And we do say good morning on this friday. Im kendis gibson. Im Gloria Riviera in for diane macedo. We begin with breaking news in arkansas. The states executioner went back to work overnight for the first time in over a decade. The state ignored criticism for its plan to carry out several executions by the end of this month. La dell lee was executed just before midnight as his death warrant was about to expire. Abcs Danya Bacchus with the latest. Reporter in arkansas inmate put to death. Earlier this afternoon ladell lee received as his last meal request communion. Reporter his attorneys making one last push to save his life filing a civil rights lawsuit to prove his innocence, but to no avail. These are lawsuits being filed are a sense to delay the executions, the lawful executions of these individuals who have been convicted by juries of abs crimes. Reporter ladell lees execution was on hold due to a temporary restraining order on the states use of a drug, one of three used in the l
Reason for sleeplessness . Early today starts right now. A lot to get to today. Breaking news out of arkansas. The state carriied out its firs execution since 2005. Inmate ladell lee was executed. He was convicted for the murder of his neighbor, debra reese. His execution came after the Supreme Court voted 54 against appeals that would have spared his life. The state originally said eight executions over an 11day period, that would have be the most by a state in such a short period of time. Three executions where canceled because of Court Decisions and legal rulings. The reason for the rushd timeline . The state says the execution tss need to be carried out before its supply of a lethal injection drug expires on april 30th. The u. S. Military on high alert for a possible nuclear test by north korea. President trumped arded this in a late News Conference thursday. Were in very good shape. Were building our military rapidly. A lot of things have happened over the last short period of tim
It may not rain every minute of saturday and sunday but you need to have backup plans to go for Outdoor Activities especially saturday afternoon and saturday night. We may be talking about 90 degrees before next week. Well worry about 90 degree weather more coming up in a bit. For now we are tracking rain drops with Sheena Parveen. Yes, we are, chuck. We have showers around this morning. Mostly though if youre north of the district so were not looking at everybody seeing the rain. Were not seeing that stretch rain down 95. Very busy section. Its mostly around hagerstown, mart continuesburg, frederick shifting from west to east. Thats the general direction. Going to continue moving through around frederick. Hagerstown seeing some of that moderate to heavy rain. Currently its mild. 64 degrees as we go closer to 7 00 a. M. , mid 60s. Still some showers around. By noon, warm and muggy, 77. By 6 00 p. M. , a chance for a thunderstorm. Well take a closer look at the weekend forecast. Lets ch
general emphasizing the importance of working with and protecting civilians and stretting the need to root out corruption as well. mike emanuel is live at the pentagon. what are the points of emphasis general petraeus is making about the fight in afghanistan that s happening right now? reporter: the key line comes on page four where he says learn and adapt more quickly than the enemy, the general essentially laying out markers for his troops in the field, ways to handle the fight, saying it is okay to use force, but you cannot win the war by simply group force, so use the amount of force necessary to win. there s also great talk about corruption in afghanistan. he notes that president karzai wants to root out corruption in afghanistan so he s saying u.s. forces should help and if they notice corrupt local officials, report them to the chain of command, they should report them to afghan officials because part of the danger is that the afghan people see corruption and say tha