Warning to thank politics and prose and cspan for thinking inform of the series to cover. You dont gate these kind of people in this kind of room without getting the kind of coverage. Want to thank you for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free. Feel welcome, feel at home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer, and i want to, without further adieu, introduce this great, great panel. Were going to do some work from their career, and well get into the discussion, and i will start off with someone who i have such respect for, such admiration, such love for, dr. Mary Frances Berry. She has a list of things she has done. She has been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on. She is also the author of the book, five dollars and a pork chop, from which and the corruption corruption in democracy. She has a new book coming out, history teaches us to [applause] next to dr. Mary francesbe
Fourlegged friend along side him for the flight, he packed plenty of time before taking off for charleston. Hopefully she will be asleep. Otherwise she will be good. She was good on the last flight. Officials estimate sunday is the busiest travel day of the thanksgiving season so we talk to folks today who are avoiding that day. Coming back on saturday or waiting until the work week next week. Meanwhile we know amtrak at Union Station has many holiday expect delays along if northeast regional corridor after a train struck an individual on the track near wilmington, delaware. Reporting live, brianne carter, check on the roads with Richard Reeve. Richard well, brianne carter, its a weird commute. Off the exit from the inner loop. Stopped on the inner loop. We are not moving at all. We stopped completely. Some of this is the holiday traffic. 44 Million People in the cars across the country. Just an impressive number. Lack behind us. Wow minutes ago we were closer to virginia and the outer
Fragments. But they stress last night that the officers death is the fault of the suspect. He engaged several Prince Georges County Police Officers in a gun fight for which they responded heroically. Brad back live now. What you are looking at is one of the crime scene investigator vans in the middle of the shooting scene. As we pull out a little bit to the left, you will see the front of a building, walkway, fence, and a front of a building. That is the district three headquarters. Its where the initial shots were fired. Officer colson was hit just about another hundred yards or so down the hill. Now we gave you an awful lot of detail in that story about the alleged suspects. How they were videotaping it and how it was a planned suicide by cop and the suspicion, the belief among the Police Investigators this was a case of friendly fire in the middle of the shootout. Of those details. More information to be coming from the press conference with chief hank stawinski. As we said, that is
That one lane is blocked. Taking a live look, it doesnt seem to be too terrible at least right now. Single tracking. 66 is oklahoma. No problems on 95. Same thing when youre looking at prince georges county. No actual incidents. Starting to get the typical slowdowns. Its 6 00 a. M. After all. Ill see you shortly for travel time. Were following breaking news out of mali where theres a hostage situation at a hotel. Were getting new information. An Army Commander said 20 hostages were let go 20 minutes ago. That means still 150 people are being held hostage by gunmen at the Radisson Blu Hotel right now. Guests and employees. Gunmen stormed the hotel, throwing grenades. No words on whether americans are inside of the hotel. But here is a tweet from the u. S. Embassy in mali on high a ale alert, of course. It says u. S. Embassy staff has been asked to shelter and place americans. All should shelter in place. The hotel attack in mali is a fluid situation and well get the news to you as we ge
Doors to syrians suffering unimaginable pain. They want to assure that Syrian Refugees pose no threat. These refugees want to meet with the governor to let them know they mean no harm. We are also afraid of the same people they are afraid of. We watch the tv, we are terrified of the people. And what they are doing. Brad this evening the Governors Office issuing a statement in response to refugees request for a meeting saying the governors First Priority is the safety and the security of marylanders and that will never change. The governor is not backing down. There annapolis, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon stay with abc7 news on air and online at wjla. Com for developments in the war on terror here at home and abroad. Maureen the level of Americans Trust in the government is not good. In a new pew research poll, 169 of the people surveyed 19 of the people surveyed trust the federal government most or all the time. 32 of the republicans surveyed they are angry with the governor. 12 of democ