you ll be around all morning. you ve got a great story on jackie robinson coming along in the 8:00 eastern hour. it s not what we were told but the pentagon is now acknowledging that u.s. war planes are still bombing libya. a military spokesman tells cnn that the u.s. has now flown 97 missions since the nato handover. most for support, refueling and signal jamming, but on at least three occasions, u.s. jets have fired on targets. that revelation comes as a brand new poll shows that most of the country want the u.s. to take a backseat in the mission. just 14% want the u.s. to lead in libya. 82% say they d rather from the u.s. in a supporting role. it s a story that we ve been following closely here on american morning. the family of a massachusetts college student shot and killed outside a bar in new york last fall is outraged this morning after the officer involved in the shooting was named officer of the year in his town. aaron hess is currently being investigated by the justice
those counts. on this american morning. welcome to american morning. it s thursday, april 14th. the whole gang s back together. good to be back with you guys again. boy, did we have a lot of news today. this budget stuff is what do you call stuff like this? boring but important. we ll make it interesting, not boring. being an air traffic controller the most tiresome job? maybe hey was reading about the budget. an air traffic controller asleep in the tower while on duty. the latest incident occurred at the reno tahoe international airport. officials say the controller was sleeping when a medical flight carrying a sick patient was trying to land. here s some of the pilot s conversation with the faa in northern california. yes, we re here. we weren t able to get through to the tower? no. we re going to call them on the phone line. all right. we ll circle some more. okay. we have a pretty sick patient. ray lahood says enough is enough. this i
both criminal and civil liability to investigate this fairly. their evidence was the evidence used by the district attorney s office where there are inherent conflicts both that we experienced and that are just inherent in the process. now, we want you to meet someone else whose opinion of what happened is different from what police say. donna park s son brandon cox was in the car with d.j. henry when this whole thing happened. donna, thanks for joining us today. first your reaction to the decision by the grand jury not to indict the officer involved in the case. do you think they didn t have all the evidence to make an informed decision? oh, i think they had the evidence. the testimony of the eyewitness accounts of what happened that evening, it just could not have been taken seriously and gotten this result. and your son was in the car with the victim who died, d.j. henry. yes. and you dispute the account of what police say happened that night. what did your son tell you ac
the fire lane, and then all of a sudden the police officer, aaron hess, jumps out in front of the car with his guns drawn and began shooting. they said that the police officer that asked them to move out of the fire lane then said, stop that car, stop that car, and then aaron hess jumped out in front of the car and he admits this himself, that he jumped out in front of the car and started shooting. another officer, officer beckley, shot from the side as aaron hess was jumping on top of the car. so why were they all shooting at the car? not just one police officer shot. two police officers were shooting at this car. and the way it sounds from police was that the car was just being moved, but you re saying that your son told you they were actually asked to move the car. they asked them they tapped on the window, they motioned for them to move. so they said, oh, we re in the fire lane. they must want us to move out of the way. so they started moving out of the way. then all of a sud
a crime. sounds pretty simple, right? this story is actually pretty complicated. danroy henry jr. was shot to death by a police officer last october outside a bar in thornwood, north of new york city. police say they were trying to break up a brawl when henry, who was parked in the fire lane, hit the gas. an officer tried to stop the car and ended up on the hood. well, the officer shot at the driver, but the car kept going. the police chief says cops grabbed henry from the car, hand kufd him, without realizing that he actually had been shot. once they realized it, they tried to save him, the chief says, but it was too late. that s one version of the story. not everyone agrees with that, though. first, henry s dad told us this morning that the investigation was flawed from the start. p we believe that all along this process was designed to get to a no true bill, not an indictment. we prepared ourselves for that. it would be impossible, naive of us to accept that the police department th