Were gettg a look at the u. S. Coast guard stopping smugglers on the high seas. Nbeuspect incredible vi drug smugglers hiding 17,000 pounds of cocaine. Heres abcs pierre thomas. Reporter what youre looking at is a coast guard Interdiction Team in hot pursuit of suspected drug smugglers. A crew member screaming in spanish stop the boat. That boat on the run, a submarinelike vessel called a semisubmersible designed to keep a low profile. It had been spotted by a marine patrol aircraft hundreds of miles off the coast of the ecuadoran colombian border in the eastern pacific. Waves crashing, the coast guard finally pulling alongside. A member of the team dressed in Tactical Gear boards the vessel. Then pounding on the hatch demanding that the smugglers surrender. Inside the coast guard discovers five suspects and in excess of 17,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated 232 million. The same week that cocaine was confiscated in june, u. S. Authorities discovered this ship in the atlantic car
Its thursday, 29th of february. Our main story. A group of mps have urged ministers to consider the implications for the uk, if assisted dying is legalised in the isle of man and jersey. The Health Select committee has published a report, which it hopes will provide evidence for future debates about the law. Opponents say the current legislation prevents people from coming under pressure to end their lives. Heres our medical editor, fergus walsh. The mps dont Make Recommendations for or against assisted dying. Rather, the aim of their report is to serve as a basis for debate on what they call this difficult, sensitive, yet crucial subject. More and more countries in europe have legalised assisted dying in some form, along with new zealand, australia, canada and ten states in the us. The mps say they saw no evidence that palliative and end of life care had deteriorated as a result, and in some instances it had improved. The Committee Calls for more money for hospices in england, which o
Captures the imagination of everyone because they can all imagine that could have been my kid. They were frantic, kind of screaming, someone took jacob. Theres a man with a gun and hes got jacob. Youre worried about him getting hit by a car and he gets snatched by somebody. Who would take a child . Jacob is all alone. Its not fair. This is wrong. Youre all riding your bike and your scooter from this way and you get to this area. What happens . All of a sudden a man came out from this area over here. We saw some adultsize footprints and smaller ones like child size footprints that looked like somebody was pulling this kid along. That search was massive. In my mind the man that took jacob was always lurking around the corner, and certainly could strike again. Were you thinking theres a serial kidnapper on the loose . On this country road, an 11yearold boy riding his bike is abducted just a half mile away from his home. The kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling would become one of the biggest my
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i needed this too. and so it was such a great honour to represent my country, the laker organisation, my family. so he says, i m glad you re happy, but there s one catch to it. isaid, ok, commissioner stern, what is it? he said, you have to talk michaeljordan and larry bird in the plane. i said, oh, that s all i have to do to get on the team? ! so i said, what can i do or say to make them want to play? larry was big on his family. so i said, i m going to go with that angle on larry bird. so i called larry up and i said, listen, larry, this is a chance for our kids to see us playing in the olympics not on the boston celtics, not on the lakers. for the country. yes. for america. for america, representing our country. he said, magic, my back is hurting. i said, larry, you don t have to play 30 minutes a game. you can just play ten minutes a game. all i want to do is come down and do a no look pass to you and you shoot a three pointer. we both going to