four atf agents are dead. 16 wounded.ber of casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. >> at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. >> mr. koresh, how are you doing? >> fair to middling. >> i understand you've been wounded. will you describe your position? >> weakening. >> are you shot, sir? >> yes, i am. >> well, communications opened up pretty quickly. he loved to talk. he loved to hear himself talk. >> how is god going to talk to me in the latter days? so there will be no excuse. >> so there was no lack of communication. there was a lack of productive communication. >> there's a lot of children here. i've had a lot of babies the last few years. >> is it true, david that, one of the children, a 2-year-old, is dead. >> yeah, that's true. >> he was so calm to a point where you began immediately questioning what kind of a personality are we dealing with? >> here we are at the day of the lord. god will be in the position for blood. >> koresh and the

just three adults, brewing the love. >>> i found out about the atf case.ready to indict this. we need to go to the u.s. attorney's office. >> the atf had a cigarette smuggling agent in our officer a year or two. >> and they see me come in the door. right away, here comes the fbi swooping in to take our case. say stop, before you say more, everyone in this room will sign a non-disclosure agreement. they're like, what? >> i think that's the first time in my 15 years as a prosecutor i had to do that. >> it was very dramatic. bob had to sign non-disclosure agreements. we were going to brophy him on the intelligence case and ties to hezbollah. >> so they started walking us through essentially the case the atf had been working on several slides and surveillance gathered and we were both where is this going? >> i'd say this is not a tobacco tax evasion scheme. >> they put a slide up on the screen of eight men who said there is a hezbollah cell in charlotte. >> and the room goes quiet. >> bob's a really good briefer. so when he gave that presentation to ken and u.

it went on for more than a year, captured in these under cover atf videos.off the street, including more than two dozen people banned from owning a came into into this machine shop outside los angeles to make one. this is roe confirming to undercover agents what they knew was about to happen. >> are you here to make yourself a rifle? is that what you're here to do? >> yes. >> roe was operating an unlicensed do it yourself assault-style weapons factor where customers could assemble ar 15s for no background checks performed. >> push the green button. >> that basically means you did it. >> he was warned by agents from the atf he was breaking the law. he kept doing it. was raided, indicted and if convicted, could have been on his way to prison but in a strange legal turn of events, the judge wrote a tentative ruling suggesting he was right all along and he didn't need a license to manufacture a key component of an ar-15. it came down to what does and does not constitute the manufacturing of a firearm and whether this highlighted part of an ar-15, the lower recei

a story in there somewhere thought the atf.ed to find out what it was. what does this tell you overall? >> what it tells us is there was an incredible amount of force in the explosion. >> reporter: most of these pieces were once part of the electrical box. >> you have washers. different types of hardware in here, screws, nuts, wire. >> reporter: other pieces just trash. but a few fragments, just a handful looked like they were pieces from a different puzzle. odd. >> cells from a 9-volt battery, galvanized steel ripped apart. >> reporter: parker sent off the misfit bits and pieces to the atf's west coast crime lab for analysis. >> to determine whether or not there was explosive residue present on some of the fragments that were collected out at the scene. >> reporter: like gun powder, gasoline, nitroglycerin? >> correct. >> reporter: then there was this discovered on the fifth day the investigation. the panel box door found 160 feet from the site of the explosion. >> about four feet tall, about two feet wide. probably weighs som

and that the atf's interpretation supported that. nicaliason took the government deal but considers his client a victim whose own customers included police officers an law- abiding citizens who just like making guns. >> but again, there were customers he didn't know. who bought part, made guns, and had no background checks. >> and that is true too. >> reporter: among roe's clients, 19 convicted felons. six domestic abusers, one customer even admitted trafficking guns into mexico. and it turns out, one more dangerous customer of joseph roe's do it yourself ar-15 business. >> the college is still very much a huge scene. >> reporter: on june 7, 2013, a mass shooting took place in santa monica california. a 23-year-old who had once been hospitalized for mental health and was later prohibited from purchasing a gun used an ar-15 rifle to kill five people before being shot and killed by police. a receipt shows five months before the shooting, the killer purchased a major part of an ar- 15 from joseph roe's business. though roe's attorney sa

atf agents, alcohol, tobacco and firearms served a warrant at the pipeline facility today. the investigation ramping up as the cleanup begins. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez is back on the site, as she was all day yesterday. and jodi, a lot of work to be done. contra costa fire is now turning over some of that work to nustar energy. >> reporter: that's right, jessica. there is an awful lot of work to be done. but as you mentioned, the contra costa fire district just announced that they will begin removing their fire crews from the scene and turning over the operation to nustar and its firefighting team. but a full-scale investigation, one that requires a search warrant is still under way. >> oh, it was a terrible, you know, explosion. >> reporter: carolyn and orville sanford say their entire house shook yesterday when two tanks burst into flames and smoke at the nustar energy facility down the street from their home. turning a quiet afternoon into a terrifying one. >> i thought oh, gosh, i hope they don't explode our whole town out. >> i thought oh, hell. we've had it now. >

atf agents, alcohol, tobacco and firearms served a warrant at the pipeline facility today. the investigation ramping up as the cleanup begins. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez is back on the site, as she was all day yesterday. and jodi, a lot of work to be done. contra costa fire is now turning over some of that work to nustar energy. >> reporter: that's right, jessica. there is an awful lot of work to be done. but as you mentioned, the contra costa fire district just announced that they will begin removing their fire crews from the scene and turning over the operation to nustar and full-sc >> oh, it was a terrible, you know, explosion. >> reporter: carolyn and orville sanford

what strategists are looking for is change around atf. about lendingng shares of atf to put the liquidity back on the market. what does governor kuroda think of this future? 70% of economists interviewed by our bloomberg team are looking for more stimulus being added by january. everybody has already decided what happens now. thank you. that was kathleen hays. our next guest is forecasting another 25 basis points in the fed cut. here is our guest from singapore. thank you for joining us. 25 basis point is really dates in now. could we also have a surprise? basis point cut? or a dovish hold? that could be something. >> i think it is already baked in. it will be a cut today. i think the markets have also price in that it is going to be a hawkish cut. even so, our view is that the real reason why the insurance cuts had been initiated was because of the external environment. that is because of the trade wars. even if phase one were to be signed, this still does not necessarily mean the trade war is over. at this point, you are already tradeto

>> atf's role any mass shoot we respond with all available resources as quickly as possible to assistith the investigation, we had agents there within 30 minutes to the seen, and assisted las vegas police deputy with securing the scene, evidence collection. we're looking at firearms and do an urgent trace of the firearms and determine if they were legal in and all themselves, and if they were purchased legal and identify the original purchaser of the gun, if that purchase was allowed to have them, he owned about 80 something guns he acquired from the beginning about 1986. but one year prior to the las vegas shooting, he purchased 55 guns. most of those were assault rifles, he accelerated the amount of guns he purchased a year prior. >> you were in the hotel room the day after it happened, when did you see, and your reaction? >> his was in the room. and i'll never forget what i saw. walked down the hallway, and the suite he was in was at the end was the hallway. you walk down the hallway there was hundreds of rounds of ammunition that had been fired down the sides of the walls of the h

that led to the death of an atf officer and those are two different things. are critical things about our democracy and equal powers of government and equal branches. the president has to sort of obey an impeachment request for certain documents. we're looking at a constitutional crisis. this hasn't happened in decades. >> it's a great piece and you should check it out on new yorker.com. david, thank you so much. we'll be right back. full of good. so you can be too. try our new warm grain bowls today. panera. food as it should be. here! here! here! here! being here matters but the cold and flu keeps some students from being here up to 60 million days every year. introducing 'here for healthy schools' a new program from lysol, dedicated to curbing the spread of illness in classrooms by teaching healthy habits and partnering with a smart thermometer company. learn about our mission at lysol.com >>> the united states is a beacon of democracy, a nation built on free speech, free and fair elections, a free press and freedom of assembly. the president of the united

you have to remember, too, we didn't sign up to fight the atf. >> a number of questions. i want to start with the idea that, yes, the size of the u.s. force there is by no means capable of stopping. >>> i need to go to ft. worth, texas. i'm sorry. >> they are in need of serious systematic reform. we are asking that the federal government comes in, the department of justice comes in and takes a conscious look at the policies and procedures that allow something like this tragedy to happen. this was a wellness call. it's beyond me to begin to understand what kind of police force responds to a wellness call with the equivalent of s.w.a.t. this department and their officers violated not only the rights of atatiana jefferson and her family, but they made a number of mistakes. they passed an open door. they failed to announce themselves. they passed a second open door. they failed to respond themselves. they went to a closed area. they didn't even have permission to enter that property. they started creeping around and created a deadly situation. the idea they have blasted image

. >> federal atf investigators are on scene along with cal osha, county, and other local agencies. the plant is shut down until such time osha determines it is no longer hazardous. a quarter million gallons of flammable ethanol materials were consumed, the equivalent of 28 big greg gasoline tanker trucks. so far firefighters have used one and a half million gallons of firefighting foam and water mixture to suppress the mixture. the usually dry containment areas that surround the tanks to prevent toxic runoff are holding a lot of materials from the tanks as well as the water and firefighting foam. >> we believe there is no risk of fire but out of an abundance of caution we are keeping foam blankets on both of those containment pods to mitigate any risk of further ignition. >> the tanks that sit next to the burned ones are being vented into the atmosphere to let off pressure. the tank anti- leaking valves were damaged in the fire. >> that system has been compromised because of the fire so they are venting those tanks to relieve pressure and eliminate risk of any fire associated with

then on february 28th, 1993, following a gun battle between the atf and members of a religious groupch davidians, federal agents lay siege to the group's compound near waco, texas. a suspected cache of illegal weapons is at the center of the controversy. >> mcveigh was just absolutely in a rage over both of those incidents, but the one thing that pushed him over the edge and turned him into a terrorist was the waco incident. >> at one point, mcveigh drives to waco to observe the siege. >> he went and parked his car nearby and he was selling anti-government pamphlets, giving interviews to at least one reporter back then about how much he distrusted the u.s. government. >> during an assault by the fbi on april 19th, the branch davidian compound is engulfed by fire. at least 76 men, women and children die during the inferno. >> mcveigh told us that he was convinced that the u.s. government purposely murdered women and children at the waco compound. it was all part of an effort to destroy gun rights in america. >> the triggering moment was waco. he was there, and he decided that the gove

newstar energy storage facility in crockett, investigators with the contra costa fire department, the atf, and other agencies served a search warrant on the site. >> at 11:30 this morning, we served a search warrant on newstar, and i want to quickly say that you should not form any opinions about that because this is a common practice. >> reporter: the evidence seized could include documents and computer servers that have video before and during the fire that consumed two tanks that contained about 250,000 gallons of ethanol. just 1% of their capacity. the huge fire sent a giant plume of black smoke over the area, forcing the closure of interstate 80 at the height of the evening commute. >> you can get the long-term health effects from smoke, b that's when you're exposed for a period of time, not this few hours we had last night. >> reporter: in the meantime, the chairman of the contra costa board of supervisors is calling on his county to introduce legislation to include newstar and other facilities like it in contra costa's existing industrial safety ordinance. >> this facility does not

look at this one atf showing software stocks like oracle and intuit. they have seen a huge plunge since there july high --their july high. this is after finishing under their 200 day moving average. a lot of people saying what do they have in common with those companies that were lining up for an ipo and we had disappointing or failed ipo's from uber? the weis is calling this work flu where you see investors be more cautious about businesses with high valuations. amanda: we will talk a little more about private equities and all of that coming up. in terms of the other things worrying the markets, we have been talking about the eif at -- the ifn, it was going to be closely watched because of the weak post. this is below the most pessimistic projections. we do have concerns about the services and the consumer. take a look at what that does to the odds of a fed rate cut in october. that was a moving target today. we see that markets whipsawed because we saw expectations change. interesting to see the market start to price that in and rebound a little bit

. >> over the next ten years you can make 68% by buying an atf.bviously there is relative volatility. if you bite and etf and if you bought a ten year government bond you'd make 1.67%. it was in 1981 that i can buy a ten year at 14 and seven nights. >> 14%? >> august of 1991. >> locale rates have fallen. they provide valuations of the company. i am in a camp that believes that multiples of private equity and others are paying five to ten years is not sustainable. so that is the way we look at the world. >> let me ask about the headlines of the week. swab said it's going to eliminate all commissions, online stock trade in the financial service sector, td ameritrade follows through. the stocks got killed this week. is there value? >> i think there's an opportunity and when you cut through how quickly the prices come down to the underlying earnings, the net interest margin spread quite well. will happen, they said enough is enough. robin hood is taking business away, let's preempt them. the impediments of the world. let's cut the commission cost to 0

the atf and cal/osha are also investigated. and issued a routine search warrant. they issued an order to preserve evidence on those two tanks and the pipes involved in the fire >> reporter: cal osha said although they have up to six months to finish the investigation they plan to make this a top priority, interviewing employees and reviewing all safety and maintenance records. >> it may include sending some of the materials, pipes, etc., to specialists for information on exactly what occurred. >> reporter: into the night nustar contractors were removing the spelled ethanol and firefighting foam with big trucks. the county said the petrochemical mutual aid organization is open to monitor operations with a specially trained firefighters . the county fire district said it could be weeks or even months before this facility is able to reopen. jana katsuyama, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> we've also learned that one of the emergency sirens in the area of the fire did not sound during the emergency. the contra costa county sheriff's office said it may have been damaged by the exp

atf has provided certified fire investigators to help look into the cause.o today a contra costa judge signed off on a search warrant to collect valuable evidence. >>> you should not form any opinions about that. this is a common practice. in that many many fire investigations.>> reporter: nustar has not responded to a request for comments about the search warrant. investigators say the texas- based company has been cooperative with the investigation. those in the area want an explanation of what happened quickly. >>> how did it happen? how does something like that happen? >> reporter: michael who lives down the street from the facility said he feels safe tonight and is not worried about the air quality. he has lived here for five years and said he has never had a reason to question safety practices at nustar. >>> they have been a good neighbor to me.>> reporter: the power was turned on in this area around 2 pm this afternoon. they allowed them to get access of surveillance video and anything else on computer. items which are normally covered under a search

got new star that is trying to work on repair plans and at the same time you've got multiple agencies atf well as fire investigators as well as the air quality management district and cal osha. all scouring this facility trying to get answers. >>multiple agencies are now trying to piece together what caused tuesday's take explosion and fire at the new star fuel storage facility and whether the company violated any regulations before during as a result of the incident, what investigators are doing as we speak they're doing a site survey. >>they are i'm interviewing any witnesses that where there when the incident occurred. employees the employers. give unions are involved or terror. interviewing union representatives are also doing a very thorough review of all of the safety room and training records. >>air come out to rosa is with cal osha, the state worker safety agency that's among those investigating the incident. it's cal osha that issued the shutdown order meaning the facility will remain closed until new star can prove it can operate safely again. but state regulators say new star h

. >> reporter: the investigators are working with the atf, the sheriffs department and the d a's office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance video. >> they are working as one team. >> we shouldn't be subjected to this. we do not -- clearly, we do not want industrial facilities having accidents like this. >> reporter: and we are back here live. again, firefighters now tell us that they have begun removing some of that foam. they are putting that foam into those red containers you see behind us. this is going to be a very long process. they have got a lot of material to work with. they also tell me that the folks here at nustar are fully cooperating with the investigation, adding that a search warrant in a case of this magnitude is not uncommon. reporting live, jodi hernandez. >> thanks for that update. >>> now, that black smoke billowed from the nustar fire for hours. it's gone. but the question is what hazardous particles were in that smoke and how hazardous was it? firefighters also sprayed a blanket of foam all day to help contain the fire. t

instead, owners of those weapons would have to register the gun with atf . >>> hundreds of people gathered to remember the victims of the 2017 las vegas mass shooting. monday marked two years since the shooting. a sunrise remembrance ceremony was held to honor the fda people killed at a music festival. city officials read each name and lit a candle for each victim. the 2017 las vegas shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history . >>> the national rifle association claims victory over the city of san francisco after mayor london breed told city department heads to stop calling the nra a terrorist organization. mayor breed told city officials they cannot investigate the possible ties of city contractors to the nra. in a memo cowritten by the city attorney, mayor breed said the board can only enact new contracting requirements by ordinance and resolutions have no legal weight. the mayor said until the board approves an ordinance, no department will take steps to assess the relationships between city contractors and the nra.conceding. the mayor went on twitter yesterday and s

the atf and cal osha are also investigating. >> they issued an order to preserve evidence almost to tanks and the pipes involved in the fire. >> repormonths to 10 investigat they will make it a top priority. >> it may include sending some of the materials, pipes, etc., to specialists for information on, you know, exactly what occurred. >> reporter: tonight, we have seen new star contractors removing the spilled ethanol and the firefighter foam with big tracks. the county says they are working with petrochemical mutual aid organization firefighters to help monitor the operations. they have special equipment and also specially trained firefighters for these hazmat situations. and it could be weeks or even months, they say, before this facility reopens. >>> three women are coming forward with sex abuse allegations by a catholic pastor in the bay area. and relay tells us they are among the first to use a new law to file civil lawsuits against the church. >> month cigna green definitely a monster, he molested probably hundreds of young girls. >> dennis doan is one of three women at the diocese

they say their team which includes federal atf. investigators has already started interviewing employees in reviewing documents but an unseen inspection. we'll have to wait until that fuel is drain from containment ponds and adjacent tanks are vented to relieve pressure. both operations have been delayed what we're finding is that there is some infrastructure damage to some pipes and valves. >>that duck annex interconnects these tanks in this. >>tank farm behind me we are working on lot of this process at this point it's a slow process. >>still fire officials are convinced there remains little threat to the surrounding community. >>there is a public threat side of this facility and we further believe that inside the facility taken all the necessary steps to ensure that we don't have any kind of safety problem remission of a fire everything. >>remains to be seen is whether this work will continue throughout the night or will come to an end sunset and then resume at sunrise, we hope to get some of those questions answered coming up.

but now cal osha, the atf, contra costa fire and the d.a.'office have a full-scale investigation under way. >> to determine what happened and couldt happen again and ensure before that -- before that shutdown order is lifted that the -- that newstar energy can operate safely. >> reporter: meanwhile, the crockett fire department is staying on top of hotspots around the plant. firefighters with a small all-volunteer fire department rehe first to respond to tuesday's fire. an experience they'll never forget. >> we're very proud of that k t handled this, chief did a fantastic job managing incident. yeah, it really went well. >> reporter: we're back here live. you can see there is still firefighter presence out here at new star. now, i also just got off the phone with the chief of contra costa county's environmental heth he just told me that the test results from those air samples at the bay area air quality management district took out here on tuesday night are in and he hopes to be releasing those soon. reporting live in contra costai area news.

the cause of this explosion and fire is still unknown, but nbc bay area was the first to report that atf agents served a search warrant at the nustar facility in crockett. the feds want know was this fire accidental? we've also learned agents spent facility. nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in crockett now with the very latest. cheryl?well con fire crews are now gone. they turned things over to nustar. it will be a long time before we know what caused this explosion and fire but right now authorities are working to try and find out. it is unclear what agents were looking for while serving a search warrant at the nustar tell nbc bay area that investigators lacked confidence in the facility's records and recordkeeping procedures. as the investigation begins the work for firefighters has ended. >> we are confident that at this point there's no longer any threat of any kind of ignition fire related to what occurred yesterday afternoon. >> reporter: still the situation at the facility needs to be monitored. >> we're turning it over to nustar. they have their own fire suppression capabilities lef

done several reports recently and they're about to have one on handling of confidential services with atf, with the dea and found a number of issues there. the program issues are, again, the frustrations at times that those kind of reports, the overview reports, because they don't have a catchy headline or gotcha moment in them don't get the wide coverage that i think it should get. i'm not the editor of "the washington post." >> today the d.e.a. opioid report is in "the post," rightly so, in the public imagination for good reason and that is very well timed and helpful. >> the ig is here? >> yes. >> what grade would you give obamacare? >> this is good, i'm not the only one -- >> i can give you the names. >> no, no, that's okay. please. >> how is obamacare doing if you had to give it a grade, what would it be? a c, a b, incomplete? >> the way we look at obamacare is broadly with the intent of obamacare, have value driven care and that type of care actually transcends across medicare and medicaid. in some of the areas the center for disease control, nih. it's a very broad vision as far as

the atf and osha are insearch warrant. issued a >> they issued it in order to preserve evidence and they also issued a shutdown order or order to prohibit use on the facility to ensure that any imminent hazards are addressed. >> reporter: cal osha says they have six months to finish the investigation but they plan to make it a top priority. >> it may include sending some of the materials to specialists for information on, you know, exactly what occurred. >> reporter: cal osha tells me this new star facility has no history of violations on the record. only a few accidents in 20 is a, one employee falling off of a golf cart. if they find violations in this case it could be penalties up to $130,000. >> jana, is the operation essentially back up and on operating or if not when will it happen? >> reporter: it is shut down for now, frank. cal osha is over seeing this. they will not allow it to go back up until they have finished the investigation and make sure it's safe. they say it could take weeks, even months. they're trying

the fbi, the dea, the atf, and ordinarily those agencies in the first instance begin to look at incidents to see whether or not they were illegal. they begin to investigate if there is something there. then they get the attorney's involved. the prosecutors at the department of justice lead by bill bar, and that is how criminal investigations usually unfold. not the prosecutors as headed by bill barr, running around looking for crime or looking to undo investigations that have already been done if seems like bill bar wakes up every morning saying to himself what crimes can i clear the president of today? >> there is somebody that is the president's lawyer, democrats have subpoenaed him for documents relating to ukraine. here he is last night on whether or not he will testify. >> i don't know, i'm weighing the alternatives. i'm going through it, i'm getting my evidence together,ly get my charts. i don't know if they will let me use videotapes and tape recordings that i have. i gathered all of this evidence before the mueller probe ended. so it was clearly under my responsibility as the lawy

federal atf investigators are unseen along with county, fire and leather other agencies. the plant is shut down until osha determines it is no longer hazardous. a quarter million gallons of flammable ethanol was consumed, the equivalent of 28 big rig gasoline tanker trucks. so far firefighters have used one and a half million gallons of firefighting foam and water mixture to suppress the fire. the usually dry containment areas that surround the tanks to prevent toxic runoff are currently holding a lot of materials from the tanks as well as the water and firefighting foam. >> the team is in their making a determination of what the makeup of that material is. we believe there is no longer risk of fire. out of the abundance of caution we are keeping foam blanket on both of those containment pods to mitigate any rest of any further ignition. the tanks are being vented into the office here to vent off pressure for safety reasons. the tank anti-leaking valves were damaged in the fire. >> system has been compromised because of the fire. they are venting those to relieve pressure

atf, state and local agents did serve a search warrant. we still don't know what agents were looking for. nustar is once again overseeing operations. they blanketed foam over the two gas tanks that exploded. >> we are confident there's no longer a threat of any ignition, fire. they shut down highway 80. fortunately no one was injured. >>> an attempted assault caught onera leaving people in san francisco in one neighborhood very on edge, one of two similar incidents that happened minutes apart. you can seep the man on the sidewalk start running for his life after a car stopped and a man jumped out with a baseball bat. two of the men were wearing masks. another man escaped the same group moments earlier a few blocks away. >> i thought it was a real possibility i would be killed. one swing with a baseball bat. >> that man says he took off running and calling 911. he escaped unharmed as well. police are still looking for those attackers. >> more bad news on the housing crisis. a bleak picture for those living paycheck to paycheck. roz plater w

atf, state and local agents, did serve a search warrant. we still don't know what agents were looking for. no one was injured in the explosion. >>> 5:05 and only on nbc bay area an attempted assault caught on camera leaving people in one neighborhood on edge. you can see the man on the sidewalk start to run for his life after a car suddenly stops and one man jumped out with a baseball bat. two of the men had maxs on. another man said he escaped the same group moments earlier. >> a very real possibility that i was going to be killed. >> he says he took off running and called 911. again, he did escape unharmed, but police are investigating and trying to track down those suspects. >>> two troubling new reports paint a bleak picture of bay area housing. what one south bay city is trying to do about it. this is something a lot of us talk about almost every day. >> reporter: and we will be talking more about it because we're hiring a lot more people, creating more jobs. they are paying lower jobs. new construction behind me here but not nearly en

atf agents arrived at the scene to search the nustar facility in crockett. >> that fire lasted for seven hours. it clogged the area with thick, toxic, black smoke, forcing people to remain in their homes. ktvu's tom vacar was out there yesterday, he was there again this afternoon. investigators got a search warrant for nustar, is that unusual or standard operating procedure? >> reporter: it's pretty much standard operating procedure, but they do say they want to get to the bottom of it. you will see some fire trucks down between the tanks, and then the foreground, you're going to see a dry ground underneath these tanks, closest to us. but then, if you look behind, you'll see a white lake on the tanks that are farthest from us. you can also see, where they've been scorched a bit by the heat. that's how much foam that they have actually put down on this. but as you said, the contra costa county fire agency issued a warrant on nustar agency f investigators are on the scene along with cal osha, county, fire, and other local agencies. the plant is essentially shut down until such time osha de

and so the fbi started working as a joint task force with atf and because we had bombs in the mail, with the postal inspection service. >> the task force dubs the investigation una bomb. university and airline bombings because the first four bombs were affiliated with university locations or airlines. >> from the beginning, the investigation is hampered by a lack of evidence. the unabomber's devices are relatively crude, making it difficult to trace them back to their maker. >> there wasn't a lot of evidence left. and the evidence that we could identify, matches and pieces of wood, nails, were the kinds of things you could buy at any hardware store. >> we started calling him early the junkyard bomber, because in fact he would make these bombs from scratch. he didn't go buy components and pieces of metal and that type of thing. he went out to piles of old abandoned cars, to carve off chrome to use in his bomb construction. he used scraps of wood. >> everything you find at a bomb scene, everybody single piece of evidence is critical because, for one, you have to decide how the device funct

particularly lately when they have sent atf agents here to prosecute gun crimes through the federal court>> jonathan said he could not in good conscience stand by in the face of racial insults and hatred, and while the city of chicago is harshly criticized for sanctuary city politics. >> i have issues with being attacked as a city. you know, some of the divisiveness that has come out of it. me as a police superintendent, i try not to be political about anything, but i just think right now for the sake of the city of chicago, it is best for me to sit this one out. >> fop president says that it has less to do with a recent suspicious and embarrassing incident for the superintendent, found slumped over the wheel of his official car just blocks away from his home. johnson said he had failed to update his medication and initiated an investigation of himself. jonathan later told the mayor that he had a few drinks before he was found literally slumped over the wheel. and the fop says they just won an objective investigation. >> harris: mike tobi fox we wily focused this weekend on a special town

benefit from the federal government in the last few years, particularly lately when they have sent atf agents here to prosecute gun crimes through the federal courts. >> president trump will be speaking at the international association of police chiefs. johnson said after the racial insults and criticisms of chicago come he cannot attend it in good conscience. >> i have issues with being attacked as a city. some of the divisiveness that's come out of it. we as a police superintendent, i've tried not to be political about the si things but i thinkr the city of chicago it's best for me to sit it out. >> the fop says the vote was a result of a history of problems with superintendent johnson. it doesn't have much to do with an embarrassing and suspicious incident for the top cop. earlier this month he was found slumped over the wheel of his car. johnson blamed the incident on medication and ordered an investigation of himself. he later admitted he had a few drinks before it was found literally asleep at the wheel. the fop lodge says he's got the presumption of innocence may just one of you

instead, owners of the weapons would have to register the guns with atf . >>> new numbers from last week'sration day. an estimated 400,000 people either register to vote for the first time or they updated their voter registration on tuesday, september 24. if you still have not registered to vote in california, you have until 15 days before election day . >>> today the annual full-scale emergency exercise at san francisco international airport will take place. i want to take you to sfo this morning. this year's drill simulates a chemical weapons attack on board a plane. these exercises are designed to test the airport's disaster preparedness. past years included a gunman going on a shooting rampage inside the airport. today's drill involves a terrorist using chemical weapons on a jumbo jet. more than 20 local, and state agencies are taking part including different airlines and hospitals. >>> some of the biggest names in technology, sports and movies are in san francisco this week for the techcruch disrupt conference. it's an annual event hosted by the tech industry news site, techcrunch. th

fbi and atf are both on scene helping with this investigation. elaine?> mireya villareal, thank you. >>> tonight, thousands gathered at a vig nil pittsburgh to remember the victims of the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. it was a year ago today that a gunman killed 11 people and wounded seven others at the tree of life synagogue. the building remains closed but the congregation's rabbi vowed it will reopen. if not, he said, evil wins. >>> former democratic congressman john conyers jr. has died. conyers served his michigan district for 52 years. he resigned in 2017 after multiple charges of sexual harassment were brought against him. john conyers was 90 years old. >>> coming up -- gas prices in california are sky high. but what's driving pump prices? >>> and another high. the big business of legal weed in the golden state. >>> plus, a special honor for one of the very first guards at the tomb of the unknowns. >>> california drivers are feeling real pain at the pump. tonight they're paying about $1.50 more a gallon than the national average.

instead, owners would have to register them with the atf . >>> hundreds gathered to remember the victimsthe 2017 las vegas mass shooting. monday marked two years since the shooting. a sunrise remembrance ceremony was held to honor the 58 people killed at the music festival. city officials read each name as they lit a candle for each of those killed. the 2017 las vegas shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history . >>> the national rifle association claims victory over the city of san francisco after mayor london breed told city department heads to stop calling the nra a terrorist organization. mayor breed told city officials they cannot investigate the possible ties of city contractors to the national rifle association. in a memo cowritten by the city attorney mayor breed said the board can only enact new contracting requirements by ordnance and the resolution has no legal weight. the mayor states that until the board approves an ordinance, no department will take steps to assess the relationships between city contractors and the nra. the nra said the memo was a clear c

the atf and cal/osha are also investigating and issued a routine search warrant. >> issued an order to preserve evidence on those two tanks and the pipes involved in the fire pit >> reporter: cal/osha said although they have up to six months to finished the investigation, they plan to make this a top priority, interviewing employees and reviewing all safety and maintenance records. >> it may include sending some of the materials, pipes, etc., to specialists for information on exactly what occurred. >> reporter: into the night, nustar contractors were removing these build ethanol and firefighting phone with big trucks. the counties of the petrochemical mutual aid orgation is helping to monitor operations with specially trained firefighters. the county fire district says it could be weeks or even months before this facility is able to reopen.jana katsuyama, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> we have also learned that one of the emergency sirens in the area of the fire did not sound during the emergency. the contra costa county sheriff's office says it may have been damaged by the explosion and fire. f

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