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deceiving the organization about her race. and although she is stepping down the fall-out seems to be just beginning. diane cho is live near howard university where she attended graduate school. diane: the naacp president and ceo wouldn t answer any questions today surrounding the controversy, students here on campus are certainly talking about it. the naacp spokane chapter posted the now former president s resignation letter on facebook today announcing that she is stepping down from her position. i felt like she resigned because she was under pressure. diane: in the letter, dolezal states in part the controversy surrounding her racial identity has become a distraction from the naacp focus. i don t see why she went out of her way to do that. diane: students here at howard university where dolezal attended graduate school had mixed reaction. there are misconceptions. i support her and the movement. it s completely ridiculous that was allowed to happen for so lon ....
i m a candidate for president how that is shaping the landscape next. and first at 11:00 the head of an naacp chapter stepping down. that s after rachel s patients came forward to say she is not black but it s just the start. we uncovered new details about her past including a discrimination lawsuit she filed against the university. jay has the top story. jay? jonathan when she was a graduate student here at howard she sued the university for discrimination based on the fact that she was white. the fire storm surrounding rachel has taken another bizarre turn. she has stepped down after the parents told the world their daughter has been posing as black when they insist she is white. the court document showing her married and known as rachel moore sued howard university when she was in graduate school. she claimed the university and chair of the department denied her financial aid at the historically black college because she was white. more discrimination bas ....
member yvette alexander shared a firsthand account of how she could have bought synthetic drugs. he went under the counter and presented me with a bag that had scooby doo on it. when i gave him my credit card, he said oh no, cash only. she also pointed out they announced they re going to dismantle all of those vice units, the jump out squads that would snatch the drug dealers off the streets they re going to dismantle that. the police chief said it s no longer effective. they re putting everybody in to a ciu criminal intradiction unit that s going to operate city wide. they re going after the major dealers major suppliers. we should note mayor bowser is sending emergency bills to the city council to enact this new drug enforcement strategy. tonight a suspected heroin dealer is locked up and could face even more charges. police arrested 26-year-old lumall weiss. authorities say he sold smack to undercover agents several times. at the time of the bust on friday po ....
she told me chatting with a neighbor when around a dozen teen-agers on atvs and dirt bikes came roaring down her street. she yelled at them to slow down and that s when they turned and raced toward her. afraid to show her face but not her injuries, this wife of an mpd officer recounted the night she was assaulted in her own front lawn. tried to charge us with his atv. i took a step over. he put his arm out and i went to the ground. reporter: introduced and scared. i stood up to get out of the way and he spat in my face. reporter: within seconds her attacker the shaken mother called police and her husband who had been on duty that night. atvs and dirt bikes like these seen in youtube videos around the district where they are illegal have figured prominently in several other recent high profile crimes including an unsolved murder of a young mom in shaw last month. i would have thought it would have been my child, not my daughter. my daughter lived a great life ....
been diverted to manchester. a spokesperson for delta said that weather in new york city was likely the reason. tom: wmur s mike cronin is live at manchester-boston regional airport tonight to explain the issue for the flight once it landed in manchester. mike: we just spoke to a couple of passengers who just finally made it through customs here at the manchester regional airport. we will show you a few of them are taking off right now, hopping on shuttles to head for they will catch a flight to jfk in the morning. according to delta, 159 passengers were on delta flight 944 going to jfk when it was diverted to the manchester-boston regional airport, likely due to weather. delta said they been having issues all day landing lanes at fastest solution for landing. they had to bring in customs officials from portland, maine, to get them through customs and now hours later they just arrived in maine and will he going to hotels tonight to head back to jfk in the morning after ....