Using a large Television Monitor to display a photo of the defendants 41 yearold and alongside his picture are bullet points of evidence with lines or arrows from those bullet points leading to wilson. Wilson is accused of stabbing to death 14 yearold olaughlin three years ago. Prosecutors say olaughlin was murdered when she entered her home and surprised wilson as he was burglarizing the house. Several items were taken from the home including a cellphone which the state says the wilson used to send taunting Text Messages to her mother the day after the murder. Authorities were able to triangulate the signal and trace it back to wilson. Also dna evidence was found on a cap and that it was linked to wilson. States attorney is in court and she is overseeing the prosecutions case. At the family of laughlin has been in court throughout the proceedings. They were even there the day that the very graphic photographs of the autopsy were shown as well. And they say they will stay throughout. T
Ten years in this wonderful visitor and Education Center and one of the things i love about doing this event every year is when you have great researchers like a man you are going to hear in a few minutes like a Family Reunion that occurs every summer. You get to see your family again when a come back to hyde park. And a cellphone, anything that beep and moans and whistles turn it off so our presentation today isnt interrupted. Second, most of you have them but if you have not seen the newly renovated Roosevelt Library in their new exhibits, if you find me afterwards or one of the other members of the Library Staff to get one of these buttons you see the exhibits for free and we are open until 6 00 so i encourage you to do that. They are really outstanding and i want to thank our friends at cspan who are broadcasting the reading festival live today, they are great supporters of the work that we do and our public programs. Chistopher osullivan is the author of fdr and the end of empire
We are following breaking news. Possible Terror Threats against the United States, including one by an Al Qaeda Group based in syria. Fbi director james comey says despite air strikes, the United States has to assume the socalled core zone terrorists could attack at any time. Hours earlier, iraqs new Prime Minister reportedly said his countrys Intelligence Agency had uncovered an imminent isis plot against the new york and paris subway systems. Were covering all angles of the Terror Threat at this hour with our reporters, guests, and cnns Global Resources and we begin with cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. Whats the latest youre hearing about the Khorasan Group . James comey says khorasan is still at the top of his list of priorities. He believes that the group is still in tact and could still be actively planning to attack the u. S. Or europe. Despite a series of syrian bomb attacks in western syria, the fbi director says, quote, hes not confident at all that the u. S. Air strik
Reality today when a group of 26 countries signed a pledge and paris agreeing to help the Iraqi Government fight isis by any means necessary including appropriate military assistance. Although no specifics were decided upon, the general consensus bodes well for the president s mission to degrade and destroy isis, a mission that u. S. Officials say could include air strikes from arab nations. In an interview on meet the press yesterday, men of the member responsible for sem blling an International Coalition during the first iraq war which was 24 years ago, james baker expressed his reservations. Theres no country in the world that could pull together the kind of conference or negotiation im talking about except the United States of america. And we need to do that. Whether we can still do that or not, i dont know. When we put our coalition together, we had 500,000 u. S. Troops on the ground. We had a specific goal within a limited time frame, kick iraq out of kuwait, and america was resp
Attack. And a man linked to 1,000 lashes in a country ha the United States considers a major ally. And how can this happen in a can cup country in 2015. We will begin with the break news. Belgium launched raids against a a group of e terrorists who were planning major attacks. Terrorists were killed against police in the raids. Phil black, you were there, and tell us what happened. It happened when police moved many in quickly and shut down the road and moved en force and heavily armed into the property just up the road here. The Authorities Say that when they entered the building the occupants, well, thaey opened fire straight away. That gun battle followed. The locals tell us it went five to ten minutes and very fierce and he i have weapons were used they say and they heard a number of distinct large detonations and one of which they believe triggered a fire on the ground floor of that building. When it was all over the Authorities Say that two suspects had been kill and a third had