By T.R. Sullivan
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DALLAS Jay Liske was with a sniper unit attached to the 173rd Airborne Combat Brigade in the Kunar Province in Afghanistan. I was over there for 15 months, Liske said. A lot of fighting. We probably saw 650 firefights in 15 months. I think the most was 14 in one day.
On Wednesday morning, Liske was one of 14 veterans and their guests who departed Dallas Love Field on a Southwest Airlines jet bound for Washington, D.C. They were up before the sun, mingling with commercial passengers bound for Houston, Austin, San Antonio and other locales on the daily perfunctory business trips.
family. meet son of see onproducer daniel norwek born sunday afternoon 7 pounds 4 ounce ps. we can t wait to meet this beautiful baby board. a new member of the morning joe family. we can t be more proud. and the good news is dan already wakes up super early so no excuses for waking up in the middle of the night to change the diapers. that dus it for me and with the way too early. that baby was almost born in a cab. cute baby. yay, dan. much more on the capture of convicted killer david sweat. we ll speak with new york governor an cuckoo mo. greece in crisis colleagues its banks to avoid a run on cash withdrawals. plus south carolina senator paul thurman will join us, sharing his thoughts on president obama s powerful all
secure locked unit. he s in critical condition. it all comes two days after richard matt was discovered and killed by law enforcement in woods about six miles from where sweat was captured. the nightmare is finally over. it took 22 days. but we can now confirm, as of two days ago, as you know mr. matt is decreased and the other escapee, mr. sweat, is in custody. this was an extraordinary situation in many ways. the prisoner dannemora is over 100 years old. this is if first escape in 100 years. if you were writing a movie plot they would say this is overdone. but the investigation is not over. now that we have mr. sweat it gives us the opportunity to have more questions and provide more facts on the overall situation. the new york state police officer being called a hero this morning is sergeant jay cook. officialings say sergeant cook thought sweat looked suspicious told him to freeze and when he didn t, shot him twice in the tore so before he could run for a tree line. o
doctor. we have word that vice president biden is in attendance. as they continue to deal with their unimaginable grief, the nation continues to question us in the wake of this week s deaths. where do we go from here? how do we emerge from this better than we were and who will be the receivers of that change? the confederate flag was first flown atop the state house in 1961 to commemorate the start of the civil war, and maybe also in a way of responding to the civil rights movement. there it remained until 2000 when a compromise with activists pushed for its removal. the confederate flag was moved from the top of the capitol dome to a less prominent space on the courthouse grounds, and later, less seen as a symbol of heritage and hate, thazhas crystallized to a symbol of the man who took their lives. calls for a complete removal of the flag has intensified as its presence on taxpayer-funded state grounds has become untenable. in a watershed moment in south carolina populist p
giving out free rita s ice until 10:00 and so everybody come down to dupont circle. reporter: at 20th and q. streets. we monitor metro. let me tell you this. two of the three escalators are working, one going down and one coming up. now let s talk weather. here are the latest stats from the national weather service. we remain at 79 degrees this hour but the humidity is 79%. and any time you have dew point temperatures in the low 70s, you re talking about sweaty heat and we ll have haze and humidity around here later on today as we get sunshine and the possibility of some scattered thunderstorms. nothing going on right now. there is cloud cover, we can tell you, looking up at the sky. it s cloudy. but it s bright outside. we have the sunshine. so it will be a mixed bag during the course of the day. your day planner for today, we re looking for a high again today of 90. we hit 90 yesterday so we ll look for 90 again this afternoon with a chance of a pop-up shower or thund