In the shooting of Michael Brown was Darren Wilson. Iraqs embattled Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki finally agreed to step down. Meanwhile president obama says the isis siege of mt. Sinjar has been blownroken. We will continue air strikes to protect our facilities in iraq. New light shed on the suicide of Robin Williams. His wife said he was struggling with the early stages of parkinsons when he died but was not ready to share that publicly. In Northern New York two amish sisters are back home after an apparent abduction. The girls were taken wednesday night. Theres bad people out there that we are going to catch. In south korea, pope francis meeting with young catholics. Earlier the pope held mass at a huge stadium. Paul mccartney brought down the house at Candlestick Park. This performance is the last this stage will ever see. San francisco all that the french athlete took his shirt off and the gold medal was taken away from him. The tourist is lucky to be alive. Scrambling back to sh
Good evening. This is our western edition. There is breaking news this evening. The pentagon has revealed that u. S. Special Operations Forces tried to rescue americans held hostage in syria by sunni muslim terrorists known as isis. The mission came earlier this summer, but it failed because the americans were not being held where u. S. Intelligence thought. Among the americans abducted by isis was journalist james foley. He has become now the First Casualty of a new war against the United States declared by isis in retaliation for u. S. Air strikes against isis targets in iraq. Yesterday, isis posted video of the beheading of foley. Today, president obama interrupted his vacation to honor foley and condemn his killers as a cancer. The president rarely shows anger in public, but he made no attempt to hide it today. Jim was a journalist, a son, a brother, and a friend. He reported from difficult and dangerous places, bearing witness to the lives of people a world away. Jim foleys life s