1700 block of balsam avenue around midnight. they say gunfire was going off inside the home as it was burning. it was fully involved from the rear. we are told the way the house is built made it difficult for crews to gain access inside the home. it
took them close to 45 minutes to put the fire out. we are going to continue to gather more information out here and will have another live update at 5. live in birmingham af cbs42 news isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon.
partly sunny, with a high near chance of precipitation is good morning! we are accident and delay free so far this morning. all interstates and major highways in birmingham, tuscaloosa and surrounding areas are flowing freely!
we are monitoring conditions closely and will bring you the latest every ten minutes. developing now..one person is dead and five others hurt after a shooting in a gate cantey joins us live from outside of birmingham police headquarters.sarah what happened?
art- those 6 people were shot just after a community anti-violence rally. it happened just a few blocks one person died the other five injured are expected to be ok. organizers were hosting a stop the violence event after an officer-involved shooting in
the area a few days ago. the organizer says he feels terrible saying over and over again...we need change. and in the next half hour...you'll hear from the organizer and how he was trying to avoid this. live in birmingham. sc. cbs 42
news. happening today --jury selection expected to start in son to die in a hot car in georgia.ross is from tuscaloosa. he faces several charges -- including malice murder --in the death of 22-month-old cooper harris.
he died in june 2014 after being left in harris' s-u-v for seven hours. the trial is in brunswick, georgia. it was moved from the atlanta area because of pre-trial publicity. opening statements are set for
right now --charter schools are gaining popularity in several states..including state. established charter schools must answer to the school board in the area where they are located. birmingham city schools are
now working on a plan to become a charter school authorizer. soon --one this wednesday, september 14th, the second one both are at 5-30 p-m in the parker high school auditorium. today marks two weeks until the first presidential
debate.. and there's a new issue likely to take center stage diagnosed with pneumonia. < (natz full) "i'm feeling great." hillary clinton says she is feeling fine but has cancelled
a 2-day fundraising trip to california. her doctor says the 68-year-old was diagnosed with pneumonia on friday, although the illness was not publically revealed until clinton stumbled sunday when leaving the 9/11 ceremony at ground zero.
)s manhattan apartment for a few hours after the incident and then headed to her suburban home not far from new york city. (graphic) her doctor issued a statement saying: while at this morning's
event she became overheated and dehydrated. i have just examined her and she is now rehydrated and recovering nicely. donald trump has not commented about clinton's illness, but in the past, the republican nominee has repeatedly
questioned whether his opponent has the strength to be president and the stamina to take on terrorists. (natz) he returns to the campaign trail after taking a day off to pay tribute to victims of the september 11th terror
attacks. the latest cbs news battleground tracker poll in florida. clinton holds just a two point lead there. in ohio, another key battleground state, clinton has a 7 point lead. with antibiotics.
people here in alabama paused to remember those lost 15 years ago during the september 11th attacks.. hueytown church of god hosted a "first responders day" by honoring victims and first responders during a special sunday morning service.
over in hoover --a small ceremony took place at a fire station flag pole. the station wanted to says thanks to all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to help save lives. the hoover fire department for patriot day.
it's at fire station two at 8-30 this morning. new this morning...several schools are closed as a wildfire burns through northeast washington. the 230 yard fire started on the east of the columbia river..and quickly grew to 500
acres. okanogan county emergency management says people are being evacuated. another fire is also burning on the west side of the 230 yard fire. the talladega city school system hoping for a fresh
start with a new more controvesy this morning. cbs42 news reporter brit moorer live in the studio with the story, brit what's going on? in the last year, parents and teachers have publicly complained about several
system. but now-- just a few weeks staff i spoke to are looking forward to the changes being made all thanks to a new superintendent. last year the school system barely missed a state takeover.
teachers complained about vacancies.. and a failing phone and communication school safety was another concern. i spoke to terry roller, the new talladega city schools superintedendent, who has strong roots in alabama.
he wants to take talladega schools to a new level and restore its name. so why take this job? you'll new superintendent coming up at 5:30. live in the studio. brit moorer. cbs42 news. to tourists who may be heading
to one popular beach town.. after the break..what police are asking visitors to watch out for in orlando. (michael's wx tease) unsolved after twenty years.. now --her brother is opening up for the first time ever.. we've got a preview of the
sit-down with doctor phil coming up. you're watching cbs 42 morning news. welcome back into the cbs 42 morning news... your time right now..... new this morning..a florida private security company where
worked is facing fines. the florida department of agriculture is making the company pay just over 150- thousand dollars. investigators found the palm beach company, g-4-s secure solutions, listed the wrong psychologist's name on more
than 15-hundred forms. the company says it was an administrative error. new this morning...if you're planning a beach trip this fall...there's a warning for one popular stop. sheriff's deputies say they' )re investigating several
crimes in orlando's tourist district. and killed during an armed robbery in the parking lot of a wyndham resort. into at least five cars at a restaurant parking lot on the same day. but visitors say they're not
worried about the crimes. <:39-:46"just going to be extra vigilant. just keep an eye out. don't go in dirty looking areas basically. make sure there are plenty of people walking about." deputies say recent crime statistics show crime in the
i-drive corridor is up 83 percent from 2015, with a rise in auto and commercial burglaries and aggravated battery.. but armed robberies are down 82 percent. new this morning...one village in the united kingdom is
neutral. people in ashton hayes are starting small..with the smallest people in the village. the primary schools runs entirely on free electricity with solar panels. students share tips on being
eco friendly...which spreads to the entire village. (garry charnock/creator 1:17-1:31) <"we've not told people to do anything. we've just said, would you please share with us what happens when you do something. and it's this
sharing of ideas with the community which inspires others. so it's a grassroots told from the top its all come some people are joining the movement by swapping the dryer for the clothesline and looking for locally sourced fruits and vegetables.
in the last ten years --ashton hayes has reduced emissions by a quarter. 90. calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. it's a story you'll see only on cbs 42..jon benet ramsey's death is one of america's most infamous and mysterious cold
cases.. this year is the 20th anniversary of the unsolved breaking his silence and giving his first interview ever to doctor phil.< jonbenet ramsey was a 6- year-old child beauty queen qhen she was brutally murdered
inside her family's colorado mansion on christmas. "the night your sister, jonbenet, was killed, there were three people in that house that we know the identity of and you're one of those three..you, your mother, and father..."
"for a long time media basically made our lives crazy. it's hard to miss the cameras and news trucks in your front yard and we go to the supermarket sometimes and there'd be a tabloid with my picture, jonbenet's picture plastered on the front or they
would follow us around. seeing that as a little kid is just kind of chaotic nightmare so i was pretty skeptical of any made me a very private person. as to what i'm doing now it' )s the 20th anniversary and apparently still a lot of tension around it and i guess
i kind of wanted to make it just another new story." burke says he felt like it was time to talk about his sister' )s death two decades after the media first swarmed onto that quiet street in boulder, colorado. despite being cleared by dna evidence, many
people still speculate that jonbenet's parents or her responsible for the little girl's death. speaking to me, burke admits i know people think i did it, that my parents did it. for the first time burke reveals what he says happened the day
his sister was found dead in "do you remember waking up that morning?" "yup, the first thing i remember is my mom bursting in my room really frantic saying oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh running around my room, now i know looking for
jonbenet. i remember her saying where's my baby, where's my baby." burke ram sey was nine years old. he's 29 years old today. the interview is in a three- jonbenet's father will also speak to doctor phil in what
comments on his daughter's murder. you can catch doctor phil today at 4 p-m. happening today--the cbs morning news crew is getting a sneak peak at the the on the national mall. the museum chronicles more
than 200 years of black life in america. it's the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of african american life-- history, and culture. it officially opens to the public on september 24th.
you can go to our website--wiat dot com right now and you can see my full interview with the cbs this morning team. just type- national museum in happening today ---if you're looking for some new real that might interest you.
this is the bellefonte nuclear plant site near hollywood, alabama in jackson county. the site has two unfinished nuclear reactors, transmission lines, office and warehouse buildings, eight miles of roads, a 1-thousand space parking lot and more.
the tennessee valley authority declared it a surplus property back in may.. initial bids are due today. the minimum bid is 36-point-4 million dollars. your time now is..an investigation is underway in las vegas after a mercury
spill at a high school.. coming up...what we know so far...plus --what parents have you're watching the cbs 42 if you're just getting up, here are some of the stories we're tracking for you this morning. breaking overight --one person
is dead after a house fire on balsam avenue in birmingham. it started around midnight. it took firefighters around 45 minutes to put out the flames because of how the house is built. crews say it started in the back of the home.
jury selection will start today in the trial against alabama native ross harris. he's accused of leaving his 22-month-old toddler to die in a hot car back in june of 2014. harris faces several charges --including malice murder.opening statements are set for
october 3rd..but could start sooner. saturday. highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s. good morning!we are accident and delay free your time now is...a deck crashes to the ground from the third floor of a home in connecticut..
this morning..the latest on the investigation..and the reaction from students. franklin.. breaking overnight...one morning house fire.. cbs42 news reporter alex finnie is live at the scene.. alex, what are investigators
saying? good morning -- one person dead. the back of the home is destroyed. few things that slowed the process of getting the fire out-- one, there was ammunition started going off inside the home when they
arrived around midnight.... and the way the house is for them to get inside. it took about 45 minutes to put out the flames. <"when we got out here we found the house fully engulfed from the rear. we couldnt gain entry to the house. made up
differently than what we are use to...took a while to get in and get out." while working to battle those flames, the captain says they worked to preseve as much evidence as they could. a fire crew came back out to this house within the last
half hour, went inside to assess some of the damage. we are going to continue to gather more information-- another live update at 6. live welcome back to cbs 42 morning news..i'm art franklin. we are working on several new stories this half hour.
(walk to wx ctr) and ashley is--- 20%...better storm chance tuesday and again friday into multiple shots just after a stop the violence rally in gate city. cbs 42 news reporter sarah cantey joins us live outside
of birmingham police headquarters...sarah, good expected to be ok...but one person died during that shooting just blocks away from an anti-violence raly. this is what that scene looked like last night. shots rang out in the gate
city neighborhood at the end of the stop the violence rally at lewis park. organizers put that event on to pull the community together after an officer involved shooting just a few days ago. < "we need change. we need change. got to step up. talk
to your kids, your loved ones, tell them guns are not the answer." the organizer says he's devastated this happened at the end of that event... because he was getting such positive feedback before this happened.
he says he asked police to come in for back up to help clear the crowd...but that hear from the organizer about how he was getting some pushback about even holding this event...because of what happened in another community a few weeks ago.
happening today --a cease-fire will go into effect at sundown in syria. the deal the u-s and russia brokered would slow down the deadly violence. it allows for much needed humanitarian aid to reach neighborhoods destroyed during
if the truce holds for a week --russia and the u-s will carry out coordinated air strikes against isis. new this morning..at least two people are in critical condition after a bus accident at the denver international airport.
the driver of the school bus died in the crash. police say the driver picked up 28 students and four adults..she circled back to the airport and crashed into a concrete pillar. police say at least 10 people are still being treated at
nearby hospitals. developing now...31 people are recovering after a deck collapses near a college campus in connecticut. the third floor deck fell saturday night..crashing down on the second and first floor decks below.
police say the most serious injuries are broken bones and lacerations. some trinity college students say they're still in shock. <"it kinda hits close to home, we were thinking about living here ... and i mean, that could have been us!//"the fact
that the deck came down, i just think that's a little bit crazy." counselors are helping students affected by the incident. the home is owned by trinity college but is managed by an outside company.
police say it's too early to know if any charges will be filed. it's the start of a new to the presidential elections. the candidates will be on the road, pressing for votes in north carolina and cbs 42 national correspondent
jim osman looks at the week ahead, jim good morning good monday morning the race for president is tightening. here's the battle ground map... there are many more battle ground states on the map........and a race that
looked like it could be a landslide is looking much ohio and florida and the big tossups and now wisconsin is in the tossup category... and if the election were held today...based on our reporting and our analysis... trump would pick up wisconsin and
florida...something is resonating in wisconsin with trump's message... clinton has an edge in ohio because she won (totals map) and the projected totals if the election were held today... hillary clinton would
have 281 votes trump 257 the two are deep in debate prep as the first debate may be critical to the race. (osman on cam) that's morning mix for monday i'm chief national correspondent jim osman in washington.
for a teenager accused of driver is expected to start. corey arrington is charged with capital murder for the beating death of 63-year old najeh massaeid. at an apartment complex behind the summit shopping center in december 2014.
police believe robbery was the motive. the trial is expected to start at 9-30 tomorrow morning. happening today --a trial is also expected to start for a man accused of killing an avondale woman. he is facing capital murder
charges. it happened at her avondale home in august of 20-14 brown was originally one of two suspects in this case, but d-n-a evidence cleared 37-year old jeffrey justice of capital murder charges. happening today--the man
accused of beating former talladega mayor larry barton with a bat is expected to appear in court. police say green beat barton with a baseball bat in july of last year in vestavia. barton says green beat him between barton and charlotte
green-- benny greens then green is charged with assault. the new superintendent of talladega city schools definitely has his work cut out for him. the school system has been in the spotlight recently for teacher vacancies and concerns
about school safety. live in the studio. brit-- you spoke to the new superintendent, why did he want to take the job? well, for terry roller, the it's his passion and he says things around for talladega. roller has strong alabama
ties. he's a uab graduate. he's worked as a teacher in hueytown, an administrartor in shelby county. he was a principal at lincoln high school in talladega.. and says he has experience in changing school culture... which he says is what talladega needs.
he's passionate about his job.. and wants to get everyone else on board. <"why not education? people talk about all the time i want to be a doctor or lawyer but what job is more important than this one you love your children you're going to
give your children to me everyday that's an important job to me" i asked roller.. why take this job.. he said he can relate to the students in talladega.. so many things were moving in the wrong direction in talladega.. in the next half
plans to change things for students. child hate going to school? we go inside one virtual high school that's helping students in japan..michael.(michael wx tease) but first...nfl players continue to protest as the season gets underway..
which players joined in solidarity..and how others honored victims of 9-11. new this morning..protests a pipeline project.. now the protests are spreading across the country. hundreds of people met over the weekend in arizona to show
support for the standing rock souix tribe. members of the rosebud souix tribe say the world's attention is now on them..and they're ready to be heard. <"i think a lot of times as indian people we don't feel like our issues become very
mainstream a lot of people don't find out about them, but because of social media people are finally starting to listen." a federal judge denied the tribe's block of the construction. but the department of justice
stepped in to halt the project. the army corps of engineers is now reviewing permits given to the construction company. new this morning --a 17- year-old high school athlete may not be able to continue his sports career after being
shot saturday.police say everett henderson his hand and stomach. it happened three hours after a football game against another school. police say henderson was sitting on his front porch when a gray car drove by --and someone inside opened fire.
police are still looking for new this morning...the n-t-s-b will head to the reno-tahoe people died in a crash at the the small plane took off from experienced technical difficulties..crashing into a parking lot at the airport. no one on the ground was hurt.
police say several cars are damaged because of the crash. now the lot is shut down as the investigation continues. <"we are coming up with a plan to get people to and from the parking garage and that lot and some of those vehicles will remain in that lot at
least over night because there is a debris field there, that makes it part of an active investigation scene." the f-a-a, reno police and fire, and airport authority are looking into the crash. the airport is operating normally today.
new this morning..the e-p-a is looking into what caused a mercury spill at a las vegas high school. spread to students' homes. by the e-p-a over the last week. the spill happened september 2nd..but it wasn't
discovered until four days later. emergency teams are working with the e-p-a to calm parents fears. (nicole orellana, parent :34-:42) <"i have toddlers at home and they play with everything so i
don't know if it's around my house and they're getting into it and they're already exposed. i'm exposed. i do his laundry, you know, stuff like that." the school closed last week and will be closed today as well.
the e-p-a says high mercury exposure can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, and immune system.new this morning..sunday marked the return of the n-f-l.. the september 11th attacks.. while others continued to protest.
the seattle seahawks stood and linked arms during the national anthem before the season opener against the miami dolphins.four dolphins players kneeled on the sideline with hands on their hearts.. before their game against the arizona cardinals...two new
england patriots raised their right fists after the anthem was played. happening today the city of birmingham is launching operation greenwave. the plan is to remove broken city leaders are meeting at the birmingham crossplex and
leave to start operation greenwave at 6-30. developing right now. we are working to learn new information about the car accident that killed two cleburne county students. it happened friday. to pay for the funeral
expenses. the county school system announced on its facebook page that haley and britany steadham were killed in that crash. the sisters were students at cleburne county high school. that fundraising account for
the family is set up at metro bank in heflin. heart patients who meet weekly exercise guidelines spend an average of 25-hundred dollars *less* on health care costs. that's according to new research in the journal of the
american heart association. people who don't have cardiovascular disease and exercise regularly also saw healthcare cost savings. new this morning---a study in pediatrics suggests 85 percent of parents of making errors when giving liquid medicine to
kids. researchers found most errors involved overdosing..and that dosing cups are linked to more errors compared to oral syringes. they say using regular kitchen spoons also contributes to mistakes.
injuries in children. nationwide children's hospital says the rise is in children seven to seventeen years old. researchers say about 3- hundred children are treated every day in the e-r. over 25-years worth of data.
.sprais, strains, and fractures were the most common injuries.. the rate of concussions also significantly increased. california football player is facing charges for punching a referee during a game-- and it's all caught on camera.
shows mt. san antonio college football player bernard schirmer knocking a referee unconscious. according to the the ventura county star it happened in the altercation involving schirmer. he was immediately ejected
from the game. schirmer is facing a felony battery charge in the first couple weeks of the college football season. one you may remember was in the alabama-usc game. ruffin stomped on the groin of alabama cornerback minkah
we've also seen a player ejected for making contact with an official-- but nothing like this (ad-lib) government survey in japan social contact..and rarely leave home.. now one initiative is trying
learning. the survey says more than half a million teenagers and young adults avoid face-to-face contact in japan. many people link the problem to video games. now --students can grab their smartphone and computer and
head to class from home. <"do you worry about social aspect, like meeting other teenagers, that sort of thing? (ikumi shimizu, freshman, n high school)(english translation) "that's what my parents worry about a lot," he says. "but i don't worry
about it. i don't really like to communicate with other people." n high school is a fully accredited high school created by japanese tech companies. officials say many students turn to the school because of the demanding environment in
japanese society. your time right now is---- next on cbs 42 morning news-- your morning rush. the stories you need to know before you head out the door. the time right now is--- here's a look at your one person is dead after a
house fire on balsam avenue in birmingham. the house was a challenge for firefighters because of the way it's built. investigators looking into what sparked the fire. birmingham police are looking for answers after a person is
hurt at a community rally in it happened just after a stop the violence event in the community. the five injured victims are expected to be ok. hillary clinton cancels a fundraising trip to california.
the presidential candidate is battling pneumonia. her opponent --donald trump --will hold a rally in north carolina today. toddler son to die in a hot car. the trial is happening in brunswick, georgia after being
moved out of atlanta. talladega city schools new superintendent is hoping for a fresh start. parents and teachers have publicly complained about several issues in the school system..including vacancies..and a failing phone
and communicatin system. flu season is quickly approaching..but there are some important things parents need to know. coming up at 6-40..ashley breaks it all down in today' )s mom monday. your news does not stop here
cbs 42 morning news continues in two and a half minutes. 6am, good morning, i'm art franklin, breaking overnight-- flames rip through a south west birmingham home killing one person and destroying the home. cbs 42 news reporter alex
finnie is live at the house on balsam avenue.alex-- what have you learned? <"that halted advance because when we first got here there were multiple shells going off so we had to protect our men