Will stay at what effectively is the vaticatts embassy here in washingttn which is just across the street from the vice esidents residence. Will come to see the president in person at his residence tomorrow morning just after 9 00. Matt and savannah. By the way, well be live at the white house tomorrow morning for the show. We expect to hear the pope speak about 18 times in all during his six days here in the United States, mos tly in spanish, his native tongue, but he will speak at least four times in english, motor notably when he addresses a joint meeting of congress. Joint Security Operations as you might guess in all three of these cities are absolutely massive involving tens of thousands military police and counterterrorism personnel. In philadelphia alone, get this, there will be enough traffic barriers to close off a four and a half square mile area and the mass that peter talked about will have more than 40 jumbo trons so the crowd can catch a glimpse of the pope. The pope is
Brian williams. Good evening. American war planes have been back in action again today in the skies over iraq, hitting targets on the ground in iraq because, while the world was watching, ukraine and russia and israel and gaza, a Violent Group called isis has swept across iraq. They have civilians and religious minorities on the run and threatened with death. And theyre nearing the city of erbil where americans are living and working. The president who pledged to bring americans home from iraq has been forced to send them back, at least into iraqi air space, in a twopronged humanitarian and military mission. And we begin here on this friday night with our pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. Reporter two u. S. Navy fa18s struck first, taking out isis artillery that had been firing at Kurdish Forces at erbil. Hours later, an unmanned predator drone hit an isis mortar position not once but twice with hellfire missiles, followed by four fa18s that obliterated an isis convoy with eigh
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
Strangled in her home near the fredericksburg campus. Her roommate Steven Vander briel is charged tonight with first degree murder and kidnapping. Hes being held in jail after a Court Appearance this morning. At that goodbye for grace mann today, bus loads of Mary Washington students and teachers joined family and friends. Manns mother is remembering her daughters passion for life, saying theyre getting through this, thanks to the outpouring of love and support from the community. News4s Mark Segraves has more from her roommates who spoke today at the funeral in falls church. Reporter nearly 1200 people packed into the falls church synagogue, including grace manns roommates who found their friends body inside the home they shared at the university of Mary Washington. We were lucky enough to spend the first minutes following graces passing by her side. Wed like to believe we brought her comfort as she left this earth to be with god. Reporter katheriner win told those gathered at the ser
New developments as were learning. A plan to shoot down people on their way to church. This was a plan that was thwarted in france. Were getting video in from a News Conference held by the interior minister in paris talking about the arrest of a 24yearold Computer Science student yesterday morning. He apparently had been planning to attack one or more churches in france. We know police say they found several weapons inside his car, several weapons inside his apartment in paris. Hes an islamic extremist from algeria who apparently had already been flag bid authority there is in france. They knew about him about a year ago and had been keeping an eye on him. He apparently shot himself in the leggen accidentally called an ambulance and then Police Arrested him. Prince georges county police are investigating a shooting in temple hills. A man was shot near the intersection of olson street and st. Claire drive last night. Police told us he was in Critical Condition early this morning and wer