yes, 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, georgia. let s get you caught up on the headlines of the day. one of three american students arrested in egypt says they were hit repeatedly just after their arrest, but the news and the good news certainly for their families, you re seeing the pictures there, all three are now back on american soil. the last of them got back just a few hours ago. they were accused of throwing molotov cocktails during anti-government protests in tahrir square. we ll hear from them in a few minutes. nato saying it s highly likely that they carried out air strikes that killed 24 pakistani soldiers near the border with afghanistan. this incident has led to strong protests by the pakistani government, plus the closing of key nato supply routes in afghanistan. pakistan is also telling the u.s. that they have two weeks to leave an air base there that s used for drones. they said the same thing just after the raid that killed osama bin laden. we ll have a live report fro
the carjacker let the man go near the tacoma metro stop, and the man drove to the gas station where he called for help. the same suspect who robbed and kidnapped this man is the same person who robbed and kidnapped another man earlier this week. and both cases, the suspect picks his victim at the same grocery store and drives them around forcing them to withdraw money from atms and taking it. both times the suspect is also believed to have gotten away using the metro. his victims were not hurt. i m ken molestina, 9 news now. the three american students arrested in cairo are back in the u.s. tonight. 19-year-old gregory porter arrived this afternoon. porter and the others, including 19-year-old derrik sweeney of georgetown had been arrested lastsunday. they were charged with throwing fire bombs at authorities. the students deny the charges. i just want to say that i m so thankful to be back in philadelphia. i would like to thank my parents, my mom, and my dad for the suppo
program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. i d like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. i m just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney and luke gates are also returning to the u.s. from egypt at this hour. syria is running out of allies. you can add the arab league to its list of critics. finance ministers from the league want to punish damascus for its crackdown on protesters. new video on youtube showed enthusiastic demonstration with syrians pledging with the league to hit the regime hardment something you don t normally see in public. proposed sanctions would include freezing government assets and those belonging to syrian
another young guy got shot and killed in june right where the boy is. and another boy was shot and killed up the street. reporter: d.c. police say 22- year-old joseph jerome mickens died at a nearby hospital. detectives are also investigating a double shooting a few blocks away shortly after midnight. mike mico briscoe died. both investigations are active. no suspects identified. at this point, there is no understood occasion the shootings are related. northeast, armando trull, 9 news now. fatal shooting in adelphi, maryland leaves one man dead. it happened last night. officers found 38-year-old carlos fernandez ramirez suffering from gunshot wounds. he was pronounced dead at a local hospital. detectives are still trying to determine a motive and a suspect for this crime. nine people were hurt when a metro bus and car collided earlier this engineer the d.c. armory. the accident happened around 6:00 this evening at 18th and independence avenue in southeast. investigato
cnn s rez acehal joins me from islamabad. first off, what do we know in terms of specifics about the attacks? reporter: ted, the most detailed account we re getting is from pakistani officials. it s important to note that u.s. and nato officials have yet to say this is what happened. this is what pakistan is saying happened. essentially officials are saying in the early morning hours of saturday a nato air strike hit two military check posts on pakistani soil killing at least 24 pakistani soldiers. they say this incident happened in a place called mohmens, a district in the tribal region right along the afghanistan border. there s a lot of militant activity in this region. what you have often is pakistani troops, nato troops carrying out a lot of operations here but the agreement is for pakistan to stay on its side and fate toe to stay on its side. officials here say that s not what happened. these air strikes hit these two check posts on pakistani soil. not the first time