The jury has been selected in the trial of a Baltimore City police instructor. William kern faces charges in the shooting of a recruit training trainee during a Training Exercise. Barry simms joins us live from with the latest. There was a lastminute offer from prosecutors but william kern rejected it. He did not want to plead guilty to seconddegree assault so the case is moving forward with the jury really tear it. The trial will focus on what happened every 12 at this site. And questions about whether an officer should have had an a handgun with live ammunition during the exercise. The details arent selling. Ramin gray shot in the four head during that Training Exercise. He lost an eye. A man accused of shooting him, Training Instructor william kern charged with seconddegree assault and reckless endangerment. He had an unhealthy attachment to that gun, prosecutors thought. It was interesting. Acute observation. Something is definitely wrong. The attorney has filed a 500 million civil
To our Financial Futures . The bank of england tells us what they think later this morning ill have the details. Unfinished business for Manchester United, as they march on in europe. They finally finish the Europa League tie, which started before lock down, and now play copenhagen in the quarter finals next week good morning from Windsor Castle where it will be open for visitors on thursday and friday throughout august but you will have to people. Drizzly this morning. We will see some sunshine today, the best of which in northern scotland. The details later in the programme. Its thursday, august 8. Our top story port officials in beirut have been placed under house arrest while an Investigation Continues into the massive explosion which killed at least 135 people. 5,000 people were injured and many more were left homeless by the blast, which its thought was caused by Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse. Sean dilley has this report. A city in ruin, as authorities start to plan a co
The bay bridge is going to open the day after labor day. In order to make that happen, the entire span will shut down for five days. What this will mean for your morning commute. Reporter in San Francisco, a tourist attraction have People Living in the area saying they want the tour buses out. I will tell you why coming up. We have new developments involving a truck carrying u. S. Mail. Its causing a traffic headache. Well find out why the lanes could soon be cleared but the damage is already done. Mornings on 2 starts now. And good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. As sal just mentioned, a crash involving a truck carrying thousands of pounds of mail is slowing down drivers on 680 this morning. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets immediately go to sal. That mess, it looks like they are trying to move things a little bit. If you go back to the live picture, cars and trucks are getting through. Theyve moved some things out of the way. Theyve opened up north
Beyond today for a live concert, friday, august 23rd, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1d in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im sorry, did you Say Something . I cant hear you over all the squealing fans that are here for one direction. Guys i have a little present for you. Ear plugs, because it can get rather loud. I gave you three. This crowd is massive. If you dont live in new york its hard to put in perspective but it goes from 48 street two city blocks to 50th street and down the side streets. If youre still thinking about coming in to see one direction head in the other direction. You wont get close. Stay where you are. You have the best seat right now. The biggest concert ever. We have a chopper flying above. We have ed hughes in that chopper looking down for us. Kind of give us a sense of the crowd. Ill tell you matt. Were about 2,000 feet
Good evening. This was to be expected as the hour nears. But a major Credit Agency has put the Credit Rating of the United States of america on a negative ratings watch. Just last night, we came on the air reporting that hopes were high for a deal, things were moving. That collapsed today in a pile of noise and hurt feelings in washington. The government has been shut down for 15 days. The debt ceiling deadline is just over 24 hours away now. The world is watching. And the Financial Markets are clearly watching. And profiles in courage are in short supply tonight in washington. We have it all covered beginning again tonight with the sorry state of affairs in congress. Kelly odonnell has spent yet another day covering it all. Good evening, kelly. Reporter good evening, brian. Confusion and parol sis are all i can say for sure right now. The house had planned to vote on a bill to reopen government and prevent that default, and then abruptly scrapped that after Tea Party Conservatives tol