Ambassador to south korea, mark lippert. The diplomat undergoing nearly three hours of surgery overnight, receiving more than 80 stitches on his face alone. Im bleeding here. Lippert slashed by a teninch knife in the face and arms moments before delivering a speech in seoul on wednesday. The weapon slicing open his left forearm, damaging the nerve system for his fingers. The gash on his right cheek four inches long and an inch deep. South korean surgeons say if the facial injury was any deeper it could have been lifethreatening. Hes one of our top asia policy experts in the u. S. Government. According to witnesses, the suspect, 55yearold king ki jeong pushed the diplomat on to a table before assaulting him. Bystanders tackling him to the ground as Police Rushed him out of the conference room. Witnesses say they heard kim yelling antiu. S. Sentiments shouting the south korea u. S. Military drills must stop a reference to the annual war games which north korea sees as a provocation. Nort
The hill not in the midst of the protest, but away from the protest. How far away we dont yet know. But i want to let you listen to details that weve been hearing. [ gunshots ] breaking overnight, two Police Officers in st. Louis county shot outside the Ferguson Police department. A night of protests in ferguson winding down when shots rang out. Acknowledgement nine months ago would have kept that from happening. Witnesses report hearing multiple shots and seeing one officer down. Bullets went right past my head. It was kind of traumatic, im still kind of in shock because of it. The injuries are in serious, one st. Louis county officer was shot in the shoulder. Another officer, a Webster Groves officer shot in the face. These Police Officers were standing there and they were shot. Just because they were Police Officers. Earlier, police drew their guns during a scuffle between protesters. Police making multiple arrests. Some protesters cheered at the resignation of police chief tom jack
Was to began and lasted well after it was supposed to be in effect. Police say protesters throw molotov cocktails at them and that some of them opened fire in their direction. Now, two civilians were shot in the chaos. Authorities say they were not the one whose fired those shots. President barack obama being briefed on all of this today at the white house. Cnns George Howell joins me now with more on the latest. Jofrnlg, what do you have this morning . Reporter you see what happened last night. I cant help but think back to the first day this all went down, myself and my photo journalist jordan were in a situation where you hear shots fired. Our colleague Steve Kasten Obama in the same situation, several nights of unrest. You have three different groups, a group of protest rs who have come out to protest peacefully. Thats what they want to development then you have another group who comes in to make trouble and you have police, criticized for being too heavy handed. In many cases they
Potential 2016 president ial candidate is controversial to say the least. Well be breaking down whats in the indictment, whether it will hold up in court and what penalties perry might face if hes convicted in just a bit. But we start this morning with the events overnight in ferguson, missouri, where the calm that had prevailed since the state police took over was broken by more unrest and looting. Hundreds of people gathered for a sixth straight night to protest last weekends Police Shooting of an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown. Protesters marched in the rain to the site where brown was killed as well as to the store that brown is alleged to have robbed. One nbc producer on the ground last night said he witnessed a member of the crowd throwing either a rock or a bottle at the uniformed officers outside the Convenience Store in the standoff that followed cops are believed to have fired at least one tear gas canister. Missouri Highway Patrol captain ron johnson has confirmed ther
We do know 47 people were arrested, some of them for threatening. That was what was said last night. In terms of the description of why this happened, but certainly no shots fired. Thats huge. Captain ron johnson notes a change in dynamic saying this may be a turning point, but this turning point did not come easily. Police did have to respond forcefully several times. Most notably after a small group of whats being called agitators lost control. You need to get back. Youre risking peoples lives. Like so many nights before, tuesday in ferguson quickly overcome by chaos. Disperse immediately. The agitators, the criminals embedded themselves and hid behind media and began throwing bottles. They threw urine on officers, and thats what caused officers to take action and begin to make arrests. Reporter today began with high hopes that this night would be different. Protect and cover every peace officer that you would protect and cover every protestr. Reporter clergy and Community Leaders pr