Case of child abuse out of polk county. A 17yearold girl beaten and stabbed and so malnourished her hair was falling out. Two alternate adults are in jail. Clifton french is live right now. How is that girl doing . Reporter i just spoke with Sheriff Grady Judd who said she is doing this. She has been in the hospital for five days in that time she has gained 11 pounds. Accord her feet and shoulder. Want to go to the mugshots of those being charged. It is 45yearold kris peters and 33yearold melissa peters. She was able to run away and she was hiding in a wooded area 1 mile from her home. She started yelling for help. That is when a young man found her. She had a stab wound on her shoulder. She had scratch marks on her look like cigarette burns. It is unimaginable. That guy tells us that when he found her she was only wearing a jacket and pajama pants. The sheriff says the adults actually put locks on the pantry so that this girl could not get any food inside their home. She also was not
How can a Community Heal . A night of special coverage, flash point ferguson. A way forward. Welcome everyone. Flash point ferguson is what were calling our live coverage. Im tony harris, and the anchor of america tonight, joie chen. Great to you see you. This feels like a really important night for the city, a night to build momentum. The tricky night towards the end of the evening, its been mostly quiet mostly peaceful. Around midnight or so some of the people here to cause some difficulty began to act out a bit. Thats when things get tricky, i think thats something you have noted in your time here in ferguson as well. Thats right, tony. The video of the protesters, demonstrators are back out on the street, focal point of all of the protests, Michael Brown died about a mile off this road but this Main Commercial area has been the focus of attention not only the demonstrators but also of Law Enforcement. You know joie, one of the important moments proprobably occurred last night proba
Good morning. Good morning to you, happy friday, everybody. We made it to the weekends. Weve also made it out of the dreary pattern. Were going to only start it brighten up from here. And it only gets better from here, frankly, as were in the only looking ahead to very pleasant conditions, but also, nice little warming trend into next week. So, talking temperatures, and thats all coming up in the next few. Vittoria . Thank you so much, katie. Good morning, everyone, right now majors are generally looking really great. However, we do have very serious overturned tractortrailer incident overturned truck rather incident that were dealing with on 95. Lets peak outside quickly. Because if you are traveling on the northbound side of 95 right around street road, not too far away from street, i would say, further north, you are going to run into this incident. Actually over to my right here. So, well have more updates on that in just a few, ukee . In the news, local High School Football team h
Shootings and death in st. Louis a local prosecutor going a step further filing charges against a couple who say they were trying to protect themselves from a mob they say was threatening their home. You are going to hear from Missouri Attorney general in a minute directly involved in the case and we are digging into why local officials are rejecting outside help amid soaring crime and violent riots. Stick around for a special series weathering the summer storm. We are celebrating the good in tonight will introduce you to folks doing Amazing Things on the front lines of operation warp speed, the rush to find a vaccine for covid19. Welcome to fox news at night. We begin with White House Correspondent kevin cork. The president has already sent federal agents to help cities deal with ongoing violence but his warning today that he might soon expand that effort has some mayors very upset. From coasttocoast the violence has metastasized, from new york to portland, denver to chicago and with
Target. Sally yates clashed with the president. He fired her. Susan rice, same guess for former fbi officials andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page and bruce ohr. Everyone on that list is either a critic or someone the president has locked horns with, a point not lost today in the White House Briefing room. How can american s not interpret that as not getting back against his critics . And isnt it an attempt to curtail their freedom of speech by penalizing them for being critical on television . Not at all. The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. And thats what hes doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action. This is actionally specific to mr. Brennan, and the others are currently under review. Keeping them honest, however, we are now learning some key professionals appear not to be involved in the president s decision, at least not the nations top ranking official. Dan coats, the director of National Int