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Suburban new york in westchester county was killed by a police officer. there was no individualvideo, and there were a lot of disputed details about that and tonight, the pros kuecutors in manhattan said that they were not going to bring civil rights charges because they said it is very difficult to prove that this person willfully tried to deprive this person of their civil rights. and i guess thats probably the same thing theyre going to face in this incident, anderson, because it is simply ve...

Close and what that last-minute decision clearly means to him now. john? >> amazing story that is. happening now here in washington, the new president of afghanistan is speaking to a joint meeting of congress. youre looking at live pictures right now. house speaker john boehner, vice president joe biden. the address from president ashraf ghani comes one day after president obama agreed to halt the pullout of u.s. troops from afghanistan to give the afghan forces more time to improve the security...

Call them and calm them down. thats one of the things i think of now all of the ones that made the same calls but didnt get answers. its hard to put words on. tragic. >> its hard to make sense of it. this is one of those life changing events that makes you probably pause and think and assess and a simple decision and what it made for you. >> i dont think were thinking clear yet. of course like you said its like you said life is fragile so all of my thoughts and the teams thoughts are to the vict...

A simple decision and the impact it has on your lives. joining us to tell us more about it on the phone from sweden is the teams goalkeeper, frank peterson. thank you for taking the time to jump on the phone with us. when did you realize this was the flight that you were booked on and what did you think? >> we learned when we got to stockholm at the airport and then they told us and then we have been told further on that it was the slight we should have been on from the beginning. >> what do you...

Plus, it was a last-minute decision that changed their lives. it saved their lives. well hear from a swedish soccer player whose entire team was supposed to get on that doomed flight. also, a crackdown here at the capitol. police telling congress no more wild summer parties. really. the garden is the story of told and retold.

Threat perception is what they think is happening and they may get it wrong because of that alone. these are difficult situations as the former assistant director said. and its very easy to second guess and that split second decision that the officer is making we could talk about it for the next ten years whether it could be made or not be made. >> would it make any difference to use tasers for example, instead of lethal weapons? >> well the problem with a taser is its one shot one chance and ma...

Have said in characterizing our negotiating position have not been accurate. >> reporter: and republicans suspect some of the anonymous complaints about israelis spying coming from administration officials are just more sour grapes from the white house over netanyahus meddling in the iran nuclear talk as one gop aide said its flat-out laughable that the israelis had to tell the u.s. congress this is a bad deal with iran, wolf. >> another major decision by the president today. he announced he wou...

Failures cases where police thought they were going for guns but they were reaching for cell phones or something else. the stats dont tell the whole story. in those moments, how tough is it? >> its dark out, ive just chased somebody we may be wrestling to secure that persons arrest and suddenly that person is reaching into a place, maybe reaching towards me maybe throwing punches at me or trying to reach for my weapon. that is a hard hard decision to make in a millisecond. >> reporter: the overw...

Kawasaki, has a nitrous bottle on it. this thing is a rocket. >> mark watches as ron shoots down the track disappearing into a cloud of dust. its only later he learns what happens next ron moves up to fourth gear and hits the nitrous boost button gaining enough power to hit top speed. hes blasting at 175 miles per hour when his front wheel begins to wobble. ron struggles to regain control, but its a losing battle. he makes a split second decision to aplan don the bike before it crashes, but as t...

Department, but the man and woman make a split second decision to jump. the man goes first. come on. >> he lands without major injury. seconds later, the woman tumbles out. >> oh! [ screaming ] >> shes not as lucky. she is taken to the hospital where shes treated for broken bones. the lesson to be learned here with nearly 3,000 americans killed in house fires every year, its critical to be prepared. have a plan where you have a means of egress and your family can meet so no one runs back into a ...