A 12yearold girl body slammed by a Police Officer at a school in texas. And the outlaw hero. The tributes are pouring in for country legend merle haggard, the mark he left on music during his complicated life. Today april 7, 2016. This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. When you say country legend you have to think merle haggard. One of the originals and there arent that many of them left. We will talk more about Merle Haggards life and career. The president ial candidates the next big Battle Ground in the race and are ratcheting up the rhetoric. Lets start with democrats. Andrea mitchell has her eye on the race. With both democrats needing to win the New York Primary on april 19th verbal sparring has escalated. The angriest exchanges of this year long campaign. Bernie sanders unleashing a blistering attack against Hillary Clinton. He said she started it. She has been saying lately that she thinks that i am quote, unquote, not qualifi
Hard. A war over who is qualified to be president is escalating. Senator, Bernie Sanders made a startling claim. She has been saying lately that she thinks that i am quote on quote not qualified to be president. [ crowd boos] i dont think that you are qualified if you get 15 million from wall street through your super pack. [ applause ] i dont think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in iraq. [ applause ] the remarks came after sanders struggled to explain his plan to bring large banks to the Editorial Board which clinton was asked about wednesday. In light of the questions he ha believe this morning that Bernie Sanders is qualified and ready to be president of the United States . Well, i think the interview raised a lot of really serious questions. And i look at it this way. The core of his campaign has been break up the banks and it didnt seem, in reading his answers, that he understood exactly how that would work under dod frank sais. [000 02 34;00] [000 02 3
A growing problem of large groups of atv and dirt bike riders. Now, these riders often harass other drivers in neighborhoods. Today Police Confirmed First Responders were the two most recent victims. News4s Mark Segraves live now outside Childrens Hospital where an ambulance was harassed today. Mark . Reporter good evening, jim. This is just the spot, were just off north capitol street on michigan and this is where an ambulance was surrounded by as many as 30 atvs and dirt bikes and that incident came just a few days after a d. C. Police officer was hit and dragged down the street by an atv. Reports of large groups of atv and dirt bike riders roaming area streets have been increasing over recent weeks. This incident in Prince Georges County resulted in a Police Officer being hit. Over the weekend a d. C. Officer was also hit by a group of atvs. They come back every reporter today d. C. Police chief cathy lanier confirmed a regional effort between state, local, and federal Law Enforceme
Struck the pedestrian. Were not exactly sure where the pedestrian was, what the pedestrian was attempting to do at the time that the car hit that person, but all of that part of the investigation, but this was a deadly accident. Still under investigation. But in terms of the traffic impact here, everything is back to normal. But we do have issues elsewhere around town and with more on that we go over to melissa. Thank you, megan. Taking a look, one of those problems crain highway at 4, slow down there, but not sure where it is. Taking a look at the beltway, the beltway right now for this moment is dry. But all of this is moisture moving into the area. So we could be seeing some of that on the roads here soon. 95 north at 610, garrisonville, the crash still on the left shoulder. Travel times in ten minutes. You mentioned it and raindrops out there. Skies mostly cloudy here early this morning. Storm team 4 radar tracking a potential sprinkle from bethesda upwards to actudulles, rappahan
Fox5 Marina Maracco spoke exclusively with the grandmother. The grandmother is excited that there was another search and that d. C. Search have continued on investigating. She says that because there was no findings shes hopeful that maybe relisha rudd is still alive. I spoke with reestablish as mother on the phone and she says she has no idea why d. C. Police chose to search the ash barrette im. She doesnt know if potentially khalil tatum may have been with relisha rudd at the arboretum and thats why d. C. Police decided to go back there. Its been two years too long, stressful years for grandma, yes, it has. And in the two years and one month since relisha rudds disappears, grandma claims the family has been kept in the dark as to the investigation. I havent talked to a detective, the authorities period in two years. I havent talked to them since it first started. This weeks twoday search was the first search for relisha rudd in 2016. D. C. Police would not say what exactly brought in