All ten of the u. S. Navy sailors held by iran have been set free. They were detained yesterday when their vessels were seized by iranian guard. All ten were shown on iranian tv, and one sailor accepted an apology for the incident. They were picked up near the farsi island in the iranian gulf. Aljazeera has the story from washington. At first glance, this video from the Iranian Military is ominous. Ten u. S. Soldiers being detained in the gulf, their river patrol boating searched. And the crew waiting to learn its fate. But the crisis was over on wednesday morning, the sailors handed over to the u. S. We can all imagine how a similar situation might have played out three or four years ago, and in fact, its clear that today, this kind of issue was able to be peace flee resolved. Reporter kerry was alluding to the fact that he and the Prime Minister talked at least five times on tuesday to resolve the situation. The pentagon said that the crew had experienced mechanical problems with one
Cover up doping violations. I think sebastien co is going to have to answer very difficult questions, probably today, because hes in the room. Im sure journalists will have questions for him. Just looking back if the report that was released, the first part of the report released back in november, and at the time,. Led to russia being suspended from international competition. Remind us of the fallout from that. Russia became the first country ever to be banned from International Athletics because of what wada described as a systematic state sponsored doping. This wasnt individuals breaking the rules, this was the Russian Athletic Federation actively supporting the use of drugs for their athletes to achieve better results. They have promised to tackle these issues. Theres currently an iaaf task force in russia at the moment seeing how they are tackling these issues. They should have their house in order before the Olympic Games in rio which take place next summer, because of course with
That with so many Critical Issues faces both countries, letting the situation go may be in both of their interests. Rosalind jordan, al jazeera, washington. The u. S. Supreme court heard arguments today in a case involving 2 billion in iranian funds, family members of some of 241 marines died in the 1983 bombing of the barracks . Bow route are trying to collect that money but Irans Central Bank is trying to stop them. Reporter it comes as a sensitive time. As we wait for the deal to be implemented. 241 u. S. Marines, sailors and soldiers on a peacepeople mission killed. Four stories reduce today rubble. Crushing the men inside. A group the u. S. Believes is link today iran claims responsibility. The families of those killed sued iran and in 2007 won a more than 2 billion judgment. Now almost 30 years after the bombing the u. S. Supreme court still trying to collect that money. Her brother was among those who died, captain vincent smith. I want the people that killed my brother and the
Coming . I do believe theyve made some changes over there. I think tony gibson is exactly what kurt busch needed. I think hell win some races. Of course daniel knaus at danika patrick, some unknowns. Maybe for the first time in a couple years tony stewart has a clean slate. Take a deep breath there. I like what youre doing, adam. No love for joe gibbs racing. I love it. One theme of our conversation has been change. We know theres going to be some change with jgr in 2015. Theyve got to get back to victory lane more. We suck at this, we are so bad. It is absolutely destroyed. Can i jump up here real quick . How about getting Michael Waltrip racing and take it off the board. Okay. You dont want me to throw it on the floor, do you . Im sitting right here. I want to know about the rest of the story. Theres been so much talk about you guys are going to have more of an alliance. We have to look at how closely we work with joe gibbs racing, how both organizations both racing toyotas can help
Northern virginia. In the district they have about 200 snow trucks in place by 8 00 tonight and in maryland about 2400 pieces of snow equipment across the state. Now, major thoroughfares have all been pretreated pretty much vdot tells us but it is a gamble, you know, no one knows exactly how much will fall or where. It is a very inexact science. We take the worst scenario and mobilize to that level and prestage our equipment. That way we can be ready for the worst part of it. This is the 10th weather event weve had this season so far. Last year, if you may recall we had 19 by this time of year. Take a look down at the roadway. You can see how they pretreated it and its just kind of wet right now. Nothing really sticking. But as doug hill mentioned, the big challenge for all these folks, transportation folks will be not only were having a storm tonight but also sunday night as well. A twofer. Live in leesburg richard reid, abc 7 news. Thanks rich. Count on the storm watch 7 team to trac