Hope that thesis the creasefire holds, and as connected as we all are we hope right along with them. [ theme music ] jennifer we are in the war room, but there is good news out of the middle east tonight, which is that the region is calm for the first time in eight days. There are no rocket blasts piercing the quiet night. There are no missiles streaking across the sky mother on both sides of the border can look up at the same bright star and breathe just a little bit easy ere because their children are safe. Hamas and israel have agreed to a ceasefire for the moment. Each side launched about 1500 strikes, and there were violent protests in the west bank in which one palestinian was killed. The final straw was the bombing of a crowded telaviv bus today that blast injured 21 israelis. Late today secretary of state Hillary Clinton joined egypts foreign minister to announce a ceasefire agreement which says. Jennifer secretary clinton praised the leadership but says there is still work to
Ly 70 years ago. Christianity teaches us forgiveness, and Second Chances. Im not saying ill be perfect, that nobody who received clemency will ever do nothing wrong. Im not infallible and nobody else is, but i am very comfortable and totally at peace with these pardons. Jennifer thats former mississippi Governor Haley barbour, defending his con trover shall decision to hand down 200 pardons. I too am a strong believer in Second Chances, and when i was governor of michigan i issued orders for nearly 200 which is the state record. Toni bunton is one of the people i felt deserved a Second Chance. She spent more than 16 years behind bars for her part in a drug deal that ended in murder but in 2009 after a lot of deliberation i decided to free toni from her 25 to 50year sentence. And tonight toni is joining us from detroit. Toni welcome inside the war room. Thank you for inviting me. Jennifer so tell us what have you been doing since your sentence was commuted . I graduated from the univers
These are brazen criminals. We just got word right before this newscast this involved another of d. C. Female Police Officer who chased down the suspect here at southern avenue. One of three crime scenes stretching across the district. This is right before they attempted to carjack that detective. A detective with the metropolitan Police Department is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen after a bizarre incident involving three crime scenes and two jurisdictions. It started with shots fired around 2 45 this morning out of an al at this ma with new york tags. There were three men inside. We dont know why they were shooting. They opened fire from their car down through the parkway. The suspect drove up to southern and pennsylvania avenue in southeast where they attempted to carjack an offduty detective at a red light. The detective attempts to accelerate the vehicle to drive away from the attempted carjacking. They opened fire on the detectives car. He is struck multipl
Is absolutely magnificent. Visitors have been able to return here since the beginning of the easing of lockdown. Priest hill was once overgrown and abandoned, but now its 86 acres have been reclaimed for nature and for nature lovers. But ive noticed there have been a lot more people coming out with their families or using the reserve as a green gym because everyones gym has been shutdown and itsjust been really nice to see families connecting with each other and connecting with nature at the same time. Ive been able to stop and chat to bird watchers and see what theyre looking at and everyone actually became a bird watcher, so its just been a magical place to be. Its often been hard to find the positives in this pandemic but reconnecting with our natural environment, especially if its right on our doorstep, has been vital in so many ways. John maguire, bbc news, surrey. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Hello. Hello. Storm francis that battered the uk has now left our
The sky. It was about 10 tons and 33,000 miles per hour. It was seen, heard, and felt as windows shattered and the roof of a factory collapsed. All but sought to be caused by the sonic boom. They happen hundreds of times every year but only several times are they actually seemed to fall by people. Very rarely do they do any damage. Really want thousand injured, mostly hurt by flying glass. It hit on the same day that an asteroid, 2012da14, makes the closest recorded past closer to earth they ounce of satellites. They said there was no connection between the two, just a cosmic coincidence. Nbc news, london. That would have been really frightening. Another space event today. An asteroid became the starkly close to earth, 17,000 miles, as it passed by. For scientists, the a flyby is an exciting event. And has been traveling since the formation of the universe. 4. 5 billion years ago. 2012da14 past 17,000 miles from earth. This is in the. Rg3 synchronous weather satellites. This is a histo