The debate offer the u. S. Drone program in the region. Also b, is this the first time an american citizen has been killed by a drone attack outside of Anwar Al Awlaki who was an american who became a terrorist and taken out by a u. S. Drone strike. To be clear white house statement says counterterror operation. They do not specify that it was a drone strike. So we should hear from the white house and im reaching out now to specify what kind of operation this was. Was a drone strike aircraft or elements on the ground involved. Thats one thing we have to look into. Keep in mind all those things have inherent risks. Drone strikes killed civilians before. You mentioned al awlaki strike the one previous weve known before pesifying drone specifically. Keep in mind there was another operation on the ground in somalia with Ground Forces that killed not an american but an International Hostage from south africa. So all these options at the president s hands, all of them are risky in these cont
And then a rally for answers in the death of a man mysteriously injured during his arrest. We have dramatic moments on the streets coming up this morning. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. It is friday april 24th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Christine romans is off this morning. We have breaking news from indiana. About two dozen students at Westfield High School were injured when the stage collapsed during a rock show. This is the video. Nd those who jumped in to rescue the performers relayed what they saw. What pieces of wood and a falling of faces. I just saw this shock and look of shock and moan of silence after collapse. Confusion and screaming from parents and faculty and staff with a rush to the stage. I was in shock because i just watched 20 to 30 people fall into a pit. It is still hitting me. There was one girl who had nails in her leg and taken out on a stretcher. There was another girl with a dislocated leg. It was bad. One woman, about my age, she had a lot
Young black men, or is Something Else going on here . And the american al qaeda prisoner that you dont know about. His family is going to tell us about the frightening message that they got today from al qaeda. But also were going to begin with our breaking news tonight that we have been reporting on for so much of our hour last hour here on cnn. Tear gas fired on protesters on another night of unrest. Ferguson, missouri is what were talking about. Cnns David Mattingly joining us. Also our producer yon pomrenze on the phone with us as well. So lets talk about lets talk about this. First, lets go to David Mattingly. David, where you are, you said youre right outside of the Police Department there is a peaceful protest where you are. Yon is seeing a much different scene. Well talk to yon in a moment. But take us through what is happening. What is happening is something weve seen repeated every night since the violence we saw on sunday. We havent seen the same kind of looting, the same ki
The Obama administration was accused Wednesday of giving terrorists an incentive to kidnap as it unveiled a hostage policy overhaul allowing families of U.S. hostages to pay ransom and allowing the U.S. government to help families communicate with captors.
“This doesn’t fix anything,”Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a leading critic of the administration’s hostage policy, told Fox News. “The money that we’re going to be paying ISIS is going to be used to buy arms and to buy equipment to fight Americans and to fight the Iraqis.”
But the White House said the changes are being unveiled with the families and victims in mind.