Good evening. Im lester holt sitting in tonight for brian. There has been a flurry of headlines today stemming from the violence and unrest in ferguson, missouri. Last nights jarring images of police clad in military gear and firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters on the streets of an american suburb has reverberated across this country including to the obamas vacation residence where the president called for peace and calm and lashed out at both violence against police and Excessive Force by police. This after a fourth night of violent protests stemming from a shooting death of an unarmed 18yearold man by a police officer. Tonight, the town of ferguson is back on edge as officials hope a change of strategy will help cool things off. We have two reports tonight from ferguson starting with nbcs ron allen. Reporter good evening, lester. Police are calling this town a powder keg. Protesters are gathered again. You can see them marching down the street, perhaps several hundred of
Murdoched journalist james foley release ad email received from isis. You and your citizens will pay the price of bombings, which will be first the blood of american citizen james foley. He will be executed as a direct result of your transgressions against us. Early this week, james foley was barbarically killed. Much more on this story to come. Jon were getting new reaction to allegations the pentagon broke the law by swapping terrorists for arm Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Good friday morning to you. Im jon scott. Nice to be here. Jon good to have you here, heather. Heather . He Defense Department released five pressers . From guantanamo for Sergeant Bergdahl serving in afghanistan. Jon the Government Accountability office said Congress Must be notified about such a deal in advance. James rosen has more on this. Reporter good morning a group of republican senators back in june tasked the Government Accountability office with determining the lawfulness of the bergdahl prisoner swap and tha
This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. President obama authorizing more troops seeking more money for the u. S. Led war on isis, up to 1,500 more American Forces will be deployed to iraq where vast regions of the country are under terrorist control. Chris van holland is standing by to talk about this with us along with our correspondents and other guests. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto, give us the latest. This is a substantial expansion of the u. S. Military presence in iraq. We talk about doubling the number of u. S. Troops from about 1,400 with this additional 1,500. In fact, its ten times the number of military advisers since those first 300 were sent in in june. Its an expansion of where these troops are placed in eiraq. To this point u. S. Mill he tear advisers have been confined to here and erbil and baghdad. The pentagon says they will set up two additional Operation Centers outside of baghdad in erbil. The locations discussed are one in
Emails discussing some of hollywoods biggest stars and even president obama. William la jeunesse from hollywood. Reporter sony pulled a film after no theater would run it this is about all Movies Running on christmas. Other studios were worried about their bottom lines and pressured theaters to drop the interview. Why this is cyberattack is up precedented bringing an industry to its knees. A country, dismissed and they thought they could make a comedy with no comebacks they were wrong. North korea directed the hacking according to the fbi, similar to one in 2013 against south korean banks. The hackers used same networks, malware around master computer in bolivia to route the sony attack. At first experts didnt believe north korea had the capability to protect a network like sony, which protects inlent wall property like any 70 million multinational. They too were wrong. Cyberattack is very serious. Were investigating it. Were taking it seriously. Well be vigilant f we think something i
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