House. Lets begin with the decision to retain troop levels in afghanistan. Democratyou can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or journal cspan. Org. Lets show you a friend pages of the pages. Obama the slow troop withdrawal from afghanistan. The u. S. Will maintain current levels. Two will be out by 2000 troops will be out by 2017. What are your thoughts on this . The phone lines are open. Lets hear a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] president obama you cannot minimize the sacrifices that our military families make. Some folks will be rotating that for a few extra months. We are moving the drawdown pays over to the bright for several in part to compensate for the linkengthy time it took for government formation. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help Afghan Security forces succeed. So we do not have to go back. So we do not have to respond in an emergency because terrorist activities are being launched out of afghanistan. We
Times. President obamas decision not to pull forces as quickly as planned came after a request from the afghan president , who had been visiting the United States this week. The article notes that he is making his trip to the United States as president of the country met with president obama and Vice President oh biden in what once president obama declared a necessary war. Well the purpose of the trip is a military extension, he is also using the trip as a Public Relations blitz to repair afghanistans relationship as a country. You can rate more on new york times. Com. And now, that joint News Conference from the white house. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and the president of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan. President obama good afternoon everybody. Please have a seat. Before i begin, i want to say that our thoughts and prayers are with our friends in europe, especially the people of germany and spain following a terrible airplane crash in franc
In any policeinvolved shooting. Live here in strawberry mansion, natasha brown, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Natasha, thank you. Also, breaking right now, chopper three over another policeinvolved shooting there is one in southwest philadelphia. Were hearing an officer opened fire at a car, where a suspect wanted for assault on a Police Officer was inside. Police later found the car abandoned. That suspect remains on the loose. Also, tonight, six men sworn to uphold the law now accused of breaking it. The six men, once philadelphia narcotics officers, are facing long list of charges. Investigators allege they were part of racketeering conspiracy. Our walt hunter was the first to break this story. And he spoke exclusively with one man who says he was a victim of this alleged corruption. Walt . Reporter well, federal prosecutors hearsay the alleged misconduct of the six narcotics officers was far worse than any of the crimes ever committed by the drug suspects they were supposed to be arrestin
In philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Just wasnt real. It didnt seem real because the night before and that morning they was with me. Tonight at 11 confidential survivors story. A woman injured in the deadly carjacking and crash remembers the young victims and talks about that horrifying or dole. Good evening to you, im jessica dean. Im chris may. She was there a victim of the crash that left the community stunned. Three children killed. Three others injured. Thelma brown the first to be released from the hospital now and tonight Eyewitness News reporter diana rocco caught up with her at her home. Shes live in north philadelphia. Diana . Reporter chris, while the memorial out here only seems to grow by the day, tonight thelma brown says she still having trouble remembering exactly what happened last friday, but what is very clear to her is that theres no forgiveness in her heart for the men responsible. Home from the hospital, thelma brown sits on her porch talking about frida
Jessica dean. Im chris may. She was there a victim of the crash that left the community stunned. Three children killed. Three others injured. Thelma brown the first to be released from the hospital now and tonight Eyewitness News reporter diana rocco caught up with her at her home. Shes live in north philadelphia. Diana . Reporter chris, while the memorial out here only seems to grow by the day, tonight thelma brown says she still having trouble remembering exactly what happened last friday, but what is very clear to her is that theres no forgiveness in her heart for the men responsible. Home from the hospital, thelma brown sits on her porch talking about fridays terrifying even events. The front of the car hit me and knock me up in the air. Reporter 69 year old was helping the three children set up their fruit stand when the stolen car with Jonathan Rosa and Cornelius Crawford inside jumped the curb. She knew the kids were hurt but it wasnt until days later her family told her they ha