It is thursday, october 23rd. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Welcome to you here in the United States and around the world. There is breaking news overnight on the shootings wednesday by a man that canadas Prime Minister is calling a terrorist. A gunman killed a soldier at the National War Memorial in ottawa and injured others and ran into the building on Parliament Hill with hundreds of leaders in that building. He was shot and killed by Security Officers there. We now know more about the suspect. Apparently a man who converted to islam. A man with a criminal past. A man whose passport had been frozen recently by authorities over fear of dubious travel. He had been to the United States, apparently, as recently as 2013. We now know more about the victim. A man in his 20s with a young son. A man who loved serving his country and loved animals. Rescued a stray pet weeks ago. Prime minister Stephen Harper called for unity among canadians and with the countrys allies with the fight against terror
Introduce you to the men and women confronting the militant threat. Thanks for joining us. It looked like a perfect launch initially on a picture perfect aukt evening. But then an unmanned rocket exploded just seconds after liftoff. We want to show you how it happened in realtime tuesday night on the virginia coast. Watch this. And we have liftoff of the antares, on this is Third Mission to the iss. Main engine at 108 launch team, launch team, be advised, stay at your consoles. Maintain your positions in your consoles. In the lcc, maintain position just stunning to watch that. Unbelievable. And you also saw the explosion and heard it there. Bit of a delay on the video shortly after. The fire was raging after that rocket fell back to earth. It did seem to heavily damage the launch pad. Its 3 00 a. M. On the east coast in the u. S. Soon as daylight comes, theyll be spending a special team to investigate what happened. That rocket was carrying food and supplies and classified equipment as
Scene of a School Shooting. It happened friday in the small town of marysville. Witnesses say a student, Jaylen Fryberg, stood up, and shot five friends, one of them, a girl, died. He then killed himself. The gun has been traced to frybergs father. So far police have not released a motive. One student who was just two tables away from fryberg, talked about what he witnessed. Take a listen to his account and hear about the look he says the gunman gave him. And i heard one loud bang. I was wondering what it was. Then i heard about four or five more, and people started screaming. And people started getting to the ground and going for the nearest exit. So i hit the ground. But after he put some bullets in the back of the students, he turned and looked at me and my girlfriend, harley, and kind of gave us a smirk. And turned around and shot more bullets outside. Another American High School under siege by a shooter. It just is such a horror. Just about 90 minutes after the first emergency ca
Deadly police shooting. What were learning this morning is ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is thursday, october 9th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Tighter screening is planned for u. S. Airports. Officials hope to stop another infected ebola person from entering the country. It is on top of the measures in place at major airports. The screening expected to apply to 150 travelers a day from three west african countries where ebola is spreading quickly. Cnns rene marsh has the latest from dulles airport. Reporter the white house announcing the screening at specific u. S. Airports. It will begin at jkk and newakn and dulles. We know that border officers will be on the front lines using laser thermometers. They simply hold up the thermometer to the forehead and get the reading of the temperature. The other layer to this is a cdc questionnaire with Detailed Health information. That is handed out to passengers the moments they get off the plane
Yousafzai for the struggle against oppression of young people and children and childrens right to education. Children must go to school, not be financially exploited. In the poor countries of the world, 60 of the population is under 25 years of age. It is a prerequisite for peaceful Global Development that the right of children and young people be respected. In conflict when in particular, the violence of children leads to the continuance of violence from generation to generation. Showing great personal courage, maintaining the tradition has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations. All peaceful. Focusing on the great exploitation of children for financial gain. He has contributed to the development of Important International conventions on childrens rights. Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.