you factor in the humidity and it will feel like more than 100 today and it's really hot across the plains. it's been really hot across the plains, really hot across much of the southeast and we have that again today and it looks like for the future, a little cooler today across the northeast because we have cloud cover and storms. billi some big storms across arkansas. a couple systems in the northwest brings us severe weather. severe weather possible across parts of the northeast today as well. tomorrow, a bigger threat for severe weather across the northern plains and maybe even a

few tornadoes for tomorrow. i tell you what, it's hot out there in the desert southwest. it's hot across parts of the south and really humid and we're going to see this heat build again. it's not going anywhere. the west remains cool in the northwest. watch what happens for the next number of days. the heat builds and we're into the hundreds. by thursday, a lot of heat coming across the northeast. probably the hottest temps all year. summer, july, you're in dallas. >> looking forward to heats in the northeast, that's for sure. in new york, because there are a lot of people, especially older people who don't have air conditioning still, like hundreds of thousands of them, they open heat centers, heat relief centers when the temperatures get to above 90 degrees. here in dallas, they open relief centers and have a heat alert when the feels like temperature

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we learned new information in this hour from the dallas police department about the shooting that happened here on thursday night. we now know from chief miller that authorities haven't said it in news conferences that they found methamphetamine in the deceased's homes and more about the final moments when he was in the parking garage. the police robot was two feet from the suspect at the time. so they were communicating with him using that robot and they had told him, you know, give up and we'll put you through the justice system or if you don't, we're going to end your life here and they did it using that robot. it exploded. and when it did, it obliterated

his body. toxicology results may be hard to come by. a few bits of information. more in the days ahead. for now, let's get to washington and political news. for now, i'm shepard smith. i'll see you monday. thousands of protesters taking to the streets to continue to protest police shootings. some of those protests turned violent. the anger and determination from the deadly dallas ambush. we are learning more about the police officers and the families that they left behind. >> also, president obama is a few minutes away from a news conference in poland where he is traveling. he's expected to talk about