Found. His own attorney unable to reach him for weeks. His whereabouts the focus of an emergency hearing this morning. Rio bound. Phelps is going to win it. Michael phelps locks in his fifth trip to the Olympic Games and another place in the record books, today, june 30th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Tamron is here while savannah enjoys some time off. Well see a familiar face in rio. I love the hand. How sweet it is. A comeback of sorts after a rough patch following the london games. It will be good to see him in rio. More on that story coming up. Let us begin with the top story. The first arrest in the attack at istanbuls ataturk airport. Richard engel is in istanbul with the latest. Reporter there have been police raids in istanbul at multiple locations. A Police Source also told us they identified the three member russian cel
Not criminal matters and shouldnt be in court. The third point at this stage of the trial. The judge, the man at the heart of this, judge barry williams. This is a bench trial. No jury. He must decide guilt or innocence. He has been with this case through the motions. He knows just about everything there is to know about it. But he must set aside his knowledge of certain bit and pieces of evidence. Certainly an interesting trial. It is still going on right now. It started at 9 30 this morning. We will go back in. We will come back at 5 30 with a complete report and we will tell you about a dramatic video that was played in the courtroom today that actually drew some groans from the audience. That is coming up at 5 30. In baltimore, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan we will see you then. A bad crash developing in wheaton. Three calls involved in the center of the sc this is randolph road. An area you want to avoid. You can see it is backing up traffic in one direction. They have only one l
City try to piece themselves back together again. A crowd mourned at a multifaith vigil on friday. Never in our wildest dreams would we have imagined that five Police Officers would be dead this morning. This was a wellplanned, wellthought out, evil tragedy. The night before an otherwise peaceful protest in dallas became the single deadliest day for Law Enforcement since 9 11. Police say 25yearold Micah Xavier Johnson a former Army Reservist with no criminal record used rifle to shoot five officers in an ambush. Five were killed and two civilians were injured. Get them here a standoff lasted hours. When negotiations broke police used robot to plant an explosive. The suspect died in the blast. We are horrified over these events and we stand united with people. And the Police Department in dallas. Investigators searched johnsons home friday trying to get more information about why he attacked Police Officers and whether he acted alone. We are learning more about the victims. One was fred
Words with the driver and pulled out his metro handgun and said, im the police. You dont want this. Eric, the victim had to stare facefirst at smiths semiautomatic pistol. The 40yearold said he was afraid for his life but managed to copy down smiths license plate number. Montgomery county officers quickly caught up with the offduty cop fleeing in his ford mustang. They determined that smith was a 15year veteran of the Metro Transit Police department and today he pleaded guilty to seconddegree assault and misconduct in office. He also had to resign from the department plus give up his taxpayer funded pension which would have provided him with thousands of dollars of retirement benefits. He pulls up on the side and he has his pistol pointed. He goes, what now . Im the i said, you better be jesus christ if you are pointing a gun at me. He said, what . Im the [bleep] police. With what is going on today you are a white officer pointing a gun at a black guy in his car for no reason. Kevin a
Here at the crash scene. All three teenagers killed in this horrific crash, junior zach Clarksburg High School. Take a look. Juniors at Clarksburg High School. Take a look. While it was dark when this happened, you can see where the truck left the road. Such a violent impact. The truck struck three different trees. The victims identified as cemetery road jacob dennis, the driver, 18yearold patrick and green. Jacob had just been driving the love of his life, a pickup truck similar to the one his father had when he grew up. The accident happened just before midnight. The teenagers were headed home from a party. This seems so gruesome, dispatchers told responding officers to turn off their body cameras. Three were wearing seatbelts, including the driver. All day long, friends have been coming by. We spoke to one student, very emotional, who arrived to pick up car parts. Listen to why. I was picking up metal and stuff that i could remember jacob by. I was supposed to work on his truck and