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Month in that city of 600,000 in nearly 15 years and now that triple homicide tuesday night, something had to give. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. with while the entire family was almost swept away off a massachusetts beach by dangerous rip current and the entire ordeal caught on camera by a member of the family. the 16-year-old girl was running a gopro cam on a selfie stick when she and her parents were caught by the current. dad says hes never been that scared or felt that helpless in hi...

Checking todays weather for the rest of the nation, the rain ginger mentioned stretches up the east coast to the ohio valley. there will be some snow in michigan and across the dakotas. 91 phoenix. that doesnt sound too bad. 84 in miami. 40 degrees colder than detroit. 62 is a popular number in new york, denver and salt lake city. community leaders in inkster, michigan, are demanding two officers involved in the violent arrest of a black man be fired. police have launched an internal investiga...

Story, nick, thank you. in spain, they are accusing the driver of wednesdays train crash of reckless homicide. they took jose francisco garzon into custody after he left the hospital. they are looking in to the trains speed and at least 78 people were killed in the crash. and checking todays top stories -- a boston man arrested for allegedly assaulting two women. hes now a person of interest in the abduction and killing of a young woman from the same neighborhood. police identify him as 28...

Checking todays top stories. president obama met with members of nelson mandelas family today. he also called mandelas wife at the hospital. mr. obama is also holding talks with south african president jacob zuma. the two leaders addressed the importance of growing trade and business relationships between the two countries. supporters and opponents of egypts president are back on the streets. state media says fighting between the two sides have left several people hurt in the port city of alex...

infuriated opponents screamed mubarak should have been sentenced to death. mubarak supporters were also in the court and were angry mubarak was not acquitted. demonstrators outside the courtroom scuffled with riot police. their anger intensified after mubaraks two sons and six former aides acquitted of charges during the same court proceeding. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live at tahrir square where the crowd only seems to grow. ben, these demonstrations while ...

college crowd? >> reporter: yeah, mostly college. mixed crowd, fredricka, still not full but they have an hour to go. the message youll hear is effectively the president preempting a tax on the economic conditions in the u.s. he expects the romney campaign is going to attack the unemployment rate and the presidents stewardship on the economy, so youll hear him talk about how hard the economy was hit before he got in office, what he inherited, and how he made things better, how much wor...

the left side of the drivers car hit a concrete barrier in the median strip, and then according to an eyewitness the driver appeared to overcompensa overcompensate, make a sharp right turn, hit a curb on the far side of the road, and then went over that railing and over an overpass. she sailed about 60 feet into the air, and then about the same distance down before coming to rest upside down. all the passengers inside were dead on arrival. police do say all of them were wearing seat be...

off an overpass on to a transit facility near the bronx zoo. three of the dead are children. cnns susan candiotti joins me now by the phone. susan, whats the latest on this? >> reporter: well, its a terrible, terrible accident, certainly, alison, but were hearing from the police that its either a car or a van with four adults and three children inside, all dead. they were on an expressway called the bronx river parkway, and the car crossed over the median into the opposing lanes of tra...

took the stand and apologized to trayvon martins family. cnn martin savidge examining evidence from florida. when is he expected to be released and where is he likely to go? >> yeah, two very good questions right now were trying to find answers to. were standing outside the corrections facility where george zimmerman is being held. this the receiving point. this the way he went in. were believing this the way he will come out. security is in the minds of the security conscious. if he c...

prostitute in colombia. the post was tipped off to the allegations by former post reporter ronald kesler. kesler and on cnn this morning and he says a dozen agents were involved. >> all 12 agents involved in this situation involving prostitutes. one of the agents did not pay one of the prostitutes and she complained to local police and thats how this all started. police went to the state department. state department told secret service. secret service recalled all the agents. it is rea...