. >>> a live look at pensacola landing. >> the minute we've been asking for the warmth and heat. >> not quite a heat wave. >> we're never pleased. >> early sunday is when we're watching for the strongest of the storms. it could happen. then we e get into monday and maybe a scattered shower here and there. look at tuesday and wednesday. much cooler and much less humid. those are the target days for next week. >> finally getting some relief. thank you for watching here at 6:00. i'm jim rosenfield. >> and i'm jacqueline london. up next is "nbc nightly news" wither holt. see you back here at 11:00. >>> tonight, white house shake-up. sean spicer is out and the new trump ally is in. amid reports the president's team is targeting bob mueller, trying to discredit the russia investigators and talking pardons. could the president pardon himself? >>> out of control. fires exploding in the west, torching homes, forcing evacuations. dangerously close to yosemite. new reinforcements as the inferno doubles in size. >>> packing heat. tsa finding a record number of guns on airport security lines, many o

host: nelson, pensacola, florida. my message year is that if the democrats and the ,epublicans just sat down worked out some sort of deal where they could talk about the issue of immigration and all of the small issues pertaining to the immigration and people coming into this country illegally, a lot of these problems could be resolved. the problem is everybody is thinking about their own philosophy. they are not thinking about the american people, the cost of what goes into getting these issues resolved. what happens here, maybe there should be term limits. republicans and democrats both should be thinking about the issues concerning the whole country. when it comes to immigration, they really need to sit down, it is something they should have done 20, 30 years ago. they are just not doing their job. we are paying the people to do a job. these people don't qualify for insurance. all these issues can be resolved if they would just sit down, did what the issues of immigration, deal with the issues of health care, deal

host: pensacola, florida, over 50, steve, what do you think about the economy?aller: because i am over 50, anybody not old enough to have worked before reagan does not have a fair comparison of what a real economy looks like. person andie sanders until we go back to something like that, it will be more like martin luther king said it, more concisely than anybody i have heard, in this country, it is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. he is right. it has been more so since reagan. will bere hoping trump what reagan was for mine -- host: explain what you mean by what the economy was like during that time and how it is different from now. caller: you got paid to work. you got paid enough money to pay your bills. usually the men would work in a factory that covered the family health insurance, it covered all the basics. if a woman work also, she had the luxury of choice to some extent but if she chose to work, which most did part-time at least, then you had maybe a second car or more comfortable, you are not rich but you could make it. now, you canno

♪ >> on november 22nd of last year, eli smith left pensacola florida to walk all four corners of thewareness for ptsd and the suicide rate in the veteran community. right now he is in the bay area raising money. he is joining us live in studio this morning. welcome to the baya ir. >> thank you for having me. >> appreciate it. >> you dropped everything to do this. was there a particular moment where you said this is what i'm going to do? and what was that moment? >> yes. i wanted to -- i lost a couple friends i served with to ptsd. i wanted to do something about it. i wanted to do something that no one has ever done before. so i saw different people doing cross country walks for various reasons. >> uh-huh. >> but to our knowledge, no one has ever walked all four corners continuously before. i decided that's what i want today do. sold everything that i had from my pickup truck to my dishes to, you know, my cats went to my neighbors. >> oh, wow. >> got my gear and a plane ticket and went down to pensacola and started walking. >> tell me about your feelings when you leashed about the fri

but the goal was always pensacola, which was the capital of british west florida. and was the key to the gulf of mexico, which spain wanted to recapture. and after a few setbacks by a series of devastating hurricanes, in 1781, he launched a joint spanish/french attack that took pensacola and got the british out of the gulf of mexico. which happened at just the right time, because right about then, the french commander came to the caribbean and asked the spanish to please guard the french colonies in the caribbean, remember, that's where the money was, sugar plantations in the caribbean. please guard those colonies from the british while i take my entire fleet north to the chesapeake. now, he was a fighting admiral. he was loved by his sailors. he stands 6'4" and 6'5" on days of battle. the americans learned he was heading to the chesapeake so they raced south to meet him and surrounded cornwallis. he stood two inches taller than washington exclaimed general. it's a real story. by the way, since you asked, yes, he was one of the ancestors of the rock star astrophysi

jail and we're talking about overdoses there are some communities tom the size of right here in pensacola the size of this community they're having ten to twenty overdose deaths a day and it's being ignored by corporate media of course because corporate media you know they don't want to tell this ugly story they're unwilling to tell this story because advertisers won't let them tell the story so this is handled under the radar for two decades and finally this brilliant young man paul farrel connects all the dots and says well we're going to we're going to we're going to come up with a way to do this so on i'm totally committed we have probably the best team of lawyers they've been put together since the tobacco wars that are going to go after these corporate thought good and that's the only way i know to describe them after understanding what they've done that's great mike papantonio it's always great having you with us thanks so much. and that's the way it is it's a night and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag you're it. ah. in case you're new to

we take a look at summerfest at pensacola landing. >> don't be deceived by this brief break from the rain. first alert radar shows more showers headed our way later tonight. e meteorologist glenn schwartz is tracking the return of the rain in your most accurate weather forecast. we know you're usually right on the money. what do you have to say about this? >> we're in between these shots of rain. we had one this morning, but the sun is out. this is cape may. you can see the sun glistening off the water. a beautiful afternoon. nothing on the radar. but lock at that. in central pennsylvania, showers and thunderstorms. this area in ohio is even nastier. that looks like it's going well south of us. e we don't have to worry about that. the futurecast is showing that that line in central pennsylvania reaches the lehigh valley ask birks county by 6:00. by 7:00 it's coming right into the philadelphia area through allentown and even northern delaware. by 8:30 it's past philadelphia and down into central delaware. it is getting down near the shore and by 10:30 it's moving offshore. so that it

smith started in november in pensacola, florida. >> are their shoes, are their socks? >> my shoes are nothing special, they're just average, 40, $50 pair of shoes. >> reporter: no matter the shows, it's not easy from crossing one state to another. in places where he could see the horizon and couldn't. >> i ran out of food before, and there was a kidnapping attempt, and rattlesnakes, and heat stroke. >> reporter: he broadcast to facebook live. >> go for a walk down here to union square. >> reporter: those who hear his message. >> there are people out there that care about you. most of the veterans that commit suicide today are from the vietnam era. >> a casserole. >> thank so much, thank you. >>> 3,000 miles down. 10,000 to go. in san francisco, simon perez, kpix 5. >> you can follow eli's travels on his facebook page. we've got a link at our page at cbssf.com. >>> people across the country are prepared to witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse, but the people running california's power grid have some concerns. >> chickens can't exactly fly, but how about chicken sa

. >> yesterday while president trump was in germany, vice president pensacola got to visit the kennedye center where this moment happened. and i think he announce wed might be invading mars. that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> mike pence sounded pretty excited about the future of space exploration while speaking at the kennedy space station yesterday. >> here from this bridge to space, our nation will return to the moon. and we will put american boots on the face of mars. [ applause ] >> boots on the ground on mars. it was during the tour, though, that pence really showed off his space fandom. when he saw this sign, oh, you bet it wasn't going to happen him from slapping a land on that critical piece of space hardware, despite a sign reading do not touch. pence embraced the moment today tweeting out an apology saying marco rubio dared him to do it. nasa issued its retroactive blessing. it was okay to touch the surface. those were just day to day reminder signs. we were going to clean it anyway. >>> did you watch rachel's show last night? she led it with a 20-minute exclusive report about

told you about this story as breaking news and this afternoon steven fisher is joining us live from pensacola landing. >> no harness or anything did they use to get to the top of the bridge here. i want to draw your attention up there now. the cables you see there is what police use to get to the top of that bridge. they also made it dangerous for the officers that had to go up there and get them. the ben franklin bridge to. apprehend two men that thought it would be a good idea. >> i've never seen anything like that in my life. it's crazy. >> when the two men were spotted hundreds of feet atop the bridge, they tried to hide. >> we don't recollect this having happened before. john hanson says this is a serious concern not knowing what the two men had planned. >> two individuals climbing cable and got to the top of the tower, they were dressed in black and carrying backpacks. >> when officers made it to the top, they arrested the man and brought them doin using a bridge elevator. they were not local. one from new york city and the other from ohio. in the meantime, the backpacks leaving police

investigators are looking for the cause of an explosion that took place at eglin air force base near pensacola, florida. no one was seriously hurt but the blast destroyed a lab that was in a building there on the base. for several hours people were warned to stay indoors because of this. look at the large cloud. it contained methyl chloride. that chemical has dissipated. larry: the fallout from the gory photo of brian sean -- katy griffith continues. she had an hour-long interview with the secret service a month after she released a photo of herself holding a severed trump head. alison: an assassination is how the new york police commissioner is describing the ambush that killed 48-year-old officer miosotis familia. the harrowing moments after the shooting caught on the police happened and what we know about the gunman. scott: the frantic call coming over the radio after midnight from officer miosotis familia's partner. police say familia was writing in her notebook when the suspect walked up to the window and shot her in the head. the shooter was this man, they say, alexander bonds seen here

of florida where investigators are looking for cause of an explosion at the air force base near pensacola. no one was seriously hurt when the blast destroyed a lab that was in a building on the base. for several hours, though, people we indoors and away from the huge cloud. it contained a chemical but it's since cleared. alison: we go to a developing story out of new york city where a police officer there was shot and killed as she sat in a command vehicle writing in a notebook. michelle marsh is at the "live desk" with the latest on this. michelle: the new york city police call this a clear assassination. this brutal attack, unprovoked. officer miosotis familia was sitting in a mobile command unit, as you mentioned, when she was ambushed. shot in the head. she was a 1246 year vet -- a 1246 -- 12-year veteran and mother of three, including a set of twins. her partner made this call for help. >> shots fired. [screaming] a bullet! [bleep] michelle: officers caught up with the gunman a few blocks away. 34-year-old alexander bonds. he was shot and killed when he pulled a gun on those officers

and find out what their hate story is for the day, and then i go to nbc and see morning joe, from pensacolawhat their hate stories are going to be, and they run with that all day long. i go to the bbc to find out what is going on in the world, what is going on in syria, ukraine, because everybody else is focused on a stupid meeting that somebody supposedly had. , and in i go back to fox love fox but their problem is they spend more time on fluff been real news. it is hard to get information. host: thanks for calling, charles. writing and twitter "since we are blaming democrats, they passed the bill with a one open geordie and no gop majority -- a one vote and no gop support." let's hear from louise. what is your take? caller: i hear all of these people calling in and saying let's go to medicare, let's all have medicare. i am on medicare. medicare pays 80% of what happens to you. you have to get insurance part b medicare and pay for that, plus prescription drugs also at that. i want to tell you that right now, my duck double -- deductible is $10,000 for combined insurance. and i have cancer.

down along the gulf coast from just outside of new orleans heading down towards panama city and pensacolarstorms for you. even storms around atlanta around an hour ago, and those storms are now dwindling and heading to your south. for today there are isolated strong storms today from skranton, wilkes-barre up to utica, poughkeepsie area. mostly wind damage. our friends late tonight from watertown up through northern minnesota we'll have a few to z storms. this is also the hottest week typically of the entire summer, and it's going to be no exception in the middle of the country. we have a little mini-meet wave coming. it will feel like 100 to 110 from about tuesday through thursday. >> all right. dangerous conditions where. >> absolutely. bill karins, thanks. >>> iran has announced it has sentenced an american graduate student to ten years in prison on spying charges. he disappeared months ago in iran where he was doing research for a doctoral thesis. he was identified. princeton university spokesman says they have been aware of wag's arrest for months, but they were working quietly to se

he was recognized as the hero officer of his graduating class preparing to go to flight school in pensacolae of designated drivers so no other familiar woman have to endure the tragedy they did. it's a positive campaign. this particular challenge is an exciting one to last all summer long. and it is challenging area bars and restaurants to come up with the next best mocktail, and we have had such wonderful feedback such creative drinks have been created and people are voting like crazy all summer long through labor day. >> how does it work? >> so we have 32 bars and restaurants. you can go on hero teeny.org to seat full list throughout cape may and atlantic counties, and you can go around to any of the bars and restaurants and sample their drink. they're also designated hero bartenders who are representing their establishments and their mocktails. you can try them and we encourage people to vote for their favorite mocktail favorite hero bartender and favorite hero establishment. and they can go to hero teeny.org or text to vote as well. and everyone has their favorite spot at the shore. if

this legislation impacts residents on novar beach and pensacola beach in florida's first congressional district. some those residents are being double taxed because they are forced to pay payments to the government in addition to lease payments. this legislation will grant fee simple tightle to those affected residents so they are not double taxed and simply make a payment like all other floridians. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. clay: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. clay: mr. speaker, h.r. 2370 introduced by representative gates settles a long-standing land management issue in his florida district. specifically the bill transfers land socialated with the former santa rosa -- associated with the former santa rosa island monument to escambia county. nce it's transferred, the bill authorizes a second transfer to santa rosa county without any conditions

out they're not supposed to get until later today and there are no delays or cancellations from pensacola should be all good. >> very excited to see you. >> thanks, mel. >>> 9:09 is the time. dc hiring practices under fire this morning after the city hired a registered sex offender in placed him in jobs which may ha p with children. his name a adam bryant. he was convicted in 2008 for traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual content with a minor as well enticing a child. he was fired by the city but if the city had used its own registry it could have flagged bryant before he was even hired. sources tell fox5 bryant was hired at the beginning of the year as an analyst for the protective services department. that's a law enforcement branch which is supposed to protect city rec centers and housing complexes. the department is also in charge of maintaining dc public sch schools. d.c. deputy mayor kevin donahue sent fox5 a statement that says... >>> fbi is looking for for new home nor years we talk you about it many times where it would end up it nowhere. search might be over. it

bay at pensacola. and then the winds kept pushing it to the east, and the tar balls ended up all over the tourism beaches of panama city. and then the winds did us a favor. they reversed, and they started taking it back to the west. so oil on some of the beaches, but what happened? for an entire year tourist season, the tourists didn't come to the gulf beaches not only in northwest florida, but all down the peninsula, all the way down to marco island. and they lost an entire tourist season. that's why people are so upset about any messing around. and this senator brings to us, as i have spoken of what has happened, as i have stood up for the last four decades to fight to prevent those kind of spills from happening again off of the state of florida, but now we have right here an issue in front of us something that could threaten the department of defense's mission for being ready to protect this nation. and in that case my recommendation to the senate is not to vote for this nomination for deputy secret