Very special child. Hes been through a lot. Hes endured a lot. By the grace of god, you know, hes hes okay. Reporter Teresa Singletary was on the bus with ethan when dykes grabbed him. Happy, hallelujah. Reporter its believed dykes may have taken the boy hostage in order to air some grievances. He has a story thats important it him. Although its very complex. Reporter authorities have not yet revealed how dykes died, nor any further details of the raid. And annemarie, the classes at Midland Elementary School resume today. Surely his classmates and teachers will have a reason to rejoice. And ethan has another reason to celebrate. His 6th birthday is tomorrow. Back to you. Great. Thank you very much, Teresa Garcia in midland city, alabama. Four members of the house, two republicans and two democrats, plan to announce a plan to make gun trafficking a federal crime. Yesterday president obama spent the day in minnesota promoting gun control. As Tara Mergener reports, the president is asking
Has his confirmation hearing. John brennan will be asked questions about interrogation techniques such as waterboarding including carrying out drone attacks against u. S. Citizens. The white house is expected to stay ahead of that controversy. Last night the administration acknowledged it would give Congressional Committee members access to classified documents that outline the governments stance on drone strikes against suspected terrorists who are also american citizens. The report will be in the hands of those lawmakers just hours before John Brennans confirmation hearing begins, and he will be the one today whos answering questions about the legality of killing americans who are believed to be senior Al Qaeda Leaders such as the americanbern cleric Anwar Al Awlaki who was killed in a 2010 drone strike. Critics say the strikes violate the law. We have a president who is doing something that even president bush didnt do which is to order the killing of the United States citizen witho
Held captive for nearly a week is back with his mother, and his captor is dead. A neighbor who lived near the bunker where the boy was held said he heard a loud boom yesterday followed by what sounded like a gunshot. Teresa garcia is in midland city with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. You know, the officials here are telling us they decided to move in that Fbi Hostage Rescue Team after the negotiations started deteriorating with that kidnapper. So they basically got that team ready and made a major distraction. What they did was throw in some flash bang devices. Those give off a really blinding, bright light and a disorienting loud noise. Fbi agents shook hands and patted each others backs shortly after storming an underground bunker to save the 5yearold held hostage for seven days. The boy named ethan has been reunited with his family at a local hospital and is said to be doing well. Hes laughing, joking, playing, eating. The things that you would expect a normal 5 t
That could deliver up to 2 feet of snow in some areas. Blizzard watch has been posted for parts of massachusetts, rhode island, including eastern new england is prepared to get hit the hardest. The brunt of the storm is expected friday night into saturday. David bernard of our miami station wfor has more. It looks like were heading for a major winter storm for ufl the northeast and it could even mean blizzard conditions for some of the areas. I want to show you the forecast map. This will be friday afternoon. Upstate new york right along the coast of the low and it would include snow mixed with rain and would include the jersey shore and long island and maybe connecticut. And friday to saturday it could turn to all snow and by saturday were likely going to be experiencing blizzard conditions in some of these arias. How much snow could fall . This is just an early estimate but would could be measuring snow in feet. Theres still a potential of a six to teninch snowfall. As we go througho
Himself of south korea is not in any way suggesting that trump should just accept. Be cautious, first engage at a lower level and trump is like no, i want to do it, lets announce it now. The south koreans end up making the announcement in the driveway in front of the white house. On every level, this is unprecedented, and yet on every level, this is par for the course and what we should expect with President Trump. Normally presumably you would have had the president say, lets think about it. Sure. Lets convene a National Security council meeting. Even president moon jaein, the south korean president all for engagement and negotiation, offered to meet with kim jongun he said if the continues are right, let me think about this. Ill get back to you. President trump normal situation should have done convene a meeting and talk about pros and cons of having such a Summit Meeting with kim jongun, and then coordinate the policy and
then announce it. So stanley, whats wrong with trying this .