How technology is making education more accessible for schoolchildren. Appear but first jordan has executed hour after vowing to respond to the killing of a pilot captured by the Islamic State of iraq and levant. Sajida alrishawi was on death role for her attack in a Suicide Attack that killed 60. Another iraqi was executed. We have this report from amman. Reporter its the news jordanians have been dreading. Moaz alkasasbeh, a pilot captured by the Islamic State of iraq and levant last december has been murdered. The government confirmed moaz alkasasbeh was killed on january 3rd, a month before a new video which al jazeera will not show was attributed to i. S. I. L. On tuesday. It shows him burnt alive. Jordan warned its response would be grave. King abdullah cut short a visit to washington d. C. Translation it is with sadness and sorrow we received the news about the martyrdom of our pilot moaz alkasasbeh at the hands of cowards. That devious gang is not connected to our nobleal faith
Silicon valley. Plus, a look at the civil rights leader who organized the march on washington. And the discrimination that he reportedly facing the within the movement. We begin with the tragedy in france, the crash of the german airliner that had 150 people onboard. The airbus 8320 slammed into the french alps earlier today. And there were no survivors. The officials described the site in the remote and rugged region as horrific. At the airport the images only begin to tell the story. Grieving loved ones comfort each other but tonight everybody wants to know what happened and why. The plane wreckage is in small pieces and lies all over the mountainside. Recovery crews report no signs of survivors. The first problem is a problem of identifying the bodies. I have sent ten Forensic Experts from latino hospital and three anthropologists. We say its an accident. Theres nothing more than we can say right now. Everything else would be speculation. German wings night 9525 took off from spain
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Its that point in the flight when even nervous fliers tend to relax. Germanwings flight 9525 from barcelona to dusseldorf had just reached cruise level, 38,000 feet as it sailed high over the french alps. Whatever happened next was sudden, and the plane was in an apparently controlled descent from which it never recovered. Bits of debris are littered across the remote mountainside where the plane crashed. There is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage, said one official. Anguished relatives of the 150 people onboard were told there are not expected to be any survivors. We have a team in place covering this horrible tragedy starting with bill neely in southern france. Bill . Reporter good evening, lester. This is a crash that has experts baffled. A plane flying apparently normally in good weather that suddenly plummets more than 30,000 feet in ten minutes. U
Worlds most popular airplanes has both engines fail in midair during a storm. How could it have happened and what does it mean for millions of people flying on similar planes . And running again, Rick Santorum joins the republican race for the white house hoping to repeat his 2012 successes, including the countrys first caucus. Can he rekindle the political magic . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in thethe situation room. Were following multiple breaking stories in the war on isis including disturbing new reports of isis fighters fortifying their positions as well as planting bombs and boboby traps around key iraqi cities. Theres also breaking news involving a potentially deadly mistake by the United States military. It shipped live anthrax to laboratories in at least nine states. The centers for Disease Control and prevention have been called in. They are investigating. Congressman John Garamendi is standing by to take our questions. Our correspondents and experts are working their sources. Th
Isis battle. Iraqi forces on the front lines as a firefight breaks out today. Our reporter was on the ground with rare access. The iraqis insisting a major offensive against isis is under way. But the u. S. Has major doubts about that. Just days after the u. S. Secretary of defense accuses iraqi forces of running from the fight. Nick payton walsh just returned from the firefight. He was with an elite group of iraqi soldiers who are part of the same division blamed for running from the fight in ramadi. Nick is in baghdad tonight. You were actually there, one of the people who could see what they could do see what theyre capable of. What did you actually witness . Well it was clear from what we saw that those Iraqi Special forces all of them actually american trained some trained here in iraq wanted to show us how keen they were to take the fight to isis. We saw them opening fire on isis positions. Quite sustained fire in fact. They wanted a very clear message for us and everyone in the