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Sunday, im ross bolombo. We begin with breaking news of the of oakland. Police shot outside the car kiming the driver and injuring the passenger. Ktvu is live there with the very latest this morning. Good morning, alley. Good morning, allie. Reporter good morning, ross. The latest out here is that livermore and oakland many police entered the home at 6 00. Police had surrounded the home for six hours overnight. Overnight, they used tear gas. They believer the man suspected in shooting had barricaded himself inside this home. And just before 6 00, s. W. A. T. Teams went inside. They discovered the suspect was not there. There were other residents inside the apartment. Those residents were questioned and released. They dont believe they were connected in any way to that shooting yesterday. Why did police come to this home in oakland in the first place u. Livermore police tell me that the vehicle the suspect had been driving. A black bmw with red stripes on the high school was located par
Chemical weapons attack in the world since Saddam Hussein gassed his own people back in 1988. And looks like is the key phrase here. Its hard to prove. It is hard to tell conclusively when chemical weapons have been used especially if you are trying to tell from a distance. In that iraq case it took four years for experts to confirm that chemical weapons were, in fact, used then. Physicians for human rights is one of the first groups to get into the site. They collected soil samples and tested them. The soil samples did show trace evidence of the elements that sarin gas breaks down into over time. And with those soil samples they were able to conclude that Saddam Hussein had used sarin and also mustard gas, like from world war i, mustard gas, on the kurdishiraqi population. They estimated that saddam killed about 5,000 people in that gas attack. Lots of countries have sarin gas or have had it. The United States and russia both used to mass produce sarin during the cold war. Now sarin i
World since Saddam Hussein gassed his own people back in 1988. And looks like is the key phrase here. Its hard to prove. It is hard to tell conclusively when chemical weapons have been used especially if you are trying to tell from a distance. In that iraq case it took four years for experts to confirm that chemical weapons were, in fact, used then. Physicians for human rights is one of the first groups to get into the site. They collected soil samples and tested them. The soil samples did show trace evidence of the elements that sarin gas breaks down into over time. And with those soil samples they were able to conclude that Saddam Hussein had used sarin and also mustard gas, like from world war i, mustard gas, on the kurdishiraqi population. They estimated that saddam killed about 5,000 people in that gas attack. Lots of countries have sarin gas or have had it. The United States and russia both used to mass produce sarin during the cold war. Now sarin is illegal. It was banned in 199
Theme were following some breaking news out of lebanon right now. Lebanese state media says at least 12 people have been killed in two explosions in the northern part of the country. The blast happened in tripoli on the syrian border. These are the first pictures from the explosion scene. One of the bombs exploded as people were coming out of a mosque after friday prayers. 25 people have reportedly been injured. We will continue to bring you details of this attack as they become available. The fate of admitted fort hood shooter major nidal hassan is in the hands of a jury. A panel of officers began deliberating on thursday after hassan passed on his final chance to address the jury. He did not offer closing argument. He could get the Death Penalty for shooting and killing 14 fellow soldiers in 2009. Aljazeera is live in fort hood, texas. Height de, given that hassan has basically put forward no defense and confessed to the today, only one gite would make punishment. There must be an ag