The last two americans being detained in north korea are coming home. The state department made the announcement. Flor washington. The days of life in a prison camp are over for kenneth bay and matthew miller. On saturday, north korean authorities released the two men, and they boarded a plane for the u. S. A wonderful day for them and their families and obviously, we are very grateful is for their safe return. I appreciate a great job on what was obviously a challenging mission. Director clapper is james clapper, the u. S. s director of National Intelligence. In a statement, the u. S. State department called clapper key to the mens release. We are grateful to director of National Intelligence clapper who engaged on behalf of the United States in discussions with dprk authorities about the release of two citizens. Its not clear why clapper was brought in to negotiate or whether he had a second reason for meeting with the officials in pyongyang and the north core ans purportedly like to
In egypt at least three People Killed and their teen more injured in an explosion on a tour bus in the sinai peninsula, three korean artists and their tourist were killed on the way to the israeli border. The bus killing 32 tourists what traveling from a greek oat orthx monastery a popular destination. When the bomb exploded its the first attack on tourist in the sinai in eight years, Nick Schifrin is in jerusalem with the details. Nick, what are you hearing so far . Reporter yeah, well, morgan as you just said its been eight years since we have seen this kind of tack. This is being seen as a turning point in the tactics being used by the militant groups inside sinai. This bus was carrying about 33 south korean tourists including one egypt driver and it was being led by kraft tours, i just spoke to a spokesman for kraft tours, he told me that this bomb was planted underneath the drivers seat. And he believes that monastery that you mentioned, st. Katherines is where the bomb was plante
Damage will take to repair. The toll on the survivors is unimaginable. Lets put this into perspective here. We knew this was going to be a devastating typhoon. When it came on shore it was already enormous. The winds were 195 miles an hour, the storm surge was 45 feet. Thats nine times taller than a normal human being. First light brings new hope for many people in the central philippines. Each day it signals arrival of flights from the military bringing in much needed supplies and taking people out of an area largely destroyed by typhoon haiyan. Getting on board are the injured and sick and those who have lost everything. People walk for huge distances to get to the airport in the hope that they might find some food or water given out by the military or a ticket out. On their face the etched expression. Still struggling to come to terms with the disaster. We really want to get out of the house because the water is really coming in. I have three kids. I dont know what to do. We transfe
Well, lets start this news hour in syria. Most of the focus in recent days has been with what to do with the countrys chemical weapons. A car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the capital damascus killing at least 20 people. The blast hit a government building east of the city center. Amateur pictures of what is said to be the site of that explosion. Turkey has closed one of its border crossings with syria after fighters linked with al qaeda took control of a border town and they captured from the free syrian rebels. Both sides are are fighting to topple president al assad and his forces. Lets go to correspondent nassar hadid who is managed to get to the southern syrian why city of darra. There is fighting going on in darra. Nasser i dont know if you can here us there in darra. Is there fighting going on right now . Yeah, yeah, of course i hear you very well. Today is a little bit cool here in darra, we have just can, comparing to yesterday and day before yesterday its little bit c
On the third Thursday morning of the month, a group gathers at the Center for Living to take their medicine. The medicine is music, and the occasion is the Music and Memory Cafe, part of the center’s Supportive Day Program. The healing power of music has long been recognized as an effective form of therapy, […]