Wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. Donald trump wants a wall bigger and more secure than whats already there. Well look at whats practical and whats politics. And caring for cubs. A panda cub lives for just a few days. Good evening im antonio mora. This is al jazeera america. The debate over gun violence is gripping the state of virginia tonight after a disgruntled ex Television Reporter gunned down two reporters today. Vester lee flanagan. John terret, i can only imagine how the community has reacted. Reporter it really is, the wave of sympathy started early this morning and has now swept around the 50 states, theres no doubt about that. The latest news, vester lee flanagan, the assumed gunman was using a glock 9 millimeter pistol. The police say he bought two weapons legally, quite legally in july and in a manifesto he put out to abc news two hours after the killings, this morning, he said he was inspired to buy the weapons after the Church Shooting
In the last hour, president obama spoke out about the shooting and said many details are unclear at the moment but the u. S. Will provide germany with whatever it needs. This by the way is the Second Attack in germany in less than a week. You may recall on tuesday a teen attacked five passengers on a train with an ax. We will follow the latest developments on the case there in germany and we will bring you the latest once we get new information. For now, back to you. Jonathan thank you for that. Turn the attention now to the heatwave. The possibility of some very oppressive temperature in the next few days. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here with what you need to know. As the afternoon grew on, it got hotter and hotter. Doug temperatures come up. The humidity levels come up. The way it feels outside becoming more and more oppressive. These are air temperatures now. 93 in Reagan National. 93 in manassas and frederick. 91 in annapolis. The dew point, the crucial number here once it hi
this afternoon, a prose pal so kwut back on how much time your child spends in class. how this might impact your their learning and what it means to parent whence it comes to child care. good afternoon. welcome to news 4 at 4:00. pam and jim are off today. the ripple effect of the economic crisis once again being felt in schools. across the country, cash-staped educators are looking at dramatic changes to deal with budget problems. it may help save money. will kids and parents be shortchanged in the process? traci potts with more on this. good afternoon. there s no question it will save money and it actually has. and dozens of school districts around the country, but the big question out there is what about students? some school districts are saving thousands by serving off lights, not serving lunch and parking buses one day a week. but there s one big question. what will be the impact on children? and there is no research that tells us that. a shorter week means long
thursday when a gunman emerged from the metro escalator and started shooting. pat collins joins us live. he s in arlington tonight. he has the story. pat? wendy, it was an act of courage at the pentagon that no one will soon forget. i ll remember it for the rest of my life. these are the three pentagon police officers who at great risk to their own lives took out john badell. how d it all go down? well, today, the officers tell the story in their own words. i noticed an individual walking towards our post. i stood up to greet him. we made eye contact. he looked at me and i looked at him and i knew that something was about to happen. he had a funny look on his face. he drew his weapon, he started shooting at me. i immediately took cover and we all returned fire. started coming up, the corner of my eye and i could hear him coming up. i looked up and that s when i saw the gufiring towards the officer. . i saw an individual coming towards me with a weapon in his hand
i think we re officers who take pride in our job. we did our job based on our train popping. these are the three pentagon police officers who took out john bedell, that crazed gunman who came to their checkpoint last week with two semiautomatic weapons. officer marvin carroway said he knew something bad was going to happen. he could see it in bedell s eyes. the look he had on his face. it was a look i have seen on the battlefield before. in what way? doing engaging an enemy combatant. he drew his weapon. we returned fire. reporter: it all went down in just a matter of seconds. i could hear him coming up. i saw an individual running towards me with a weapon in his hands. at which time i pointed my machine gun and fired at him, and then immediately he we down. it was unfortunate that it happened. but we did what we had to do. we did our jobs. we performed as we were train popped. were you scared? sir, there wasn t time to be scared. all i could do was reac