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A planes nosedive blasting a quiet neighborhood. The fiery explosion and what may have saved the homeowners. And assassin in action. Tonight, the chilling new Surveillance Video showing the apparent execution of one of Vladimir Putins fierce critics. And good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im tom llamas, and we begin tonight with that breaking news. The terrifying moments unfolding in las vegas. Chaos on the strip. As we come on the air, parts of the strip shut down tonight. Tourists sent scrambling. All of it sparked by a deadly shooting on a bus. The suspect barricading himself surrounded by police. Hours after this at the bellagio hotel, at least three masked gunmen trying to rob a luxury store. Casinogoers running for their lives. Abcs marci the strip with the details coming in. Reporter a bustling Las Vegas Strip is calming down, and police try to find out what prompted todays violence. We have one suspect down. Reporter tonight, a standoff on the Las Vegas Strip. S. W. A. T. Tea
Cooperate with the government if he is contacted about it. Were going to continue to follow this developing story on our app and tonight straight through news4 at 11 00 at the live desk. Breaking news tonight about an attempted rape on metro. Transit Police Arrested this man last month. They say his name is john hicks. A woman says hicks held her at knife point and tried to rape her on a red line train on april 12th at 10 00 in the morning. The woman says he forced her to perform a sexual act on him. Police quickly identified and arrested hicks. They charged him with attempted rape. They say he may also be responsible for an unrelated sex assault in montgomery county. Now to our weather. Some strong storms have been popping up across our region, but the rain isnt out of here just yet. Lets get the latest on all this from doug in the weather center. Right now, towar towards Calvert County and prince georges county. It is now going severe as it intersects with an outflow boundary from ot
Weather. Midday news starts right now. Another historic day plays out with president obama. He is meeting right now with cubas leader raul castro. A formal ceremony is happening right now after the two shook hands a few minutes ago. They are meeting in the formal palace there in havana. And were just watching as the formal ceremony gets started, just beginning just a few minutes ago. The National Anthem playing out there. Just about 30 minutes ago, we watched the president take part in a wreath laying ceremony. Its been a busy morning. This is at the jose marti memorial, which is an important landmark for the cuban, also very formal, where the si participated in that event. This is the president s first visit to the communist nation in more than 90 years. Once the two president s actually sit down and have their chat, they are expected to talk about lifting the trade embargo and touch on the deep divide on human rights. And then at some point today, we expect the president to make an a
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