Good morning, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex wit witt. New looting and rock throwing as 200 took to the streets of ferguson, missouri. Lawmakers con fronted demonstrators throwing the at least one can of tear gas. We have tear gas. Get out of here. No arrests were made. State Highway Patrol captain ron johnson said some threw rocks and other objects at police. The crowd gathered just hours after Police Released new details about the shooting that left unarmed teen Michael Brown dead. Police identified the officer who shot brown as darren wilson. Investigators also released this Surveillance Video on friday. A man who appears to be brown is seen right there stealing cigars from a local Convenience Store. Browns family is angry about the release of the video, calling it character assassination. Earlier this morning, a group of demonstrators in front of the Convenience Store saying they were protecting the store from the looters. Meantime, browns family said they will hold a rall
Mind of ahmad rahami. A source telling cnn the suspected attacker wrote about the boston bombers and an americanborn al qaeda mastermind. His terror ramblings found in a notebook after his shootout with police. Investigators now believe he was inspired by other terrorists but questions remain about whether he was, in fact, acting alone. Another big question here why did the bombers wife up and leave the United States days before these attacks . Officials telling cnn this pakistani woman who he married while they were overseas back in 2011, skipped the country three days before the bombs went off. So we have that. Pamela brown has been working this for us. Shes our cnn justice correspondent. Lets begin with this note on the father, the fact hed been in jail. What more do we know about that . Right. So we have learned today in speaking to Law Enforcement officials that the father of ahmad was questioned by the fbi in 2014 after this domestic dispute. Ahmad had been arrested for stabbing
washington post s phillip blum. good morning to you. these e-mails include the period during the benghazi attacks. what are you seeing so far? honestly, not a whole lot. there s a lot of nuance and sort of the microcosm of the day to day work of running the state department, obviously this was on her personal server but this is attracting a lot of attention. i don t write all the e-mails because so many were released, but there doesn t seem to be anything to answer the question in surrounding her role with benghazi. something that jumped out to me is the entirety talking points for the house intelligence committee all redacted. how does this play into her critics narrative? the question of benghazi and the hours immediately after the
witt. here s what s happening, we begin with the weather. and a wet memorial day weekend. heavy rainfall is likely to cause flash flooding in parts of texas, arkansas, and the southern plains. in wichita falls, texas, everyone is getting ready. residents and volunteers filling up sandbags for anyone who needs them. in all, they filled about 4,000 bags so far. in virginia beach, it s looking like a more typical may weekend. the warning flags were up friday because of the high winds, but those are expected to die down in time for the influx of beach goers today. in myrtle beach, south carolina look at that beautiful picture of the sun shining. it s looking like it s a dry and warm day there. the high is expected to be in the low 80s. wouldn t we all love to be right there right now. but check this out, yep, it s colorado where it feels like february. skiers are flocking to summit county. and the only ski area still open in the state. the area in fact got two feet of snow this
if it plays out in the long term. phillip, thank you so much. we invite you to talk more on the iraq debate coming up at 1:00 eastern tomorrow. you may be among the millions traveling this memorial day weekend, but what will you do when you get to your destination? i ll bring you the top activities, next. and a live look at myrtle beach. why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why innovate for a future without accidents? why do any of it? why do all of it? because if it matters to you it s everything to us. the xc60 crossover. from volvo. lease the well equiped volvo xc60 today. visit your local volvo showroom for details. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me and you re talking