Cleveland 19 news sponsored by National Carpet mill outlet. Io yoys flooring superstore. Asking questions and getting answers, cleveland 19 news starts now. Romona a report by flying road debris and deadly crashes. Moment, we are tracking some storms in the first alert forecast for the entire weekend. It has been a rough few days and the risk of flash flooding is going to continue. Beth mcleod is in for jeff tanchak with the latest. We are tracking showers and storms moving from the downtown area out toward the heights area. You can see the lightning tracker at 271. We have watched this cell in and through downtown and interrupted the tribe game and now you can see it is making its way toward chesterland. This is the same area that had been saturated by the earlier storms. 271 seeing a good downpour. This one moves pretty quick at this point. A little heads up. We continue to funnel in more storms coming through. A little heads up to Cuyahoga County. Some areas will get socked again. S
Gray was handcuffed behind his back. That he was in leg shackles and the theory is that he was standing up in the van kind of like this and that he went flying for whatever reason his head contacting the wall and the injuries that he suffered to his spinal cord happening at some point in that fall. Now, the Police Report was released today to the states attorney. The states attorney has announced that her investigation is under way. The medical examiner has not completed a report. When we asked the medical examiner about these findings today, they said that they could not comment on an Ongoing Investigation and that they dont do preliminary reports. But that is a bit of news today that really narrows it down. People saw that arrest video. It looked as though freddie gray was severely injured at that point. He was screaming and yelling. It looks like the investigation is leading away from that and really focusing on what happened in that van. Additionally the driver the Police Officer d
Military in the world. We certainly spend more on our military than basically the rest of the world put together but we dont know how to win wars. And it seems to me that there really has to be a Serious National Conversation as to why is that the case . Where does the fault lie . Is that our politicians are too stupid . Is that our generals are inapt . Is the size of the forces are too small or and this is my belief is that the fact that by its very nature war is unpredictable . To go to war is to roll the dice and you might win and you might not. Senate majority harry reid and republican leader Mitch Mcconnell came to the senate floor to mark the 9 11 attacks and to talk about syria. Later in the day senator reed announced the senate would stop work on a resolution to authorize military strikes against syria and will instead work on Energy Efficiency legislation. Mr. President , to i can mentor for those 12 years ago so clearly. Not far from here in s219. That was where leader daschl
Two key developments. The man carrying freddy gray made a stop we didnt know about. One discovered on surveillance camera and not logged by police. And theyre saying that his death came from an injury he suffered when he was slammed into the police van. Were keeping an eye on it for you, protests anger and people who say they wont give up until they get justice. Cnns chris cuomo is out there, Anderson Cooper is here and has been covering it for us all evening here on cnn. I want to begin with cnn pfss Anderson Cooper. Catch us up. The scene in philadelphia has been in very large demonstrations, people moving through the streets, hundreds of people moving. A number of protesters wanted to get on to an off ramp and a few bottles were thrown. I believe a few arrests may have been made. And the protesters continued to move and thats the group were still seeing now on the street. Philadelphia, a large city used to dealing with large demonstrations. You spoke with the mayor, what did he tell
Were also learning tonight that while protesters have been calling for justice for freddie gray the black man who died of spinal injury in police custody, prosecutors dont have a slam dunk case. Could the city erupt again if no charges are announced . No charges being announced is a real possibility, apparently. We have a breaking development ahead. And the president doubling down on his use of the word thug to describe rioters. Last night on outfront that word prompted this angry response from baltimore councilman karl stokes. Come on. So calling them thugs . Just call them nig we dont have to call them by names such as that we dont have to do that. Much more with karl stokes on this program tonight. Cnn has reporters in baltimore and across the nation. We begin with brian todd in baltimore in the middle of the protests there. Brian, the protests are larger than what we have seen recently. What are you seeing . Reporter indeed much larger erin and more structured. This protest march m