Old, leaves behind a devastated family. We want to know why, why this happened. Reporter hoffman has been hailed a hero, awarded the chief thomas medal of courage in 2010 for rescuing a man from a fire on gillman street. And this year, recognized by wjz, helping to save this 3 yearold boy who had wandered away from home. Friends say the Third Generation firefighter was heroic, even in his 90 final minutes. The night he was killed, he did all he could to protect his girlfriend and her sister, who survived the terrible ordeal. And i think without andys help, that would not have been possible. Reporter wjz was there, as his uncle collected some items from andrews home, needed for funeral arrangements. His father released a written statement, on behalf of his family, saying our hearts are absolutely broken over the loss of our son, brother, grandson and uncle. Its hard to imagine Going Forward without him. But we know andy died a hero. That is the way he lived his wife and we wouldnt life,
Sleighager shot and killed a man. And tornadoes tearing through the midwest, and the forecasters say situations in iowa illinois and iowa and particularly dang dangerous. I want to get straight to chad meyers in the Severe Weather center for us tonight, chad. What i am hearing is that the midwest should be on alert, is that correct . Yes, even though we have lost the sup and the suns heat the storms will go for many hours. The storms were like a rake. Think about raking the garden and every time a storm comes by it came by it put down a tornado, one after another after another, and they got very close to chicago, and we are lucky that chicago didnt get into the way of some of the tornado, because they are ef4 tornadoes, and im not sure if it is ef5, but the damage is alarming, because it is gone. And some of the storms are down to champaign, and over to illinois and toledo and parts of eastern ohio and parts of West Virginia and these are the strongest storms and for a while, we had a
Female passenger with dark hair with two males reported to match the description of the escaped prisoners, david sweat and richard matt. Police zeroing in on what theyre calling a new hot spot. They told us stay home lock your doors and windows. Newsroom starts now. Good afternoon, everyone and thanks for joining us. Im frederica whitfield. Were following two major stories today, the reopening of the Emanuel Ame Church following last weeks horrible killings and the continuing manhunt from two escaped killers from an upstate new york prison. Were expecting a press conference at any moment and when that begins well bring that to you live. First, the doors of charlestons Emanuel Ame Church reopened today. The healing continues where nine africanamericans were massacred by a white gunman. He said he wanted to start, quote unquote, race war but mother emanuel united the races this morning. We saw prayer and praise peace and love honoring the victims. [ bells ringing ] our loved ones who wer
Now theyre telling us 806 people have died after the quake struck an area near the capital, kathmandu. There have been at least 15 aftershocks of 4. 5 magnitude or greater and the tremors were felt as far away as new delhi in neighboring india. And lets bring in cnns Indian Bureau chief raffi. We know youre in calcutta. The important thing now is to try to find those injured and get some support to these, these areas. But thats proven to be quite difficult. Yeah. It is proving to be difficult. On the one hand you have the massive earthquake the epicenter of which is 50 miles to the northwest in kathmandu. So in those parts of nepal, rural parts, weve heard reports of avalanches on Mount Everest. On the one hand you have a different type of rescue operation there and on the streets of kathmandu were seeing all of these images of broken buildings, people out on the street. Hospitals overflowing. Very different challenge there. So its an urban challenge and a rural challenge. And between
Agreement to destorerestore diplomatic relations for the first time in more than 50 years. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning to you. Im pamela brown in for carol costello. Thank you for being with us today. We begin with breaking news out of greeleyville South Carolina. Were expecting a News Conference to begin at any moment now. These are live pictures of their town hall. Officials are expected to speak about the fire that burned the mt. Zion ame church last night, the sixth black church to have burned in recent weeks. The fbi and atf havent linked these fires and there were reports of lightning in the area around the time of the fire. Our Victor Blackwell joins us from town hall in greeleyville South Carolina with r h. Whats the latest . Reporter were looking at members of the state house and state senate. I think theyre about to begin. Lets listen. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to greeleyville South Carolina that we affectionately refer to as the small town with a