Advice to lead bostons response to the marathon bombing last year. Menino left office in january and was diagnosed with advanced cancer soon after that. President obama said bold, big hearted and boston strong, tom was the embedment of the city he loved and led for morning two decades. Now to the ebola crisis. Talks about between kcasey hick h. Hickox and officials wrote done. She went for a bike ride today and attention paid to an otherwise unremarkable event reflects the controversy surrounding the status of ai workers. Hickox he refuses to submit to maines request to avoid Public Contact for 21 days. There is no legal action against me, so im free to go on a bike ride in my hometown. Maine Health Officials disagree. Their latest reaction in our next half hour. Well also go live to new york for the latest on the condition of dr. Craig spencer. A vote could make marijuana legal in the district. Now city leaders are working to answer the big money questions. The d. C. Council held its
A guy comes along, stabs him and then slashes his throat. Kevins great grandmother comes out and tries to stop the guy, but he stabs and wounds her and then continues his escape down the street. There wae manhunt and a few weeks later, glregory was arrested and charged. He sucker punched his own defense attorney. Hes been found mentally incompetent tent to stand trial. Now it appears this case has come to a cross roads. The issues, doctors say murphy cannot be made competent to stand trial. Because of that, defense lawyers say the criminal charges should be dropped. That murphy should be committed and the case should be handled severally. This is not the outcome kevins sister wants. I want him to be behind bars. I want him to they ever see tr ligh of day, to never be able to harm another person, another family. Reporter so what will happen to murphy . A judge is expected to make that decision soon. What has it done to the family . More coming you up at 6 00. Live in alexandria, pat col
Knees, allegedly begging the to strike him first, before the officer hits the teen. School, pickard was wellknown, wellliked. Parents we spoke to say the hard to believe. Policemen we know in the school are really good and kind to the kids. Isanother interesting fact that neither of the alleged victim really wanted to participate in the investigation. They were uninjured in their exchanges with the police officers. And one of the things that took to get these cases going was that the Police Actually had to track them down and convince them to give statements. The courthouse in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc 7 news. Okay, brad. Thank you. It was a case that really shocked the region. Letchanged where parents their children play. 14 years ago, a stranger stabbed eightyearold Kevin Shifflett played. , as the child now the man accused in the crime wants to be transferred from a hospital. Al that has prompted shiffletts to break her silence for the first time. Stephen tschida is live in jud
With the 17minute mon low log and music and dancing and, of course, the awards. And the oscar goes to argo. In a surprise appearance from the white house, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the winner for best picture. Ben affleck, not nominated for best director, expressed his gratitude for this win. It doesnt matter how you get knocked down in life, because thats going to happen, all that matters is you to get up. I love you. In the best actress category, a bit of a stumble. You guys are standing up because you feel bad that i fell. Thats really embarrassing. Thank you. Reporter Jennifer Lawrence winning for her role in Silver Linings playbook, later celebrating with her family at the governors ball. And the oscar goes to daniel daylewis. Threetime oscar winner meryl streep presented the award to Daniel Day Lewis for his role in lincoln. I had actually been committed to play margaret thatcher. In the directing category, ang lee won for life of pi. Thank you, movie god. Thank you. Fo
Announcer this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to a special edition of today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie. Welcome back. Good to be back. Stay up all night watching the oscars . No. I made it through the singing of goldfinger. I was surprised by the other awards when i woke up. How about you . I barely made it past the monologue. But in my defense it was 17 minutes long. It was long. It really was. A lot of different reviews about the show. People not only talking about the big winners, but Seth Mcfarlane as host. It was a segment he joked about during much of the telecast. Al and meredith are out in los angeles. They have been up all night and good morning to you, guy. Should i say continuation of good evening . I havent really been up all night. Als been up all night. Meredith has been back in her room having mai tais. As you mentioned the reviews are s