Timeline of the events from that tragic morning and transcripts from 911 conversations with omar mateen. The killer 49 and the shooter 53 others identified himself as an islamic soldier who pledged allegiance to a terrorist organization. Reporter Law Enforcement arrives within two minutes after the first call of gunshots at the pulse nightclub. During that time, our officers were in and out of that club saving people, rescuing people from inside the club. Reporter while s. W. A. T. Team negotiators talked with mateen during three short phone calls. He told Police Explosives were planted inside and outside the club and warned that more attacks would take place in the next few days. The fbi initially released the pledge to the Islamic State redacted. The transcripts were reissued unedited for the highest level of transparency possible. That attack in orlando opened a new chapter in the National Debate over gun safety. Right now, the senate is considering amendments that would restrict ce
Wusa 9. Hopefully its much ado about nothing. Ellen, thank you. Like a driver who misses his exit on the beltway, the engineer on that deadly amtrak derailment that happened a year ago, near philadelphia, lost track of where he was. Thought he was farther down the rail line, where the speed limit was 110 miles an hour. Thats the conclusion today, at the National Transportation safety board, which also warned more people are likely to die, until all railroads implement automatic Safety Systems. Wusa 9s bruce leshan is live with details on this. Good evening, bruce. Hey, adam. Here is something i didnt know. There are no posted speed limit signs on the rails. Amtrak engineers pride themselves on knowing exactly where they are and exactly how fast they are allowed to go. But in this case, the ntsb says Brandon Bostian was distracted by reports of someone throwing trcks at trains and simply lost ack of where he was. Reporter bostian hit the throttle just before the crash. Accelerating the
Damage according to the Fire Department here. I think weve got a picture that jeff tweeted a a little while ago. A lot of smoke coming out and all sorts of reports of Severe Weather that came through the Charles County area and wanted to show you the pictures coming back to the weather Storm Tracker 9. On the computer here this is a picture from hughsville. I believe its gallant drive there the very high water coming over that road. Hail reported to half dollar size. This is one and three quarter inches from kim berry in waldorf and a different look from there. The storms rolled through here looking down the other side of the street one more shot from our roof cam going back towards the situation where the fire has been knocked down with the Charles County Fire Department and some of the other area Fire Departments assisting here hamlin road. So for the moment at least things are settling down here but the storms may not be done. Im howard bernstein, back to you. I think you are right
About. Jay gray is live outside the courthouse where jurors have just found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing. Jay . Reporter jim pat, guilty on all 30 counts, including the 17 which carried with them the possibility of the death penalty. That guilty verdict now triggering the next phase in this trial, which is the penalty phase. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for just over 11 hours over the last couple of days before reaching their decision this afternoon. It was announced and they were released by the judge. They will return for the penalty phase expected to start sometime early next week. What will we see in that phase . More testimony. More evidence as well. And likely more of an exclamation from the defense team here, which has said all along that, while they admit Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a part of the bombing and he should be punished he was not the mast mastermind mastermind. They say it was tamerlan, his older brother, who planned, purchase
Mary barra testified that gm will do the right thing, and she lieves what many big lawmakers believe that the big car company is not doing all of the right things on ssuethis i marry bar ra, the new ceo of gm faced congre, and the whole rrific series of car crashes. At least 31, and 13 people killednd she apologized. I am deeply sorry. Reporter but barra got h hammered. Again, you are relating to specific incidents that you dont know about that . Reporter and barra wept last night say family members and victims who met with her. The issue is b ignition switches which can suddenly turn the off engines and brakes and power steering. They knew about it in 1991, but they did not order a recall. atttaapr no. Reporter in 1979, sarah troutline died when her car crash d the air abag did not deploy. Her family is furious. The only thing that matters to me now is getting the cars off of the road like yesterday. Reporte next week, replacement switches wl be finally d dirks and barra has ordered 2