Starting to see some of that rain. If youre in woodbridge right now, youre noticing the wind picking up. Hail has been reported with this one. Watch out. A little bit of lightning associated with that too. More stormneiness out there. It is not moving anywhere fast. As we move on through the next couple of hours, well continue to see more of those storms developing, moving through very quickly, and then we forming. Watch out. Well continue to keep you posted. You saw this breaking news alert from our nbc washington app today. Baltimore officer edward nero is cleared in the death of freddie gray. The judge found him not guilty on all four charges. We heard protesters shouting as that verdict was read. Chris gordon is live in baltimore getting reaction to what happened. Reporter officer edward nero is the first of Six Baltimore Police officers charged in the death of freddie gray put on trial and found not guilty. Today in court, judge Barry Williams read the reasoning behind his verdict
Of elections u coming up in a few minutes and find out what happened here. A man reduced charge from peter liang to criminally negligent homicide and found out hell spend no time in jail. Family of the victim very upset. Couple of things so last night, donald trump, Hillary Clinton, big, bug, big victors, drump sounded almost president ial i didnt even hear him say lying ted once. He actually called ted cruz senator cruz. He did . Didnt use any adjectives . He toned it down quite a bit no rambling press conference and hes going to learn what its like none of that stuff. Later as for voting in my polling place it was a piece of cake. You voted yesterday. The only incident was when i took this picture. [laughter] not supposed to do this. Brought 75 cameras watched her. But they have a problem with a selfie. Anyway, voting there were some anomalies throughout the city. I didnt have problems because im an independent which i think we need to talk to them about. Independents are not allowed
To me that the connection between the military, the activeduty military and the va was terrible symbolized by the fact that we had incompatible electronic record systems. And that apparently have given up trying to harmonize billions of dollars in ten years at least. I wont get into a number, i will accept wholeheartedly the spirit of your question and answer it in a couple of different ways. The military Health System in the va system initially had Different Missions and the whole idea was after the Second World War and the words before now if you got ill or injured you are going to move on. That degree of of coordination at a time when health care was simpler served its purpose. Fastforward purpose. Fast forward to the 21st century and that is neither acceptable or desired because of the complexity of care. We have committed to harmonizing and working on that transition, and i cochaired the Health Executive committee with the under secretary of the va to work across some broad areas
You can make a comment on our facebook page. And finally, send an email. The president will be holding a News Conference this afternoon at 1 30 pm eastern time. It will be live on cspan. Obviously, this will be one of the areas he addresses. The front page of the wall street journal this morning for response ggles to hack. The u. S. Government is looking retaliate to north hacking of arent Sony Pictures, according to familiar with discussions u. S. Officials have evidence that could point to north korea as directing the attack. Officials are still investigating who is responsible. North korea has denied responsibility. One of the coauthors of this story is Devlin Barrett of the wall street journal. Mister barrett, how close is the u. S. White house to naming korea government is responsible . Guest they are pretty close. I think it will name her later today, and it would be pretty awkward if you didnt answer that question today he ddidnt answer that question today. So much of this has h
Ashley president obama speaking from North Carolina in a few minutes on a new effort to boost manufacturing, hopefully create jobs. Rich edson with a preview. Rich ashley, this is part of a private initiative the president announced last year in his state of the union address. The white house is calling the president s year of action previewing the white house fighter saying he will be looking for areas of bipartisan cooperation but he wont be waiting on congress to act. He will use his executive authority his pen and his phone to work with anyone to get things done. On this republicans say they are skeptical. If he is truly serious about getting the economy back on track and creating jobs, he will do more than just talk about job creation. Or bipartisanship today. He will actually work with us on rail Bipartisan Solutions to get there. Rich this evening at 5 00 he will meet with Senate Democrats whwill come hit the white house. Back to you. Ashley rich edson, thank you much. Lori appl