Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. American jets today hit positions near a key dam in Northern Iraq that that had been captured recently by islamic extremists. This, a day after the extremists members of the Islamic State are said to have massacred dozens of yazidis. The extremists reportedly had demanded members of that religious minority convert to islam. For about all of this, we are joined now via skype from duhok in Northern Iraq by liz sly of the Washington Post. So, weve heard about several more air strikes in the region this morning. What can you tell
A state of emergency is in effect in that st. Louis suburb and a curfew is in place tonig tonight. This after another night of violent and destructive protes protests. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Now the trouble began a week ago when an unarmed teenager was shot boy a Police Officer. Fox 29s dave kinchen is here now with a look at whats happening in ferguson tonight. Dave . Reporter the governor of missouri had said he was hoping things would be peaceful but he is stepping in tonight with a state of emergency and a curfew. It seems like this one last night prompting a state of emergency from the governor of my sore Reach Police Officers in full Tactical Gear lining the streets of ferguson. Even launching smoke bombs as they hold back small groups popping up in protests to a white Police Officer shooting unarmed black teen Michael Brown week ago. The governor also enacting a curfew for midnight to 5 00 a. M. Local. This is not the silence the people of fergus sore this regio
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. American jets today hit positions near a key dam in Northern Iraq that that had been captured recently by islamic extremists. This, a day after the extremists members of the Islamic State are said to have massacred dozens of yazidis. The extremists reportedly had demanded members of that religious minority convert to islam. For about all of this, we are joined now via skype from duhok in Northern Iraq by liz sly of the Washington Post. So, weve heard about several more air strikes in the region this morning. What can you tell
Tonight. See how some local politicians took an entire entourage to las vegas on your tax dollars. Gunfire tonight in district heights, three people are dead. The governor of texas is facing an indictment. And the embarrassing revelations in court for virginias former governor and first family. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im lesli foster. Prince georges county police say a man shot and killed two women, then turned the gun on himself at a district home. The victims were found inside the home along the 1500 block of addison road south. Police responded to reports of gunfire there around 4 40 this afternoon and found one woman dead. The man and a second woman were rushed to the hospital and did not survive. Their names have not been released. They do not know the relationship of those three people. The detectives will continue to canvas the neighborhood, talk to witnesses, neighbors, family members and along with ballistic information and physical evidence left at the scene. Police do
Harrigan in ferguson, missouri. Reporter sean, in this downtown area of ferg sop where many stores are boarded up, theres about 1,000 protesters marching. The tactics of the police are different tonight, one, theyve not allowed any cars into this downtown area. And, two, theyve really made sure everyone has to keep moving at all costs. People have to move and walk and march or else they do get arrested. That has thinned out the crowd somewhat. And perhaps an effort to tire people out as well. Theyre still moving along here for the last couple hours. The mood has changed as its gotten a little bit darker. Were seeing helicopters fly overhead and the chanting has also changed. Earlier it was, hands up dont shoot. And now were hearing chants, hands up shoot back. A real sense of anger on the streets. And weve been talking to people who have said for a long time since 1970s theres been a sense that ferguson is a very divided city. I went there in the sixth grade and had an incident. And si