then more text messages. he's coming, eddie texts, then again, i'm going to die.sked her son if anyone was hurt. yes, lots. then still here in the bathroom, he has us. they need to come get us. hurry, he is in the bathroom with us. she asked is the man in the bathroom with you? his last reresponsibility at 2:50 a.m. he is a terrorist, yes. eddie justice died in the nightclub bathroom while eddie was texting for help, another man brandon wolf was tweeting. 2:17, omg, shooting at pulse. we hid in the bathroom and we can't find our friends. he tweeted he made a run for the door. neither of his two friends survived. the calls for help kept coming. this woman who didn't want to be identified got text messages from her daughter and two nieces who were inside the club. her daughter had been shot in the arm. >> please come and get us, please come and get us now, they're shooting. >> amanda alvear was snap chatting when it started. a friend captured that video and posted it on facebook. what you're about to hear in the background is the gunman's rapid fire. amanda did not

noor salman responded by calling her husband, but by texting and texting her husband quote i love you calls were not answered and texts were not answered and police showed up at her home early on sunday morning according to the police chief and told her what happened. that leaves the question how much did she know? she told investigators that her husband mentioned launching some form of attack. the question is was it this actual attack planned and will she be the first person to face charges? a grand jury will have to weigh the evidence to see if she is the first person to be arrested and charged in connection with the pulse nightclub shooting. we are getting details about the gunman's efforts to actually obtain that body armor. moments after the shooting happened, we learned he tried to purchase level three body armor. now the gun shop is coming forward saying there were several individuals who initially come into the store and tried to purchase police equipment. investigators did follow-up on some tips from the gun shop and later determined it was legitimate purchase. they were actu

sources tell ktvu that texts involve officers and a lieutenant. he is accused of sending this text to a white homicide investigator shows a kkk member on a

the gunman texting his wife to see if she had seen the news. noor salman reported and texting saying i love you and didn't get a response. it is important to point out the texts were exchanged at 4:00 a.m. two hours into the pulse nightclub shooting. clearly, investigators are taking a good look at her version of events as they continue to compile evidence. evidence presented to a grand jury. now usually grand juries meet monday through friday. it is possible we do not hear the final decision as to whether or not noor salman will be charged in the case. we will not hear that until next week. we will look out for that today. we are learning new information about the gunman and his attempts to allegedly purchase body armor. my colleague, drew griffin had an opportunity to speak to the owner of the gun shop in jensen beach which is south of ft. pierce, florida. he told the fbi that he initially called in suspicious individuals trying to purchase body armor. this was several weeks before the shooting. investigators did look into that and determined

, 30% actually text while they drive. and they did a study. there's something called the live text drive cam. it's a video. this is what the university of iowa researchers did, they studied these videos. they look at the last six seconds of a crash, and they can see what the kids were doing. 14.6% talking to passengers. kids are joking around. 12% the cell phone. 10.7%, they call it what if your soda spills or want to change the dial on the radio. that's sadly getting people killed. >> i think all states should have you can't text and drive, you can't talk on a cell phone that's in your hand. you can talk, you know, put it on the dashboard because they have technology to do that. all 50 states should do that. >> they don't. 46% ban texting while you drive. like arizona, texas, missouri, they don't have these laws against texting while driving. >> right. there's a website called backpage.com and it is forefront in human trafficking, underage sex, perverts who want that go to this website, then they get the hook-ups, they a

are the text messages that big of a deal? >> certainly mayor libby schaaf thinks so but what is sad and we have talked about this with the sergeant and homicide, these are some of the best officers to help crack indications and helped to put a debt in crime and assuming they may not make it, that is a loss for the department. >> obviously the investigators need to move forward but it is distracting from the real work that needs to be done and that is solving homicides and preventing homicides. >> a big case and whether or not the department will get out of it is a big decision. >>> we will have updates on ktvu and our mobile apps. >>> michael kateerman died last tuesday after his motorcycle collided with a minivan. he was with the police department for 11 years. law enforcement officers around the country are expected to attend his memorial service in downtown san jose. it will begin at 11:00 and we will stream it live on ktvu.com. >> air quality managers saying there is a spare the air alert. there is a flex alert for southe

sources tell ktvu that texts involve officers and a lieutenant. he is accused of sending this text to a white homicide investigator shows a kkk member on a cereal box. >> the officers are held to a code and african-american officer should not send around texts that are racist. >> i have learned that they are uncovered with the help of a homicide sergeant that had a falling out with a lieutenant accused of sending the texts. the sergeant is accused of having his mistress do his paperwork and it broke open after an officer's suicide and questions are being raised over robber warsaw. >> it was on the chief. >> i have reached out to the monitor but have not gotten responses. some are wondering whether kamala hair harris should be involved. she is monitoring the investigations and saying recent allegations are disturbing and reflect a serious breach of trust placed in officers that are sworn to serve. >> and we are learning about an arrest by a sergeant for domestic violence and it was not prosecuted after a careful review of the matter. >> henry, who

sources also tell us the texts were sent by an african american lieutenant to several officers. that lieutenant is also accused of sending to a white homicide investigator a text that shows a ku klux klan member on a cereal box and the message, i'm quote here, i hear you got boxes of these in your cupboard. civil rights attorney john burris calls the messages unaccepten. >> regardless of the race, they are held to the same moral code. a african american office should not be sending texts that are racially i thinked or racist in their -- tinged or racist in their nature. >> we have also learned the racist texts were unware uncovered with the help of a homicide sergeant who had a falling out with the lieutenant accused of sending the rates text. both the lieutenant and sergeant are on leave from the oakland police department. >>> a three-car crash in contra costa has turned into a stabbing investigation. pleasant hill police were assisted with the collision. witnesses saw one of the drivers bleeding and running from the scene. he went through back yards, jumped over fences. pleasa

. 30% actually text while they drive.. there is something called the live text drive cam. if you are a parent or grandparent i think you had should get this. this is a video. this is what the university of iowa researchers did. studied videos. record 12 seconds. they lock at the last six seconds of the crash and they could see what the kids were doing. 14.6% talking to passengers. kids are joking around. 12% the cell phone. 10.7% they called attending the vehicle. like what if your soda spills? what if you just want to look for something or change the dial on the radio? that's sadly getting people killed. >> now, i think all states should have you can't text and drive. you can't talk on a cell phone. you know, in your hand. you can talk, you know, put it on the dashboard because they have technology to do that i think all 50 states should have that. >> but they don't. >> they don't. >> 39% ban a cell phone if you are under 18. 46% ban texting while you drive. but like arizona, texas, missouri, they don't have these laws a

he really changed the debate not only looking at constitutional text but also a look at statutory text. as megan mentioned is published numbers of english books including a matter of interpretation. in that book he explained that the text matters. one reason the text matters is because if it doesn't matter, then you've got unelected judges sitting in very scored across the land that are putting their own policy preferences into a fact by contributing this text. and i think one of the ways we can see how influential justice scalia has been is to look at the legal opinions of the 1960s and the 1970s, and compare them to the legal opinions today. without exception nearly if you look at a legal opinion today regardless of the justice who wrote it, they will look to the text of the statute they will try to hearken back to the constitution. this wasn't the case before justice scalia. broad purpose was enough. if congress had intended such and such, or a judge thought congress intended such and such that was enough. today the courts and judges are required to look at the words that congress a

>>reporter: the texts sent in 2014, mayor schaaf says her team only recently learned of them. she would not say how many officers are involved or how far it goes up the chain of command. only, that it's fewer than the numbers involved in the opd sex scandal involving an underage prostitute. all this happening, while the department is under federal oversight, as it has been for the past 13 years.>> i believe the problem of a toxic, macho culture is not unique to the oakland police department. it is not unique even to policing,>>reporter: kate cagle kron 4 news.>> let's look at other top stories. >>> more on these scandal -- scandals later. >>> police and fire chiefs have already been reporting to sabrina landreth. on a day-to-day, there will be a ton of change with the new temporary structure. she is now leading the oakland police department, before that she was oakland city administrator for just over a year, she was also the city manager of emeryville, a native of oakland she worked for the city of oakland is a budget director and deputy sibert -- city administrator, no she's

who actually sent the text.ulie. >> reporter: that's right, liz. you know, the san francisco department of emergency management basically says this is a training exercise gone wrong. but most people out here in the tsunami zone at ocean beach today had no idea anything had happened. >> i didn't hear about it. >> i haven't heard about a tsunami warm. >> i thought maybe a siren. i didn't hear anything. >> reporter: folks enjoying ocean beach today knew nothing about this text alert warning of an earthquake that triggered a tsunami warning. >> let me assure everyone that tom is okay. >> very good to hear. >> and that there is no tsunami watch. >> reporter: francis of the department of emergency management wants to ensure everyone they are looking into how that false alarm went out. >> during training, we inadvertently sent out a message so we are going to look at what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: he explains they often test alert sf the subscription-based text alert system and this i

case regarding the text messages was determined to be unfounded. last week. police revealed one of its officers was on administrative leave. kron 4 confimred it was gant. and he was under investigation for criminal wrong doing related to accusations he allowed a girlfriend to help him write classified police reports. once publically named on friday, kron 4 sources say gant leaked the racial texts to a reporter. we're told the conclusions reached by internal affairs never set well with him. and we are learning today. that gant is married and the girlfriend mention in his case may have posted some of the classified police documents on social media. creating serious problems for the alameda county public defender. "his credibility is at issue on every single case he has ever touched" the investigation that is of particular concern involves the 2014 suicide of irma huerta lopez. she was the wife of opd officer brendan o'brien, who killed himself a year later after leaving a note implicating himself and several opd officers in having sex with an underage girl. >>

or drive or text and walk or text and talk or -- yeah. [ laughter ] >> does that work with voice texting? >> you do a lot of voice texting. >> it never comes out right. >> what is she trying to say?! [ laughter ] >> doesn't make sense. >> it's siri. >> kids do so much texting. my stepson 45 minutes, 128 text messages. >> that's a lot. >> i'll take a look at my daughter once in a while, she zones out. you try to get her attention she is focused on that. >> remember when we used to go outside, ride a bike? >> yeah. [ laughter ] >>> jumping to the roads, no texting and driving this morning. especially if you are driving on 580. right now, traffic is okay, less volume than earlier this morning heading toward 680. it's east of here where we find all those delays really since they have added express lanes. we are seeing a much better traffic pattern from the altamont pass to 680 but it's slow coming out of tracy so connecting from 205 over towards 580. earlier stalled big rig is cleared. 18 miles per hour in some spot. southbound 17 at redwood estates one lane is shut down for a brush fire. an

not only in looking at the constitutional text, but also in looking at statutory text. as megan mentioned, he's published numbers of influential books, including a matter of in that interpretation. in that book, he explains that the text matters. and one reason the text matters is because if it doesn't matter, then you've got unelected judges sitting in various courts across the land that are put their own policy preference into effect by interpreting this text. i think one of the ways we can see how influential justice scalia has been, is to look at the legal opinions of the 1960s and 1970s and compare them to the legal opinions today. without exception, nearly, if you look at a legal opinion today, regardless of the justice who wrote it, they will look to the text and the statute. and this wasn't the case before justice scalia. broad purpose was enough. if congress intended such and or such. or if a judge thought a congress enough. intended such and suc but today but today the courts and judges are required to look at the words that congress actually spoke. i think th

. >>> more trouble for oakland police as we learn more about racist text messages between the officers. we are live are henry lee. >>> the weather heating up are people dressing too casual for work? we're talking with a -- with a staffing manager about the casual dress for the office. >>> welcome to mornings on 2. you see a flag going up in honor of police officer michael katherman. you will see the profession leaving and heading out to san hoe aas the firefighters and police officers are paying tribute to the memorial will be at sap and we're there. we will hear from her in a moment. welcome to the news cast. and welcome this morning. >> nice to be here. >> and 11 years on the force protecting the citizens of san jose. >> as the case for a lot of officer funerals a lot of police officers not only from san jose but from all over the country. the doors will open for a public memorial for the police officer mike katherman. >> he was that motorcycle officer killed in the crash. he was on duty at the time, thousands and as you said officers from across the state, they are expected to atten

and those texts were sent by an african american police lieutenant who sent texts with pictures of thex of sealall. >> this is just a bad example. if you african americans do it, then white officers say it's okay for them to do it. black officers should in no way be involved in this kind of communication of racially tinged text messages. >> ktvu learned that the racist texts were uncovered with a homicide lieutenant who had a falling out with the -- a homicide sergeant who had a falling out with the lieutenant. both have been put on administrative leave. in fact, the sergeant has been accused of having his girlfriend filling out police reports. >>> time is now 8:37. there's also a new twist in that sex scandal allegedly involving oakland police and another law enforcement agencies. the examiner reports that the teenage sex worker who claims she had relationships with several east bay police officers when she was underage contact add san francisco deputy chief last year on social media but the examiner reports that communications did not go anyfurther. the deputy chief says that the wom

investigation of racist text messages sent by black police officer. outside opd headquarters with the developments. >> the mayor was angry, she could not disclose how many officers were involved in the racist text messages, paul figueroa does not appear to be involved, but he will be demoted if he decides to return from leave. the mayor condemned the oakland police department. >> i'm here to run a police department, not a frat house. >> the mayor was putting the city administer in charge. >> to root out a toxic macho culture. >> the mayor announced that paul figueroa is resigning. >> he's gone on leave and asked to return as is his right in the position of captain. >> the mayor announced another scandal. >> we're close to the end of an investigation of racist text messages, we think it's relevant to share the text messages were sent by african- american officers, but they are wholly inappropriate, and not acceptable from anyone who wears the badge of an oakland police department. >> she learned about the text messages last week, one person has been pl

she sent a text to him. she initiated this saying where are you and he sent back saying do you see what's happening on the news. she says no. and he said, i love you babe. whether those are the actual word of the text, i don't think they are. that's what we were told of the substance of this brief exchange of text messages. it is consistent with other things he was doing during the pause that around 2:30 or so after the initial shooting while he's holding up in the bathroom, he makes three 911 calls, he called the television producer saying he's doing this in the name of isis and a posting on facebook saying this all about isis and the exchange of text messages that was apparently initiated by her after a relative called to say where is omar. >> we were talking a lot about she maybe charged. what can you tell us about that? >> we are told that there is no rush to bring any charges against anybody at this point. they don't feel like anybody one else out there needs to be rounded up. they don't believe he acte

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my mother was sending me text messages. so i sent texts. when i went on facebook i goat a notification as well. i'm okay. people were asking is he okay. wonderful that they are doing that to get that quick notification to get that if you are trying to find your loved ones. >> you still go to orlando still a lot. >> i was there in march. >> yes. >> so, it hits close to home for me. it is sort of sad because i know so many people who used to go there and who went there and who love that place and for it to be taken away tragically in this way it is devastating. >> what a weekend, friday night, cristina got killed in orlando. >> yes, also. >> by somebody who was obsessed, some 27 years old, i think it was, obsessed with her. all right. well, one popular television host is telling young people not to follow their passion, contrary to popular beliefs. >> he tells people why, in this video commencement speech. take a look. >> if we're talking about your hobby, by all means let your passion lead you but when it comes to making a living it is easy

the man behind the orlando massacre texting his wife during the attack. this as the gun shop owner says he alerted the fbi to omar mateen before the shooting. >>> plus, a stunning accusation tonight, senator john mccain says president obama is, quote, directly responsible for the orlando massacre. and the hunt for the alligator that killed a 2-year-old boy at disney, his parents speaking out tonight. do they blame disney? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. missed warning signs. the fbi may have been warned about the orlando shooter days before the attack. a gun store owner in southern florida says he called the local fbi office when omar mateen came in his shop, trying to buy body armor and ammunition. the store owner says he got a call back from the fbi. the fbi, though, telling cnn it doesn't have a record of that call. also breaking tonight, law enforcement officials telling us mateen was searching facebook and texting his wife during the attack. he asked her if she had seen the news, she res

we had staffers read texts from their mom.e interest of equal time, we went around the office and asked them to read real text from their real dads. we hope you enjoy them and we hope they result in lessons learned. so, here we go. ♪ >> hey, this is your dad, if by any chance you still may be looking for a gift for me and i'm not anticipating that you're getting me a gift, but if you were looking for one i need sunglasses bad. i just lost my current pair of sunglasses. sincerely bill. >> my dad texts incomplete thoughts. yeah, there are things in l.a., dad. >> my dad texted me. this is exactly the kind of [ bleep] i hate. my dad drunk texts me anytime he's on vacation. hey, mom, you might want to get him some water. >> my dad's not very good at texting. thanks, dad. >> by the way, i tried to take a nap but couldn't so i went to the gym and put on some old school. i did five miles, 65 minutes on the elliptical machine. totally cool. >> i told my dad mitt romney was going to be on the show and he sent me this. this is from a 70-

only we have the never-before-seen texts. do they prove amber is tellin the truth about the abuse as new photos of bloody and bruised surface, we look at his history of violence. >> andersont% is "entertainment tonight." nancy o'dell has the night off. samantha harris is with me. >> today's top story. >> n shocking photos of amber heard which "e.t." has obtained. what they could expose about johnny depp and amber marriage. >> a bloody lip, bruising under her right eye. "people" magazine has the newly revealed pictures taken from amber's friend from another alleged incident last december when the actress, quote, truly feared my life was indanger. this is the never-before- texts between amber and johnny's assistant in may of approximately four months after the couple got engaged. senior news editor jennifer perils has been working on the messages. >> stephen texts amber he's incredibly apologetic and knows amber responds i don't know if i can stay with him. stephen says he wants to see you so much. he's distraught. amber answer

he came and saved me. >> texts she shared with me showed they were close. o'brian wrote there is no women in my life. she said i don't believe you. he responds except for you, i'm serious. >> we tell each other, but he knew what it was. >> you said you were seeing others including other officers. >> yeah, he knew i was seeing other officers too. >> last august celeste went to puerto rico to celebrate her 18th birthday. on the last night she was alone in a rough area and drunk in a bikini and the sun going down and her cell phone on the verge of dying. she called brendan o'brian for help, but he didn't pick up. she saw he was active on facebook and thought he was ignoring her. >> had i not been drinking i wouldn't have said a lot of the things i said. >> they argued by text and she threatened to tell her superiors that he had sex with her when she was 17. o'brian did not take it well. >> the last conversation with you by text he mentioned hurting himself. >> he said how would you feel if i died? >> celeste sent him a screen shot to a message to an opd sergea

he sends a text message to his brother, santos, who talked to us today for the first time. >> first textas at 2:25 a.m., he states here, i've been shot at a club. i'm dying. i love you. dead bodies on top of me. tell everyone i love them. >> reporter: he tells his brother to tell mom and dad i love them. but the text messages are so horrific, his brother thinks he's >> my heart just literally, it just, like -- it was broken. i was just like, my gosh, he was reaching out to me and i thought it was a joke this whole time. >> reporter: he wakes up their parents. >> says, no, no, it can't be. it's real. and he just started, you know, crying and we all did. >> reporter: all of them crying. unsure if their son would survive. one of his last text messages included this image from inside the bathroom. tonight, we have blurred out the faces. not everyone would survive. but their loved one would find himself in the midst of all of that horror in the bathroom. >> some of the people in the bathroom did not survive. >> reporter: he was in there with them? >> yes, he was. he was there. he was -- some

>>reporter: the texts were sent in 2014, mayor schaaf says her team just learned of them. she would not say how many officers are involved or how far it goes up the chain. it's fewer than the number of officers involved in the opd sex scandal involving and underage prostitute. all this happens while the department is under federal oversight, as it has been for the past 13 years. >> the problem of a toxic, macho culture is not unique to our police department. >>reporter: tonight, the mayor continues the national search for a new police chief for oakland. it appears they are looking for an outsider. reporting live in oakland, i'm kate cagle, kron 4 news.>> who is now, in charge of the oakland police department?>> grant lotus is here with some background.>>reporter: sabrina landis is turning, she says the police and fire chief have been reporting to her for about a year now, so that on days like this, it's not a ton of change that is occurring with temporary leadership that has her at the home of opd, at least for now. she is been city administrator for just over year, before

whole texting in relationships, back when i was dating back in the '80s and '90s, we didn't text.i'll be honest. >> frankie's going to be honest. >> i thought you were singing to me, frankie! >> i get a text, i'm trying to play it cool. >> how long do you wait? >> i think most guys are probably going to want to text you right back because they want to try to play it cool not look like -- >> how long should we wait? >> um -- no more than a day. >> a couple days. >> do you want us to text you back that quickly? that's the thing. >> i found if a woman likes you, everything that seems creepy and stalkery is not creepy and stalk er erie. it's only creepy and stalkery if you don't like the guy. >> don't men just go out and get what they want? >> then frankie will grab his guitar after your local news. >> they did in the caveman days >> they did in the caveman days when see, we can agree.reat. that one. ugh, come on. dad, can we turn up the heat? no. put on a sweater. honey, it's called a barber shop quartet. no! out! what? that was in! yeah finally, something the whole family can agree

he sent his brother a text from the chaos saying he was bleeding. >> last text said i got shot, i'm bleeding out, i'm dying. i love you guys. >> we're starting to hear from those who managed to survive this attack as well. >> recounted the attack to our david muir. >> pushing my head down. it's a state of panic. we just wanted to get out. >> we saw people screaming and falling. blood everywhere. >> for about 15, 20 people got shoved into a one-person bathroom. >> was your instinct to ground. >> i wanted to go get as close to the ground as i could. >> i heard more gun shots and kind of dodged and ducked and hid behind a suv. when i noticed he had been shot and on his shoulder, i let him know i'm here, i'll do whatever i can. >> the support for the victims was immediate around orlando as the call went out for blood donors as well. >> in fact, one blood bank, estimated as many 700 potential donors were lined up around the block. some people were turned away to come back today or tomorrow. >>> in new york city, though, there was quite a tribute at the stonewall at the 1969 riots that led to the

he came and saved me. >> texts she shared with me showed they were close.'brian wrote there is no women in my life. she said i don't believe you. he responds except for you, i'm serious. >> we tell each other, but he knew what it was. >> you said you were seeing others including other officers. >> yeah, he knew i was seeing other officers too. >> last august celeste went to puerto rico to celebrate her 18th birthday. on the last night she was alone in a rough area and drunk in a bikini and the sun going down and her cell phone on the verge of dying. she called brendan o'brian for help, but he didn't pick up. she saw he was active on facebook and thought he was ignoring her. >> had i not been drinking i wouldn't have said a lot of the things i said. >> they argued by text and she threatened to tell her superiors that he had sex with her when she was 17. o'brian did not take it well. >> the last conversation with you by text he mentioned hurting himself. >> he said how would you feel if i died? >> celeste sent him a screen shot to a message to an opd sergeant

and next, we could be tapping through those texts. how this works as we continue. >>> we have breaking news in martinez. sky 7 hd is live over the scene of a shooting near shell avenue and orchard lane well. have learned one person has been shot and a second, stabbed but there is no word on how serious either is. we'll bring you more information through push alerts open our mobile news app. >>> tela is willing to spend $2.8 billion to purchase solar city. tesla stock lost 12% following the news. stock in solar city surged by 14%. >>> trader joe's will spend $2 million to reduce coolant leaks from refrigerators. safeway and costco agreed to reduce the leaks. >> there could with' way to a text that doesn't limit you to a small keyboard. >> this product could potentially revolutionalize the by we interact with our smart phone. >> it's lunchtime in san francisco. >> this is hard to type. >> i have problems myself with tiny fingers in texting. >> reporter: a new system to free you from small key boards. it would be known as the tap. it can

. >> text her. she always got right back. >> i've seen her step out the shower to answer her phone. >> one day she didn't. where was naiela. >> i sent her an e-mail all caps, are you alive? >> there was no sign of her and such a confusing trail of clues. even the calls to 911 were silent. >> no voice, no struggles could be heard. >> this could be kind of eerie. in my heart i knew she's not coming back. >> one of the suspects had an alibi, until a camera caught him in a lie. >> he was the life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. >> and the strangest clue of all there in an empty parking lot. >> six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. >> why were they there? >> i watch enough "dateline" to know that's not a good sign. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline'. here's keith morrison with smoke and mirrors. it wasn't like this, it wasn't cold. no, it was hot and it was late after midnight september 27th, 2007. >> pretty secluded area next to a forest reserve. >> so it was and it was clear and dark and still,

in addition to criminal wrongdoing our sources say his involvement in the exchange of racist text textr investigation. >>> a coverage of the story continues on air and online. every story with on the file you can find there. you can also hear what mayor libby schaaf had to say about the scandal as well. head to our website. >>> the hottest start to summer ever in 3 western states. firefighters are's grambling -- are scrambling to put out for wildfires. one is near the us-mexico border. another is the sherpa fire in santa barbara county. firefighters plan to slowly lift evacuation orders for the sherpa fire starting tomorrow morning. the fire has been burning for about 1 week. 12 mi.2 and 54% contained. to fast-moving fires broke out in the angeles national forest yesterday. they believe one was sparked by a car running off the highway. it quickly grew to more than 2 mi.2. >> the fire is burning in steep terrain. heavy vegetation on the west side of the canyon. >> the 2nd fire in the angeles national forest started shortly after the 1st one. that prompted road closures and mandatory eva

messages with think is relevant to share the text messages percent by african-american officers and there are inappropriate and not acceptable this is an appropriate time to plan a civilian oversight of response department. >>reporter: she went on to say and she plans to not only seek punishment and but also for the wants to receive them and did not reported that is contributing to this popsicle trim and the department and despite the number of scandals and the have learned about just over the past few weeks she stands by the fact she says federal oversight and other reforms that happened inside of the department are working and factious as if it was for certain forms we would not know about some of the scandals taking place. >>reporter:. >>reporter: he did not want his personal life under the microscope if that is why he chose not to become the antrum police chief he replaced this man right here and throw can compare police and was marked a pity he was appointed on june 10th. >>reporter: the chief of police said he informed him that a decade ago he had an affair now with our heads

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coming up, the content of racist text messages from officers -- officers are accused of sending. >>> looking at the bridge commute and right now the bridge commute looks good. foggy in drizzly but that traffic on the golden gate bridge looks good heading south. >>> welcome back, new this morning authorities and belgian arrested a man after pre- nonsecurity and a major shopping center in downtown brussels. police were called to check out a suspicious package, no explosives were found in the shopping center and the man is being question now. belgium has been on a high threat alert since the attacks in march. at the airport and on the subway in brussels. they killed 32 people. >>> three-car crash has turned into a stabbing investigation. martinez please call yesterday afternoon to assist pleasant hill's police with the collision. witnesses saw one of the drivers bleeding and running from the scene, he went through backyards and jumped over fences. pleasant hill's police located him and discover he had been stabbed and martinez. pleasant hill police will investigate the crash juan martin

she received a last text from her 30-year-old son, a text which read, he's come, i'm going to die. that was from 30-year-old eddie, whose fate at this point is still unknown. >> that is so hard. our prayers and thoughts certainly go out to her and eddie's family, especially since his state right now is unknown after texting that to his mother. stephen, thank you so much. >> okay. we're reporting disturbing new details about omar mateen now coming to light after law enforcement confirming he was known to the fbi, interviewed twice. but apparently there was not enough evidence to arrest him on any terrorism-related charges. chief intelligence correspondent katherine herage live in washington. what more can you tell us? >> as we've been reporting since early today here at fox news, the suspect in the orlando shooting was known to the fbi as recently as 2013, and we had that confirmed at the news conference. he made commentsala alarming to his co-work easy. they investigated and were not able to substantiate. there was a second incident in 2014. what's happened, though, in the last cou

we are close to the end of an investigation of racist text messages. we do think it's relevant to share that the text messages were sent by african-american officers. they are wholly inappropriate, and not acceptable from anyone who wears the badge of the oakland police department. >> she said she learned about the text messages last weekend. one person has been placed on leave. the mayor says she expects the investigation to be concluded within weeks. >> i want to assure the citizens of oakland that we are help ends on rooting out this disgusting culture. >> police personnel and discipline decisions will be referred to sabrina lampert. >> i have been overseeing the day-to-day of our public safety department. but the police chief and the fire chief have been reporting directly to me. that structure has not changed >> city council members expressed their frustration >> i am stunned and it is disconcerting how little information we are provided is council members. >> the council members and the mayor said many officers are reporting honorably. >> the off

the text messages. what the killer was trying to communicate or what his wife knew was happening while this was unfolding? >> allison, not only the text messages but the fbi has come up with p statements during the interviews. that is enough to file some charges. having said that, the bureau does have the electronic devices, the phone that was used by the shooter. they have got all those text messages. it is going to be very interesting to see what the back and forth was. i know we have heard some of it. i am sure there was more. it sounds like he was communicating with her, trying to find out if his story on facebook was trending, what's going on on tv. i mean, she could have called 911 at that particular point. instead, she decided to call him back or attempted to call him back. >> art, there is another development, that is that a gun shop owner in that area of florida says that he tried to alert the fbi before this happened because somebody suspicious came in and was trying to buy a load of ammunitio