only after he was able to trigger some kind of button around his neck releasing his canine officer from the back of his patrol car. let s go live to jackson, mississippi. first of all, welcome. thanks for coming on. thanks brooke. let s set up the story. it s pretty incredible. set the scene for me. how did the ambush happen? how many people were involved? then the canine. well deputy frazier was, as you said on a dark road in the mississippi woods. he saw a car that had stopped on the side of the roads and all the lights were off. he just stopped to do a welfare check on the driver. there was one man inside the car. as he approached the car, two other men ran out of the woods. as he started to back pedal, he fell. all three of them jumped on top of him. during this time he was able to trigger the pop mechanism for the back of the car that had the canine officer in it. the canine whose name is lucas, was able to get out and got a
to ambush the president s motorcade. there was a tip that someone was planning to take hostages. so over the course of 11 phone calls in the last five months threats potentially from him. now, they connected this case to him, brooke because of that show catfish that he had appeared on. metro transit police made the connection using digital phone records, cellular phone records, as well as surveillance from inside the metro. according to the metro transit police all of those 11 threats made were wholly false, but of course they had to pursue all of those threats that came in over the last five months. okay. thank you so much for that update on situation in d.c. let s move on to this manhunt happening right now after a deputy was ambushed and slashed with a knife after stumbling across a suspicious scene on a dark and deserted road in the mississippi woods. he escaped with his life but
five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, skraemd for help and romney clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself tonight whether this story itself is relevant to a presidential campaign or not. what we want to focus on is romney s response to the story. we heard what he said in north carolina today, aapologizing, quote, if anyone feels they were offended, but on fox news yesterday, romney said more, including response to accusations the incident amounted to gay bullying since t
the way back to his teenage years, that got the headlines. it is today s front page, the washington post. romney s pranks could go too far. an article that paints a young mitt romney as remembered by his classmates as something of a bully. romney was asked about it in north carolina today. well, i think i was one who did some stupid things in high school, and if anyone feels that they were offended by that, i certainly apologize for that. well, the stupid thing in question, the one getting all the attention, concerns a student at the michigan prep school romney attended. a student named john lauber who was reportedly relentlessly teased for his presumed homosexuality and for having long bleach blond hair. five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help and romney clipped his hair with a
helping veterans back from war. we have the dogs and their people, live on set. it s saturday may 12th, good morning, glad you re with us i m randi kaye. we start with new developments in several high profile legal stories that captured the nation s attention this week. three more people have been taken in custody for allegedly helping adam mayes evade police. he killed himself in the woods near al pine, mississippi earlier this week, as soon as police closed in on him. next to him at the time were the two sisters he kidnapped after killing their mother and older sister. authorities say the girls are still shaken. here is mayes brother. we don t even plan on claiming the body. that is just how we feel. anyone that was directly involved with adam, pretty much lived in fear. mayes wife charged with two count of murder in the case. jennifer hudson s brother in was found guilty on three counts of first degree murder. william balfour killed hudson s mother, brother and 7-