Mistake. To offer a supersimple scenario imagine if 60 families of a way ward bomb in syria could sue the United States or the pentagon itself. It doesnt have to do with my sympathy for 9 11 families it has to do with me not wanting to see us exposed to liabilities for the around the world. Only one center voted for the override, david jolly is the only Florida Republican to agree with the president. He says we should consider the number of will times our nation intervenes for the cause of freedom and security and now imagine our personnel were subject to civil liability in those nations. Bob grahame recently won the 9 11 documents that tie the saudi arabia government to 9 11 hijackers and he says bringing this to court would help to get 80,000 more pages released and that could reveal what the saudis knew and when. It could also open the flood gates to information. I know some of what the attorneys representing the families have been developing and it is really convince people that th
Accident. Fans across the country including here in the bay area are mourning his death and planning to pay tribute to him. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan live at Alonso High School. We found out a vigil is planned there tonight. Reporter 7 30 tonight family, friends and former teammates of this baseball player will meet here at the baseball field at 7 30 again to remember him and honor him tonight. In the meantime were learning new details about that accident weve learned that the baseball player Jose Fernandez actually had a fight with his pregnant girlfriend just hours before he went out on that boat, actually going out on the boat investigators say to clear his head a bit. Unfortunately just a few hours later Jose Fernandez along with two friends were killed when that 32foot fishing boat hit rocks near miami beach. A friend of one of the men actually urged him not to go out that night. He posted one last message on be careful. Friends of Jose Fernandez right here in tampa
The line. Ryan carter joins us live. Hofstra university in new york. A big night ahead. Reporter a big night ahead and a lot is going on in this media room. Do you see that gaggle of reporters . That is a group of reporters gathered around mark cuban, a very vocal critic of donald trump. He just came into this media filing station just a few minutes ago and just before he a walk in so we had two dueling groups of reporters and photographers running after both of them to get their comments. A big night ahead indeed. A perfect example. Thousands of people are credentialed to cover this debate which starts in a couple of days. Thats just the folks inside. I am one of thousands bringing you coverage of the event later tonight. Before the president ial debate games, traditionally 75 of the but this election is everything but traditional. More than 25 of those people are still waiting to see. Reporter this university of south florida professor of government and International Affairs say that
Devastated. It was too difficult for his brother to talk. Instead of a party for his 32nd birthday, they held a candlelight vigil. You got to find some kind of positive way to grieve. People say hed give the shirt off his back. Hed give you his life. Reporter jordan was an aspiring rapper known by everyone as jay green. The shooter was identified as derek denard. He is cooperating and not charged. News channel 8 went to his house. No one answered the claiming selfdefense. The other person involved in the. Thing, we interview involved in the shooting, we interviewed him the other night and recovered some evidence from him. Hes been very cooperative. We consulted the state attorneys office. Reporter friends say it was a senseless shooting and a life taken too soon. Its hard on everybody. You know what im saying . Green, he had an effect everybodys life. Reporter police are looking for more witnesses to theyre looking at all the facts and evidence in this case before deciding whether or n
Talk about the morning commute. Vanessa, whats going on . You had some problems a few minutes ago. Vanessa we had a full shut down of hillsborough avenue in the area of hoover and benjamin road. Last couple of minutes or so, the lanes have cleared out. Because of that crash and the full blockage we had for such a while, we can expect some delays to linger through the area. We know there was a dump truck involved and also some power lines down across the roadway. So drivers, its actually veterans expressway and cargo road. So if you can easily get to waters maybe, maybe if youre getting on the other side of the veterans, you could encounter better travel times. In the meantime, the vets itself is looking slow. This is an earlier crash which is still working with at least one lane blocked southbound direction near linebaugh. You can see the delays are basically all the way to the start of the veterans so plan plenty of extra time if you do plan to take the expressway or a new crash out o