The story. Plus, a pictureperfect day but several changes are on the way. My forecast starts right now. Live, from the abc 7 broadcast centers, this is abc 7 news at 11 oclock, on your side. Tonight, outrage over an email. The controversial message comes from the d. C. Fire department. The email over fire ordered fire inspectors to clean up the mess he job. It uses words considered to be racist. Jay korff is live in southwest d. C. How is the community responding . This email sent last friday at the d. C. Fire inspectors house has some offended and wondering if his priorities are straight. The men and women who work as fire inspectors and washington, d. C. Run into burning buildings but they did something just as critical. And force fire code. Enforce fire code. Friday, they received an email from the supervisor that stated, no appointments are to be made on friday due to a mandatory office cleanup. I believe the quote used by a certain battalion chief who shall remain nameless was thi
And a good friday morning to you. Im brandi hitt. And im dan kloeffler. We do begin this morning with the latest u. S. Response to the brutal threat posed by isis. The Islamic Terror Group releasing this video of about 150 syrian soldiers stripped to their underwear, but the white house is clearly trying to lower the emotional response to this kind of propaganda. Tahman bradley. Reporter a surprising admission from president obama who just days ago ordered surveillance flights over syria to identify possible isis targets. The suggestion seems to have been that were about to go full scale on an elaborate strategy for defeating isil. I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. Reporter with that the president made clear military action against isis in syria is not imminent, even though the u. S. Has already targeted the brutal terror group inside iraq. I want to make sure everybody is clear on what were doing now, because it is limited. Reporter there obama
cheering there she goes dubois and Elaine Quijano with the amazing cici bellis. Talking about the match. Dubois her racquet did the talking at the u. S. Open. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening, scott is off tonight. Im maurice dubois. We begin with two american journalists abducted by islamic terrorists in saudi arabia. Steve sotloff disappeared two years ago. Today his mother made a dramatic appeal for his release and 35yearold theo curtis, freed over the weekend after nearly two years in captivity is back home tonight. Heres Margaret Brennan. Reporter it had been 22 months since writer Peter Theo Curtis saw his mother. Last night they were reunited at bostons logan airport. Today outside his mothsers house in cambridge, massachusetts, an emotional curtis told reporters how thankful he was to be free. I remember how good the American People are and what kindness they have in their hearts and to all those people i say a huge
Opener, your world in 90 seconds. I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. The white house says no to immediate military action against isis in syria. Isis militants claim to have carried out a mass execution of syrian soldiers. The president is taking heat from his critics whoay se h doesnt understand the isis threat. This is a pitiful foreign pocy and barney fife is in charge. Its a fullscale invasion with them fighting along another front in southern ukraine. To comedian joan rivers rushed a New York Hospital when she was rushed in due to cardiac arrest after a throat procedure. Her daughter says she is comfortably surroundedy b family. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell is admitting his twogame suspension of ray rice was too soft. Its not a league to back down from its decisions. For Roger Goodell to say that in this case says quite a bit. The volcano is causing an eruption. A red alert issued for amenrica flights. American teen cici bellis is out of t
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