Nightly news begins now. From nbc world questioned quarters in new york. We begin with breaking news in houston texas. A suspect is in custody charged with capital murder for the execution style murder of a department. He had just finished refilling his patrol car and he was shot to death. The Surveillance Video captured it. Jak reporter tonight Authorities Say the man who gunned down a houston Sheriffs Department has been caught. Charged with capital murder. We have identified the suspect responsible for the senseless and cowardly act. A tenyear veteran had just finished an accident report and pulled into a gas canation. Six to eight shots and an officer is down. Surveillance captured images of the shooter in his red pickup truck. He approached the department, firing repeatedly even after the department collapsed. What happened last night is an assault on the fabric of society. It is not anything we can tolerate. Weve heard all black lives matter, all lives matter, and so do cops live
America. Live from studio 3 c in rockefeller center, this is news 4 new york. Now at 6 00. A bullet strikes and kills an innocent bystander. And a car crashes and critically injures a woman walking down the block. Plus this. Did that wake you up this morning . Three buildings imploded to make way for an Affordable Housing complex. And good evening, im rob schmitt. Tonight, we have new information about an innocent victim here who was in the wrong place at the wrong time shot down by a police bullet. And we understand the 61yearold victim was a religious man. News 4s Michael George has more from mt. Vernon. Reporter well, rob, felix kumi likely had no idea that he was walking down the street and right into an Undercover Police sting. And when the bullets flew, felix was hit. For the first time were hearing the Police Commissioners response. A horrible mistake, an innocent bystander shot dead by the nypd officer. We spoke to friends of felix kumi. He was our brother, we all loved him. Re
Roll over. Nightly news begins now. From nbc world questioned quarters in new york. We begin with breaking news in houston texas. A suspect is in custody charged with capital murder for the execution style murder of a department. He had just finished refilling his patrol car and he was shot to death. The Surveillance Video captured it. Jak reporter tonight Authorities Say the man who gunned down a houston Sheriffs Department has been caught. Charged with capital murder. We have identified the suspect responsible for the senseless and cowardly act. A tenyear veteran had just finished an accident report and pulled into a gas canation. Six to eight shots and an officer is down. Surveillance captured images of the shooter in his red pickup truck. He approached the department, firing repeatedly even after the department collapsed. What happened last night is an assault on the fabric of society. It is not anything we can tolerate. Weve heard all black lives matter, all lives matter, and so d
Senator, first off the air force understads the immediacy of necessity of Close Air Support. I believe the systems they have in place will provide us that immediacy. Again, as we use different platforms, we will have to work we will work through with the air force how we use those and how theyre best effective in supporting our Ground Forces as we move forward. Find it curious that you come over here with all the necessity for cost savings and the a10 costs for flying air is 17,000 for flying hour, the b1, 54,000 per flying hour. I as i said before, general welsh, i challenge you to find an army or a marine commander who is functioned in the field and needed Close Air Support that would feel comfortable with a b1 replacing the a10. Ill look forward to you providing me with those individuals. Fact is that the b1 is a much more expensive, it flies at high altitude, and it hit attacked static targets. That does not fulfill the mission of the of Close Air Support as i know it. Id be glad t
Department and the requirements of the combat commanders. Then we do a force Structure Assessment where we balance the predominantly ships but we look at all capabilities. Our ability to make the combat and commanders presence requirements and the operational plans as well as scenarios of the department. We roll all those factors in. That is done every time we change the strategy or make a tweak to the strategy and annual defense review. Briefly, jen amos. Weve done three on the last three years. First one teem took over a year of force Structure Review effort going on right after i took this job. The last one was in the face of sequestration last year. That designed a force to come from 202 to 175. Within that, though, we rooked at how we could afford that 175 force, we looked at pay grade. Were the youngest of all the services and so we have the we have probably we do, the lowest numbers of the top of six ranks. Theyre the most expensive in officer and enlisted side of the house. So,