the officers. they did what they were trained to do. here s a tweet from his brother, pray for my younger brother, shot three times in his back by boston police then dying. his last words i can t breathe. with me now, former fbi special agent and police officer jonathan gilliam and our national correspondent deborah feyerick. let me begin with you, deb. tell me what you can share. what we can share is the man s name is usaama rahim. mid 20s. his brother is giving a very different account of what happened. he said his brother was waiting at a bus stop on his way to his job when, in his words, he was confronted by three boston police officers and subsequently shot three times in the back. nowhere does the brother say he had a knife, what authority describe as a fairly large military-style knife, and nowhere does he say he was the aggressor. the imam his brother, said he called his father and was on the phone with him, in his words, needing a witness. we ve been speaking t
as much as 21,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a ruptured pipeline threatening wildlife, washing up along four miles of one of the nation s most beautiful beaches. ahead of a busy memorial day weekend, as well. the oil slick stretches out four miles into the pacific ocean. it s said to be slowly drifting south. far less than the estimated $3 million gallon spill that caused three three million gallon spill that caused enormous damage to the same area same beaches in 1969. that crisis led richard nixon to create the environmental protection agency and all new regulations. memories of the historic disaster are top of mind for area residents today. nbc s hally jackson joins me from santa barbara. i know this is a far smaller spill, but it is still fatal to wildlife and, of course dangerous to the beaches. reporter: and folks around here say it can still be devastating. we re actually a little bit up from the beach because cleanup crews within about the last hour came out
did in iraq is the collapse of the multi sectarian approach. and what prime minister abadhi is trying to do in his own government is create a a fight against isil that consists of shia forces sunni forces and kurdish forces in sectarian make-up burned the control of the government in iraq. it is those forces and only those forces that we will provide support to. julian barnes. mr. secretary, do you think it s time for saudi arabia to consider winding down its air strikes, could further air strike risk destabilizing our prompt a wider role? and general dempsey, the russian, your russian counterpart today talked about targeting nato missile defense systems, the russian defense minister talked about u.s. exercises on tactical nuclear weapons. how worried are you about stepped up rhetoric by russia and about aggressive acts like the air intercept last week? to get to your first point we are assisting the saudis to protect their own territory and to conduct operations that a