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
This is the same church where freddie gray will be laid to rest on monday. Tonight first the protesters gathered at city hall and marched through all downtown baltimore through the inner harbor and up mlk and camden yards and slowly back towards the Western District. Five days in a row of protests, i talked to one pastor who said this is the start he hopes of something much bigger. Take a listen. I think that theres got to be a persist not traction so that the city hall and the Police Department know its not an event. Its a movement and now its much larger than freddie gray. Reporter im hoping to hear from some of freddie grays family members here at this vigil. Then later tonight well led back over to the Western District which has an even larger Police Presence tonight bolstered by some 30 members of the Maryland State Police ordered out by the governor today. The hope is they wont be needed and everything keeps calm. Well see how the evening develops. Garrettmaker, wusa9. Well look
The rain arrives and the cold front arrives a little bit earlier so you get the northwesterly winds faster. 64 for gaithersburg. Hagerstown only talking 60 today. But if youre down through Southern Maryland, you get to the 70s. Here come our showers. Well track it for you coming up a little bit later. Expect the showers to arrive in the district along 95 between 2 00 and 4 00. Heres a quick look at the planner. Ill have your futurecast but here is larry. Metro riders, want to let you know so far so good the trains running on schedule. The buses running on schedule. So youre looking at an issue free commute this morning. Of course if it changes before you head out the door, ill be sure to let you know. Want to let you know that the eastbound side of 50 at the beltway closed as a result of debris on the roadway. Want to give you a live look right now and show you how things are shaping up right now. Looks like traffic is still moving so not having too much of an impact on traffic just ye
Whole story unfortunately, so its hard to tell from the short clip of video. I know that theyre asking to see if theres any other video out there that anyone else might have to see what happened before the video and, of course, after the video in the van is a question mark as to how this could have possibly happened. Governor hogan says he has spoken with the mayor of baltimore and the states attorney and tried to apply some pressure to complete that gray autopsy as soon as possible. Our Bruce Johnson is live in west baltimore tonight where tensions on both sides are running high. What are you hearing tonight, bruce . Reporter first off we wanted to be in front of the Police Precinct for the Western District of baltimore, but that cant happen. Ill move to show you why. Police have the entire block sealed off with police cars and then a barricade and behind the barricades are dozens of Police Officers for the entire block. Clearly they are set up to keep people from going in front of po
Its inexcusable and theres no place for it on the Police Department. Reporter before throwing in the towel Thomas Lawyer claimed selfdefense saying the officer thought the handcuffed boy was about to spit on him, which the suspect had done in previous encounters. Prosecutors pointed out there was no need for thomas to enter the cell to start with. States attorney Angela Alsobrooks said there is no protecting bad cops in Prince Georges County. This is definitely not ferguson. It is likewise not what were seeing in Baltimore City and one of the critical differences between this case and the cases weve seen across the country is that this conduct was discovered and brought to us by our Police Department which is why the chief of police is standing with me today. Its because of the trust in the community that weve been able to drive down crime the way we have and anyone who violates that trust, i will take appropriate action immediately. Reporter alsobrooks says her prosecutors will ask fo