and children in southern afghanistan. he is staff sergeant robert bales, the military reported that 16 afghan civilians died in the shooting spree early this month but today officials charged the soldier with 17 counts of premeditated murder and have not revealed many details how the number went up. the suspect faces six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault and remains in custody at maximum security prison in for the kansas prison. he could face the death penalty but this is unlikely. jennifer, describe the situation at for the leavenworth. reporter: a jag officer entered his sale and read him the charges not long ago at for the leavenworth and we now have a press release the charge have been read. a formality. a a a prelude to the military laying out case. he is still in shock. he did not know the nature of the specific allegations when we met and i didn t go through it. we just spent 11 hours getting to know each other talking about his servi
today. sure. when i think about this boy, i think about my own kids. i think all of us have to do some soul certainlying to figure out how does something like this happen. and that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened. as well as the specifics of the incident. but my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. you know, if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. and you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves. this is a national conversation about race. we have an african-american president which i guess you could say enriches the conversation because he doesn t just have to empathize. he understands fully what it is to be the parent of a black teenager. yeah. and the special burdens that parents and children dhaer we ve heard from eugene robinson, we ve heard so powerfully from other guests from charles blow, from jonathan capehart. yeah, andrea.
changes everything. this is studio b. but, first from fox at 3:00 the u.s. army officially filed murder charges against the american soldier accused in the brutal massacre of men, women, and children in southern afghanistan. he is staff sergeant robert bales, the military reported that 16 afghan civilians died in the shooting spree early this month but today officials charged the soldier with 17 counts of premeditated murder and have not revealed many details how the number went up. the suspect faces six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault and remains in custody at maximum security prison in for the kansas prison. he could face the death penalty but this is unlikely. jennifer, describe the situation at for the leavenworth. reporter: a jag officer entered his sale and read him the charges not long ago at for the leavenworth and we now have a press release the charge have been read. a formality. a a a prelude to the military laying out case.
hollywood legend shirley maclaine is here. i m erica hill. a cell phone video captures a crash from inside the car. is marriage becoming obsolete. we begin with a look at today s eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. enough is enough. we are tired of going to jail for nothing and others going home for something. thousands march in florida, demanding justice for trayvon martin. rick scott appointed a prosecutor to oversee the investigation. the florida police chief has temporarily stepped down. i pledged i will not let my son die in vein. robert bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder. the staff sergeant accused of gunning down afghan civilians to face formal charges today. a report shows sergeant bales was investigated for violence in 2008. he s accused of groping a woman and beating her boyfriend. we learned today what killed whitney houston. the official cause of death is drowning. they say she was using cocaine moments before she died. ba
murder. reports are he had killed 16 afghan civilians. can you help us make sense of that? this is very strange. it sounds like there may be another victim. the original reports were 9 children, 3 women and 4 men were killed in this rampage and now we seem to have another victim, so 17 counts would look like another victim. i suppose they could have indicted him on two theories relating to one count of murder, that s a possibility as well, but we ll have to wait to see the details. would it be if perhaps one of the victims, one of the women were pregnant? would that be another possibility? it s unlikely that that would be the case. you would really you d have to have a fetus that was ready to be born. you know, one of the major problems in this case, and this has been said by the defense attorney, how do we know how these individuals were killed, because this took place in a field of battle, were there autopsies done? where are the bodies now? not an easy case to prod