i m just here to come see some friends and have a good time. distracted by the rodman circus, we have no idea a secret handover is happening at the pyongyang airport. american college student otto warmbier is quietly put on a u.s. government plane, a final sad chapter in a story that began a year and a half ago. warmbier came here on a private sight seeing tour. after a night out on the town to celebrate new year s eve, the university of virginia student was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner from the wall of his hotel. for that, he got a 15-year sentence. soon after, mysteriously, he ended up with a brain injury. in north korea, otto warmbier has been released. let s go straight to our will ripley. this was one of the hardest reports i ve ever had to give. i had spoken just weeks earlier with warmbier s parents.
sad chapter in a story that began a year and a half ago. warmbier came here on a private sight seeing tour. after a night out on the town to celebrate new year s eve, the university of virginia student was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner from the wall of his hotel. for that, he got a 15-year sentence. soon after, mysteriously, he ended up with a brain injury. in north korea, otto warmbier has been released. let s go straight to our will ripley. this was one of the hardest reports i ve ever had to give. i had spoken just weeks earlier with warmbier s parents. at the time, they had no idea about their son s condition. but this reunion is not the happy reunion his family had been hoping for as recently as a week ago because that is when they learned according to a family statement that otto warmbier has been in a coma
warmbier came here on a private sight-seeing tour. after a night out on the town to celebrate new year s eve, the university of virginia student was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner from the wall of his hotel. for that, he got a 15 year sentence. soon after, mysteriously, he ended up with a brain injury. in north korea, otto warmbier has been released. hets go to straight to our will ripley. this was one of the hardest reports i ve ever had to give. i d spoken just weeks earlier with warmbier s parents. at the time, they had no idea about their son s deny. but this reunion is not the happy union tha his family had been hoping for as recentl as a wee ago because that is when they learned, according to a family statement, that otto warmbier has been in a coma since march of 2016. in june of 2017, he returned to his hometown near cincinnati, ohio, in a vegetative state.
this has truly been a nightmare for this family after they allowed otto to come here to north korea as part of a sight seeing tour with other young tourists traveling [ inaudible ] sorry, will, i didn t mean to interrupt you. rex tillerson, the secretary of state, was just speaking about the release of otto warmbier moments ago. we re going to get that recued up. please continue with your report from pyongyang, which it s remarkable to have you there, will. reporter: he, as i was saying, otto was here in north korea as part of a sight-seeing tour with a private company. he and other young people actually celebrated the new year here in north korea, and it was after the new year s celebrations that north korean authorities claimed that otto warmbier snuck on to a floor where tourists were not allowed at a hotel here in the north korean capital, and they actually released surveillance footage, very grainy surveillance footage, purportedly showing him trying to take a propaganda ban
enforcements may not be i completed. chairman of the house judiciary committee doubts the senate bill will pass in the house. republicaners in the majority in the house we want to work with democrats but not the senate bill. the compromise will have to come both in getting a bill out of the house of representatives and going to conference with the senate. how speaker boehner has publicly stated a number of times that the house will draft its own immigration bill and hopefully by the end of the month, a closed door meeting is scheduled reportedly after returning from the fourth of july vacation. back to you, heather. heather: non, elizabeth. gregg: a helicopter making a hard emergency landing in the hudson river. the nypd said all five have now been rescued. the charter flight was carrying a family of four from sweden on a sight seeing tour and experienced some sort of a