Weather forecast: Coldest snap of the year to hit Victoria, Tasmania, NSW

A MONSTER storm is coming our way and expected to cause chaos as it moves through south eastern Australia.It will bring with it what is expected to be the biggest snow dump of the year.

A low pressure system will move over the Western Australia and South Australia border later this week, pushing a cold front over Tasmania and Australia’s south-east this weekend.

South Australia will cop a chilly weekend, with just 6C expected in Adelaide on Saturday and Sunday.Victoria, Tasmania and southern NSW will be hit on the weekend with damaging winds, rain, hail and blizzards.

It is expected to snow down to 300 metres across Tasmania, including some suburbs in Hobart, 400 metres in Victoria and 500 metres in Southern NSW.

There will be massive snow dumps in the Victorian Alps with blizzard conditions.

Up to five centimetres of snow could fall in Ballarat, about 100 kilometres from Melbourne, and 10 centimetres in the Otways near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.

Massive snow dumps are forecast on the NSW Snowy Mountains, with 100 centimetres expected between Sunday and Thursday.

Between 80 and 100 centimetres will fall on the Victorian Snowy Mountains.

Cradle Valley in Tasmania will cop between 50 and 70 centimetres.

Queensland will remain dry.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard Carlyon told news.com.au Victoria would experience its coldest snap of the year this week.

Currently snow is down to 800 metres but will reduce to 300 metres tonight as the cold snap moves up from the south-west.

Source: Weather forecast: Coldest snap of the year to hit Victoria, Tasmania, NSW

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BREAKING: Two buses have collided in Warwick

Two Jordanians die in shooting at Israeli embassy in Amman

AMMAN (Reuters) – Two Jordanians died from wounds inflicted during a shooting on Sunday in the compound of the heavily-guarded Israeli embassy that also wounded an Israeli, police and a security source said.

Police said earlier that the two Jordanians worked for a furniture firm and entered the embassy compound before the shooting to do repairs. Police did not identify the wounded Israeli, and few other details were immediately available.

Israel has imposed a ban on reporting the incident and has made no public comment.

The fortress-like embassy in the affluent Rabae district of the capital Amman is protected by Jordanian gendarme. It has long been a flashpoint of anti-Israeli protests at times of turmoil in the Palestinian territories.

Violence against Israelis is rare in Jordan, a tightly policed country that is also a staunch regional ally of the United States and signed a peace treaty with Israel, the Arab neighbor with which it shares a long border.

But tensions have escalated between the two countries since Israel installed metal detectors at entry points to Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after two Israeli policemen were shot dead by three Arab-Israeli gunmen on Friday near the site.

The new security measures have triggered the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years.

Source: Two Jordanians die in shooting at Israeli embassy in Amman: security source

Australian police find Nazi machine-gun in traffic stop

The World War II era weapon and 60 rounds of ammunition were found during a traffic stop north of Sydney.

Officers searched a car on the Central Coast of New South Wales on Sunday night and found an MP40 sub-machine gun plus 60 rounds of ammunition.

The weapon was developed in Nazi Germany – more than a million were produced during the war.

A 40-year-old man, who was a passenger in the car, was charged with possessing a prohibited firearm.

Police said he was refused bail and would appear at Wyong Local Court on Monday.

A forensic examination will be carried out on the firearm to determine whether can be linked to any shooting incidents.

The gun was missing its barrel but police said initial examinations suggested it was in working order…

MORE: Australian police find Nazi machine-gun in traffic stop – BBC News

Five people hospitalised after multi-car crash on West Gate Freeway

Five people were hospitalised after a high speed multi-car crash on the West Gate Freeway on Saturday morning.

Emergency crews attended the scene on the freeway near the Spotswood entrance after reports of the crash just after 3am.

Seven cars are believed to have collided in the early hours of Saturday morning.

An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said one man, believed to be aged in his 30s, was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition.

Four more people were taken to hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries.

Another man was rescued but escaped the crash uninjured.

Source: Five people hospitalised after multi-car crash on West Gate Freeway

Brawl erupts between Rommark Michael Teplitsky when Federal police raid office

A Federal Police raid on a property development firm in Sydney’s exclusive eastern suburbs turned violent on Wednesday when it descended into an all-out brawl.

Federal Police officers were forced to arrest high-profile businessman Michael Teplitsky, 48, when he allegedly attacked a photographer during the dramatic raid on his property development firm, Rommark.

Teplitsky’s socialite friend Olivia Korner also involved herself in the brawl when she pulled the hair of a nearby reporter, Fairfax reports.

The raid was part of a wider investigation into a major tax evasion scheme allegedly involving Adam Cranston, 30, and ensnaring his father, the Australian Taxation Office Deputy Commissioner Michael Cranston.

Fairfax reports the investigation was in relation to someone who was allegedly associated with Mr Teplisky’s firm.

Mr Teplitsky reportedly threatened a photographer before crash tackling him, saying: ‘If that photographer doesn’t stop taking my photo in one second I’m going to lose it’ and ‘I don’t care if [the police] are here, I will do it’, Fairfax reports.

Six federal police officers were forced to subdue Mr Teplitsky before his arrest.

The police said no charges were officially laid against Mr Teplitsky, despite the fact he was arrested at the scene.

The prestigious property development firm, Rommark, is behind projects including Ocean breeze at Bondi, Genoa at Bondi Junction and the ongoing development of St Margaret’s at Surry Hills.

The raid was part of an alleged $165 million tax fraud syndicate but there is no suggestion Mr Teplitsky or his company Rommark were involved – instead someone who was allegedly associated with the firm, Fairfax reports.

Officers searched the Double Bay office on Wednesday, scouring private documents late into the night.

The Federal Police said the investigation at Rommark was not directly linked to the wider-scale tax syndicate investigation.

Police confirmed a number of search warrants were conducted across Sydney as part of the wider investigation.

Nine people have been arrested as part of the eight-month investigation into tax fraud.

Source: Federal police raid Rommark Michael Teplitsky tax office | Daily Mail Online

Trump demanded pledge of loyalty from Comey during dinner. FBI Director refused

President Trump had allegedly demanded loyalty from James Comey during a private dinner at the White House back in January, associates of the now fired FBI director claim.

Comey had told associates that he was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with Trump seven days after the inauguration, the New York Times reports.

It was during the dinner that Trump reportedly asked Comey twice to pledge loyalty to him as the new Commander in Chief. Sources claim Comey declined to do so but said he told the President he would always be honest with him.

Trump pressed Comey on whether that would be ‘honest loyalty’, to which the FBI director said: ‘You will have that.’ Sources close to Comey said he now believes this dinner conversation may have sealed his fate.

This version of events is vastly different to the dinner conversation Trump himself described in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Thursday.

While it is not clear if they are talking about the same dinner, the pair are believed to have only dined together privately once.

Trump indicated that he had dinner with Comey at the former FBI director’s request – and said Comey was angling to keep his job.

I had a dinner with him. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. We had a very nice dinner at the White House,’ Trump said.

‘He asked for the dinner?’ Holt followed up.

‘A dinner was arranged, I think he asked for the dinner,’ the president hedged. ‘And he wanted to stay on as the FBI head.

‘And I said I’ll consider and we’ll see what happens. But we had a very nice dinner. And at that time he told me ‘you are not under investigation’,’ Trump said.

Trump said he had asked Comey – once over dinner and twice by phone – if the FBI were investigating him as part of its probe into alleged collusion between members of his campaign and the Russian government prior to the election.

The President showed no concern that the request might be viewed as interference in the active FBI probe.

Comey has not confirmed Trump’s account.

During that same interview, Trump declared he had planned to fire Comey all along, regardless of whether top Justice Department officials recommended the stunning step.

Trump told NBC News anchor Lester Holt he had directly asked Comey three times if he was himself under investigation

The White House had initially cited a Justice Department memo criticizing Comey’s handling of last year’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails as the impetus for Trump’s decision.

But Trump acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that the Russia investigation – which he dismissed as a ‘made-up story’ – was also on his mind as he ousted the man overseeing the probe.

The shifting accounts of the decision to fire Comey, whom Trump derided as a ‘showboat’ and ‘grandstander,’ added to a mounting sense of uncertainty and chaos in the West Wing, as aides scrambled to get their stories straight and appease an angry president.

VIDEO + MORE: Trump demanded pledge of loyalty from Comey during dinner | Daily Mail Online

Father of accused drug smuggler Cassandra Sainsbury wants ‘nothing to do’ with his daughter’s case

California shooting leaves ‘three dead’ as gunman opens fire in Fresno

THREE people are reported to have died after a mass shooting in California. Local media reports claim a gunman opened fire before reloading his large handgun and continuing to randomly spray bullet…

A 39-year-old suspect is now reported to be in custody, according to the Fresno Bee.

The shooting is said to have occurred outside the offices of the Catholic Charities social service agency.

Police Chief Jerry Dyer told the news site two of the victims may have been clients of the agency, while a third was an employee of a gas and electric company…

Source: California shooting leaves ‘three dead’ as gunman opens fire in downtown Fresno