live from downtown Detroit local 4 News
at Noon it starts now counting the dead
aim in California the number of people
killed in the devastating wildfires
their continuous arrives most of those
fatalities coming from the campfire
which can be seen from space you're
looking a video of the thick billowing
smoke or satellite in from a NASA
satellite and in the meantime back here
at home we are following breaking news
right now as a manhunt is underway for a
convicted sex offender now wanted for
double murder that story topping our
news at noon thank you for joining us
I'm a broadcast of a Detroit police are
searching for 69 year-old James Fleming
he allegedly shot and killed two people
at a senior housing center early this
morning on Dickerson Street that's on
the northeast side of Detroit local
force Rob Maloney is joining us live now
from Detroit Police Headquarters with
the very latest
rod yeah everyone you know this is
exceptionally sad business because the
two people who were shot and killed this
morning had absolutely nothing to do
with James Fleming the man that police
are looking for in this case other than
to be his neighbor he lived in the
apartment complex they did - they wound
up dead for no fault of their own so
let's talk about what Detroit police
have been telling us they say that the
Fleming did live in the complex he was
allegedly doing cocaine with a woman at
some point they say he attempted to
sexually assault her she refused they
ended up in a struggle and they had a
knife apparently as part of that battle
they think that Fleming might have been
injured in that altercation the woman
ran away pulled the fire alarm in the
building and the fire department showed
up and she apparently escaped it may
have saved her life that she told us is
just a few minutes ago now the fire
department left and the the 911 call
came out from the house from the
security department saying that they had
somebody there with the gun and DPD
immediately responded but what happened
was that Fleming they say had apparently
gone to his car or his the minivan
actually grabbed a 38 caliber handgun
and then shot the security guard at the
front door killed him and then a woman
who was in the food-preparation area
inside the building and she died on the
spot as well now we spoke with the chief
and also the daughter of the woman who
was killed in this
this is what they had to say just before
noon time it appears so we don't know
what motivated him to attack we believe
his intentions were to find the sexual
assault attempt a sexual assault victim
we believe based on our investigation to
locate her in the building but instead
he decided to engage in this cowardly
act of these two defenseless victims for
what reason we don't know now
DPD says that fleming is driving a black
2001 Chrysler Town and Country minivan
it has Tennessee plates we have the
plate number you can find out at
clickondetroit.com if you want to see it
they say he has armed and dangerous they
say if you do see Fleming call 9-1-1 do
not approach him be safe in this
endeavor and perhaps the saddest irony
of all of this have rod is that the
security guard who was at the front door
and was shot and killed as Fleming was
trying to get in was on his first night
on the job reporting live in Detroit rod
Malone a local food so incredibly sandy
certainly feel for those victims
families thank you we hope that police
are able to find who they're looking for
very soon also breaking at this hour of
fire fire that's burning in Troy as a
result of a gasoline break take a look
here video from Sky 4 shows where's
happening at home in front of a home in
Long Lake Road in between Rochester and
Livernois a construction contractor hit
an underground gas line while working
and there are crews on the scene they're
trying to put the fire out and hopefully
get this problem fixed sooner than later
there's also a gas main break happening
in Novi crews they're on the scene on
Holmes Road in the area of 13 mile and
Novi Road now we don't know the cause of
this one just yet but we will continue
to follow both of these incidents and
bring you any new updates as they come
into the local four newsroom in breaking
political news this afternoon the White
House today saying the president Donald
Trump has quote broad discretion to
regulate journalists as access formerly
responding to CNN's attempt to get a
court to restore correspondent Jim
Acosta Press Pass CNN on Tuesday as you
know filed a lawsuit
seeing a judge to restore Acosta's
credentials which were revoked last week
and declare that the administration's
action was unconstitutional in the
meantime the Justice Department defends
president Trump's appointment of Matthew
Whitaker as Acting Attorney General in
choosing Matthew Whitaker to temporarily
secede now stood Attorney General Jeff
Sessions critics say that President
Trump has placed a loyal ally who has
been critical of Robert Muller's Russia
investigation in a position oversee it
the Justice Department memo comes one
day after the state of Maryland filed
the first legal challenge seeking to
overturn Whitaker's appointment the
destruction in California now continues
with the official death toll rising to
at least 50 overnight as the search for
missing people who were feared dead goes
on we're gonna show you video of three
but not all the fires that are burning
in the state the Woolsey fire is burning
in Ventura County the Sierra Fire that's
the new one it erupted in Southern
California last night and the campfire
in Northern California is still burning
as well fire fighter is another first
responders face increasingly dangerous
conditions as high winds fuel growing
fires across the state we have reports
from both ends of the state with NBC's
Miguel Almaguer at Oak Park in the South
and see Patterson up north in Chico
California the staggering and sad
numbers continue to rise the death toll
across California now remains at nearly
50 killed in those wildfires meantime
the number of structures destroyed
mostly homes has soared to about nine
thousand that number may also rise in
the coming days despite all of this
firefighters are making progress crews
on the front lines have now contained
the Wildfire here in Southern California
to about 50 percent those containment
numbers will rise though they're
concerned about the Santa Ana winds here
in Northern California the death toll
continues to rise as dozens if not
hundreds remain missing now there is a
massive effort underway to locate the
lost and identify the dead that's work
that's being done on the ground in a
place in Paradise that has been nearly
wiped off the map most homes
destroyed it's heartbreaking work it
will continue throughout the week back
to you all right and now we want to turn
things over to meteorologist Brandon
Ruud can I give us a quick look at the
weather conditions over there they're
fueling those fires Brandon as well as
what's going on here for us at home yeah
red flag warning this means we're
getting those Santa Ana winds that are
kicking in coming off of the mountains
very dry air fueling these fires and
they're strong winds too so they fanned
the flames and spread them very quickly
it continues all day today tomorrow as
well the other big story around the
country will be this winter storm that
is taking shape so we have all kinds of
warnings and advisories nearby coming
your way tomorrow for us here right now
32 degrees with a little wind chill of
25 struggling everywhere with low to
middle 20s for wind chills as you head
out and about for the rest of the day
that's pretty much where we'll be 32 33
degrees plenty of Sun but again don't
let it fool you we have wind chills in
the 20s very very chilly out there and
ever ad will track that winter storm
Thursday snow chances coming up
Oliver any Brendan thank you a memorial
service for axe the police dog killed in
the line of duty is planned for this
afternoon in st. Clair Shores actors
killed after st. Clair Shores police
were called to Lakeland Manor for
reports of a gunman and when the
officers arrived they spot at the odious
gray who they claim ignore their
commands and then took off well akshay's
after gray who then as police are saying
shot and killed the dog his memorial the
dog's memorial will take place at
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church on
martyr Road and that's in between
Jefferson Avenue and a vernier at 1:00
p.m.
our politic man is there says you have a
live report coming up on first at four
in political news now Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos is facing another
lawsuit and this one claims to vas
didn't cancel student debt owed by
people whose for-profit colleges were
shut down last month a federal judge
ruled the regulation needed to go into
effect immediately
the judge also said de Vos was stalling
for more than a year with arbitrary and
capricious
delays a california-based legal service
nonprofit group filed this new complain
they say the Education Department is
collecting on loans that should be
discharged due to a rule from the Obama
administration and in consumer headlines
this afternoon there is big business
news as we've learned Dan Gilbert has
sold the Greek town casino hotel for a 1
billion dollar deal the property we're
learning will remain a Kristi Noem
Reitzel ad here at noon we have new
information about the tension between
Israel and Palestine
Israel has reached a ceasefire with Gaza
militants but it's not without
controversy we'll tell you why the
decision is shaking up the ruling
coalition government but first the first
wave of Central American migrants from
the group that formed last month have
not reached the us-mexico border some US
officials are expected to arrive at the
border as well today we'll tell you what
they'll be doing