Different ways. Woodruff and, my conversation with Army Staff Sergeant ryan pitts, who today received the medal of honor for his actions during one of the most ferocious battles of the afghan war. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill there were small signs of progress today in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster over Eastern Ukraine. After an international outcry, rebels finally allowed remains of many of the 298 victims to leave the crash site. Their plane was shot out of the sky last week. Neil connery, of independe
Good evening. Im dan harris. The special Operations Forces were on a dangerous mission, facing an urgent deadline. Al qaeda threatening to kill luke somers, a freelance photographer, by today, if their demands were not met. An overnight raid was launched to rescue somers but it went bad. He was executed by his captors. Today president obama called it a barbaric murder. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details of this hair rowing operation. Reporter good evening, dan. It was a high risk operation. Under full moon and little element of strategic surprise because of an earlier failed rescue attempt ten days ago. U. S. Officials decided there was no choice but to try it given the imminent threat. U. S. Officials believe that al qaeda had planned to execute 33yearold luke somers some time after sunup today. It was a very dangerous and complicated mission. But like always in these efforts, theres risk. Reporter the rescue mission was launched from a u. S. Ai
Afternoon against her school in the georgetown synagogue. That is where rabbi barry freundelel is accused of illegally videotaping women as they undressed and went into a ritual bath. The lawsuit claims as a professor at georgetowns law school, he encouraged the student to write a term paper on the ritual bath and told her to research it by immersing herself on two different occasions. The suit says she is one of at least 100 women who might have been videotaped and says the school and the synagogue should have done more to protect the women from the rabbi, because according to court records, he had a longstanding reputation for being, quote, creepy and encouraging young, attractive women to repeatedly use the bath. The lawsuit says one synagogue staffer is even quoted as saying the rabbi treated the mikvah like a car wash, every sunday, six students at a time. The student got the highest grade in the class because of that paper. But says she now feels she was lured to the bath by the
Order 16 months after the shooting to force Fairfax County to release information. The county supervisors are elected by the people to represent the people. They should share our outrage. Instead they shared in the circling of the wagons. In my opinion its a board of supervisors that represents the police department, not the people. Reporter the documents also reveal officer adam torres had a previous outburst in court in which he lost control and yelled and screamed at a prosecutor. It was serious enough to prompt an internal affairs investigation. Should an officer who has that kind of a temper, at least on that day with the Commonwealth Attorney in the most inappropriate places of all, in a courthouse, be carrying a weapon . I dont know enough yet, but we hope to find out. Reporter in fairfaxing fair fairfax, peggy fox, wusa9. Chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking the spots where the temps could get down into the teens. It was cold enough for me. Were looking at wind chills i
Iraqi soldiers gearing up in an effort to retake the city captured by i. S. I. L. Iraqi and sunni fighters could Work Together to make it happen facing the media. After a month of sidestepping reporters, Hillary Clinton answers questions on everything from money to emails. Good evening, im antonio mora this is al jazeera america. We begin with the biggest product recalls. 30 million cars and trucks could contain takata air backs. Bags. Florida resident was blinded in one eye, when his air bag exploded sending a shard of medal. Sending it into his face. It sounded like a shotgun. My rite side went black. Pitchblack. Reporter stories like these, and public pressure convinced auto makers to recall the airbag. Manufacturer takata resisted. Up until now takata refused to acknowledge the air bags from defective. Today i announced takata agreed that air bag inflators are defective. This is a good day for consumers. This is one of those instances where theres no Silver Bullet cure. We can be a