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over what we now know is the barnett shale. but one of the amazing things was that fracking had just come into -- i talk about the modern fracking, hydrafracking starts right after world war ii, this is a brand-new technology, taking water, they used toed a napalm to it to slicken it. he actually fracked wells, early, very small fracs, so he would do that, and he starts making good wells, the first ten wells he drills were good, so for 30e years, he is drilling up north of fort worth, every time he drills down a little deeper, he goes through this rock called the barnett shale and his instruments show him, there's gas here, but it's incredibly thick, and from 1982 on, he basically runs an experiment, he would drill a few wells a year into the barnett shale and try fracking them, and failure was okay. that's what he told his people, you're allowed to fail on a small number of wells, and they kept doing it. talk about persistence, for what is that, almost 20 years, they kept drilling and having bad wells. this young guy, he said,

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i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church.et's update you on our top stories this hour. >> an australian journalist who served 400 days in an egyptian prison is finally heading home. peter greste and two other journalists were supporting the muslim brotherhood. greste is en route to his final destination while his colleagues are still behind bars. >>> the family of kenji goto released a statement thanking the public for their prayers and support. meanwhile, the father of a jordanian pile held hostage -- pilot held hostage appealed to isis for his release. >>> super bowl xlix, patriots beating the los angeles is-- beating the seahawks. tom brady named mvp. this is the fourth super bowl history in franchise history for the patriots. >>> hopes of easing ongoing fighting in eastern ukraine are fading after the government and pro russian rebels failed to reach a peace deal. >> representatives of both sides met in belarus saturday. one diplomat said none of the proposals to end the conflict was signed. a previous agreement which of

>>> hello, everyone i'm errol barnett. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and across the world. >> i'm rosemary church. thanks for joining us. coming up investigators piece together the final moments of a deadly plane crash caught on video. >>> also coming up, a new video from isis that could, we should stress, could show the widow of the paris kosher supermarket killer. >>> and no ties no austerity, please. greece's new leaders turn heads with their choice of fashion. >>> we begin in taiwan. roughly 24 hours ago, an aircraft hit the water. divers have pulled another body from the river in taipei as they search the wreck aejage of flight 235. [ screams ] [ speaking french ] >> almost unbelievable to watch the plane hit the taxi clipping the bridge before landing there in the river. you are witnessing that from amateur video. 32 people were killed. somehow, 15 managed to survive. >> incredible. and among those survivors is a 1-year-old boy. boeing of his parents survived the -- both of his parents surviv

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we begin this hour in new york where three men are facing terror-related charges over a long list of planned crimes including attacking police and the fbi, hijacking a jetliner to fly to isis territory, and assassinating president obama. >> two of the men appeared in a brooklyn courtroom after their arrest wednesday. the same day they were scheduled to fly to turkey. cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown has details on what allyegedly had planned. >> reporter: the fbi says one of the men arrested today boasted about wanting to kill president obama and blow up coney island in new york city. another man proposed shooting police and fbi agents. plans they allegedly said they put in place if they weren't able to join notice is syria. >> two of the individuals were seeking to fly to syria. one was arrested at the international airport, jfk airport, as he was ready to board the flight. a second individual had a later flight scheduled. >> reporter: in court doc

. >> i'm errol barnett. thanks for joining us. this is cnn "the newsroom." >>> egypt's military says it has bombed isis targets in elizabeth after the beheadings of 21 egyptian christians. the militant group released a gruesome video sunday showing the murders. >> we want to show a still image from the footage before the captives are killed. an english-speaking jihadist threaten egypt and anyone opposed to isis. ian lee on the line from cairo with the latest. what can you tell us about these air strikes reported on egyptian state television that have reportedly taken place in libya as a result of this? >> reporter: well we're not getting to many details right now but what the egyptian military and egyptian government has released. they have bombed areas around libya targeting warehouses targeting weapons depots of isis. we do not know exactly where the air strikes took place. we know that the air strikes were though in the early morning hours before the sun comes up came up. the planes were f-16s flying over libya. as you said, th

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. to update you on the main stories we're watching. people in the northeastern u.s. will wake up to more snow and weather. the national weather service says nearly 60 centimeters, about two feet of snow could fall on boston by the time the storm ends tuesday. many schools are once again closed. while boston's logan airport is open most flights are canceled. >>> the family of an american aid worker kidnapped by isis is asking the militant group to contact them directly. kayla mueller was abducted in 2013. isis says she was killed in a blast, a jordanian air strike last week. they've not provided any proof that she is dead. >>> as fighting intensifies in eastern ukraine, u.s. president barack obama says he's still considering whether to send weapons to help the country battle separatists there. he met with german chancellor angela merkel on monday. they pledged to work together and pursue diplomacy. >>> the egyptian government will investigate the clashes at a football match sunday that l

i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm zain asher.'s get straight to the headlines. >> reuters is citing a diplomatic source saying leaders from russia, france, germany and ukraine are prepared to sign a document following all-night talks on the crisis in eastern ukraine. no specifics are available yet, but among the issues to resolve is the removal of heavy equipment. >>> u.s. president barack obama has formally asked congress for the authorization of military force against isis. the request does not call for the deployment of u.s. combat troops to iraq or syria. congressional approval could take several months. >>> greek and eurozone leaders will talk monday after they failed to reach a deal over greece's debt. the biggest disagreement is over whether greece should request a bailout extension. it expires at the end of this month. greece blames the bailout for the country's economic woes. >>> now we have new details on the attempts to rescue american aid worker kayla mueller from isis. her family was told of her death in a private me

i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett.e are the big headlines this hour -- federal investigators will look into how a freight train carrying crude oil went off the tracks and caught fire in west virginia. officials say one person was injured. a home there was destroyed. some of the oil spilled into a nearby river. the governor has declared a state of emergency in two coins, and about a thousand people have been displaced. >>> egyptian warplanes struck the city of durna in eastern libya. it was in response to the murders of 21 egyptian christians by isis. islamist militants say the planes hit civilian areas and killed women and children. egypt's foreign minister says isis training and storage facilities were targeted. >>> the suspect in this weekend's deadly shootings in coyne pledged his -- copenhagen pledged his allegiance to leaders in isis. that's according to a post on what appears to be his facebook page. the post of made before the alleged gunman attacked a synagogue and a free speech forum killing two people there.

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." it is now 10:00 a.m. in irinner -- in gerbil. >> it is the capital of kurdistan and not far from the isis stronghold of mosul. a kurdish official says there are many isis casualties and that coalition air strikes helped. for more on the situation, let's bring in cnn's tim lifter live via skype from irbil. there was concern that it was not safe for air strikes to be carried out. that decision has been reversed. now we're hearing about heavy casualties being inflicted on isis. what do you know about the situation on the ground right now? >> reporter: it was quite a wide front, rosemary. several villages attacked simultaneously by isis. they've often probed this area. there have been assaults in the past but the scale of this of much greater than anything in the recent past at any rate. the fighting went on for at least five hours overnight. didn'ten until 3:00 local time this morning. it was only toward the end of the fighting when the two side were separated as it were that coalition air strikes came in an

so this is a start, and it's a great start. >> for eight years, barnett has been a model inmate.rks as a custodian as he completes his sentence. >> you know, clean offices, you know, empty trash cans, garbage cans. whatever they need done, you know. and i -- i don't mind doing it. basically, i get up. fix my breakfast. go to work. come back, work out, walk along the lake, you know. shower, lay back, read, study, you know, can use the phone any time of night that i need to. and that's a privilege. and it's lockdown at 6:00. >> it just lightens the burden. it really helps. we get to cook our own food, and nothing is better than fresh vegetables. it's just a little bit of home in prison. >> barnett is taking the ged to better support his family. his children were in middle school when he went to prison, now they're adults. >> that's the prom night there. timothy on the left with his date, tiffany on the right with her date. and a picture of my son, 55 on the football field. and my daughter, she plays basketball. getting out of prison is going to mean the world to me. it's going to o

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> egyptian fighter planes have hit isis targets in libya. the egyptian military says their jets have all returned safely from their missions. >> these twoxattacks are in response to a video showing decapitations on a beach in libya. isis captured those christians this past december and january. >> cnn's ian lee joins us now live from cairo with the latest. egypt's president has condemned the beheadings and has already responded as we've reported with these air strikes conducted on isis territory? >> reporter: the president spoke in cover of dark. . f-16s were taking off and struck targets inside libya. this is according to the egyptian military. they hit warehouses and weapons depots in libya. local media on the ground there is saying that the targets were in the city of durna. a city that was taken over by isis a while ago. it has a long history of militant activity. we're waiting to see if this one a one-off or a continuous campaign against isis in libya. t

i'm zain asher. >> and i'm errol barnett. thanks for staying with us. stories we're following right now. russian state media reports the leaders of ukraine, russia germany and france will sign a document at the end of their talks. the report says the group agreed by 80%. the leaders have been holding all-night crisis talks while fighting in the region surged. >> u.s. president barack obama has formally asked congress for authorization of military force against isis. the request is for a three-year mission. congressional approval can take many months. >>> a u.s. official says intelligence suggests american aid worker kayla mueller may have been given to an isis fighter as some sort of bride. her family learned of her death in isis captivity this week. mueller was taken hostage in syria in august of 2013. >>> many people have been talking about something noticely absent of wednesday night's broadcast of "nightly news." >> brian williams' name was cut from the name of the broadcast. substitute anchor lester holt had this to say. >> brian is a member of our

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church.heck the headlines for you this hour. >> an australian journalist who served 400 days in an egyptian sprichb finally heading home. peter greste and two other al jazeera journalists were accused of supporting the muslim brotherhood. he was stopped on his way home to australia. his kpleegs are-- his colleagues are still behind bars. >>> the family of the journalist beheaded by isis issued a statement thanking the public for their prayers and support. the death of kenji goto prompted outpourings of frustration in japan. >>> the death also stirred deep fears in jordan, in addition to the journalist. isis threatened to kill another hostage. jordanian military pilot. >> right now his fate is not clear. official in jordan are not giving up efforts to free him. senior international correspondent now from bay wrut that part of the story. and the real stumbling block here was that jordan had asked for proof of life. they haven't received that from isis as yet. that is a real concern because in t

is a fighter. >> lilly barnett knows what real pain is.o i think relative what she's experienced in the past this no big deals. >> reporter: three years ago doctors declared this beautiful 12-year-old brain dead after a devastating car crash. >> she was in a coma and they told her she would be vegetative state. >> reporter: lilly was unbroken. small steps towards recovery every day. today, a competitive rower putting the past behind her. >> you did an amazing job. congrats. >>> i feel like princess and the row is my castle. >> reporter: her time at saturday's mainline slide in lower merion high school a personal best. her first trophy for an indoor event. next up for this young athlete is the indoor rowing world championships in boston. that is less than month. but lilly says like everything else, she is ready to tackle it head on. with success in rowing comes confidence. >> i'm helping -- >> and something more. >> she has a normal life she gets to do everything she wants to do and people look at her for not only her -- the incredible thin

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church.nks for joining us. >> we want to get to some of the more joyful stories. but first, the chaos and violence that broke out in cairo before a football match there. egyptian state media say at least 30 people died in clashes with police late on sunday. >> now the government has indefinitely suspended premier league matches in egypt. police say it all started when fans tried to force their way into the stadium. but some people claim they were teargassed by police as they walked through an open entryway. >> let's get straight to egypt's capital. our ian lee has more information and can get us the latest on this. ian, we saw some of the video that looked like each side was facing off. how exactly did things escalate though to the point of dozens of people being killed? >> reporter: well we're starting to get a clearer picture this morning about exactly what took place last night. what we know are thousands of fans of the football club tried to enter the stadium pushing toward the entrance t

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. right now on "cnn newsroom," soccer fans clash in europe. more than two dozen dead. >>> world leader plan to meet in a desperate push to stop the fighting in ukraine. the question question is will russia's president show up. >>> and australia's prime minister tony abbot will get to keep his job for now. >>> a number of moving stories we're keeping our eyes on. we begin in cairo. deadly clash there between football fans and police have prompted egypt's government to now suspend premier league matches indefinitely. >> state media stay at least 30 people were killed in clashes out a stadium. this amateur video shows part of the confrontation as it unfolded. [ crowd noise ] >> the interior ministry says it all started when fans tried to force their way into the stadium, but some people say they were teargassed by police as they walked through an open entryway. cnn's ian lee had more now from cairo. >> reporter: another bloody night for egyptian football. thousands of fans of the club went

. >> i'm errol barnett. coming up this hour jordan executes a would-be suicide bomber after the gruesome murder of a jordanian pilot by isis. >>> rescuer scramble to find survivors after a deadly plane crash into a taipei river kills at least 12 people. >>> this is a truly ugly and brutal sight. >> at least seven people killed out new york city when a commuter train slams into a jeep. jeep. >>> we begin in jordan where authorities have hanged two convicted terrorists. an apparent reprisal for the killing of one of the people hanged sajida al rishawi, the suspected suicide bomber that jordan of once willing to trade for the pilot. >> a stunning turn of events. jordanians took to the street as long as they heard about the pilot burned alive while locked in a cage. gruesome. jordan's kim -- jordan's king abdullah told jordanians to show unity and resolve. >> translator: in those difficult moments, it is the duty of all the sons and daughters of jordan to stan together in one rank and show the tree mettle of the

our live coverage continues with rosemary church and errol barnett at the cnn center in atlanta. good night. ♪ >>> we want to start with the shopping mall threat to the united states canada and the united kingdom. somali terror group al shabaab released a video calling for attacks to western malls. >> it mall of america was among those named. didn't stop people from showing up over the weekend. we should note that u.s. law enforcement says there isn't any credible or specific evidence that an attack is in the works, but they still want people to be on alert. >> malls are considered soft targets. many already have increased security. as will ripley explains this threat may be an attention-grabbing ploy boy al shabaab for more recruits. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: their name means the youth. al shabaab recruiting young men, luring them to east africa to launch bloody attacks. the group claimed responsible for 2 2013's assault on kenya's westgate mall. more than 60 people died. >> what if such an attack of to occur in the mall of america in minnesota? >> reporter: this new propaganda v

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> thanks for joining us everyone. as israeli prime minister in the the netanyahu the prepares to address iran's nuclear program before the u.s. congress next week new reports are raising doubts about a past assessment. >> now, we're talking specifically about this -- mr. netanyahu's 2012 address at the u.n. general assembly. that's where he claimed that iran was less than a year away from building a nuclear bomb. "the guardian" newspaper and al jazeera say leaked documents show his own intelligence agency did not agree. >> the revelation comes amid reports of progress between senior u.s. and iranian officials at nuclear talks in geneva. so let's bring in senior international correspondent nic robertson. he is live in london with the latest. so nic, this aapparent contradiction, what are we to make of that? >> reporter: israeli official will say don't make anything of it. there is no contradiction that men were saying the same thing. what you have is benjamin netanyahu at the u.n. in september of 2012 making a case tha

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we begin this hour with a number of new developments in the fight against isis. first a gruesome new allegation by an iraqi government official. he says isis burned alive as many as 40 people during the recent attack on the town of al baghdadi. cnn cannot independently verify that claim. >>> also, this development -- egypt is asking the united nations to set up a naval blockade to stop weapons from flowing into unsecured parts of libya where isis militants beheaded 21 christians. >>> and u.s. investigators are working with linguists to try and identify the isis militant who spoke in that video. cnn spoke to several linguists who think he's likely from north america or at least spent a lot of time there. >>> another disturbing allegation. the u.n. is looking into reports that isis may be harvesting organs from some of its victims to sell on the black market. >> u.s. officials say this claim and the report of burning people alive come as no surprise. chief u.

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. also just in to cnn, incredible video of a plane crash in taiwan. take a look. this footage comes to us from tvvs taiwan. you see the transasia airplane clip a taxi and bridge before it crash lands in a river. so many people on board there. >> heart dropping to watch that. this hour we know that at least 13 people are dead. rescuers have been able to pull some survivors from the wreckage which is just miraculous when you see that video. we'll have a live report on the crash in about ten minutes from now. >>> now to our top story. jordan has executed two al qaeda prisoners in retaliation for the latest brutal murder by isis militants. >> one of the prisoners was sajida al rishawi, a failed suicide bomber that isis had demanded jordan set free. jordan had hoped to trade her for captured fighter pilot muath al kasasbeh. those hopes were smashed tuesday when isis released a video of him being burned to death while locked inside a cage. >> jordan's king abdullah has cut short his trip to w

. >> i'm errol barnett. thanks for joining us. >>> we begin in taiwan where divers have pulled another body from the water. as they search the wreckage of transasia airways flight 235. [ screams ] >> unbelievable pictures there. an amateur video showing the final moments before that crash as the plane clip the bridge you saw there before landing in the water. 32 people were killed. people are amazed that 15 managed to survive. >> there's one more remarkable astect to the story. among the survivors, a 1-year-old boy and both of his parents survived. truly lucky family. >> the father got on a bicycle and went searching for that young child. amazing. we're joined live from taipei taiwan. it is cold it is rainy as the search and recovery effort continue in taipei in the river. the search for the 11 bodies that remain. talk about the progress that may have been made at this point. >> reporter: it's 4:00 p.m. local time. probably only another hour's worth of light before it turns dark. the divers have been in the

and around the world, i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we begin with the latest in the fight against isis. as kurdish forces say they've regained control of an area just outside the northern iraqi city of erbil. >> that is the self-declared capital of the kurdish region and not far from the isis stronghold of mosul. skies fighters launch -- isis fires launched a major assault on the area tuesday. a cnn team of in the area just ten days ago. and kurdish fighters told them fighters were trying to infiltrate their defenses. kurdish source they they inflicted heavy casualties on the militants and even got support from coalition aircraft. >> for more on the developing situation, let's bring in cnn's tim lister, joins us via baby cam from erbil. there have been almost daily attempts by isis to infiltrate toured issue territory -- kurdish territory. we've seen this aggressive push which led to close contact fighting. fighting. s the latest? >> reporter: theing has died down. the fight doing last overnight for at least

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. we're following events in egypt. >>> first, this developing story -- cuba's state-run media just published what it says are recent images of fidel castro. the former leader hasn't been seen much since

. >> i'm errol barnett. thanks for joining us. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we'll begin this hour with isis and its latest disturbing video. the propaganda video that you're seeing shows children in fatigues what appears to be an isis training camp. we should point out that we cannot verify where or when this was shot. >> this comes as the u.s. national security agency admits it doesn't have enough intelligence about isis. the agency chief tells us leaks from edward snowden created blind spots in tracking certain terror groups. >>> kurdish peshmerga fighters have been fairly successful at taking territory away from isis in northern iraq. our senior international correspondent, ben wedeman, has been on the front lines of the battle and joins us live from erbil in northern iraq. how are the peshmerga able to maintain their territory considering many are outgunned by isis? >> reporter: well, it's important to remember that they've actually lost a lot of territory last summer. first of all, when isis took over mosul in june and started

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we begin this hour in new york where three men are now in custody on terror charges over a list of isis-related plots. >> the fbi says the case is especially alarming because of the level of planning among would-be terrorists in the u.s. pamela brown has the details. >> reporter: the fbi says one of the men arrested today boasted about wanting to kill president obama and blow up coney island in new york city. another man proposed shooting police and fbi agents. plans they allegedly said they would put into place if they weren't able to join isis in syria. >> two of the individuals were seek ing seeking to fly to syria. one was arrested at jfk airport as he was getting ready to board the flight. a second individual had a later flight scheduled. >> reporter: in court documents prosecutors point to conversations on line including one last summer in which he wrote of his desire to "shoot obama or get shot ourselves. will that due? that will strike fear in the h

. >>> hello, everyone i'm errol barnett. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and across the world. >> and i'm rosemary church. thanks for joining us. >>> it is 10:00 a.m. in iraq's anbar province where local officials are accusing isis of killing at least 40 people by burning them alive. >> here's some of the latest information we have. this report comes as the terror group tries to continue its land grab as you see in this isis propaganda video. anbar's provincial council chairmen says the 40 victims were police officers and tribesmen. he says it happened near the town of al baghdadi. cnn cannot independently confirm the report. >>> meanwhile, u.s. president barack obama is holding a osu countering violent extremism in washington. he's going out of his way to draw a distinct between elderly on-- between religion and groups like isis and al qaeda. mr. obama says the groups have perverted islam. >> responsible for terrorism, premresponsible for violence and terrorism. >> and over and over again we've seen t

. >> i'm errol barnett. we want to begin this hour in yemen where the u.s. says the security situation there is so bad, it wants all americans out of the country. the u.s. has already suspended operations at its embassy in sanaa and removed all personnel. now britain says it will do the same. >> houthi rebels forced out the u.s.-backed president last month and took over a number of government buildings. the u.s. says the political uncertainty creates the risk of violence that threaten yemen wes and the diplomat -- yemenis and the diplomatic community in sanaa. >> the u.s. vows to bring those responsible for the death of kayla mueller to justice. >> isis sent proof of mueller's death in a private message to her parents. it included photos one showing kayla wrapped in a burial shroud. >> reporter: the governor of her home state of arizona has ordered flags to be flown at half staff in her honor. >> but for mueller's family and friends, all they can do right now is mourn the loss of a young woman devoted to helping others. cnn's anna cabrera has more from kayla

hey, everyone i am errol barnett. thanks for joining us or staying with us. we want to begin with what were apparently all night crisis talks on ukraine in minsk, belarus. it appears this hour there has been some progress. >> russian media report the leaders of ukraine, russia tran and germany have reached agreement on several areas and will sign a document when the talks end. nick robertson is in minsk and has the latest. so nic, of course the first point here is they're calling this a document not an agreement which is critical. when more do we know about this? and what might number that document? >> reporter: rosemary we're just learning at the moment that the talks have nowened. this has been an absolutely will marathon session, 14 hours with these four leader president putin, president poroshenko chancellor merkel and president hollande of france. now breaking up this mammoth session of -- we're getting details. we heard in the last hour or so that there was sort of 80% grammy to get a pull did back of heavy weapontosh get a buffer zone finish the separa

. >> i'm errol barnett. thank you very much for joining us. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> it took a jury in the u.s. state of texas less than three hours to reach their verdict in the so-called american sniper trial. >> eddie ray routh here in the center was found guilty of killing former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield back in 2013 at a gun ranging. kyle on the right, was a former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. with 160 confirmed kills while fighting as a sharpshooter in iraq. trial captured worldwide headlines as kyle at the same time was profiled across the globe in the oscar-nominated film "american sniper." >> now, our ed lavandera is in steubenville texas, and had more on the verdict including emotional reaction from families impacted by the killings. >> reporter: it was a swift verdict here in steubenville texas, where the "american sniper" jury has found eddie ray routh guilty of murdering chris kyle and chad littlefield. the verdict came in less than 2 opinion 5 hours after starting its deliberations. the jury rejectin

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> guilty of capital murder. that's the verdict jurors in texas gave eddie ray routh in the american sniper trial. >> routh here in the center was found guilty of fatally shooting chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield, back in 2 2013 at a gun range. kyle seen on the right was a former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. with 160 confirmed kills while fighting in iraq. the trial which captured headlines around the world came at the same time kyle of profiled in the oscar-nominated film, "american sniper." >> we the jury find the defendant, eddie ray routh, guilty of the offense of capital murder as charged in the indictment. the verdict is signed by -- >> the jurors had three choices -- guilty not guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. after the verdict, routh was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. >>> our ed lavandera is there in steubenville texas, with more on the verdict including emotional reaction from relatives of the victims. >> reporter: it was a swift verdict in steubenvi

. >> the pilot here jeffrey barnett, his passenger thomas klein from silver spring. they are both recovering in the hospital this morning. >>> today the d.c. council is preparing for a showdown with congress. council members will be talking about the bill to legalize pot later this morning. about 70% of d.c. voters passed the bill last november. however, maryland congressman andy harris put a measure in the federal budget to prevent it from taking effect. the d.c. council decided to hold hearings about the bill anyway and will talk about regulating the drug today. >>> 6:05 now. some students will hold a sleep-in demonstration today in hopes of convincing mont coun school board to change school start times. it's part of the save our sleep campaign. middle and high school students and their parents will wear pajamas, bring their sleeping bags and camp out out side of the school board's rockville offices. the demonstration is set to start at 3:30. this is all ahead of tomorrow's possible vote on changing the bell times. the proposal started with trying toed a just adjus

can take much more snow. >>> hello, everyone i'm errol barnett.our viewers in the united states and across the world. >> and i'm rosemary church. thanks for joining us. >>> it is 10:00 a.m. in iraq's anbar province where local officials are accusing isis of killing at least 40 people by burning them alive. >> here's some of the latest information we have. this report comes as the terror group tries to continue its land grab as

. >> texas state investigator mike barnett has been inside the cantina before and seen firsthand theest of dirty rooms used for prostitution. >> behind the bar is a compound where there's a house they use for prostitution. and behind that house is another barn where there's even more prostitution rooms hidden in the back. the smell in the room is kind of disgusting, and sometimes your feet stick to the floor when you're walking across it. >> it's a little after 3:00 p.m. when the task force descends and quickly secures the perimeter. inside, investigators find more than a dozen women lined up against the wall like merchandise on display for a handful of male patrons. >> i'm not in charge. ask one of the uniformed officers. i don't know. >> what duchk it's about? >> i don't know, i come to drink beer. to relax. >> investigators take our cameras behind the scenes for an exclusive look inside the bowels of a modern day brothel. >> we're behind the bar now in the little passageway that goes back to the prostitution area. here's one of the rooms we catch them in all the time. it's pretty

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. we'll get to those stories in a moment.. the u.s. is asking all northern leave yemen. the security situation in the country is getting worse. it has already suspended operations and removed all personnel from the capital, sanaa. britain says it will do the same. >> houthi rebels forced out the u.s.-backed president last month. they then took over a number of government buildings. the u.s. says the political uncertainty creates the risk of violence that could threaten yemenese and the diplomatic community in sanaa. >>> u.s. intelligence officials confirmed tuesday that the disturbing message from isis is authentic. aid worker

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> the u.s.tary wants anyone going to one of america's largest malls to be careful. >> this comes after the terrorist group al shabaab released a video calling for attacks to malls in the u.s., the u.k. and canada. as will ripley explains the threat may be a ploy by al shabaab to get recruits. >> reporter: their name means "the youth." al shabaab luring young men to east africa to launch bloody attacks. the group claim responsible for 2013's assault on kenya's westgate mall. more than 60 people died. >> what if such an attack to have occur in the mall of america in minnesota? >> reporter: this new al shabaab propaganda video reaches beyond the african borders targeting the west threatening westgate-style mall attacks in the u.s. canada and the u.k. >> this is a drill. mall of america is now going into lockdown. >> reporter: the mall of america already has extensive security to protect more than 40 million annual visitors. today they're adding new safe measure saying, "we take any potential threat

i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett.his hour jordan executes a would-be suicide bomber after the gruesome murder of a jordanian pilot by isis.

sources tell abc 7 news, barnett told rescuers the engine caused. the final cause will be figured out by an ntsb investigation. at the airport today, the talk is about survival. the photographer aboard news chopper 7 he too went racing to the scene. >> it was not a scene where you would expect to see survivors. >> the wreckage of that aircraft still lies in those woods out there. there were no federal investigators on scene today. we're told that they'll be working on a preliminary report that could be out in a matter of weeks and we understand that both of the men are still hospitalized but are expected to recover. tipton airport, brad bell abc 7 news. >> thanks, brad. a gang member who dealt drugs and impregnated four guards while behind bars at a baltimore jail was sentenced to 12 years in prison. prosecutors say that he was an inmate at baltimore city detention center. while he was there, he used contraband cell phones to direct gang activity out on the streets. prosecutors say that white made the prison safer by instituting a no stabbing policy

. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> it is 10:00 a.m. in libya where some areas in the isis-controlled town have been reduced to rubble. militants say egyptian air strikes have killed women and children. >> however, egypt's foreign minister insists his country's planes targeted isis training and storage spaces. these attacks are a response to ghastly footage released by isis which appears to be the beheadings of 21 egyptian christians. ian lee with more from cairo. >> reporter: in the early morning under the cover of darkness egyptian f-16s roar into the night sky. their target isis training camps and weapons depots in libya. the morning light reveals the destruction in durna. the mediterranean city close to the egyptian border and 200 miles from the european coast. the air strikes, revenge for the beheading of 21 egyptian christians by isis militants. >> translator: egypt reserves the right of retaliation. and with the methods and timing it sees fit for rhett bougz, from those murderers and criminals who are without the slightest humani

. >> jeff barnett of glen burnie went down at 2 p.m. first responders removed both men, who amazingly suffered serious but nonlife threatening injuries. >> we watched it. >> back at the airport he updates another pilot on what happened. he cannot say for sure what led to the crash, but he said that kline is a great pilot in friend. >> they were stable, non-life-threatening injuries. it's a great thing. he's a great guy. >> the cause of the crash is under investigation by federal authorities. jay korff, abc 7 news. >> maryland state troopers will remain at the crash scene through the night. federal aviation and transportation officials will return tomorrow to continue their investigation. today marks two months since a plane crash in gaithersburg left six people dead, a mother and her two young children were killed on a private jet crashed into her home. the crash also damage neighboring home. turning to the weather, after a springlike day, get ready for some rain. meteorologist eileen whelan joins us. will it be all day? >> definitely n

i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. we're following events in egypt. we'll get to this in a moment. >>> first, this developing story -- cuba's state-run media just published what it says are recent images of fidel castro. the former leader hasn't been seen much since retiring for health reasons. and his last public photograph was taken in august. >> the newspaper says the pictures are just over two weeks old and were taken while castro was speaking with a student leader in havana. there's speculation the photos are out to stem rumors the 88-year-old is dying. >> let's address the rumors now and bring in host of radio mambi in miami and director of the cuban liberty council. what do you make of this? why so many pictures? i continue's 21 images. why have they been -- i understand it's 21 image. why have they been released now? >> reporter: every time they have someone talking to him, they say he's lucid, he's brillan. you know what -- brilliant. you know what it's okay to say he's gone he's not the same person he once was. they want to keep the image al

jeff barnett was at the controls when his small plane went down near tipton airport sunday. he said the engine started to stutter and he had only seconds to react. the plane tipped and flipped but he and his passenger survived. >> luck played a rofmente i'd like to think that my superior piloting skills did, but it didn't. >> he spent five days in the hospital but says i can't wait to fly again. the passenger remains hospitalized >>> five students were taken away from paint branch high school in silver spring. four students were arrested in two big fights. a fifth was arrested, accused of asaw thing a police officer. the school was locked down for a short time this morning. police are not saying exactly what led up to the conflict there. >>> new at 11:00, crews are investigating a fire that happened in naurned -- anne arundel county. crews had to run hoses for quite a distance and a stretch of the road was briefly shut down but has since been reopened. >> police are looking for help trarking down a suspect who set off an incendiary device in a chantilly wal-mart. the buildin

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barnett and his passenger, thomas kline, were hurt. barnett is chief of transportation and community programs in charles county. download the nbc washington app and we'll let you know as soon the faa determines what went wrong. >>> the number two official at the secret service is losing his job, but he's taking another position with homeland security. a.t. smith stepped down as deputy director of the secret service today. some members of congress had previously been critical of the fact that he had not resigned in the wake of the recent white house security breaches. no confirmation yet on who is going to be replacing him. smith will take an unspecified job with homeland security. >>> closing arguments are going to begin tomorrow in that whistle-blower case against the d.c. police. it led to chief cathy lanier being called to the witness stand for a second day. >> you'll recall this case involves police escorts for actor charlie sheen and other celebrities and whether a high-ranking officer was demoted for talking about it. news4's kri

. >> i'm errol barnett. thanks for joining us. >>> we begin with growing concern over the fate of two people held hostage by isis. american aid worker kayla mueller was abducted in syria in april of 2013. >> british journalist john cantlie was kidnapped in 2012. a new video had emerged showing cantlie separately. mueller's family has a message for isis. >> it is a message the american aid worker's parents want to give directly. they want isis to contact them. >> in the meantime the mueller family waits. cnn's kyung lah has more on their ordeal. >> reporter: the days months pass. for a year and a half in prescott arizona, kayla mueller's parents forced into excruciating silence. on august 4th 2013 isis captures their now-26-year-old daughter. their threat -- her name gets out and isis murder her. >> you have no control so you have to abide by the rules. and it was a living hell. it has been a living hell for the family and it is today. >> reporter: he says kayla's mother and father suffered in that hell alone

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. >> eric was on the runway right behind klein and barnett and saw the crash. >> when i happened to lookike, come on, come on. hopefully i thought he was going to make it over the trees, but he just clipped them. >> he seemed to be conscious. they were talking to him. >> reporter: was he standing saw him, he was on a backboard. they were readying him for transport. >> reporter: here's 82-year-old klein. while he wasn't piloting today, friends say he's an aviation enthusiast. >> he's been flying for a long time. he's one great individual. >> reporter: klein retired from nasa as an engineer, and friends say he is often seen at the airport, a couple tapes a week, and has logged countless flying hours. >> i hate to see anybody injured in any kind of accident. when it's somebody you know, certainly. my first thoughts are, hope they're okay. >> just glad that tom was able to get away from it and that there was no fatality. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration and transportation officials are investigating. they will be back out here tomorrow to figure out exactly what went wrong. d