the school in terror. it is simply the third of three attacks that we have seen last thursday that a shooter opened fire on three members of the french military standing at an atm. one of the questions for french investigators is whether or not this is the same shooter and whether or not they are racially motivated or whether or not there is some sort of political motivation. the prosecutor s office says it will investigate terrorist links to monday s killings and the previous killings. president sarkozy is describing it as barbary, savagery, and cruelty that cannot win. hate cannot win he says. back to you. officials in france say they re looking at racism as a possible motive in all this. that s because the victims at the school were jewish. the soldiers were of caribbean and north african descent. the attorney for the soldier accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians says he expects the most severe charges to be filed against his client. staff sergeant robert bales and
so that means is meteorlogical spring and mother nature is giving us a lot of spring weather. take a look at this picture of the cherry blossoms in full bloom out there right now. at least close to it. expected to reach peak bloom by tomorrow. so they re pretty darned close right now and simply a fantastic shot. look at the boaters on the potomac right now, too. you don t see that very often in mid march. 73 degrees the current temperature with winds out of the south right now about 9 miles an hour. your current temperature 77 in manassas. 79 in culpepper. and the temperature right now coming in gaithersburg and montgomery county of 72 degrees. we have a couple showers up there toward eastern portions of frederick county. also a few back toward the panhandle of west virginia. back around the martinsburg area. we ll watch those showers move off toward the east and stay to the north of washington. i do not expect to see any showers around here this evening. most of us would sta
he did nothing wrong and will hold a town hall meeting this sunday to address the public. the judge s report laid a great deal of the blame on the commonwealth attorney gary close for failing to disclose crucial information beneficial to the defense. close resigned this week. new, it s up to fairfax commonwealth attorney ray murrow, working as a special prosecuteitor decide if hash should be retried. we have begun reviewing the files, the sheriff s files, the tarn s files, and the evidence attorneys files and the evidence collected at the scene and various trial transcripts and recorded statements and whatnot, of various witnesses. we re going review all of that and do what we would normally do in any case of this magnitude, and then i ll make the best call i can given the evidence they so. reporter: the steam came from the mid-atlantic innocence project which worked closely with hash s parents to win his release. we re very happy that mike s going to be home with his
contributors. the mayor said that he would never allow anyone in the campaign to break the rules. matt ackland has more on that. reporter: the mayor didn t shy away from his relationship with jeffrey thompson. the mayor said he went to thompson as many other candidates have in the past, and the mayor said that he asked thompson for support. mayor gray held his biweekly media briefing at the headquarters to announce a new plan to bring new jobs to district residents. the focus soon turned to the mayor s campaign. and the money he raised to fund it. certainly, there were instances where i asked people to support my campaign, and i asked mr. thompson to support my campaign. reporter: the mayor is not alone. jeff thompson has hundred many d.c. politicians get elected and is known as a great fundraiser. he s done a lot of campaigns in the city. did it for former mayor fenty and williams and has been a prolific fund raiser. people should, you know, wonder what the heck is
the paramedic died after falling off an overpass while responding to an emergency. today, he made a final trip past the firehouse where he worked and job henrehan has more. reporter: over 1,000 people came to temple beth-el. they came to mourn the passing of the local paramedic. some of that took place here on the streets of alexandrea. a band of pipers and drummers led a mournful march down alexandrea s seminary road they came to honor and celebrate the life of one of their own. the 33-year-old joshua wiseman, an upstate new york teenager, he became a fire fighter and later a paramedic. he was responding to a car fire on february 8th when he fell through a small gap on an i-395 bridge. he died the next day. his coffin was born on the fire engine of the station. number 206. the small group of civilians living nearby came to pay their respects. the entire alexandrea fire department could come to that funeral because firefighters volunteered to man the alexandrea stations for