This morning. Unfortunately bad news. Ortu a suicide bomber carried out car an attack near a u. S. Diplomatic site in saudiaia arabia. The incident happened early hap this morning outside of a u. S. Consulate. Again police say theco attackerc parked his car outside of the oe hospital near the consulateon and detonated his device afterit being approached by two security officers. Icers. Officials say all staff at thet consulate is accounted for. Happening right now the death toll continues to riseon from a deadly terrorist attacktt in iraq. This happened over the weekend. En two bombs went off in baghdad. Nd right now Officials Say 142ay people are dead and 187 other oh people are injured. Injed isis is taking responsibilitypot for the attacks which the t white house is condemning. Ondein were learning more about a small explosion in centralcera park which seriously injured a d Fairfax County man. An police dont believe this was related terrorism but rather amr homemade fire work. K. As
The president went so far as to call the change a christmas miracle. Critics have said no child left behind gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. Earlier today, we talked to dr. Paul gausman, superintendent of sioux city schools gausman says he feels there was more good than bad in no child left behind, but there isis lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to these changes. Mostly in regards to standdized testing but the challenges with no child left behind have to do with assessments, every state takes a different approach to assessments, students perform at Different Levels many states like iowa continue to change the form of the assessment, the reporting of the sessment,so its very difficult to discover, but the federal governrnnt still has to underer the previous lawaw hand out these negaitive designations to different schools and different districts based on their performance. Deborah saying it involved and not enough teaching. It also had
Point. About a twomile delay. If you can head out the house early, we subject that you do. Were also keeping a close eye on another accident on i270 sky 9 making its way there. For now well turn it over to you. Breaking overnight, Prince Georges County police are on the scene of a hop side homicide investigation. One man was found dead with an apparent gunshot wound to his upper body. It happened at about 2 45 this morning. As you can see, police are focusing on this bus stop right here behind me on 85th avenue. Theyre housing down the bus stop right now. That im told is where the man was found dead. Theyve been here all morning long. I want you to take a look at some of this video. Police have been out here investigating the scene. Again, its the 5400 block of 85th avenue in New Carrollton which is right off of annapolis road. At this point police have not been able to tell us who this man is or what the circumstances are surrounding this Death Investigation, but they did tell us that
From baltimore. If you would, were looking at pictures but take your time and describe the situation at the moment there in baltimore. Reporter good evening, tony. The worst of the rioting taking place at the moment is happening just 1. 5 miles away from downtown baltimore. And the story of the day, if youre just getting from work is is that around about 2 00 this afternoon, the university of baltimore, maryland let its staff and students know they were concerned there may be violence in the area and they should go home. That was the first indication that we have that something may be up. Later on at least two high schools emptied out, and the students went to the nearby shopping Shopping Mall thats a big one. There they were met by police in riot gear and the situation deteriorated rapidly. And i think what happened was these students that went out to protest all the events surrounding freddie grays death. Throughout the last two weeks the police have been in ordinary uniforms with or
Right now. This is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight from baltimore lester holt. Good evening. From the shadow of Baltimore City hall a dramatic week of riots and peaceful protests even like some taking on right now. This culminated today in a swift, stunning announcement from this citys top prosecutor declaring that the death of freddie gray amounted to murder and manslaughter. And charging Six Baltimore Police officers in connection with his death. States attorney Marilyn Mosby saying even grays arrest was illegal. The charges met with both celebrations and accusations of a rush to judgment. We have full coverage starting with nbcs peter alexander. Reporter what followed freddie grays videotaped arrest the Baltimore States Attorney Says was homicide. We have probable cause to file criminal charges. Reporter the stunning announcement less than five days after riots ravaged the citys streets. Marilyn mosby says she spoke to grays family this week. I assured his family that no one is