Syria

Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso steps down, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown launches his bid for governor today, a report on the Syrian refugee crisis from Catholic Relief Services' Joan Rosenhauer and Maryland  filmmaker Kathy McCabe on her documentary, "Good Ol Freda," on the Midday Weekly Review.

Two stories in this hour: Baltimore native Matthew VanDyke, journalist-turned-self-styled freedom fighter, has just returned from Syria to tell about his experiences with the rebels trying to overthrow the Assad regime. He is working on a film about the civil war in Syria. Then, Gregory Johnson, former Fulbright fellow in Yemen, explains why that country has become the U.S.’s most urgent terrorist concern. Johnson is the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda and America's War in Arabia.