A man accused of killing a university of Mary Washington student from falls church appeared in court and tops our news. Steve vander briel is charged with murder and the abduction of 20yearold grace rebecca mann. The two shared a house in fredricksburg. He appeared via monitor and asked the judge for a public defend are. Hes being held without bond and due back in court may recalling a young woman who embraced life and fought for equality and civil rights, mourners paid tribute to grace mann during her Funeral Service this morning at temple rodef shalom in falls church. She was remembered as an active leader on the Mary Washington campus. The history and american studies junior was hoping to become a lawyer. There will be an extradition hearing for the woman accused of dumping her severely disabled son in the woods near their philadelphia home. After abandoning her son, nyia parler came here to visit her boyfriend in smp. Her silver spring. Her son is a quadriplegic with seer balance p
Reporter now during the long effort to try and bring her husband home Elaine Weinstein had expressed great faith in the government and the efforts of the u. S. Government to bring her husband home. Late today the white house issued statements and say theres an investigation going on to try and figure out what went wrong. The congressman for this region, john delaney, is asking, he says hes outraged by what happened. He says that the u. S. Needs to do more tasmar sha we can rescue hostages to insure that we can rescue hostages and work with families and hes going to introduce legislation to try and make everybody more accountable and to make that effort more responsive and more effective. Reporting live in rockville, bruce leshan, wusa9. Now to the protests over the death of freddie gray, they popped up again today in baltimore as the investigation into how he was injured in Police Custody continues. Garrett haake is live at city hall where todays demonstrations began. Todays demonstrat
Compound in pakistan. U. S. Intelligence says the terrorist was a highranking terrorist, and they did not know two hostages were with them. 73yearold Warren Weinstein, an aid worker from maryland, had been kidnapped nearly four years ago. Giovanni loporto of italy, who worked for a humanitarian agency, had been held since 2012. We also learned today that two more americans were killed, but both of them were members of al qaeda. In an unexpected announcement the president called it a tragedy. I take full responsibility for all our Counterterrorism Operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. I profoundly regret what happened. On behalf of the United States government, i offer or deepest apologies to the families. Pelley the president went on to say it was a cruel and bitter truth that deadly mistakes happen in the fog of war. David martin has learned what went wrong. Reporter the drone strike happened in january, but it wasnt until april that the
Along the southeast coast the danger is rip currents. Lifeguards have rescued hundreds from the water. And today one notable waterspout in Fort Lauderdale. Mark straussman has more on that. Underwater tornado. Beachgoers with smart phones recorded this frightening moment of a waterspout that made landfall. It pushed an inflatable bounce house end over end on Fort Lauderdale beach and tossed it 20 feet in the air. Three children were hurt one seriously. Up and down Floridas Atlantic coast the National Weather service issued red flag warnings of rough surf created dangerous swimming conditions. Lifeguards have rescued more than 400 people since sunday. Three men have drowned. One yesterday, two more today. People waving and the lifeguard out there and then two much them went out then three of them then four. And i think they were getting stuck. Reporter these patrol officials said yesterdays drowning occurred in an unguarded area of the beach. Theyre urging swimmers to stay within areas
Letter, weinstein had begged president obama to negotiate, pay a ransom anything. The answer was no. Negotiating with terrorist groups to try to secure the release of innocent americans would only put at risk more innocent americans. Rnchs weinsteins wife elaine today called much of the u. S. Governments assistance inconsistent and disappointing. What went wrong . U. S. Officials say using drone video the cia spotted the signature pattern of Al Qaeda Leaders and picked up no indication of hostages and attacked. Senior al qaeda leader ahmed fa resume was also reported killed, an american. Al qaeda spokes manl adam gadham born adam perlman from california was also killed in a similar strike. But any celebrating was short lived. Intercepts were picking up that hostages had died. As a husband and as a father i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the weinstein and laporta families are enduring today. Reporter president obama asserted the strike was legal in the sense that it followed g