Has 20 mewnew weapons. Wolf blitzer is off, im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. We are following two major stories this hour. Our breaking news a u. S. Counterterror strike kills two al qaeda hostages one of them american the other italian. President obama says he taked full faublt fresponsibility for the deaths. The air strikes killed two other americans who were senior al qaeda operatives. A new protest targets Baltimore City hall. Officials call on workers to get out of the down town area as state troopers are called in. With anger growing over the death of freddie gray while in Police Custody and police Union Comments likening protesters to a lynch mob, where is this headed . Congressman peter king is standing by. We have our correspondents analysts and guests who will help us with these stories. We begin with the al qaeda strikes and jim acosta. President obama personally apologized to the families of those two hostages who were killed. And even made a phone call to th
I was holding on to my bible. Turbulence so bad. Why a flight had to learn in boston after an international trip. Lets talk live in the newsroom. Good morning, everyone. I am poppy harlow in today for carol costello. Its 9 00 here on the east coast. Good morning, and we begin with a city on edge. Baltimore bracing for more protests in the angry demand for answers. Protesters calling for transparency in the death of freddy gray a 25yearold man detained under murky circumstances and suffering a fatal spinal cord injury before arriving at the jail and new cell phone adding new questions. This shows the police van stopped less than a block away from where gray was arrested and it may be the last time he was seen before the fatal injury. Suzanne malveaux joins me this morning with the latest. What do we know at this point, suzanne . Reporter the protests have grown day by day, and we expect a rally where freddy gray was first apprehended, and then at 3 00 we expect thousands of people to be
U. S. Intelligence says the target was a highranking terrorist, and they did not know two hostages were with them. 73yearold Warren Weinstein, an aid worker from maryland, had been kidnapped nearly four years ago. Giovanni loporto of italy, who worked for a humanitarian agency, had been held since 2012. We also learned today that two more americans were killed, but both of them were members of al qaeda. In an unexpected announcement, the president called it a tragedy. I take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the onear that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I profoundly regret what happened. On behalf of the United States government, i offer our deepest apologies to the families. Pelley the president went ona to say it was a cruel and bitter truth that deadly mistakes happen in the fog of war. David martin has learned what went wrong. Tr reporter the drone strikeua happened in january, but itil wasnt until april that the c. I. A. R
Good evening. And we begin tonight with new developments. What we now know about that deadly drone mistake, meant to hit al qaeda, those cia drones also killing two innocent men. An american and an italian man. The american on the left there, Warren Weinstein, a father and grandfather. His transformation after years in captivity. This is one of the last images his family would see. Tonight, what his family told me about the last time they saw him. And their message to the Obama Administration tonight. Abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl takes us step by step through the Dramatic Mission and the moment it went wrong. Reporter the two hostages, Warren Weinstein and italian giovanni lo porto, were hidden deep in the mountainous and lawless region near pakistans border with afghanistan. The cia had been watching it continuously for hundreds of hours, becoming convinced dangerous al qaeda operatives were living there and that there were no civilians inside. January 14th, cia
. As anger grows over the death in custody, protest rs vow to shut the city down as officials urge demonstrator to keep the peace. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. And lets get to the breaking news. We have stunning new developments in the case of freddie gray the baltimore man whose death in Police Custody sparked outrage. He should have been in medical custody. All of the latest details coming up. A massive antiterrorism sweep is underway as police round up suspects associated with al qaeda. The operation is taking place all over italy where Officials Say the suspects discussed a range of targets including the vatican, home of the pope and the Catholic Church. Some of the alleged cell members are said to have tie to Osama Bin Laden. The cell is liked to a massacre in pakistan and suspected human trafficking. Ill speak live with our correspondents analysts and guests with full coverage. Lets get all of the very latest. Pamela brown joins us with that. AItalian Police say