The bait. Im the guy that likes to do the fishing. Im the guy that likes to do the stories that nobody else is doing. But this one time tonight, im going to start with a story that i just dont think a lot of liberals in this country are terribly concerned with. But lets not be disfocused for a moment. I want to start tonight with a couple of numbers. The first number is nine. House republicans will form the ninth Congressional Committee to investigate the september 12th attacks in benghazi. Here go your tax dollars, folks. Today House Speaker john boehner selected South Carolina conservative republican trey gowdy to head up this new committee. The next number i want to focus on is 1,101. Fox news has mentioned the word benghazi no fewer than over a thousand times in the past year. Now, one more important number. And that would be six. Tomorrow marks six months away from the midterm elections. Thats what this is all about. Republicans have one strategy and one strategy alone to distract
May have played a role. Even as we mourn the passengers on the plane that was shot down, tonight, we are hearing from survivors of this plane in taiwan. Survivors who somehow managed to walk away alive. Abcs david kerley, who covers aviation for us, has the very latest on their stories. Reporter the remains of this passenger plane hosed down. A mangled mess in a week that has seen some grim aviation scenes. Some good news here, though. Somehow, 11 people survived this crash, according to local reports. One girl climbing out of the wreckage, borrowing a cell phone and calling her mother, saying, mom, my plane crashed. Still, 47 others were trapped inside and killed. Relatives learning the news at the airport. The aircraft, an atr72, is a twin turboprop, which can carry up to 74 passengers. It was flown by taiwans transasia airways. Why did it go down . The falling rain you see in these pictures was much heavier and may have contributed to the crash into some buildings. This typhoon, nam
Look yourself in the mirror and say, do the right thing and turn these folks in. Manhunt in philadelphia. Right now police are looking for two carjackers who mowed down a family, killing three children and leaving their mother clinging to life this afternoon. Whats being done to find them. Also, preventing hot car deaths. Ill talk to a 12yearold whos created a device that does just that. Its todays big idea. And offensive opera . Were opening the curtain on a classic show thats raising questions about racial and cultural attitudes toward asianamericans. A lot to get to on this sunday. Good to see you. Im craig melvin. Lets start in the middle east where the back and forth continues where israel and hamas trade temporary ceasefire proposals at this hour. Hamas proposed a new 24hour pause in fighting. Were told the Israeli Cabinet is actually meeting right now to talk about it. Israel had resumed aerial, naval and ground activity earlier in gaza. They say more than 55 rockets have been f
Aircraft are in action in the skies over iraq. The white house has released a photo of the president in the situation room with his National Security staff. While the last of the u. S. Combat troops pulled out over two years ago now, the concern is this violent isis movement the rebels who have been sweeping across the country with very little resistance in their path. They have been rooting out Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities. 40,000 of whom are said to be on the run and in great danger. Less than a decade ago, of course, the u. S. Had 145,000 troops in iraq. The u. S. Spent 2 trillion on the invasion of that country. And the sustained combat that followed. The problem tonight is twofold. Theres a humanitarian crisis, and theres a u. S. Consulate in the city of irbil. Thats why aircraft are back in action. We have two reports tonight. Richard engel in the middle east, and Jim Miklaszewski on duty at the pentagon for us. Well start there tonight. Jim, good evening. Good
Years and had three masters degree, one ph. D. Primarily in engineering. He was mostly a logistics guy. It was not unusual that he should be sent to afghanistan at this time because, as the military draws down, and the training continues for the afghans, part of which general green was responsible. Theres also a lot of logistics involved in just how do we assist the Afghan Military, the Afghan Government in sort of rebuilding and billing up their government infrastructure at the same time . And, of course within in the middle of that in the first combat tour he arrived in january. He was tragically shot dead yesterday. And his wife and son, correct me on the details here, if im wrong. His wife served as well at one point in time and his son is currently in the military . Thats right. As a matter of fact, general green met his wife while they were both serving on active duty in the army. Shes now a retired army colonel. His son is an active Duty Army Officer at fort sill, oklahoma. Were