brian todd? >> reporter: yes, i'm sorry, don, i was talking to a local gentleman here who was trying to explain some of the dynamic of the neighborhood. this is much like what they did last night when they formed long lines columns in the middle of the street and parted. and we of course were caught in the middle of that a moment ago and when they were pushing us to the side we did move. we moved to the side and to a corner. we did not want to rile them up anymore. and then the police backed off and moved to the side and they made a major announcement via helicopter that the streets are open now and they're saying attention members of the media, the streets are open. so if the last comnights are any example of what might happen now, the police officers will hang here for a while on the sidewalk, their vehicles will grad wale clear out and then they will clear out. >> i want everyone to stay with me. we'll be right back with more live coverage from baltimore. i was going to talk to the young man w

we're not too far from brian todd's location. a number of officers descended on these two here and two others who were on the other side by that pole right there and this all started, as you know, about two dozen protesters or so formed a circle in the middle of the kwaud area in front of city hall and they're now taking them into custody and putting them into some of the wagens over here. i got to tell you, don, a few of the protesters and i want to emphasize just a few, made it very clear from early on, they were not going to honor -- >> we're having an announcement here from the officers. we're going to move back. >> reporter: made it clear they were not going to honor the curfew. and so they made it clear early on this evening, they were going to stay and i said, what happens when the curfew comes and the police comes and they said, we'll get arrested. and just to emphasize a small number had made the decision very early on that they would be arrested if necessary. don. >> jason. hey, jason, i don't know if you can hear me. s

john. >> brian todd thanks. the lawyer for brandon bostian says his client has no memory of the crash itself and quote no explanation for what happened. robert goggin said bostian turned over his cell phone and blood sample. he has yet to make a formal statement. mayor michael nutter is placing the blame on bostian's shoulders. a conclusion the ntsb team leader on the site says is premature. >> clearly he was reckless and irresponsible in his actions. i don't know what was going on with him. i don't know what was going on in the cab. there's really no excuse that could be offered. literally unless he had a heart attack. >> i'll refrain from those remarks. this is a fact-based investigation and to make comments like that is inflammatory at this point. we want to find out what happened to prevent it from happening again. >> you think the mayor was wrong in saying that? >> well you will not hear the ntsb making comments like that. we want to get the facts before we start making judgments. >> the 32-year-old enginee

christine. >> brian todd for us. thank you. friends and former colleagues of the engineer brandon bostian are speaking out in his defense. xavier bishop worked as his flagman until bishop was fired for attendance issues. he says he has never seen bostian take a drink or drive a train we he wasn't ready. >> if there was something he did not know he knew who to call to get information. he did not come off as i know it all or he knew everything. he knew what he needed to know. if he wasn't 100% sure he would call and make sure he got the proper information. he wasn't going to do anything and i'm going to assume something would happen. he was thorough. >> you mentioned we all know the speeds. we all know the trip and route. you know the curve is coming up. you are leaving philly and you have to go slow for a while. what i can't understand then is how can this guy who you traveled with on the tracks many times, have gone into that situation so hot. >> again, that's the million dollar question. to be honest with you, i'm going based

let's go to our brian todd on the streets of baltimore with much more. brian, what's going on? >> reporter: wolf for more than six hours into a spontaneous street celebration here at the corner of north after flue and pennsylvania avenue. this has been of course the epicenter of the protest since freddie gray's death. right now people are over here chanting waving signs, celebrating with people stopping here in vehicles. and a real expression a collective expression of joy and relief after prosecutor marilyn mosby dropped what can certainly be described as a bombshell. r. >> we have probable cause to file criminal charges. >> yes! yes! >> reporter: a stunning announcement today by baltimore state's attorney marilyn mosby, caesar goodson, the officer driving the police van with freddie gray inside was charged with second-degree murder. >> mr. gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside of the bpd wagon. >> reporter: the other five police officers involved also facing criminal charges. ranging from f

brian todd let me begin with you. tell me what people are saying to you. >> well brooke it is an outright street celebration here. a little more than three hours after marilyn mosby made that announcement of charges, it's been very spontaneous all day long. you have people over here on loud speakers giving testimonials speeches prayers. you have a lady there doing that now. we're going to bring it back over this way and show you the police presence here. that's a telling thing too. the police are out in numbers in this intersection but they're really letting these people have space. this is the extent of their involvement. they're directing traffic over here. otherwise, they're just ringing the sidewalks. they're letting people express themselves even come into the street on occasion and maybe block traffic for a minute or two. then people will generally move back. i want to talk to someone here david balding. david had an experience he says similar to the one that freddie gray had. he said he was roughed up by a poli

brian todd is in the midst of it. brian todd tell me what you're hearing. >> this is a spontaneous celebration that's been going on for more than four hours since the prosecutor made that announcement of the charges. we're going to kind of move along here. there's been kind of a line of protesters extending along north avenue all day. really just expressing their joy at the announcement of these charges. here's the only person i've seen here who's not excited. come on in here tom. this is toya 6 months old. i think she's done with this but her mom is celebrating. how do you feel about what happened today? >> it's okay. we got justice. so that's all that matters. >> thank you, guys for talking to us. brooke a lot of these people who we talk to have said that -- okay the policeman is asking us to get out of the street. as happy as they are about the announcement of the charges have said that this is not over for them. they will not be completely satisfied unless there are convictions. all right. we're being moved out of

cnn's brian todd has this story. >> reporter: donned in isis black, he confident carrying a long sniper rifle, a bandolier of am nation. he picks off a tomato to show his skill. this is an isis video. and cnn has just learned this man trained on american soil. he's a former commander in a special police counterterror unit in tajikistan. >> translator: from 2003 to 2008, i received special training in the military bags of blackwater. >> reporter: blackwater, a controversial company which sent private security personnel to iraq and at this compound in north carolina. contacteded by cnn, academy the company that purchased blackwater's training facility was unable to confirm that he was there. the state department tells cnn that he participated in five counterterrorism courts in the u.s. and tajikistan between 2003 and last year. we spoke with former army sniper paul shiri about what he might have learned. what skills do you think he might have learned that would help allied battle forces? >> so, the type of training he would have been would have been bake tactics, the ability to move throu

let's go in detail about some of the things brian todd was talking bute. and our investigator reporter is here drew griffin. start from the top. >> really it all hinges right now on a couple of things. one, they have what we call the black box, an event recorder they have the front end camera, which will record what was happening at the front of the train and then they have the person operating the train and as brian said that is this fella, brandon bastion who hasn't talked. he was the engineer he was injured and was being treated when police asked him questions, he said he couldn't reremember couldn't recall what happened and then there was going to be another interview today. when he came in for the interview, he had an attorney with him and the attorney was obviously advising him don't say anything because we don't know the landscape of where this investigation is going. when he talks, he will talk to the ntsb they will debrief him in detail about everything that took place on that train. >> so you're saying don't get ahead of us -- >> look, everything

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todd reports, u.s. officials are examining images of that event very carefully. >> reporter: he's seen pointing at a missile launch which north korean officials say he ordered, beaming with pride with the submarine in the background. kim jong-un claims it successfully test fired a missile from a sub. one says it is not a real test but a simulated firing. another says the u.s. is looking at whether the image of water ejection behind kim might have been photo shopped. >> one says this was a missile ejection system at best. still worrisome? >> yes, first, we see the white that indicates the missile did penetrate the water. and later, we see that the missile fired its engine. so this, to me, indicates that there was a successful missile test. it was not just a test of the ejection system. >> reporter: an official says north korea could have a fully operational submarine with a missile within four or five years, even if this test wasn't all if was claimed to be, north korea could still eventually put nuclear

cnn's brian todd was there. >> commissioner anthony batts is out here. he just came out and order his demanders to get the media out of the intersections. then we see this long cordon of police officers about three rows deep lining up here. then they start coming toward us as you saw. this is all directed by the commissioner himself. i asked the commissioner just before it started if he could come talk with us and he said no, i'm doing work here. he didn't want to do it. so he is working this scene, trying to move the mediaous of the intersection. we're doing it, we're trying to comply with him. as we're doing it, he hear some of the protesters come in and voice their frustrations. they and the police are working together to try to move people out and you've got a little bit of agitation going on here. these people trying to get a rise out of the police. but it's basically peaceful. >> protests also took place thursday in cincinnati, ohio. more demonstrations are expected there in the come days. >>> thousands in other cities have been marching in cities

they are being extremely careful, don. >> cnn's brian todd. brian, thank you very much. i want to get now to cnn's ryan young also on the streets of baltimore right now. ryan, you had an investigation going on right around you. >> don, this was a very calm night. one of the things you notice is when police step into an investigation mode, they start cordoning off sections of the area. we saw tape going up and we wanted to find out what was going on. this semi-truck right here, we noticed investigators were surrounding this area. this door is where they were standing. we saw going inside and collecting evidence. eventually we saw them remove a body from the inside of this truck. not sure how the person who was inside the truck died. we have found out that this was a driver who apparently had been missing for a few days. his family was looking for him. not sure how he died yet. that's a part of this investigation. but to show you how close this is to the protest scene, if you walk back this direction, you can see that cvs. that's the cvs that was burned down. that's the in

go to cnn's brian todd on the scene of this incident in baltimore. police came out moments ago try to explain what they know, what they think happened. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, jake. just got an update from lieutenant corner russell of the baltimore police department. there was an incident near the corner of pennsylvania avenue and north avenue a short time ago. a gun did discharge. the scene is calming down now. there was according to police officers across the street here a short time ago, they have since folded and moved back up the street. and there are people milling around here. the situation has calmed down. what we can tell you is from lieutenant corner melvin russell, again, who said there was an incident near the intersection of penn and north. they observed the police observed an adult black male armed with a handgun walking. the police approached him, a short pursuit on foot according to lieutenant colonel russell. the police never discharged their weapons. this person's gun apparently went off somehow. whether they -- thi

cnn's brian todd is swimming in a sea of marchers right now. brian, what are the people saying in your crowd? >> reporter: well jake right now we're more than five hours into what has been a very peaceful very joyous celebration of the announcement of those charges today. these people have been out here since just before maybe 11:00 this morning. celebrating, giving -- across the street giving test monnial ialtestimonials on a loud speaker. positive and celebratory. the police have i'd say, a large presence out here but are not kind of in their face with it. they're giving people their space. they are allowing them to even come out into a lane of this street of north avenue here and celebrate, and express themselves and right now they've, what they've done try to keep this a functioning intersection and set up cones to, you know, to have police officers be more able to direct traffic and just keep the traffic rolling through here. so that's what they have done. jake, a lot of these protestors have been out here we've seen a lot of the same peop

brian todd was on the scene with that today. he joins us now. things got tense on the streets of baltimore after a false report of a police shooting. tell us what happened. >> well, don, there were some false reports of a police shooting. some news outlets reported that. there were some people on the street saying that. they turned out not to be true. it was a real point of tension, because the gun incident that did occur happened near here the intersection of north and pennsylvania avenue. it's know about a real flash point for tensions, where so many of the protests occurred where some of the street violence and looting occurred. this gun incident happened a few feet away from the cvs pharmacy that was burned out. police did observe a man walking with a gun through closed circuit camera. when they approached him, a brief chase ensued on foot. at some point as they approached him, his gun fell according to police and then discharged. he was not hurt. no one was hurt. and the baltimore police quickly sent out a tweet dispelling any rumors of a s

. >> cnn's brian todd is "outfront" in baltimore tonight. brian, so you have some residents who from that very minute did not believe the police department's version of events. what are people there telling you happened? and are there any eyewitnesss who contradict the police story? >> jim, no eyewitnesses who contradict the police report there are people telling us that they don't necessarily believe the police version of events. one of the reasons this has gotten so tense is because of the location where it happened. this is the intersection of pennsylvania avenue and north avenue, the scene in recent days of so much tension the, protests clashes between police and protesters right here. cordons of police lining the streets. this was also the scene of some looting and some burning of cars. now the shooting the gun incident we should stay was not a shooting happened right over there where the police tape. and the account that we're getting from lieutenant colonel melvin russell of the baltimore police department is that they observed the po

let's let's check in with brian todd that is there. brian? >> reporter: anderson this march has just stopped here at city hall. we're not sure if this is the end of it. some of the march leaders are up there on the elevated portion here and speaking to the crude. the crowd is starting to fill in. our photo journalist is panning around to show you the crowd. this crowd has set an endurance record for the marchers after freddie gray's death. it is the longest haul and went the further. started at the inner harbor and up past the central booking facility and then past pennsylvania and booking and we thought it would stop there but they kept on going and went past where freddie gray was arrested and booked and now much are not -- many are not satisfied and they are waiting to see what happened next. >> and now joining me malleck morris it is good to have you on the broadcast again tonight. and these officers facing criminal charges, what is your reaction and to those who you are spoken to today. >> thank you for having me today. i think it is sim

bring in cnn's brian todd with details on this. brian? >> reporter: from his personal life to moves he's making on the ukrainian border which are called outright dangerous. vladimir putin tonight is again playing a perilous chess game. one angering officials from the united states and nato and prompting them to send warnings of their own. two wounded men confessing on camera a video put out by the ukrainian security service, captured in ukraine and european monitors say they both admitted to being russian soldiers. they told the monitors they were inside ukraine on reconnaissance not to fight, but they're not supposed to be there at all. and tonight, white house and nato officials tell cnn they're concerned vladimir putin and his army are vitolating their cease-fire agreement with ukraine, stockpiling weapons, getting ready for possible action. >> many of their actions are consistent with preparations for another offensive. >> reporter: ukraine the president claims putin bolstered russian troop numbers at the border to 50,000. the separat

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let's begin with cnn's brian todd he's in baltimore, and has the very latest. brian? >> reporter: wolf the incident ramped up tensions because of everything that has happened here at the corner of pennsylvania and north avenues over the past week. the looting and violence of last week the protests that occurred, because of all of that. this incident that occurred a couple hours ago just ramped everything up more than it really normally would have. what we know happened. this occurred a couple hours ago. this information coming from lieutenant corner melvin russell of the baltimore police. there was an incident near this intersection of pennsylvania and north avenues. police observed an adult black male walking armed with a handgun, saw him on closed circuit tv doing that. they moved to apprehend him. a short pursuit on foot ensued. at in point the man's gun fell and discharged. it's not clear if it fell as police were upon him or approach aring him, but at some point the man's gun fell and discharged. no injuries. the man was not injured according to police and he was

we'll get the latest from brian todd in philadelphia who is joining us now. what's going on, brian? >> reporter: well wolf you know the focus now is going to be on what the engineer did that evening, what he knew going into this accident what happened right afterward. those details are still yet to be at least heard by us in the media. this ntsb news srchs comeconference is crucial to finding out some of that information. what the engineer's attorney told abc news the engineer brandon bostian does not recall the crash itself. he recalls going um top to the curb, putting on his brakes and i believe he said he does not recall putting on the emergency brake saying he passed out after the accident and when he came to he got to his cell found his cell phone and called 911. so again, what the engineer knew what his actions were in those moments leading up to the crash are really the key gaps that need to be filled in here wolf. hopefully we'll get answers from the ntsb in a few moments. we have learned a little bit about the background of brandon bostian, how he spent at least five years

brian todd reporting. we're also following another major story. the high stakes talks between the russian president vladimir putin and secretary of state john kerry. their first meet in two years comes amid deep tension over russian aggression in ukraine. our global affairs correspondent elise labott is here working the story for us. how significant was it he was invited to go to sochi, rausch and receive quality time with the russian president putin? >> i think it's significant. first time really since the crisis in ukraine began two years ago, wolf. and they had very substantive talks. eight hours of talks the secretary held with the russian leadership. three hours with president putin alone. and the tone was much more positive. people i think on both sides realized that these countries need to work together after boycotting a parade that the russians had this weekend to mark the victory of russians over the nazis in world war ii secretary kerry boycotted that. but today he laid a wreath on the memorial to mark the victory of world war ii. and l

cnn correspondent brian todd our justice reporter evan perez. anchor don lemon and we are going right back to baltimore where officials are walking into that room and we will discuss it as we come out of this news conference. here's marilyn mosby. >>> as i previously indicated my office conducted an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the tragic incident with the death of freddie gray. on may 1st our investigation revealed we had sufficient probable cause to bring charges against six police officers. as our investigation has continued additional information has been discovered and as is often the case during an ongoing investigation charges can and should be revised based upon the evidence. these past two weeks my team that been presenting evidence to a grchand jury that just today returned indictments against all six officers for are the following offenses. officer cesar goodson jr., second-degree depraved heart murder. involuntary manslaughter. second-degree negligent assault. manslaughter by vehicle and gross negligen

brian todd, cnn, washington. >> you are watching "cnn newsroom." plenty of oil, not enough fuel. up next, we'll learn why citizens of a major oil producing country have to wait in line for hours. just to fill their gas tanks. stay with us. >>> welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm ivan watson. broadcasting live from hong kong. an update on the top stories we are following this hour. at least 21 people are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a shiite mosque in saudi arabia. shiites are the minority in the predominantly sunni kingdom. isis claimed responsibility via twitter. if the militants' claim is true this would be a rare attack by the terror group inside saudi arabia. >> ireland will begin tallying votes in the next hour to find out whether same-sex marriage will be allowed into the country's constitution. if the referendum passes it will be the first time a country has adopted same-sex marriage through a popular vote. results are due by the end of saturday. >> the u.s. state department released 300 e-mail from former secretary of state hillary clinton. they offer in

our own brian todd was reporting live on air during tense moments with police as they were pushing crowds back. [ bleep ]. >> okay. whoa. whoa, whoa. >> okay. they just -- they just apprehended that man. don, they just got this man, apprehended him. he was walking slowly, they walked up behind him and started pushing forward and they just endeveloped him and took him back there and apprehended him. as they were pushing us forward. so he is has just been basically evaporated into that wall of police and taken away. i don't know whether he is being taken over there. there is movement over here. but we got pushed. >> so that was one episode as the curfew began. as we watch these protests unfold, the baltimore city prosecutor maryland mosby is urging patience and calm. >> she is set to determine if there is sufficient efd of evidence to pursue charges against anyone in the case. >> the youngest chief prosecutor of a major american city and she's been on the job less than four months. >> but now, 35-year-old marilyn mosby has a huge decision to make that could calm anger in the city she loves.

i want to bring in cnn's brian todd. he's been speaking to some of the peachal inople involved in this. what do you know this evening, brian? >> reporter: don, what we can tell you is that right behind us several hundred yards, they are removing some of the last cars that were derailed off the track and we're also getting live aerial pictures of that. and show you some of the cranes and other apparatus being used. and they're lying just off the tracks. this is the tail end of the train that derailed last night. we're told that these cars are being taken to a secured ntsb facility. you mentioned also one person still unaccounted for. mr. gildersleeve. officials not giving a whole lot of information about that. only that it's hard to match up the manifest and the hospital records. but he remains missing tonight. we're getting compelling accounts from passengers on the train. one of them joan heflman, a nurse traveling from washington to her home in new jersey with her son max. he was in one of these last cars when her trai

let's begin with cnn's brian todd. he's on the scene for us in philadelphia. brian? >> reporter: wolf this commute on the amtrak regional could not have been more routine when in an instant, there was carnage. you see over my right shoulder, there's the tail end, one of the last cars on the train, pitched to a 45-degree angle off the tracks as investigators continue to comb through that. tonight, we're learning more about what caused the accident. and what we are learning actually is that the train according to a source briefed on the investigation could have been traveling at about 100 miles an hour in a 50-mile-an-hour zone. it was approaching a curve at the time of the derailment. as you mentioned all the people injured there and some of them we've spoken to, we just recently interviewed a woman and her son in one of those last cars, they were returning to new jersey. her son pulled several people out of one of those last cars. they were describing scenes of absolute carnage. we're expecting an ntsb briefing soon. what we're told is that the engineer has given a s

first to cnn's brian todd who's out in the field. what do you have for us? >> reporter: don, we're at the police line here just adjacent to city hall that was formed shortly after they started to apprehend people and get them into these vans. i just spoke to one of the public information officers officer jackson, i asked him about the account that we got just a short time ago that claimed they saw police beating protesters with batons. i said would you be able to tell us if that happened? would you have any response and he said he couldn't comment on it and asked if we had video on it and i said i have not had a chance to review our video. i do know don, that we saw a very aggressive and frunetic may lay that was started by one of the officers not in riot gear, grabbed a protester and grabbed him. and that's what we can tell you about the allegations of beating with baton. >> let's take a look pp. so brian, you're looking at that video there again, that was unedited raw video. you witnessed that right at the top of the last hour. >> reporter: that's right, d

cnn's brian todd was there at the beginning. >> commissioner anthony is commanding the media out of the intersection. then we saw police officers about three rows deep lining up p. an they started coming at us, as you saw. i asked the commissioner to come and talk us to. he said no, i'm doing work here. he didn't want to do it. so he is kind of working this scene. he is trying to move the media out of intersection. we are doing it, trying to comply. but then some protesters come in and voice their displeasure with the situation. as they are doing here. but they are trying to move people out. they and the police are trying to move people out. and you got a little bit of agitation going on here. people trying to get a rise out of the police. but it is basically peaceful. >> protest also took place thursday in cincinnati, ohio. more demonstrations are expected there in the coming days. >> thousands of people in other cities have been marching with baltimore. as you just mentioned, philadelphia is one of them as well. city of brotherly love. and cnn's poppy harlow spoke with people here. >>

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glean says chinese president xi jinping can't stand kim. >> brian todd, thanks very much. joining us, the state department deputy spokeswoman, marie harf. thanks very much for coming in. i want to get to jim sciutto's exclusive report. he was in the poseidon surveillance plane. what are the chinese up to from the u.s. perspective? why is this becoming such a major source of concern, these manmade islands they're building hundreds of miles off the chinese coast? >> it really is the pace and the scope of how they've really upped their efforts to reclaim some of this land. you saw it firsthand here. i was just in china with my boss secretary kerry, who in every single meeting he has, starting with the president of china all the way down raised this issue because we are concerned it could raise tension with china's neighbors. that's our biggest concern, and it could also lead to possible miscommunications. so we think there's a way to resolve this diplomatically. but it is very concerning. >> how do you resolve this? they're using this for military purposes if you believe what

brian todd is here with more on the expansion of isis. what are you learning brian? >> wolf some chilling information from u.s. intelligence officials. they tell us isis is moving beyond its center of gravity in iraq and syria, that it's increasingly using libya as a safe haven, a foothold for logistics for joint training with its regional allies a place where the group could possibly plot attacks against u.s. interests or against allies' interests in europe. top operatives have been sent to libya for recruiting to establish weapons pipelines back to isis units in iraq and syria. they're establishing camps, cells and using libya as a hub for propaganda, like the recent images of ethiopian christians on a libyan beach being behead. officials tell us the chaotic civil war in libya has enabled isis to gain a foothold there, but its ambitions do not end in libya. analysts say isis is lending support to allies on egypt's sinai peninsula. making inroads in tunisia and with boko haram. and it wants to position itself to a rival to the taliban in afghanistan and pakistan wol

cnn's brian todd has the story from washington. >> reporter: donned in isis black, he confidently carries a long sniper rifle, a bandolier of ammunition. he picks off a tomato to show his skill. this is an isis video and cnn has just learned this man trained on american soil. the fighter says he's gulmurod khalimov, a former fighter in the terror network in tajikistan. >> translator: from 2003 to 2008, i received specialized training in america on the military base of blackwater. >> reporter: blackwater, a controversial u.s. contracting company which sent u.s. personnel to iraq and trained other fighters at this compound in north carolina. contacted by cnn, academy, the company that purchased blackwater's training facility was unable to confirm that khalimov was there. the state departmenting tells cnn that khalimov participated in five counters terrorism forces in the u.s. in tajikistan from 2003 to last year. we spoke to paul shiri about what he may have learn. what skills would he have learned? >> it would have been tactic maneuvers to be, say, move through a build, in a tactical way.

brian todd has more on this ominous weapons buildup. what are you learning? >> reporter: from the afp, quoting the north korean news agency just test fired and underered water ballistic missile fire from a submarine. doesn't go underwater comes out of the water. cited by afp, test fired a ballistic missile that can be launched from a submarine. also learning more how north korea expanded a key facility that makes fuel for nuclear weapons. we have information on how many nuclear weapons they have and tonight word our kim jong-un is threatening neighbors. >> reporter: a new and aggressive threat from king joon jong-un, opening fire on anyone moving into what he sees about north korean waters. threats from pyongyang kept america from being able to negotiate over kim's nuclear weapons program, like it's trying to do with iran. cnn learned during the two years of america's obsessive attempts to prevent iran from building one nuclear bomb -- >> north korea is greatly expanding its ability to make the nuclear explosive materiels it needs to make nuclear yale bright

. >> brian todd thank you. i want to go to gordan chang, north korea takes on the world. kim-jong-un kim-jong-un's brother, at the eric clapton concert, a celebrity were real? >> he's from the most fascinating family on earth. they can incinerate any city on the planet. these guys are grotesque. their grandfather started the korean war. their father was sun sick dude who really liked very young girls and had a nasty habit of killing people with his revolver. these kid got a lot of money. what's not to love? >> so gordon i mean when you talk about the proclivities the mother with the obsession with young blonds swedish mistresses. there's another older brother who apparently was caught going to disneyland on a fake passport. i know you know a lot about this. he had misstresses with him as well. this is what they do? >> this is of course what they do. the one who was caught in japan had two women. one of them wasn't his wife. they had a four-year-old son and they probably had a lot of counterfeit $1000 bills. he was also probably working with north koreans in japan because

cnn, brian todd, washington. >>> the first of 400 military troops are in syria. the u.s. will train the rebels in small arms and battlefield tactics as well as how to use radio and medical equipment. the u.s. plans to train about 5,000 models each year. but the president of a coalition opposition group says that's just not enough. >> it's too small and too small. we need to include much more fighters. we have the capability and the ability to fight against the terrorism and against the terror led by this regime. but we need to include much more fighters from the fsa in this program and we need to have a much more faster. and we need protection from the -- the air attacks of the regime. >> meantime, in iraq, isis now controls parts of a massive oil refinery. hasn't been operational for some time, but it's still important. it sits along a key route to the city of mosul, which iraqi forces are hoping to take back from isis. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry said the humanitarian crisis in yemen is growing dire and the u.s. is pledging $68 million to help. kerry says he

i want to get to cnn's brian todd who's also on the streets of bottle more. what do you have for us? >> reporter: what a marked difference this intersection is showing us from just 30 minutes ago. we're at the corner of pennsylvania and north avenue and traffic is flowing, the intersection is open and it appears that the police are getting ready to leave, most of them. this happened last night at about the same time, actually a little earlier and they were showing a strong presence and then as quickly, pulled back and they are trying to get this intersection back to normal to be ready for morning rush hour. and only about 30 minutes ago it was quite the opposite and it was a stand off between the police and some of the locales as they tried to get some of the local residents off the street and then trying to get some of the media off the street. they were getting agitated with our presence as well and we were involved with a little push and pull when someone would not move out of the intersection but now very very calm. and as ryan reported there's a death in

brian todd is looking into this part of the story. what are you finding out? >> reporter: new information that kim jong un is once again reasserting his power inside north korea. according to south korea intelligence he recently ordered the executions of several top officials. and in a new propaganda video, there are clear signs that a close relative is gaining influence in kim's inner circle. with breathless urgency, the north korean broadcaster gushes over her leader as kim jong un climbs into a small plane. if it takes off, it's not clear if he is piloting it. the announcer can't contain herself as she narrates scenes of a bombing exercise. as military march music plays in the background we see images of kim commanding his troops. but this recent propaganda video might have been released because kim feels threatened. he recently backed out of a planned trip to moscow this weekend. it's not clear if kim ever intended to go. >> no doubt, if he leaves the country, the territory of nork that is opening up the possibility of some kind of a power grab. >> reporte

cnn's brian todd has been tracking the story for us. what are you learning? >> wolf this man's name is former colonel for the counterterror police of tajikistan. he was trusted enough to be allowed inside the united states at least five times for extensive counterterror training and he was on american soil as recently as last year. donned in isis black he confidently carries a long sniper rifle, a bandoleer of ammunition and picks off a tomato to show his skill. this is an isis video, and cnn has just learned this man trained on american soil. the fighter says he's gumerad holamof, a key u.s. ally tajikistan. >> from 200. to 2008 i received specialized edd training in america on the military base of black water. >> reporter: a controversy u.s. contracting company which sent private security personnel to iraq and trained other countries fighters at this compound in north carolina. academy, the company that purchased was unable to confirm he was there. the state department tells cnn he participated in five counterterrorism courses in the u.s. and tajikistan bet

let's go to the streets of baltimore, brian todd is getting reaction there. what's happening, brian? >> wolf a spontaneous loud very joyous celebration has been going on here really at the epicenter of where the protests have been taking place over the past few days. pennsylvania and north avenue in west baltimore. here's the theme. you have people across the street over here chanting on bull horns doing some spontaneous street performances almost. this gentleman over here in the white t-shirt has been interesting, kind of helping direct traffic and dancing at the same time. you got people performing dual functions out here a volunteer. and just, you know look it's a happy atmosphere. a lot of horn honking as you can hear but people are by and large being responsible, adhering to the police wishes to stay at least on the corners and street corners. on occasion they'll come in and block traffic. that really is mostly to celebrate with someone in a vehicle honking and then move away from it. right now just a joyous occasion here on the streets and hopefully it

. >> brian todd is "outfront" live in philadelphia at the crash site. brian what have you learned about this? this is a krurnl point here. because this thousand appears to be certainly caused by speed. whether, who knows exactly, why but caused by speed. there's a technology that could have prevented it? >> reporter: that's right, erin positive train control. and it is developing now as the crucial factor that really could have played a significant role in the situation. a default system that could have stopped this accident. what we're told about positive train control is it's a system designed to alert the engineer when the train is moving at excessive speed where there are places of a specific speed limit. it's based on the grade, the contour of the track, and the speed with which the train is going. it's supposed to alert the engineer the train is going too fast. if the engineer fails to respond to that warning, then the train's onboard computer system takes over and stops the train. we're told congress mandated all rail lines in this region of the

. >> that was cnn's brian todd reporting. >>> an automatic braking system wasn't installed on the stretch of rail where this incident occurred. the technology is supposed to be in place by the end of 2015, but uk rails are already operating a lower tech version of the automatic brakes. phil black explains how it works. >> reporter: west london, september 1997. passenger train and a freight train collide killing seven, injuring more than 100. two years later another collision involving a passenger train in london kills 31 people. these accidents refocused safety efforts on the british rail network. >> it was a matter of the will really from the country as a whole. >> reporter: ian prosser, the chief of safety on britain's rail network said it's led to a system now rolled out in high risk areas across the country. >> it was deemed that the technology was now available to actually overcome human error. >> reporter: it's called the train protection warning system. those grids between the tracks are located in areas where speeds is dangerous, ahead curves, stations and signals. first a warning

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. >> that was brian todd last night as police officers tried to enforce that citywide curfew. overall there were more than 50 arrests, for the most part there's a sense of relief that's pretty palpable across this city after the announcement of the six officers involved in freddie gray's death have been charged. at least relief on the parts of those protesters. today protesters are vowing to keep the pressure on police though demonstrations planned in all the major cities you see here across the country, east to west coast. including los angeles, pittsburgh baton rouge, houston, and of course here in baltimore. for a lot of people in baltimore and across the country some of the most shocking images we saw monday. the robbing of the stores the looting there, ransacking the dollar store, grabbing things out of there and maybe the most recognizable the burning of that cvs and we saw a few moments ago, nick valencia is there, it's all boarded up now. let's talk about the city of baltimore and its businesses are supposed to recover after this. i'm joined by ron busby, the president

in the meantime i want to go to brian todd our correspondent out on the streets and monitoring the situation and those who have heard the message from the state's attorney. brian? >> ashleigh they've heard that loud and clear the announcement of the charges has provoked a spontaneous street celebration at the corner of north and pennsylvania avenues. this has been the flashpoint for the protests, epicenter of some of the violence but now a street party. people out here spontaneously jumping up, laughing, cheering. they're disrupting traffic a little bit but not too seriously. a lot of horn honking loud, cars and trucks passing by, showing you some of the atmosphere here. a real street celebration here in west baltimore. but at the same time ashleigh well, have to say, that a lot of people out here are telling us that as happy as they are that these charges are being brought, that this is not over. we just talked to a couple of protesters a couple of leaders of the protests who say, they're not really going to rest until they get the convictions that they feel are deserved in the case if thos

brian todd is joining us from washington. you have been looking at all of these claims, what are you finding and how is the u.s. reacting? >> reporter: you have to break down what north korea says. they said they have the capability to miniaturize nuclear warheads for some time and can guarantee accuracy of short to mid range and long range rocket launches. to get into the white house counterclaim immediately, a spokeman for the national security council at the white house says "we do not think they have that capacity. however, they are working on developing a number of long-range missiles that could eventually threaten our allies and the homeland. that from the national security council spokesman. i just spoke with a former u.n. weapons inspector who has spent years assessing north korea and these capabilities and here's what he says they can do and not do. what they can do is miniaturize a nuclear warhead that can fit a missile which can hit japan or south korea. he says they have missiles which can accurately reach those t

brian todd was out in the crowd right after that curfew and some of the people defied it. again if we have it we can play it for you. and then we'll show you what happened. we'll get to it. they're telling me it's celebratory out on the streets here at city hall people are still here it is a calm, peaceful demonstration happening. there are folks behind me one man with a bull horn he's out here his right to be out here people have rights that can carry signs and do whatever they want they're doing it peaceful and the city is welcoming all of those demonstrations unless it is getting close to 10:00 or 10:00 where they want everyone to go home. during that press conference that happened a short time ago the powers that be the police commissioner the head of the state police, the head of the national guard all said because of what happened here the unrest that happened early on on monday they want to keep this curfew into place for one more night, of course as a consolation there's a big fight tonight and people want to go out and see that. i want to bring my guest back in mi