Photos. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We start with breaking news. Rescuers scrambleing to save survivors after the boat capsized in the storm. Crews report hearing sounds through the hull and trying to reach passengers they believe could be trapped inside. Chinese state media reports just 14 survivors have been rescued. More than 400 people on board. Among the rescued, the captain and chief engineer in police custody. Lets get the latest from ana coren. Reporter crews are desperate to save 450 people when the boat Julian Assange on the on the Yangtze River. The cruise ship was traveling to chongqing. It was hit by a cyclone and capsized in less than a minute. It took authorities just hours to raise the alarm. The captain and chief engineer who survived have been taken into police custody. Premier lee on the scene said the rescuers have every resource at their disposal and ordered an investigation. John and christine. Thank y
Clearly it was reckless. Nutter responding to speculation that the engineer might have been speeding to make up for lost time. Im sure they would not have minded being another 20 25 30 minutes late as opposed to dying unnecessarily in a train wreck. Youre not going to hear the ntsb making comments like that. Still conducting their preliminary investigation the ntsbs taking issue with the mayors comments calling them inflammatory. But they do agree bostian hit the emergency brakes too late. In the next three seconds, three or four seconds, the speed of the train had only decreased to 102. This Surveillance Footage along with the initial examination of the data reveal the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour twice the appropriate speed entering the sharp turn. He was already in the curve at that point. Youre supposed to enter the curve at 50 miles an hour. Bostian spoke to Philadelphia Police the night of the crash. And according to a Law Enforcement source told them he couldnt recal
Im john berman filling in for jake tapper today, we do begin with the world lead. President obama asked him to do it. Secretary of state john kerry flew to baghdad to ask him in person, but iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki appeared to shut the door today on requests for him to form a sort of unity government, one that would include sunnis that maliki has shut out of the process for years. This would be all in the hopes of will quelling the uprising by sunni militants tearing iraq apart. So if the Prime Minister wont play ball the way the u. S. Wants it could mean those air strikes that maliki has been begging for might never come. President obama is sending a number of military advisers into iraq. As many as 300 total. The first wave of them getting down to business right now assessing the Iraqi Military strength and movements by the Terrorism Group isis which stands for the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Isis is taking over huge chunks of iraq in air strikes are being carried out
That you heard here on the lead yesterday, the account seemed to corroborate some of the anchors war stories. No longer one supposes. This as tom brokaw weighs in with a very curious comment. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the world lead today. Today, the terrorist group isis claims that its american hostage, 26yearold aid worker Kayla Mueller was killed during an intense round of air strikes by the jordanian military. Mueller was taken hostage by isis in aleppo in 2013. She was in the region helping families trying to escape from the violence in the region. Isis provided no way to verify its claim. The jordanian government was quick to label the announcement a p. R. Stunt and an attempt by isis to fracture the u. S. Led coalition. The claim is being met with heavy skepticism among u. S. Government officials. After all, this is isis that were talking about, a group that has documented seemingly every horrific detail of its executions and yet in this
Good evening. As you can see still extremely snowy, blizzard is still happening in boston. Massive flooding along the massachusetts coast near where we are this hour. The historic blizzard making its way up the northeast coast. More than two feet snow blanket blanketing boston. 18. 5 have fallen just today. Its still snowing as you can see with the gusts coming down around me at this hour. This blizzard is far from over. Were still many the middle of a winter storm. The mayor will be my guest out front tonight. Across the state and region high winds filled storm surges that flooded many coastal cities. Seawalls broken and breached. Sea water mixing with ice and snow to make treacherous roads impassable. Snowfall totals approaching feet three. Snaul towns like framingham, massachusetts west of boston hip dip. As much as 30 of snow there. The storm slowly heading north to maine where its been snowing all day and should keep going through the night. As its gusting where i am with the snow