United states and around the world. Youre watching cnn newsroom. And we begin with new developments in hour in the new york prison break. An official says investigators are looking into whether Prison Guards were sleeping when the two killers prepared their escape. If that happened that means david sweat and richard matt may have been unsupervised as they worked their way to freedom. The killer had been on the run now for three weeks. As the search continues to find the men, a second prison worker gene palmer is now charged in connection with the escape. Palmer claims he did not intentionally help the men break out of the prison. Palmer is expected to plead not guilty and is cooperating. Cnns brian todd has more details on this suspect whose been a prison guard for more than 27 years. Reporter gene palmer begins his legal fight. Palmer faces charges of promoting prison contraband misconduct and tampering with physical evidence relate together skres escape of killers richard matt and da
Horizon on the senate side, one republican is already against the bill. The g. O. P. Can only afford to lose it to go vote on this. Democrats say they dont like i it. Im worried about this bill will do to our physical health as our country and the middle class. Altogether the core elements of this plan amount to 1. 7 trillion in tax cuts and my republican colleagues are simply asking us to trust them that the benefits will somehow reach the middle class. Harris chief washington correspondent John John Roberts live at the white house, john . The president feeling pretty good about the fact that the tax reform bill passed the house, even the 13 republicans voting against it, lamenting the fact that no democrats supported it, now turning his attention toward the senate which as you pointed out is the next stop in the tax reform train. It was voted out of Committee Last night on a partisan basis, the president clearly is looking at another potential in the senate where there is no democrat
Stretches of rain forest to find out how local iraqi towns the fairing in the wild. In iran remains a kick boxing champion for whom coverage is essential as question. But first we go to the u. S. To meet children of drug dependent parents what do they do to cope. The u. S. Is in the midst of a major drug epidemic the foundations for it were laid in the one nine hundred ninety s. Back then doctors churned out prescriptions for opioid based painkillers and pharmaceutical firms pushed products with aggressive Marketing Strategies sales of prescription painkillers quadrupled in the first years of the twenty First Century and at the same time the drugs got stronger in two thousand and fifteen thirty three thousand people in the u. S. Died from overdoses a year later forty two thousand suffered the same fate. The u. S. Governments tactic so far has been to toughen controls on prescription driving many people with dependencies to turn to people affected their family. Its a moment fifteen year
The United Nations divided the Security Council fails to agree on a coordinated response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria the u. S. Says damascus and russia are to blame. And germanys new cabinet members stand shoulder to shoulder or do they theres discord in the ranks as chancellor on the macros ministers gather to reset their priorities. Im brian thomas a warm welcome to the show we start out with some breaking news right now and algerian military plane has crashed near algiers more than one hundred people may have been on board when the jet went down near airport thats about thirty kilometers southwest of the capital illusions seventy six transporter was reportedly headed for that are in southwestern algeria rescue crews are at the scene but theres no word yet on any casualties well have more details for you as they come yet. Were turning now to our main story the head of facebook one of the worlds most powerful companies has been answering questions before hearing of
We will never know what cassidy saw or didnt see. Maybe she couldnt tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe she didnt have to. The fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to a jury. The person that killed the mother cared about cassidy. Silent witness. H hello. Welcome to dateline extra. Michelle young had a smile that lit up a room, the last person who anyone knew her would expect to be murdered. But it happened. She was at home with her daughter, cassidy, pregnant with her second child. Her husband was away on business. Unraveling this complicated case would take years. Heres keith morrison. I think i paused for a second. Had to take a deep breath. And just the reality of what was going on sank in. Those who saw the footprints will not forget them. They were tiny. And they were bloody. I had to keep my composure to finish searching this house to make sure there was nobody else in the house. It was the 3rd of november, 2006, early afternoon. Scott erp was the wake