Craftsman in tokyo. Rebel forces are fighting against Government Forces in the south of the country. These pictures are said to show the after path of an attack on an army tank in the rebelcontrolled town. Its the first offensive in southern syria since russian air strikes began three months ago. Al jazeera cannot independently verify these pictures. On a main supply route that connects president Bashar Alassads government to the capital damascus with the city near the border with jordan. Thats where the first major antigovernment protests took place in 2011. Live for us in Southern Turkey now, the neighboring country. It zooms the rebels are fighting back against this offensive. The battle is raging. What is the latest you are hearing . Reporter they are, they are trying not to push back government troops. This is exactly what happened over the last 24 hours. Government troops backed by russian fighter jets, managed to strike many rebel positions across the area. In fact, the rebels w
Verizon center, a day after a triple shooting in the chinatown neighborhood. M molee green joins us. Reporter we are at the spot where it all happened last night for about an hour and weve seen Police Coming and going. In fact, there is a Police Vehicle parked right behind me, behind that white van that you see parked on the corner there. Theres a Police Vehicle there. Motorcycles have been coming and going throughout the time weve been here. I just spoke with d. C. Police and they tell me that the steppedup Police Presence remains all over the city. Police tell me they are not aware of anything in particular special in terms of their enforcement because of tonights game. Last night the police chief said it all. There was a triple shooting in the area even though she had a ton of offices out here, as many as 30. She tripled the presence because of halloween and because of the concert in the area that is just so much going on last night because of halloween celebrations. 30 officers in
A witness says that virgin one person was dead. It is dropped by High Altitude and ignites a rocket to carry it up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. It is typically flown by two pilots, california Highway Patrol says at least one person is dead. Virgin galactic has not released details other than confirming the crash. This comes after the rocket exploded just after liftoff again from Wallops Island in virginia this week. It was heading into space from the space station on a resupply mission. Now, to the weather. Everyone wants to know if the conditions tonight will be a trick or a treat. What about it, veronica . I think well all get a nice treat this evening. But a trick it will be for the remainder of the weekend. Take a look outside right now. We have again scary clouds, lowering, not producing any rain just a couple of bats and witches there flying by. Meanwhile, the temperatures across the area are on the cool side. One of the cool locations, 52 around gaithersburg, and ge
Turns into the friends school. Derek wa more. Reporter well, look at the area here at excalibur, nothing remarkable about it. But this was the scene at 2 30 when this accident happened. 13 people in all. Including an suv that ended up on its roof. There was a mini van with several people involved, five kids and two adults. Now, all the kids were taken to the hospital but they all survived. All had nonlifethreatening injuries, all the people involved were wearing seat bes or all the children were in their safety seats and miraculously everybody survived. My family was okay, my little nephew, i put him on my back, just running through the whole street because it was all blocked off. There was a refuse lea to see s was okay. The first reaction was to slam on the brakes, the air bags were deployed. I turned around and saw that they were okay. Now, that woman was driving and the man that you saw there, that was her brother. You can imagine the fear he was feeling. He had to come all the way
Three people shot at 7th and f and another shooting at third and h. Derek what can you tell us . We are here at 7th and h out side of the Verizon Center. There was a Fleetwood Mac concert letting out. As many as three people have been shot. Also not far from here at 4th and h, people also shot there. Theres a heavy Police Presence here at the same time the concert is letting out. We have no information on conditions of the victims. If youre traveling here there will be a heavy traffic presence here but wont be able to travel at all in front of the Verizon Center. It is avery fluid situation at this point. Police are all over the place mingling with the fans leaving the Verizon Center at this point. We hope to make contact with the police chief to get more informing about exactly what is happening. Again the preliminary hearing is theres been a shooting outside the Verizon Center. Dont know if it was anyone involved with the program or fans who came to see the show. However a heavy Poli