Reportedly turns up evidence of longterm planning for the murders. Andlmed into it tweeted. At wdbj, nobody is surprised. He had a lot of anger. He had a lot of just rage. Was fired twoagan years ago from his job as a reporter. Staffers say innocent things like Fried Chicken on a menu would bring forth claims of racism. He was not a nice man and he was not a happy man. Reporter one person who was speaking out with the most passionate about this. He is the boyfriend of allison parker. He is an anchor at the station. He is talking both about flanagan and the woman he loved. We will hear from him when we come back at 5 00. Brad bell, abc 7 news. Scott we are also hearing from the father of allison parker. He says he is used to talking to his daughter each day and after this tragedy he is pushing for tighter gun control laws. She would be texting me right now saying dad, what did you think of my story . And i am never going to hear that again. She was so loved by all. My heart is broken. I
Maureen thank you so much. That shooting comes just a few hours after he married d. C. Mayor burial said, a small number of people initiatives mayors are intended to fight back against a spiking homicide rate and hit any parts the district this summer. There have been 103 homicides this year, nearly equal to the 105 homicides all the last year. There has been a 95 increase in the seventh Police District which includes anacostia. Stephen tschida is there with white efforts to fight back is making some people angry. Reporter this was supposed to be a highly choreographed rollout of a crimefighting initiative. When the mayor started talking about situations like this for we have roundtheclock Police Presence of the street, she encountered a loud chorus of criticism. Matter lives reporter announcing the plan for more police, partial penalties parser penalties, activist rose up against the mayor. Black lives matter more than just a. Undeterred, she would utter strategy to stem a spiking hom
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. John nichols joins us to discuss todays announcement to end daca, the nations cover story and his new book, horseman of the trumpopalypse field guide in america. When youre trying to combine b biblical principle and politics no laughing matter here. How surreal was it, i even saw that president obama, who hasnt said much since he left the white house, went on his Facebook Page today to sound off on this move. He promised that he would. Yeah. He kept his word. So president obama sounded off today on this announcement by the white house by mr. Trump. Hes rescinding the daca provisions. What do you make of this . I think its what Jeff Sessions and a few of these people wanted to do long ago. Long before trump even became a president ial candidate. And they attached themselves to trump early on, because they saw him as a vehicle to do this. It is tragic. It is irresponsible. Jeff sessions in his press conference was
Moment. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome joann walsh back to the program, a national correspondent, and the writer of the piece everyone is a socialist after a national disaster. She joins us from washington, great to have you back. Thank you. Everybody is a socialist after a disaster, tell me more. I was just struck by senator ted cruz demanding instant Hurricane Harvey relief, which of course the people of texas and houston deserve that. But you know, ted cruz, he held up our relief for Hurricane Sandy five years ago here in new york, and continues to basically lie about it saying he opposed the bill because it contains so much pork. That really was not true, the things he thought were pork were things like funding for head start programs but they were programs that were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. There were other things like that if he had taken the time to understand the bill he would know they were not pork, so it was as
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. John nichols joins us to discuss todays announcement to end daca, the nations cover story and his new book, horseman of the trumpopalypse field guide in america. When youre trying to combine b biblical principle and politics no laughing matter here. How surreal was it, i even saw that president obama, who hasnt said much since he left the white house, went on his Facebook Page today to sound off on this move. He promised that he would. Yeah. He kept his word. So president obama sounded off today on this announcement by the white house by mr. Trump. Hes rescinding the daca provisions. What do you make of this . I think its what Jeff Sessions and a few of these people wanted to do long ago. Long before trump even became a president ial candidate. And they attached themselves to trump early on, because they saw him as a vehicle to do this. It is tragic. It is irresponsible. Jeff sessions in his press conference was