Lauren cook. Reporter good morning. The rain will lead to a hectic commute later this afternoon into the evening. We have a crash you will need to watch out for in Baltimore County in Lutherville Timonium. York road at east seminary avenue. Traveling on 83 heading up to hunt valley at shawan road,traffic is moving along. There is a twominute delay from the maryland Pennsylvania State line to the beltway. Once you get on to the jfx its going take you 12 minutes to travel southbound from the beltway downtown to east fayette street. 695 is in great shape no delays here in parkville at harford road. Traffic is moving along to travel the outer loop from 95 up to 83. And its going to take you 11 minutes and over on the west side, no delays traveling the outer loop from 795 down to 706789 its going to take 7 minutes. Thats your abc2 timesaver traffic now over to you. Parents this next story is going to have you talking to teens about safety behind the wheel. The rate of 16 and 17yearold drive
Killed osama bin laden, the u. S. Military has again reached into pakistan to take out a notorious terror leader. The Afghan Government confirms the leader of the taliban mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed this weekend in a u. S. Drone strike in pakistan, mansour had been blamed for the deaths of many u. S. Troops across the boarder in afghanistan. U. S. Officials say president obama personally authorized the strike. Here is Elizabeth Palmer. Reporter this according to the Afp News Agency is the ttermath of the drone strike. The burned out car mullah Akhtar Mansour had been riding in, and at least two charred bodies. There is only one known photograph of mansour, an afghanistans Intelligence Agency said he had been under close surveillance for awhile. Secretary of state john kerry on a visit to myanmar confirmed the attack. Yesterday the United States conducted a Precision Air strike that targeted taliban leader mullah mansour in a remote area of the afghanistanpakistan border. Reporter
Thursday, iranians spotted a u. S. Drone flying overhead and launched a surfacetoair missile on the unmanned aircraft. The missile apparently missed and fell into the sea. Now the same u. S. Official that put out that report also said that days prior to that attack, the u. S. Drone was shot down in the red sea by what was believed to be Iranian Missile shoot by houthi rebels. This is all believed after the video shows the irgc removing the mine from one of the tankers. The u. S. Military put out a video that shows the irgc removing the mine from the hull of the tankers in order to cover their tracks. President trump says this is evidence that iran is behind the attack. At this point, there is no smoking gun. The evidence that is provided so far is that grainy video and at this point it is just not irrefutable. It doesnt show the mines attached, but removed. Iran could argue they are removing mines attached by someone else. Iran is arguing these attacks and the ones last month were fals
President trump in a new interview this weekend says the decision to call off that mill ta military action was his alone but he takes advice from a wide spectrum of people. Do you feel like you were being pushed into military action against iran by any of your advisers . I have two groups of people. I have doves and i have hawks. You have some serious hawks. I have some hawks. Yeah, john bolton is absolutely a hawk. If it was up to him, hed take on the whole world at one time, okay . That doesnt matter because i want both sides. You know, some people said why did you put i was against going into iraq for years and years and before it ever happened. I was against going into iraq. And some people said, oh, i dont know. I was totally against. I was a private citizen. It never made sense to me. I was against going into the middle east. Chuck, we spent 7 trillion in the middle east right now. The president in that interview also said hes ready to talk to iran without preconditions. Secretar
Core of it. His explanations as to why he did this strike and when he did it or didnt do it, dont add up. So lets start with the when. Because this depends on which trump you believed. Here is how President Trump recounted the situation about the strike in an interview this afternoon. You never gave a final order. No, no, but we had something ready to go subject to my approval. And they came in about a hoff hour before said sir were about ready to go. I want. Planes in the air. Were about ready to go. No but they would have been pretty soon. And things would have happened to a point where you wouldnt turn back oh or current turn back. Okay with that is after a tweet this morning where the president quote we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three different sites ten minutes before the strike i stopped it. Well time really matters here when you talk about killing people. Half an hour before, no planes in the air or 10 minutes before, cocked and loaded. Take your pick. So