good morning everybody. thanks for joining us today. we are following breaking news. 11 police officers have been shot, five fatally after what is believed to be two snipers in downtown dallas. it started as a peaceful demonstration over shootings in louisiana. gunfire erupted from an elevated position firing down on officers ambush-style. [ gunshots ] [ bleep ]

[ sirens ] >> one witness says she saw multiple police officers get shot. >> i was walking and the sniper started shooting and i just saw cops bending over, man. it had to be like five or six cops getting shot down. it was right after the rally. we were walking to the car. >> reporter: how many? >> i saw three. we were running. they kept shooting. we don't know where it's coming from but it was -- i didn't see anybody else get shot. it was just the cops. >> right now police say three people are in custody, a female and two people that had

mercedes-benz. a fourth barricaded himself in a parking garage and was exchanging gunfire with police. >> the suspect that has exchanged gunfire with us over the last 45 minutes has told our negotiators that the end is coming and he is going to hurt and kill more of us, meaning law enforcement, and there are bombs all over the place in this garage and in downtown. >> just in kxas is reporting that suspect has quote been neutralized. cal, a lot coming in through the news room throughout the night. tell us what you have seen. >> an

the targeters targeting the end of the march. they were working hand in hand. they were actually live tweeting the protest when the shooting sort of began. >> and the officers didn't have on their vests, right? >> yes. they were in a very relaxed environment. you can see them behind the engine blocks of cars, ducking for cover, running. we also know, and there's video circulating online, one of the gunmen circling around behind the officers and spraying them with machine gunfire which is why police say it was an ambush. >> so we know one person they say has been neutralized. if they were saying there were two that were firing ambush style. >> yes. two were

dez off of i-35. the third is a female suspect. they believe she may be -- >> would that have been the person in the mercedes? >> we don't know. we believe the female was arrested in downtown dallas but we are wait to ing to confirm. >> are they still working this as a possible active situation with maybe explosives. >> they are still work it as an active investigation. dallas police are doing this simply out of caution. they don't know if the gunman was telling the truth when he said there were explosives. people are being told to see which roads will be closed as police continue to try to clear the area. >> a lot of people work there and people being tol

don't. >> especially the federal buildings. they went into lookdown and they will likely remain in lockdown for the next day. and president obama, but the white house says he has been preefed on the briefed on the situation in dallas. he spoke about the shootings that prompted the dallas demonstrators. >> there is a big chunk of citizens that feel as if because of the color of their skin they are not being treated the same. and that hurts, and that should trouble all of us. this is not just a black issue. this is not just a hispanic issue. this is an american issue. >> we are livem

ron, do you expect the president to make another statement following the shooting in dallas? >> reporter: we certainly do. there is a place where the president was going to make remarks about what's going on here but we expect he will talk about dallas. obviously this is an issue that was of grave concern. his remarks yesterday were expressing his concern, how troubled he is by the shootings of armed or black suspects but clearly he was anticipating the pushback as well because he spoke out in protests like that. the president has been very mindful of the criticism he gets about not being supportive of them over the years. while no one has made this direct connection the timing of the remarks, troubling incident in dallas is unmistakable. the president

house has offered full support to the community and to enforcement but the president offered a heartfelt statement for law enforcement. the president yesterday talked about how he even believes and understands the danger they put themselves in. they have a right to go home with their families and just -- you can hear the sirens in the backgrou background. we are standing on the street corner. the bottom line is yes, the president is very concerned about the violence and very concerned about the assaults that happened and so we expect to hear a heartfelt statement from here in about an hour. >> thank you as that motorcade continues to go by and now it stops. nick of time.

situation in dallas. the heat did not help it being so hot there. >> yes. our condolences to the families of police officers. we will brief you on for getting you into today and into the weekend and we'll get back to the coverage there. we have had severe weather overnight. as we go through today we do have about 50 million people of severe weather. we get a little bit of a break on saturday. just isolated storms in the north. it is that time of year. it is almost 100 every day. on sunday we'll watch the nor northern plains. a minioutbreak possibly and then scattered storms in the south. a chance of severe weather. about 53 million people getting hit by this and the heat wave ending into the upcoming weekend too. that's your

here is a closer look at your day ahead. so for today if you're in ohio, kentucky, west virginia, western pennsylvania some of those spots could see strong thunderstorms during the day today. in areas of the southern half of the country still very warm, hot and humid. that's a look at your weekend forecast. >> thank you. an emotional overnight plea from the police chief. you're watching "early today." tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever. entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren.

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the public's prayers and support and encouragement. i can tell you, i have never been more proud of a police officer and being a part of this great noble profession, seeing the courage, professionalism and just the grit to stay on scene in an area looking for suspects knowing that we are vulnerable. we don't know where they are. our downtown is very large with a lot of high buildings. some of the stories i heard about what happened about officers rung towards gunfire, to get injured officers transported to the hospital by patrol car, not having time to wait for ambulance and just so many stories of great courage. so we continue to fight the good fight to bring this to a

police that last suspect they were negotiating with has been according to police, quote, neutralized. thousands of protesters gathered after the police involved shooting deaths of two black men earlier this week. curt gregory reports. >> reporter: shots fired as protests over two african american males this week turned violent in dallas. at least ten officers shot with multiple fatalities. >> i ask everybody to focus on one thing right now and that is our dallas police officers, their families, those that are deceased, those that are in the hospital. >> reporter: a sharp contrast to the peaceful demonstrations in baton rouge for alton sterling. that incident captured on cell phone video is

questions and outrage calling for the officers to be charged with murder. louisiana's governor asked to keep the peace. >> now may be a time for demonstrations. it may be a time for protests but there is no time for violence. >> reporter: the unrest continue in minnesota where demonstrators held a vigil for philandro castille. it shows the moments after an officer shoots him, his girlfriend streaming it online. mark dayton called for justice. >> i don't think it would have. justice will be served. justice must be served. >> reporter: and protesters across the nation are making sure their voices are heard. it's not clear what happened in the moments before either confrontation and as two

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waking up this news in dallas. ambush, five police officers are dead. >> we have team coverage of this deadly police officer in dallas, including a crew at the white house this morning where protesters gathered last night. erika gonzalez is monitoring the situation in dallas this hour from our live desk. >> first let's break down everything for you. right now, gunfire broke out around 8:45 local time while hundreds of people gathered to protest two deadly police involved shootings earlier this week. as the protest continued, snipers started shooting. 11 were shot. 5 died. one civilian was hurt in the gunfire. three suspects was arrested. a fourth suspect died inside a stand-off in a parking garage. let's get a

forecast with storm team meteorologist chuck bell. >> we're still with dealing with the heat, haze, humidity in the summertime. heat indexes this afternoon will be up near 100 degrees. there will be an opportunity for thunderstorms today. greater chance than we've had the last several days. tomorrow, still hot but turning a little bit less humid as we get into the weekend. for now, be ready for another day in the steam bath. temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s by noon. highs today, low to mid 90s again. no weather-related problems on the roads right now. let's go to jack taylor to see if there are any construction troubles. there are. they are about finished up on the beltways. if you get to an nan dale, that should be wrapped up by the

roadway. the howard county, near 29, the left lane had been blocked. crews are still working. there will be there for another hour and a half or so. and rock creek parkway, crews are still working. a lot of the information coming into the newsroom this morning is fluid and we are working to stay on top of all of it for you. one of the ways that we know what's going on has been either from the dallas chief of police or the mayor that's been disseminating the information. here's what they said earlier this morning. >> it is a heart-breaking morning to lose these four officers that proudly served our citizens. >> that was at 1:30 this morning. another individual that we are expected to hear from about 5:00 this morning. this, of course, the president el

we'll have much more as this story continues to develop throughout the morning. they let there about an hour and a half ago but haven't held a news conference since then. we'll be checking back with them in a few minutes. at this hour, we know four suspects in the shooting have been neutralized. the last one in a stand-off with police in a parking garage in dallas. police say that person is dead. there was a manhunt for three others who were now in custody. a woman was taken into custody at the same time -- is he same parking garage, police caught two others during a traffic stop. this was a peaceful protest in dallas before the shots rang out last night. we have video of the moments when things began to fall apart. a warning, you will hear gunshots. [ sirens ] [ gunshots ] >> somebody is really armed to the teeth. this is