28-year-old cheryl beckett who spent the last six years in afghanistan. she was the daughter of a respected minister in knoxville. his congregation mourned yesterday during the church services. woodlawn christian church in knoxville is rallying around the family, too. the associate pasture says beckett was honored to be included in the three-week medical journey in afghanistan but her parents always had a foreboding sense of what might happen. cheryl is like her parents, just have servant s hearts. she loved god and she loves people. you know, she just wanted to help people. charles and mary, i think, had a little bit of fear that this kind of a thing could happen. and, you know, we still, though, we were all shocked that this might be cheryl and something that happened. the u.s. state department has
last week and the house is expected to vote tomorrow. if it passes, the bull goes to president obama to sign. remember the name omar kadar? he is the first to face military charges. the first and youngest. he was 15 when he threw a grenade that killed a soldier in afghanistan. his lawyer is asking the supreme court to set aside the trial. an international aid group who had several members murdered in afghanistan says it will not abandon the country now. a total of six americans were among of ten aid workers gunned down one by one last week. those victims are being fondly remembered in her hometowns today. in lancaster, presence, 40-year-old glen lapp who worked for the international assistance division, which provides eye car and medical help in afghanistan. and in knoxville, tennessee,
we are back with developing news on an amber alert that we have been following pretty much throughout the day. a 7-month-old boy has been kidnapped in east tennessee, police say drake kingston boyd was abducted from his mom in a violent incident that happened yesterday. and joining us on the phone is reporter shaun drayer of our nbc affiliate in knoxville. shaun, thanks for joining us. can you tell us a little bit about this incident that happened. reporter: yes the greene county police department has shed some new light on the relationship of the suspect in this case. mr. jackson has been identified as the boy s father, he s had very limited contact with his son, though, and his son was visiting his father for only the second time this weekend. he was staying with him saturday night. and authorities here say the mother came to pick him up sunday afternoon. when she came to his house in
kernell said it was simply a prank. here s how palin responded to that claim. i don t think an illegal action like this is a prank, not when you consider that how impacting it was on a presidential election. well, nbc s kerry sanders is live for us in knoxville, tennessee. kerry, thanks for being with us. today was really focused on the timeline of this account being accessed and then what ensued so what did we learn today in this testimony? well, you know, it s very interesting. they talked a little about the timeline which of course it was september 16th, 2008, when the e-mail was breached. sarah palin was in michigan in her hotel room sitting in her hotel room with the tv on looking, glancing, and she looks over and she sees her e-mail screen shot flashing on the screen at the same time the secret service walks in and says, governor, we have a problem we need to discuss. she s looking at it going, yeah. i can see. and so she said that it caused problems not only for the camp
illinois senator dick durbin says he has been subpoenaed by defense attorneys for rod blagojevich to testify at the former governor s upcoming trial. blagojevich has pleaded not guilty to charges that he schemed to sell or trade the senate seat left vacant when obama was elected president. this comes one day after his attorney asked a federal judge to issue a subpoena to force president obama to testify, too. developing now, emergency teams in memphis are responding to a collision involving a public bus and a tractor trailer. the nbc affiliate in memphis says 23 adults and two children were on the bus. there are reports of multiple victims at the scene with some taken to local hospitals. the bus is described to be heavily damaged after slamming into a pole. sarah palin has had her day in court. this morning she testified in a knoxville, tennessee courtroom about what it was like to have her e-mail account hacked during the presidential campaign in 2008. now, the attorney for 22-yea