Reporter now during the long effort to try and bring her husband home Elaine Weinstein had expressed great faith in the government and the efforts of the u. S. Government to bring her husband home. Late today the white house issued statements and say theres an investigation going on to try and figure out what went wrong. The congressman for this region, john delaney, is asking, he says hes outraged by what happened. He says that the u. S. Needs to do more tasmar sha we can rescue hostages to insure that we can rescue hostages and work with families and hes going to introduce legislation to try and make everybody more accountable and to make that effort more responsive and more effective. Reporting live in rockville, bruce leshan, wusa9. Now to the protests over the death of freddie gray, they popped up again today in baltimore as the investigation into how he was injured in Police Custody continues. Garrett haake is live at city hall where todays demonstrations began. Todays demonstrat
Miller. Good morning you to. It is 6 00 on the dot. Everything running on schedule for my metro riders. Goes for the buses and trains. No issues there. In Prince Georges County we have an accident, an earlier accident causing some delays. This is the southbound side of the bw parkway between powder mill road and goddard space flight center. Sky 9 is in place to show us those delays extending anywhere from two and a half to three miles at this point. Were asking people to add anywhere from 40 to 45 minutes to your drive time. Coming up in my next report, well give you an update on this situation and take you to Southern Maryland and show you how the commute is shaping up in that area. Back to you. This mornings top story comes out of northeast washington. Police are looking for two or three gunmen involved in a shootout which happened overnight. Just after midnight detectives say a member of the d. C. Fire department witnessed a group of men in two different cars firing at each other. W
Protests demanding answers to so many questions about how freddie gray was fatally wounded in police custody. I think that theres got to be a persistent traction so that the city hall and the Police Department know its not an event. Its a movement and now its much larger than freddie gray. Reporter the main group set off from city hall through downtown baltimore trailed by news helicopters and police who made two arrests briefly setting off a confrontation with the marchers. Meanwhile across town the church which will host grays funeral next week opened its doors to anyone who would listen to a singe vigil tonight. We did not come to incite anybody to any kind of violent acts. Reporter by sundown the remaining demonstrators had reached the Western District where a calmer atmosphere prevailed than last night. Children talked with police over the barricades and protesters greeted reporters as old friends. I was angry. Reporter this is scotts anger yesterday. Today he explained where it c
Worker was abducted in pakistan in 2011. He along with italian giovanni la tort at that wereportea were killed. What we didnt know, tragically, is that al qaeda was hiding the presence of warren and giovanni this this compound. It is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and our fight against terrorists specifically mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes, can occur. Reporter Elaine Weinstein and her daughters say they are devastated and heart broken issuing a statement saying, those who took warren captive over three years ago bear ultimate responsibility. Neighbor Rebecca Adele helped decorate the street with yellow ribbons as a show of hope. Now she dreads taking them down. Im not ready to. Theyre for the family and i couldnt imagine if it were mine. Reporter congressman john delaney worked with weinsteins family trying to get him released. To think about the way he spent the last several year fz his life in some concrete cell possibly on a dirt floor who knows how t
Letter, weinstein had begged president obama to negotiate, pay a ransom anything. The answer was no. Negotiating with terrorist groups to try to secure the release of innocent americans would only put at risk more innocent americans. Rnchs weinsteins wife elaine today called much of the u. S. Governments assistance inconsistent and disappointing. What went wrong . U. S. Officials say using drone video the cia spotted the signature pattern of Al Qaeda Leaders and picked up no indication of hostages and attacked. Senior al qaeda leader ahmed fa resume was also reported killed, an american. Al qaeda spokes manl adam gadham born adam perlman from california was also killed in a similar strike. But any celebrating was short lived. Intercepts were picking up that hostages had died. As a husband and as a father i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the weinstein and laporta families are enduring today. Reporter president obama asserted the strike was legal in the sense that it followed g