News Transcipt

JEROME

Good evening, I'm Jerome _______. Let's take a look at what's happening right "Now in the News."

A man whose wife and baby daughter were found shot to death in their Massachusetts home has now been charged with their murders. Authorities say Neil Entwistle was arrested in London today. Entwistle returned to his native England around the time his family was killed. Details of the arrest ahead in a live report.

President Bush says the global war on terror has disrupted plans to the attack the U.S. since September 11. In a speech last hour, he cited a foiled plot back in 2002 for an attack on the West Coast. Mr. Bush says the U.S. will stay on the hunt and win the war on terror.

Warships under U.S. command have moved into international waters off the coast of Yemen. A senior U.S. official says it's an effort to block he possible escape route of 23 fugitives, including the reputed mastermind of the USS Cole bombing. The prisoners escaped from jail in Yemen last Friday.

Alabama Governor Bob Riley says he believes all nine of the recent church fires in his state are connected. Investigators are trying to determine if four fires this week are linked to fire others last week. They're also looking into witness reports that a dark- colored SUV was spotted near some of the fires.

First Lady Laura Bush met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican today. Mrs. Bush is in Italy as the head of the U.S. delegation to the Olympics in Torino. The first lady, daughter Barbara, and the U.S. ambassador met privately with the pope. He wished them a peaceful time at the Olympics.

Speaking of Olymics, let's head over to Darrell Louder at the WildCats gymnasium with our Sports Wrap, Darrell?

DARRELL

Hello, welcome to Sports wrap, I'm Darrell Louder.

With the football season officially over, the olympics winding down, America starts turning her eye back to it's favorite past-time, baseball. Though baseball season doesn't start for another 2 months, we dive into spring training. Many think that spring training doesn't mean that much. Not so this year. To the Red Sox, it will mean a lot.

Manager Terry Francona will be carrying on without pitching coach Dave Wallace, who is recovering from a serious infection in his hip that could keep him out of all or most of spring training. He'll be replaced by Al Nipper.

Francona also will be without those Red Sox participating in the World Baseball Classic March 3-20. That list includes the top two shortstops on the depth chart: Alex GonzÐ"ÐŽlez and Alex Cora.

Francona, who will arrive in Fort Myers, Fla., today, is excited about watching players who normally wouldn't get much playing time. Dustin Pedroia could get ample time at shortstop, though Francona said he'll also use him at second base.

The manager said playing time will be available for outfield prospects Brandon Moss and David Murphy.

Pedroia has been playing second in the minors the past two seasons because Hanley RamÐ"­rez was the shortstop, but Pedroia is a natural shortstop and he'll get to play the position now that RamÐ"­rez was traded to the Marlins.

With Manny RamÐ"­rez likely to have an extended stay with the Dominican team, Moss and Murphy will get to show how close they are to being major league-ready.

Veteran catchers John Flaherty and Ken Huckaby, as well as the recently acquired Josh Bard, formerly of the Indians, will get plenty of time as captain Jason Varitek toils for Team USA.

On the flip side, Varitek won't get the chance to work with Josh Beckett and the crew of new relievers as much as he might like.

Varitek's absence is also significant because two key members of the pitching staff, Curt Schilling and Keith Foulke, are embarking on comeback seasons.

According Francona, Schilling is ready to goand Foulke is coming along better than planned; however, you can't really tell anything until you watch them throw.

Reporting from the Wildcats Gymnasium, I'm Darrell Louder, Jerome?

JEROME:

Thank you Darrell.

Now to the story of a young mother and her baby daughter shot to death in their home outside of Boston. Today, Scotland Yard arrests the husband and father, charging him with their murders.

Just a short while ago, the Middlesex district attorney wrapped up her press conference where she really filled in some of the details surrounding this murder mystery. She said that Neil Entwistle, they suspect that he killed his wife and his baby girl Lillian because of financial reasons. She said that that was the motive behind the murders.

Basically, that this is a man who had financial problems in England, had financial problems here. She believes he became overwhelmed, and because of that he decided to kill his wife and baby girl.

She believes also that this was a failed murder-suicide. She also laid out some of the basic details in terms of the timeline of how they believed the murders happened.

The district attorney also explained that it was just two days ago that they got the test results back on the .22 caliber weapon that they believe was used in the murders. After they got the test results back, they were then able to ask for the arrest warrant.

That arrest happened this morning, 7:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in London. That's when Scotland Yard officials caught up with Entwistle, who was apparently in London visiting friends. They caught up with him on the tube, made the arrest without incident.

Now, what happens next is, tomorrow, Entwistle is scheduled to appear before a magistrate. Perhaps at that time, Daryn, we'll get more of a sense of whether or not he plans to fight extradition on whether or not he will waive extradition back here to Massachusetts.

It is about eight minutes after the hour right now. With that we come to our Musical Ear Updates with our corrospondant Patrick ___________.

JEROME.

Thank you.

Turning to news overseas now, a suicide bomber has struck Pakistan's Shiite Muslims on their holiest day. Authorities say 22 people were killed, several more were wounded in today's blast.

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