Im Melissa Mollet at the live desk. The funeral for the baltimore man who died after becoming critically hurt in Police Custody is just beginning. You can see right now lots of folks at the funeral for freddie gray. Were streaming this live on the nbc washington app. Thousands of people expected to attend 25yearold freddie grays funeral. You can see dozens of them in that shot right there. Of course gray died last week after stuffing a spinal injury. Baltimore police have not explained how or when that incident happened. The cemetery burial will follow this mornings funeral. Well have much more on twitter and facebook throughout the morning. Tensions remain high following a turning point in the freddie gray demonstrations over the weekend. Saturdays protests turned violent as night fell. Police cars damaged, businesses vandalized and looted 346789 people were thrown in jail. The Baltimore Police department launched an internal investigation into freddie grays death. The Six Police Offi
Accident happened just before 8am new years day. Police say the driver of the black chevy was fleeing a traffic stop. When he t boned the white toyotasending that of a liquor store. Killing francisco who was on the sidewalk a 29 year old female passenger inside the toyota was also killed. The driver of the toyota18 year old Juan Fernando garciatunwas transported to sf general where he remains in serious condition. Police have now identified the driver of the suspect car as 19 year old David Moraleswho you see here in these imagescaught by a witnessas hes being taken into custody as well as being treated for the minor injuries he sustained. Police say moralesa felon and a gang memberhad just fired a handgun at three people inside a Housing Project at 14th and valencia. It was after being stopped by police in connection with that shooting. That he took offand caused this deadly smash up. A handgun was recovered inside his vehicle. Morales is now out of the hospital felony chargesincludin
Talking about bacon. And the russian olympics on thin ice. All that ahead this sunday morning. Announcer from abc news, this week with George Stephanopoulos starts now. Good morning. Im martha raddatz. George has the morning off. Its great to have you with us. And we begin with breaking news as more than 20 embassies and consulates are closing around the world right now. And here at home, increased security measures are now in place. Abc news has learned this morning that the intercepted communications that led to the alert indicate terrorists are planning an attack that is going to be big and, quote, strategically significant. Yesterday the white house held an hours long meeting, highlevel meeting with the countrys Top National Security officials to discuss the response to the threat, and weve just learned what went on at that meeting, so lets go straight to jon karl, who is at the white house, and, jon, it sounds like the National Security community is really spooked by this. Reporte
Now, 162,000 jobs added in july here in the usa. The soft, disappointing number with parttimers beating fulltimers confirms what we already know about the economy. Its still only 2 , but stocks liked it. We may be talking about a downsized mini goldilocks. My full take on the jobs report and the market and what it means for the fed later on in the show. And the war of words between Chris Christie and rand paul is heating up. Is the future of the Republican Party at stake here . Our free market friday panel will have all those stories and much more coming up in the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Welcome back to ed kudlow report. Im larry kudlow. The u. S. Is on high alert over the threat of an al qaeda terror attack in the northeast or north africa starting this weekend. Nbc news Pete Williams joins us now with all of the details. Good evening, pete. U. S. Officials say this in response to an al qaeda threat from yemen. Some kind of unspecified plot to attack
Steepest charge against him, the former Intelligence Analyst was convicted on 20 others and could face 126 years behind bars. Manning was convicted of leaking 700,000 secret documents to the wikileaks website. Prosecutors argued his revelations ended up in the hands of osama bin laden. But the judge ruling that while the 25yearold was negligent, there was no intent to share those secrets with the enemy. They hailed this verdict but many civil liberty advocates saw the ruling as an attack on whistle blowers. It is a serious precedent. It is a serious abuse. And it will mean the end of National Security journalism in the United States as we know it if it is left to stand. President obama is proposing a new grand bargain with big spending on infrastructure, projects while slashing the Corporate Tax rate. This was panned across town by a local newspapers Editorial Board who suggested the president take his jobs plan and shove it. They called it a further left version of a plan he already p