combating terrorism center that is at the u.s. military academy in west point and we re given a rare glance into this, into bin laden s worries that al qaeda is the standing in the muslim world and his reasons for wanting to assassinate president obama and not vice president joe biden. on a surprise visit to afghanistan, president obama said that the timing of his trip was no accident. and one year ago from a base here in afghanistan, the troops launched an operation that killed osama bin laden. reporter: for the first time now, new details of bin laden s last days are being made public and in newly declassified letters found in his compound. in a report released thursday at west point, bin laden appears concerned that al qaeda attacks had killed too many muslims and damaged his support. and in 2010, bin laden wrote i plan to release a statement that we re starting a new phase to correct the mistakes we made n. doing so, we shall reclaim, god willing, the lost trust o
tamara johnson. she called and said tam ara is in an accident and i should come out. she don t know if she s breathing. i don t know if she was closer to the crime scene earlier but i just got off the phone and said ok, i m on my way. i just rush up. she works and goes to school and she just graduated from high school. thinking about going to college. reporter: it is unclear what the status of tam ara johnson is at this point. as you can see, the vehicles are back there. we have accident reconstruction going on. police vehicles, fire trucks and that vehicle, it is hard to tell what it is. if it is a sedan, an suv, if that s the front or the rear of the car. we re going to continue to work on this story for you this morning. mike, i m going to send it back to you. thank you, jessica. jessica is live in silver spring, the scene of a deadly accident where two people were killed and another is in the hospital. this is going to cause a major traffic issue this morning in sil
right now the heavy rain is finally north of town but flood warnings are still in effect. that rain turned into snow in parts of the metro. let s get over to topper slut to find out where that s going on and what it might mean for the morning ride in. top? we said all along the main threat with this storm would be rain and the flood warnings have been extended until the wee hours of the morning. let s start with live doppler 9,000. notice the counties highlighted in light green, those are flood warnings and again, they re going to go until midnight, 1:00, 2:00 in the morning and it can flood after the rains have ended. the good news is the real heavy rain as you mentioned up to the north near baltimore and that is pushing away up 95 and a little bit of snow but really never really a problem here in the metro area. these are the warnings now in light green and still a watch. the watch continues until 3:00 a.m. and they actually extended the flash flood, the flood watch. lo
good news for wake up weather, temperatures in the 30s at 5:00, do not anticipate any slick spots, 30s by 7:00 and 30s by 9:00 and remember to take your coats and sunglasses and we ll come back and talk about another cold front heading our way on friday and what that means for the weekend. thank you, top. new at 11, the military now saying partial remains from at least 274 american troops are lying in a virginia landfill tonight and that is far more than the military had originally acknowledged after accusations the air force had grossly missmanaged the remains of fallen service members at its military mortuary in dover. all of this is according to the washington post. now those remains were cremated and taken to a king george county landfill between 2004- 2008 and the military says it has no plans to notify the fallen troops families. the air force has already disciplining three senior officials responsible for handling the remains of u.s. war dead. tonight a teenage gir
damaging winds with the thunderstorms today, but also isolated tornadoes will be a possibility. there s an enormous amount of wind energy just aloft, so anywhere from about 3,000 to 15,000 feet, up over our heads. some near 100-mile-an-hour winds. so very, very active weather day coming. the warmer it is here, too, the more it s going to stir the pot, right? correct. thank you, chuck. major storms are to blame for the deaths of at least nine people in the midwest and south, and it appears to be heading our way. nbc s kurt gregory has more on the devastation that those storms left behind. we ve got two, three, oh! reporter: the deadly storm system spawned tornadoes across parts of the midwest and south. no tornadoes reported in western arkansas, but that state was hit the hardest. seven people were killed in arkansas, including a mother and her young son, who died when a tree fell on their house. it s just a tragedy. i feel for the family, with all my heart. oh