good to be with you, i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garland s refusal to hand over audio of president biden s interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so let s interpret what this all means. i guess the implication being this was a political maneuver by congress. reporter: first of all, alex, this was as expected. congress, even republicans here who pushed this contempt vote. remember that just happened a couple of days ago, they successfully voted on party lines pretty much, except for one republican, to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress because he did not turn over those tapes from biden s interview with special counsel hur, and the classified documents case, republicans e
Apartment. With one 4yearold girl saying she average 14yearold girl saying she averaged 200 a day for providing sexual services. Back live, we spoke with the d. C. Earlier and they are concerned that there are other teenage, underage victims in this case. So they are asking parents to speak with the children and give them a call. Both of the individuals are now locked up behind bars. Reporting live from southeast jennifer donelan, abc7 news. Jonathan new tonight a background check that should have stopped accused Charleston Church gunman dylann roof buying a gun in the first place failed. F. B. I. Director said the paperwork from the arrest weeks earlier wasnt completed properly. That one report should have disqualified roof from obtaining a handgun usedded in the massacre of nine people inside predominantly africanamerican church. They ordered a full review of the f. B. I. Background check system. History outside the South Carolina state house. You can hear the cheers as the honor gua
Chuck mexicos most notorious drug dealer is now their most wanted man again. These maximumsecurity walls could not hold el chapo who pulled off a storybook jailbreak. This is a huge failure. He is one of the most powerful Drug Cartel Leaders in mexico, if not the most powerful. Chuck he slipped through a small hole in his tunnel including ventilation, lights and a motorcycle, a tunnel milelong. He is notorious for his use of tamils. He has a team of engineers and miners that have built over 100 tunnels between the u. S. And mexico. Chuck he spent 13 years on the run after a previous escape. Mexican authorities finally recaptured him just last year. El chapo at 58 was head of the mexican drug cartel, behind one quarter of all the Illegal Drugs smuggled into the united states. His criminal empire is blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, from drug overdoses and gang murders. He is like the Osama Bin Laden of drug trafficking. Chuck attorney general Loretta Lynch has offered help to get
And a dude gets the full salon treatment. Why sometimes beauty hurts. Thats not right, man. This footage comes to us from mecca in saudi arabia, and this isnt like a building spotter just deciding to get this on video. This is video shot because its a building under construction and its nearly finished, construction workers started hearing rather worrying sounds. Its slowly weakening. Well catch the moment the building stops being there. As half the building just shears off and falls to nothing, leaving only half the building behind people start running back because of the huge dust and debris cloud thats spreading. Before anyone gets too concerned to worry everybody got out of the building before it happened but incredible footage. That is unreal. I just imagine some construction workers standing there with a handful of bolts going oops. Thats where they were supposed to go. How does that happen . Its like a sort of like cake, you take a knife through it and cut it and just separate i
Hey, everybody. We have a trifecta, heat, we will have poor air quality and a high fire danger. It all starts with the winds that are calm or blowing off shore from the land, and that is a warmer wind, and thats a wind that does not allow us to exhaust our pollution. Thats one of the reasons why were going to have poor air quality and were going to get worse and spread over the weekend. 12hour day planner, in the mid 50s to upper 50s, very comfortable this morning, but look at that. Nearly 20 to 50 degrees warmer by 4 00. Alexis. That is going to be a major temperature change for a lot of folks today. Right now, were doing okay for the bay bridge commute. Were encouraging you to carpool or take mass trance as it is a spare the air day. Things have definitely filled in. The metering lights on since about 5 25 this morning. So far, drive times not looking too bad. Highway 4 to the maze, 20 minutes for you. 14 the rest of the way across the bay bridge into San Francisco. And southbound 10