Mala. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im Randall Pinkston in for randall hair. The prosecutor is asking for patience as she investigating the death of freddie gray. Police handed over their report on what happened to gray while in their custody. They revealed the van carrying the 25yearold made an additional stop, a stop officials said not known about before. John tarot is live in baltimore, the police put out this information to News Conference a short time ago and they finished a report a bit early. Absolutely. Three extraordinary new strands so the story revealed here only within the last two hours or so. Number one commissioner coming to the microphone to say they handed the report over from the Police Office to the state attorney, and thats been done a full 24 hours earlier than it said it would happen. Number two the commissioner revealing that the van carrying freddie gray back on april the 12th, made four p sos not three now thats troubling because five of
A killer whale held in captivity for more than four decades. Plus the striking images offering a new perspective on our world. And we begin tonight with a decision that has delighted big oil and infuriated environmentalists j. A federal regulator has conditionally approved a plan to allow drilling for oil and gas off of the shores of alaska. It is raising fears of another disastrous spill. And in a place where the impact could be far more devastating. Shell says it would like to begin drilling this summer. Activists say that will jeopardize a sensitive ecosystem already threatened by climate change. There is no proven way to clean up spilled oil in icy arctic conditions. None of the techniques that shell proposes to use have been tested successfully in the arctic ocean. And we learned unfortunately in 2010, that exploration drilling like what shell proposes can result in catastrophic accidents. The deep water horizon was drilling when it exploded and sank triggering one of the largest
Team that found him. Curfew kept people off the streets of baltimore but theres a sense of unease today. There were protests in citys nationwide and new questions about what may have led to freddie grays death. The governor said yesterday that he thought perhaps baltimore has turned a corner. Is that what youre seeing . Randall, good morning from city hall in baltimore. Lets be absolutely clear leave our viewers in no doubt baltimore has turned no corner. What led to monday night are still big issues that nobody here is going to be able to address in the next couple of days weeks months or years. Compared to monday night baltimore has turned the corner, the National Guard and state troopers are here in downtown city hall. Last night when the curfew was imposed at the epicenter of the rioting at the junction of nest we have the and pennsylvania avenues, there was no tear gas or mace, it was a peaceful affair. The police backed off and it came down to family against family fighting each
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Shia fetterers assembling near ramadi. Theyre prepared to launch a huge new offensive to take the city from isil. Ramadi is west of baghdad and isil controls much of the city looking Anbar Province the u. S. Is pledging to do all it can to help. God willing we will achieve victory soon, and we will never accept rather than triumph. It will be a real backbone for security forces. We will support the legitimacy in iraq, represent government and parliament. The iranian backed groups have fought isil back from iraq. We have more from baghdad. Isil is in control of ramadi city after a threeday complex and sophisticated assault. They managed to push Government Forces out of the provincial capital of anbar. They asked the help of shia led militias to recapture the city. What we understand is that these militias the different brigades are now preparing gearing up for a counter offensive against isil. This is a very controvers
Having a dysfunctional environment. So we begin tonight with the investigation into tuesdays deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. The Officials Say that the death toll stands at 8, and all passengers and crew are accounted for. And the investigators want to know what the engineer was doing before the crash. Lisa stark is live with us in washington, and lisa, they just held a news conference, and any information . There is indeed, tony. We have new information about the train and what was happening about a minute before the accident. We know the train was going into a 50 Miles Per Hour curve at more than double that speed. And what the ntsb has now discovered, and this is based on the forward facing camera on the front much that locative, it has a speed stamp on it, and about a minute before the crash, it was allowable but for some reason, the train sped up. So instead of slowing down as the train went into the curve it sped up to over 100 Miles Per Hour. And of course the engineer