The white house anxious to clarify reports over u. S. Aid to egypt while egypts already received the majority of this years military aid. There is about 600 million left. Thats being held as the administration reviews its policies. Technically, washington is not withholding aid, since they have until the end of the fiscal year, september 30th, to distribute it. Speaking of money in washington, the sequester is still haunting all of us. Its the sequester wheel of misfortunate. I know you guys have missed this. Six months after its first appearance, we are still calling it sequester savagery. Lets be honest, not a lot has chan changed. Everyone figured the sequester will never happen. Its just too terrible. But they figured wrong. While the first 85 billion in across the board spending cuts are already happening, the remaining 1. 1 trillion in cuts will be with us over the next decade unless Congress Acts to restore the cash. The next round starts in just six weeks. 650,000 civilian gove
Alike showed their solidarity against violence. John shriffen joins us now from Sherman Circle in northwest washington. John . Reporter well, doreen, it certainly was a moving ceremony. Where those who knew him got out and spoke to the crowd and described a man who worked hard, saved his money to pay his way through college and was frugal and drove a bike around to get around the city. Well, tragically it was on that bike where he took his last breaths. And now those who knew him and many who showed up tonight who did it say it is gun violence plaguing d. C. That has to end. The man was the sweetest person you could have ever met. Reporter an emotional night as hundreds lit candles in memory of the 31yearold. He was gunned down here in Sherman Circle sunday around 12 30 in the morning in what Police Believe was an attempted robbery. We are people who grieve. We are people who do not know why things of this magnitude happen. Reporter at the time he was riding his bike home from phillips
On the satellite rate now. We do expect a period of light snow to start towards morning. The heaviest of the snow will fall up to the north of us in wisconsin and michigan. Most of the advisory levels occurring up north with green bay so if you are traveling that way that is where you will see some precipitation. It will not be quite that dramatic tomorrow we will see yoube back. Kevin jones was giving a High School Student a ride home when he was accused of sexually assaulting her. Charged with two counts of criminal Sexual Assault and one count of criminal sexualassault, kevin jones in his 30s was are rested today by police and accused of sexually assaulting a female student he coaches basketball at the high school at 7 30 p. M. On january 17th jones learned the team into his car and then raped her, he is no longer employed by or affiliated with the high school after the economy takes the safety of the students very seriously anything brought to the attention of the administrators wi
Murder and fire arm battery charges. I understand the chief was fairly graphic about everything tonight. You know the reward had hit 40,000 and although the tips were coming and they were not the right steps Police Superintendent Gary Mccarthy says the target audience the people they really needed to speak up still refused to break that code of silence until in the end he said work and surveillance led them to these two Kenneth Williams and the alleged Shooter Police say that the motive was retaliation the suspects are trying to get back at rival gang members believe had shot williams back in july but they targeted the wrong group. Michael ward has confessed and indicated that pendleton was not the intended target in fact the offenders had it all wrong they saw the group they shot into included members of a rival gang but instead it was a group of all outstanding determined kids like Pendleton Mccarthy announcing the charges tonight officers who worked around the clock on this case, th
Revelations about the nsa surveillance programs. The agency has the ability to monitor up to 75 of all u. S. Internet traffic. I mean, that is just incredible. 75 of my traffic to steal a joke from one of our producers is a lot. Imagine that from the entire country. It can retain written content in emails and filtering domestic phone calls made over the web. Meanwhile nbc news reports the nsa still doesnt know exactly how much information Edward Snowden took from the agency saying officials are, quote, overwhelmed while trying to assess the damage. Snowdens leaks have also raised a question of how the media investigates and reports on the intelligence community. The guardians Glenn Greenwald spoke about that last night. All the best reporting over the last 40 years involves journalists having classified information. The pentagon papers, illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. If you want to start criminalizing that, it means youre asking as a citizen to be kept ignorant and to allow