judy cochran has a class reunion coming up next month.natsot/cochran "let's see, i have 5 new commentse stays in touch with on facebook are finding it hard to believe the quiet girl in their class of 32 killed this. mayor judy cochran/livingston, tx"this is what i killed on monday and several wrote back, no you did not. i said yes, i did do that."but judy says you never know where life might take you.the grandmother, traveler and avid astros fan did something else earlier this year she never thought she'd do.she became mayor of livingston.but monday she got the big one.12 feet long, 580 pound at their family ranch along the trinity river.mayor judy cochran/livingston, tx "one shot in the head and he went under. typically they'll do what they call a death roll and just roll over and over and over. well, this one didn't."the gator could be responsible for a missing animal from the ranch.mayor judy cochran/livingston, tx "three years ago we came up missing a miniature horse, they are about so big, about like a big lab."polk county is one of a few core counties where you can only kill a ga

she and kurt cochran, the first victim of the attack had been visiting from america.rom the witness box she told the court she remembers the car being driven by khalid masood approaching them and then being on the ground. her husband had pushed her to safety, she told the court she doesn't remember him doing that but it was typical of him. kylie smith, a teacher, also gave evidence, she'd beenin teacher, also gave evidence, she'd been in london with some students and was on the bridge when the attack happened. in tears, she told the court how she remembers seeing the court how she remembers seeing the american couple holding hands beforehand. and she said the car came towards them... there was chaos and panic after, she said. three others on the bridge died as khalid masood drove into them over at westminster bridge, he then got out and stabbed pc keith palmer who died at the scene. the inquest will hear further evidence into kurt cochran‘s death before hearing the inquests into the four other victims. the inquest will continue here this afternoon into the death of le

among those lives, those of kurt cochran and melissa cochran from utah, tourists in london calmly walkingr bridge when tragedy struck. kurt cochran was the first to be hit by khalid masood's car. he pushed melissa out of the way before being knocked over the bridge's balustrade falling five metres to the thames that part. in court, melissa's sister called him the man who saved my sister. she then read a tribute and a half of melissa but described him as my inspiration, my rock star and my hero. next, the car hit a retired window cleaner, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he was greatly missed. his niece amanda said she was incredibly angry at his death. then, aysha frade was knocked 70 metres into the path of an oncoming bus, falling under its wheels. her husband spoke of their two young daughters and said she was cruelly and brutally ripped away from us. the last victim on the bridge was andreea cristea from romania. she was knocked over the balustrade, falling i2 romania. she was knocked over the balustrade, falling 12 metres into the river thames b

as chief hayes-white said, i was at a dinner to honor chief cochrane. i got to see him in civilian clothing. that might be the first time since you have been in that position that i have seen you in civilian clothing, but he was honoured for his response to 911 in new york city. there were 11 of you that went. but there were only four of them that we're honoured that night. three active firefighters. that was a good evening. as you may know, fleet week starts this friday. they have been hard at work on the event action plan for that. and coordinating with the military, the dem, it is a huge effort. so but the eap helps ensure our accountability and the smooth operations. so there is a senior leader his seminar within fleet week and we will bring a photo for you next time, but our fuel unit that we use is going to be on the cover of that. what i mean by the fuel unit cat is we have a rake that brings fuel to the vehicles that are -- we have a rig that brings fuel to vehicles that cannot be moved so part of what chief cochrane and the d.e.m. works on his

americans kurt and melissa cochran had flown to europe to celebrate their wedding anniversary.on for two and a half hours when the attack happened, leaving five people dead. daniel sandford reports. it was a task no wife would want. melissa cochran, still limping from her own serious injuries, arriving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband, who she now calls her hero. she told the court they were touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they'd just been to westminster abbey. they'd only been in london for two and a half hours, and they'd almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after twenty to three. "i remember hearing a car revving," she said today. "i remember seeing the front of the vehicle. the next thing i remember, being on the ground." she spent three and a half weeks in hospital in london, but kurt died, as big ben struck three o'clock. schoolteacher kylie smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand—in—hand when, suddenly, she

kurt cochran was the first to be hit by khalid masood's car.issa out of the way, before being knocked over the bridge‘s balustrade — falling five metres to the thames footpath. in court, melissa's sister angela called him the man who saved my sister. she then read a tribute on behalf of melissa that described him as my inspiration, my rock star and my hero. next, the car hit a retired window cleanerfrom clapham, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he was greatly missed. his niece amanda said she was incredibly angry at his death. then, aysha frade was knocked 70 metres into the path of an oncoming number 53 bus, falling under its wheels. her husband john spoke of their two young daughters and said she was cruelly and brutally ripped away from us. the last victim on the bridge was andreea cristea from romania. she was knocked over the balustrade, falling 12 metres into the river thames before being recovered downstream. herfamily said, after two excruciating weeks of hoping for a recovery, andreea died. it was

mr cochran was killed but his wife survived. our home affairs corrspondent daniel sandford reports.a task no wife would want. melissa cochran, still limping from her own serious injuries, arriving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband, who she now calls her hero. she told the court they'd been touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they had just been to westminster abbey and had only been in london for two and a half hours. they'd almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after 20 to three. "i remember hearing a car revving," she said today. "i remember seeing the front of the vehicle. the next thing i remember being on the ground." she spent 3.5 weeks in hospital in london, but kurt died as big ben struck 3 o'clock. schoolteacher kylie smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand in hand when suddenly she heard the revving of masood's car. in tears at times, she told the inquest, "the man tried to pull his girlfriend behind him, tried to s

kurt and melissa cochran had only been in london for two and a half hours before masood launched hisiel sandford, reports. it was a task no wife would want. melissa cochran, still limping from her own serious injuries, arriving to give evidence at the inquest into the death of her husband, who she now calls her hero. she told the court they‘d been touring europe to mark their wedding anniversary. they had just been to westminster abbey and had only been in london for two and a half hours. they‘d almost crossed the bridge when khalid masood began his attack. it was just after 20 to three. she spent three and a half weeks in hospital in london but kurt died as big ben struck three o‘clock. schoolteacher kylie smith was in westminster that day with a group of teenage pupils. kurt and melissa had caught her eye as they walked hand in hand when suddenly she heard the revving of masood‘s car. in tears at times, she told the inquest... she saw kurt knocked into the air by the car, and then chaos on the bridge. she told her pupils to run. they all made it safely home. it was on this pavement

kurt cochran was the first to be hit by the attacker khalid masood's car.ife melissa out of the way, before being knocked over the bridge‘s balustrade — falling five metres to the thames footpath below. in court, melissa's sister, angela stoll, called him "the man who saved my sister". she read a tribute from melissa, describing him as "my inspiration, my rock star and — most of all — my hero". next, the car hit a retired window cleaner from clapham, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he was greatly missed. his niece amanda said she always remembers him as smiling and happy. then, aysha frade was knocked i7 metres into the path of a number 53 bus, falling under its wheels. in court, her husband john spoke of their two young daughters and said: the last victim on the bridge was andreea cristea from romania. she was knocked over the railing, falling 12 metres into the river thames, before being recovered 100 metres downstream. herfamily said: the cctv the court watched was often harrowing and graphic, showing victims being

l it's big. >> reporter: thet time judy cochran was within range of this gator, she was firing at ither oranch. shot, and he went under. >> reporter: gators are no strangers to this ranch. l the in ponds there. but this 12-foot, 580-poundal gator was act prime sus in a mystery. >> about three years ago, we came up missing a miniature itrse, and we highly suspect a gator got >> reporter: so this year, they wanted to track this big boy down. but in polk county, there are rules. >> you can only hunt and kill a tor between september the 10th and september the 30th. and you have to he aermit and a tag. >> reporter: cochran says they had the permit and tag. >> i am a nuisance trapper. >> reporter: they brought out stephen moye to trap the male gator. he says he tried many a meal to alligator.t >> tried pork liver, offer wild boar. finally road kill raccoon. >> i underand well seasoned raccoon was the bait of choice. >> reporter: once he had the gator hooked, the mayor got a call. her day job, t running city of livingston. >> you can't just abandon your office. i did thosehings and ranome a

mayor cochran did it during a hunting trip on her ranch.unt. >> don't mess with great grandma. she also says that massive reptile wasn't a stranger, okay, here's this, her family believes it ate one of their miniature horses a few years ago. >> oh. >> so grandma had a vendetta. >> grandma can keep a grudge. >> yeah. grandma did not come to play. >> if i'm many of her political opponents, all right, you win. >> she plans to have the head mounted and keep part of the tail in her office. >> okay. that's where it got weird. >>> coming up, julie chen bids a tearful good-bye to "the talk." why she told her co-hosts and viewers why she's stepping down from the show. >>> and later in "the skinny," hear which co-star was totally distracted by chris hemsworth's bod. that's ahead in "the skinny" on "world news now." "world news now." and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. add downy to keep your collars from stretching. unlike detergent alone, downy conditions to smooth a

she and kurt cochran, the first victim of the attack, had been visiting from america.e told the court she remembers the car being driven by khalid masood approaching them, and then being on the ground. her husband had pushed her to safety. she told the court she doesn't remember him doing that, but it was typical of him. kylie smith, a teacher, also gave evidence. she'd been in london with some students and was on the bridge when the attack happened. in tears, she told the court how she remembered seeing the american couple holding hands beforehand. then she said... there was chaos and panic after, she said. three others on the bridge died as khalid masood drove into them over westminster bridge. he then got out and stabbed pc keith palmer, who died at the scene. the inquest will hear further evidence into kurt cochran‘s death, before hearing the inquest into the four other victims. helena lee reporting from the old bailey, where proccedings will continue this afternoon with the inquest examining the death of pensioner leslie rhodes. we will bring you the latest from t

and you have to have a permit and a tag. >> reporter: cochran says they had the permit and tag. >> ia nuisance trapper. >> reporter: they brought out stephen moye to trap the male gator. he says he tried many a meal to entice that alligator. >> tried pork liver, offered wild boar. finally road kill raccoon. >> i understand well seasoned raccoon was the bait of choice. >> reporter: once he had the gator hooked, the mayor got a call. her day job, running the city of livingston. >> you can't just abandon your office. i did those things and ran home and changed clothes. >> that's a monster. >> reporter: with one shot, she ended the problem. all in a day's work. >> this head is going in my office. >> reporter: that goes from running livingston to running a ranch. >> i became mayor in may and great-grandmother on friday and killed the gator on monday. >> what's next can get into next. >> wow, she does it all apparently. that was kprc reporting. >> that correspondent be more texas right there if it were florida. >>> just ahead, what's on the menu at hollywood's flaming hot pop up shop. >>>

she and kurt cochran, the first victim of the attack, had been visiting from america. the witness, box she told the court she remembers the car being driven by khalid masood approaching them, and then being on the ground. her husband had pushed her to safety. she told the court she doesn't remember him doing that, but it was typical of him. kylie smith, a teacher, also gave evidence. she'd been in london with some students and was on the bridge when the attack happened. in tears, she told the court how she remembers seeing the american couple holding hands beforehand. then, she said... there was chaos and panic after, she said. three others on the bridge died as khalid masood drove into them over westminster bridge. he then got out and stabbed pc keith palmer, who died at the scene. the inquest will hear further evidence into kurt cochran‘s death, before hearing the inquests into the four other victims. the inquest into a window cleaner who was 75 years old was opened here today. also, a doctor who was on the bridge at the time of the attack gave evidence and he went o

my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years.t give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressiv

north 101, cochrane. an accident in the left were lane. traffic heavy through the area. and i just wanted to remind folks in san francisco we have the dreamforce conference. traffic is just going to be a mess through the south market area all week long. you may want to consider mass transit, biking, walking instead. here's the bay bridge toll plaza. it is backed up into the maze right now. jessica. >> frances, thank you. happening today, the u.s. supreme court could decide whether to take up the martins beach lawsuit. tech billionaire kosla purchased 89 acres in san mateo county and then closed it to the public. a california appeals court forced kosla to open the gate. the court says he violated state law by closing it without access to the public. but he wants it overturned on the grounds that he does not need permission for a gate on his own property >> if you're an airbnb host you could soon own part of the platform. the change the san francisco company is pushing for. >>> skating into the the holidays. the colorful transformation coming to san francisco's civic cente

our president, our chairman, executive director and c.e.o., tom cochrane is here with us as well. he did not introduce themselves earlier but he and bob have been doing fantastic work making sure the business community of mayors have been working together for the last several years. we look forward to watching that partnership grow. questions? i will say this. i am with you -- if you get no questions, you wrap it up really quickly, i do want to congratulate mayor breach, not only taking her leadership role here in city hall, but almost immediately thereafter, she was named a cochair of mayors for the 100% clean and renewable energy partnership that we have with the sierra club. we are ready for 100. this leadership, i want to highlight because mayor bree joins myself and others in a barbed -- bipartisan, bicoastal commitment to this. this is not d.r. or red or blue issue. this is an issue that seems to protect america's feature and of course, make sure we maintain our rightful place in the world. as you meet people over the next several days, i am going back home to south carolina

among those lives, those of kurt cochran and melissa cochran from utah in the united states, touristsg across westminster bridge when tragedy struck. kurt cochran was the first to be hit by the attacker khalid masood's car. he pushed melissa out of the way before being knocked over the bridge's balustrade, falling five metres to the thames footpath below. in court, melissa's sister angela called him "the man who saved my sister". she then read a tribute on behalf of melissa that described him as "my inspiration, my rock star and most of all, my hero". next, the car hit a retired window cleanerfrom clapham, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he was greatly missed. his niece amanda said she was "incredibly angry" at his death. then aysha frade was knocked 70 metres into the path of an oncoming number 53 bus, falling under its wheels. in court, her husband john spoke of their two young daughters and said "she was cruelly and brutally ripped away from us". the last victim on the bridge was andreea cristea from romania. she was knocked over the balustra

kurt cochran was on holiday here. yesterday would have been his 56th birthday.t on behalf of his wife melissa said, "i was so lucky to have had 25 wonderful years with the man of my dreams. he made me laugh every single day. i cherish every single memory we made." the court heard leslie rhodes, a pensioner, known as les, was a private man who always helped others and loved hisjob as a window cleaner. aysha frade's husband told the court she lived and breathed for her daughters. they had two. andreea cristea was described as a lovely, enchanting young lady. today would have been her 33rd birthday. and pc keith palmer, who was stabbed and killed in the attack. his sister said the best day of his life was when his daughter was born. the inquest will hear from specialist witnesses who'll piece together what happened that day. and a second jury—led inquest will be held into the death of khalid masood, the man who carried out the attack. our news correspondent, keith doyle, is at the old bailey. keith, just a little more on the kind of evidence, including the visual e

cochran made sure to follow the rules. she said gator trapping is only legal in her -- i mean, she's the mayor, after all. it's only 20 days of the yea shepplied for the permit she needed. she did it right. now she said she wanted to keep the gator head for iherself. ther is. >> going to put it in her office. >> i don't know where you put it. >> the front door. >> it is a nearly 600-poun gator that eats horses. >> it was a mini horse. >> okay, but these things exist in real life. >> absolutely. that's the world we live in. >> amazon could be building 3,000 more stores with zero dashiers. >> the automa grocery store is called amazon go, promises no lines, no checkouts, and no registers. just grab what you need,yo and ur purchases are automatically charged to your account. how does this work? amazon told bloomberg t expansion should happen in the next threeyears. there are already three locations in seattle. it sounds like it would make sense, be nvenient, but i don't know. i don't trust it. >> i don't like it. not even a li

the inquest into the westminster bridge terror attack hears how american tourist kurt cochran lost hisees to stay on as governor of the bank of england until 2020 to help ensure a smoother brexit. i'm ben bland, in the business news. as you were hearing — mark carney extends his term as governor of the bank of england. he'd been due to step down injune next year — but the chancellor says mr carney agreed to stay on. philip hammond said next summer could be quite turbulent for the economyjust after brexit — and having mr carney still in post will help support a smooth exit from the eu. the bbc has discovered that the energy giant npower is "urgently investigating" how the personal details of around 5,000 customers were shared in a postal mailing. the letters included other customers' names, addresses, and payment amounts. no bank details were released and the information commissioner's office was notified. the company has apologised to all affected. wages grew faster than expected in the three months tojuly, as they continued to rise more quickly than average prices. earnings have now r

we had assistant deputy chief mike cochran, andy zanoff, and we had pat darcy, he works up at the 911 center, and i believe division three was there that night, as well, and jana was there, too. the next day, the chief rivera, chief nicholson, and mark corso and i met with the assistant city administrator to discuss where we're at in terms of our easter projects and that is a continued work in progress as they work to close a gap so what they're anticipating to be is more money for a project that is nearing completion, and that's the traffic company. it's not our project, it's the police department's project, but it was looked at in totality. so that will continue to be a discussion point related to possible movement of some funds to complete that project, and i'll have more information on that as time goes on. we also had the opportunity -- so we've celebrated ann kronenberg who was a pleasure to work with. mayor breed moved quickly and named her replacement. it's mary ellen carroll, who i've worked with and look forward to working with in an even closer capacity. she had begun her c

chief cochran's also been working on our incident management team. many of us are going to be in a five day training class next week, so it's basically how we're going to be running things from a -- whether it's logistics, operational point of view in the event of a large-scale disaster. and that is a uase funding class that we're having at treasure island. so we had a little bit, talk about wild land response. we have a rig called o.e.s.-361, and that is a state owned rig that we deploy -- we can deploy as a single unit resource with other rigs from the state, and that is remember mit is permitted to stay out for 15 days. the personnel are permitted to stay out for 15 days. that rig had been out at the mendocino fire for a month. it's my understanding it may be released correct, is that correct, chief? >> that's possible. >> okay. so that's possible. okay. so the last i heard, they were doing structure protection at lake pillsbury, which is in the mendocino national forest, and the other team is at the mill creek fire, as the other chief said, up in

kurt cochran died at the scene after being hit by the car.lie smith, who found it clearly difficult to give evidence. she was on the bridge with students. they we re on the bridge with students. they were visiting london and witnessed the attack. she said she looked over onto the other side of the bridge. she also heard the car revving and said she had seen the couple, melissa and kurt cochran, holding hands before the attack. she said it seems like they were having a good time. she recalls seeing the car mounting the pavement, hearing a lot of revving and seeing kurt cochran push his wife out of the way to safety. she was then thanked by the judge after giving evidence. she was in tears as she recalls the events from last month and the judge thanked her and said he was sure she had done everything she could to get the students to safety. she described after how there was panic and chaos after the attack and they went down the steps along the embankment to try to get her stu d e nts to embankment to try to get her students to safety. evidence

i want to point out that chief cochran -- i mean, chief nicholson was there. she did the climb. thank you so much. you are a huge personality. you beat me. [laughter] >> commissioner veronese: that will not happen again. but i appreciate -- >> president cleaveland: oh yes, it will. >> commissioner veronese: it may actually happen again. i have to say it won't. but it may happen again. but thank you for your participation, your encouragement and support of this important cause. we had close to 400 climbers that day. we raised close to -- so far close to $140,000 for first responders with ptsd. that money is available and now my next challenge is to let people know and break down those barriers so we actually receive those phone calls and put that money to use, which i found to be my biggest challenge from the money we raised last year is to get people to make that call and to step up if they need the help so that they can use those funds because it is there for them. and so again, thank you so much to the chief and to the support from the department. it is an important cause. >>

kurt cochran was the first to be hit by the attacker khalid masood's car.ssa out of the way, before being knocked over the bridge's balustrade — falling five metres to the thames footpath below. in court, melissa's sister, angela stoll, called him "the man who saved my sister". she read a tribute from melissa, describing him as "my inspiration, my rock star and — most of all — my hero". next, the car hit a retired window cleanerfrom clapham, leslie rhodes, dragging him 33 metres along the bridge. his family said he was greatly missed. his niece amanda said she always remembers him as smiling and happy. then, aysha frade was knocked i7 metres into the path of a number 53 bus, falling under its wheels. in court, her husband john spoke of their two young daughters and said, "she was cruelly and brutally ripped away from us". the last victim on the bridge was andreea cristea from romania. she was knocked over the railing, falling 12 metres into the river thames, before being recovered 100 metres downstream. her family said, "after two excruciating weeks of hopi

there were some calm moments in court, for example when the footage was shown of kurt cochran and hislissa just before the attack. you see two tourists walking across westminster bridge enjoying the sunshine in no way any normal tourist would, just in the moments before the attack. apart from that, the rest of the day has been exceptionally harrowing. we have seen the cctv footage of the car going across the bridge, victims being thrown into the air and you can see one of the victims being pushed under the wheels of a boss. it has been a difficult day, and for the relatives, they chose to leave the relatives, they chose to leave the court and they didn't want to watch the most difficult footage. which included when the attacker stabbed to death pc keith palmer. the day began in an emotional way and each relative was asked to paint and each relative was asked to paint a portrait of the person who died. some of them chose to read them themselves and that led to a lot of tea rs themselves and that led to a lot of tears in the courtroom and in some cases lots of tears on witness stand. it

cochran expect a crop she cooked could use better clips of meat balls which she could manage but she tried but the desire for glamour to be in front of the camera was just too great so she take off again she never managed to find a way to make the two halves of our life it together with to become both sides who knew she. relished artist career spans more than sixty films the best though are from a short period in france starting in the late one nine hundred sixty s. when she was at the peak of her powers i dare you to watch these movies and not fall head over heels. that's good she gave it. of course the opposite was true komi was beautiful and everyone a daughter at the end of the one nine hundred sixty s. even on number knowing it was waiting in line in lieu of her own gold for the classic film swimming pool and much was made of the on screen chemistry between the two starts. if you look at the beginning of the film it's hard to imagine that this chemistry wasn't also going on off screen only later said it was like embracing a wall and that their relationship was purely professiona