Moment with both parties wanting to talk about poverty, wanting to talk about criminal Justice Reform from the left and right. Perhaps there is the president didnt seem too hopeful in terms of this congress but perhaps something that can be done. Standby because we have a lot to assess. To our viewers, im wolf blitzer wherever youre wchg from around the world thanks for joining us. Were following the breaking news an American City under a state of emergency right now. Baltimore, maryland trying to recover after a night of rioting, looting and chaosnd a and the situation remains tense. U. S. National guard troops on patrol. 500 guard troops have arrived and hundreds more we are now told are on the way. The National Guard says more than 5,000 military person really needed if theyre available if they are needed and presumably they will be. Looters picked thigh whats left of a through whats left of a burned out shoe store. Some businesses remain shut down. Shopping mall closed because of s
Just returned from north korea. In fact will any indication on why north korea is suddenly flexing this military might . This is a major achievement for them. If it is accurate theyve been working for quite sometime to try to develop a Ballistic Missile that they could launch from a submarine. It gives them much more flexibility as to where they could launch an attack from. So of course an attack like that would be much more difficult to defend against. In fact kim jongun in state media was comparing this to north koreas three successful satellite launches this is nothing new it doesnt necessarily signal more north korea ramping up its military effort this is a country thats constantly investing a considerable amount of money into its military. Even though it doesnt have a whole lot of money to go around. It doesnt have enough money to feed adequately all of the people in the country. They have the mindset that theyre under the constant threat of invasion so theyre developing Technolog
Off the coast of yemen ready to block possible arms deliveries to the forces but will irans navy push back . Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. And the breaking news the Justice Department here in washington say its officially looking into the death of freddie gray the baltimore man who died from a broken neck. Federal shorts now say the investigation will determine if there was a civil rights violation that can be prosecuted. Six officers involved in the arrest have now been suspended and police have now identified them as well. There are new questions about the Police Version of how the incident played out and new protests are developing this hour in baltimore as well as here in washington as demonstrators say this is one more example of injustice. Ill talk loif this hour with the Baltimore Police spokesman and our correspondents are all stand by with complete coverage. Lets begin with brian todd. He has the very latest. Brian . Reporter wolf, this protest just Getting Sta
Leading to a serious discussion about race. Good morning, im alisyns could kosik in for christi paul. Were starting with the threat of terror attacks on u. S. Soil. The Security Threat level at u. S. Military basis is at bravo. That means an increase in predictable threat of terrorism. The pentagon raised security conditions after growing concern over jihadist threats. Lets bring in cnn National Correspondent sunlen serfaty. Sun len sunlen . Why raise the threat level if theres no imminent or specific threat . U. S. Officials say there were a number of recent concerns that when all pulled together contributed to making this decision do increase the threat level. One u. S. Official telling cnn that it just felt like the temperature was going up. With concern growing over isisinspired attacks being carried out inside the u. S. The pentagon has put all u. S. Military bases nationwide on heightened alert. The threat level now raised to bravo. Due do an increased and predictable threat of t
Shared with another suspect. Heres what police say went down in the dallas suburb of garland last night. Two men drove up to the Curtis Caldwell center jumped out of their car and began shooting. They hit an unarmed Security Guard before being shot and killed by police. Inside the building hundreds were attending a mohammed art exhibit and cartoon contest being held by the American Freedom defense initiative. Now the keynote speaker a ditch politician on an al qaeda hit list and the executive director of an antiislam group, our correspondent ed lavandera is following the latest for us from texas. Tell us more, ed. Good morning, carol. Well you see the scene behind us just beyond these cars. Youll see fbi agents holding a blue tarp. That is where the bodies of the two suspected gunmen are lying on the street. What is interesting as you look at the scene here they didnt even make it inside the parking lot of the civic center. They had gotten out of the car and started shooting before the