Reporter now during the long effort to try and bring her husband home Elaine Weinstein had expressed great faith in the government and the efforts of the u. S. Government to bring her husband home. Late today the white house issued statements and say theres an investigation going on to try and figure out what went wrong. The congressman for this region, john delaney, is asking, he says hes outraged by what happened. He says that the u. S. Needs to do more tasmar sha we can rescue hostages to insure that we can rescue hostages and work with families and hes going to introduce legislation to try and make everybody more accountable and to make that effort more responsive and more effective. Reporting live in rockville, bruce leshan, wusa9. Now to the protests over the death of freddie gray, they popped up again today in baltimore as the investigation into how he was injured in Police Custody continues. Garrett haake is live at city hall where todays demonstrations began. Todays demonstrat
Make it nearly impossible. Were scared to death. Its our bread and butter. Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by . bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story is yet another mass shooting in the United States, this time at a navy complex in the heart of washington, d. C. A hail of bullets shattered a september morning at the heavily guarded site. When it ended, a dozen victims were dead, and at least one gunman had been killed. It was like, pow, pow. Two seconds and it
And we start tonight with breaking news reports are coming in of a navy seal operation in somalia, citing officials saying that the raid targeted a Senior Leader of alshabab the group behind the killing of more than 60 people in a mall in kenya. The raid happened this morning on the somali coast, south of mogadishu. There are conflicting reports of whether the target of the attack was killed or captured. Jim walsh joins us from boston, a researcher at the mit securities studys program. What do you make of the attack . Its a little surprising. Obviously an attack aimed at foreigners took place at that mall in kenya and so this is an opportunity for the u. S. Or others to, first, try to degrade the capability of alshabab, and, second, to send a message that if you carry out attacks therell be a price to pay. Im surprised because they went into a terror stronghold, they took a lot of fire and put themselves at risk. They didnt use a drone. So this was a major operation for the u. S. I wan
Israels military is also armed with precisionguided missiles. In this case, striking what is said to be the home of an hamas leader. Egypt is trying to prevent this war from getting out of hand. Spearheading talks aimed at ending the violence. Israels Prime Minister says hamas can end all this. Bd ben wedeman is watching the conflict play out. Reporter weve seen apparent urgent action by the israeli army in this area to get as much material, tanks, armoured personnel carriers and troops in the area around gaza in obvious preparation for a potential Ground Invasion of the gaza strip. But a decision to actually go in has to come from the leadership, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and from his security cabinet. That has not come yet. On sunday, its expected that the secretary general of arab league is going to come to gaza with four arab foreign ministers. It may be difficult to launch a Ground Invasion while just a highlevel group is there. We understand that intense contacts are
The military says the secondary explosions are proof of explosives stored in the building. Hamas is claiming its own trophy. The groups military wing says it has shot down a military f16 and damaged two other israeli aircraft. Israel denies losing any aircraft. Egypt is trying to stop this war before it is too late. Cairos intelligence chief is spearheading talks to end the violence. But on the border, peace looks like an unlikely prospect. Our Senior International correspondent, ben wedeman joins us now between the border between israel and gaza. Ben, ground war, are we about to witness that . Reporter i dont think immediately, don. I think theres still time needed to get the Israeli Military ready for a Ground Invasion. Keep in mind that gaza is an area just twice the size of washington, d. C. , with a population of 1. 5 million people. Any military force that goes in there has got to contend with the possibility of a lot of civilian casualties and a fair amount of resistance, from h