The Wicomico County jail director telling us that the incident is under investigation. He had not made his way to the facility yet. The search zone is massive and it includes kavnous warehouses and the windy railroad tracks. We dont believe he is armed. The guards from the Detention Center due do carry weapons but they secured them in the lock boxes inside the van before opening the door. There are a lot of Unanswered Questions about policy. He weighs 180 pounds and 58. He has a tear drop watson was transferred for psychiatric evaluation bull he is serving more than 100cheer sentence in delaware for firing into a Police Officer home. He is facing charges for a similar crime in maryland. But that trial was reportedly delayed because of the questions over watson competency. Police are warning, good to repeat this. This is considered dangerous. If you see him, call 911. You can help by going to the abc7 Facebook Page to share his photo and get it out to see his face. Abc7michelle break ne
Attempted cop killer with a 100year prison term now on the run. A white male in a jumpsuit. The allout search to find him on the ground and in the air. Severe storms. Flash flooding hitting parts of the nations heartland. Cars floating down the street. Torrential hail pounding cars and roads. Whats still to come for the 40 million americans in the danger zone. Good morning. Sorry, i was talking to rob about whether he was going to wear a threepiece suit this morning. Anyway, lets get to our top story. You are looking at a live shot of the white house where donald trump is waking up on this day 100 of his presidency. If you do the math its only 6. 8 into his presidency and hes dealing with an unpleasant gift from the North Koreans in the form of overnight. Trump is going to spend much of this day in pennsylvania where he will hold a rally capping his first 100 days skipping the annual white house Correspondents Dinner back in d. C. The president has called the 100day mark a ridiculous s
28yearold david watson who escaped from a van taking him to a hospital in jessup. Chris gordon has the latest on the search. Reporter well, pat and jim, police tell me they are planning this search hour by hour. Lets go up overhead to chopper 4, as we tell you just recently they expanded the grid, the wider area now overwhich they are looking for the escaped prisoner. And theyre about to have to make the difficult decision of deciding whether to continue the search tonight, once it gets dark. The search team has found articles of clothing that the escapee was wearing when he fled into the woods. So they dont know exactly what he might be wearing right now. They dont believe he has a weapon, but he is considered dangerous. Hes currently serving a sentence of more than 100 years in delaware on attempted murder in addition to the delaware charges for conviction, hes also currently facing charges in another county for attempted murder. Reporter this evening, 28yearold david m. Watson is on
Woman turned that into inspiration to help others. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. We start with breaking news. According to u. S. Officials late today, our time, north korea conducted another apparent test of what they believe was a shortrange missile. Early indications are the tests was unsuccessful. The launch was closely monitored by the white house and the president said there is a chance for a major conflict between the u. S. And north korea though he held out hope diplomacy might prevail. We want to get breaking details from andrea mitchell. Reporter tonight, kim jonguns provocative message to the world, another miss missile test, this oneile test, this one short range and failure. Shortly after launch. The north korean regime is trying to demonstrate they will continue with the development of the Missile Program even in the face of international pressure. Reporter the big questi
[laughter] you can watch this hearing and all confirmation hearings on our website cspan. Org. We will leave the last few minutes to take you live to the pentagon. This is the Briefing Room as we await the start of everything by defense secretary james mattis and joseph dunford. This is the first joint news conference. They are expected to provide an update on the war against isis and counterterrorism efforts. It should get underway in just a few moments. Live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I returned last week from a meeting in copenhagen with the ministers of defense from 14 nations to coordinate our political way ahead in the defeat of the isis campaign. Chairman dunford returned yesterday from a chief of defense meeting in brussels with 28 nato nations plus his counterpart in a dozen additional nations. They discuss the military aspects of that campaign. President Trump directed the department of defense to lead a complex overview of the campaign. We submi