Bakinofaso as a new president is elected. Lebanon exchanged rebels in syria and joyful scenes on both sides and 16 captive soldiers released after months in captivity, the lebanon army received a body of a soldier who was killed last year and al jazeera arabic abraham was there when the exchange happened. Translator it was a long and difficult journey to reach this point. We are here in alnusra controlled territory and witnessing the release of the captive lebanese soldiers and it was mediated by qatar and efforts by el nusra front and lebanese government to make this deal happen. This is a convoy of Lebanese Security forces for exchange coming from i. S. I. L. For the prisoners it was a moment of joy and relief. Reporter this is what we can describe, god blessed us when we were released and would like to thank alnusra. Thank you for brokering the deal and thank you el nusra a lot and also thank the lebanese government. Translator im a prisoner here and we thank god for being released
Good afternoon, im chris hayes in new york. Donald Trumps Press Conference today was meant to clear up the mounting questions about his donations to veterans and veterans groups. Youll remember in january during his fight with fox news, he canceled on a debate that network was hosting just days before the iowa caucus and instead held a much publicized fundraiser where he said he raked in 6 million for veterans groups. Now four months later hes frustrated with the media for checking up on those claims. I raised close to 6 million. It will probably be over that amount when its all said and done. But as of this moment, its 5. 6 million. I sent people checks of a lot of money and im going to give you the names right now, which is what you want. And instead of being, like thank you very much, mr. Trump, or, trump did a good job. Everyones saying, who got it, who got it, who got it and you make me look very bad. When i raise money for the veterans and its a massive amount of money, find out
Statement, when such actions arise from bigotry and hatred, they cannot be tolerated. 20yearold james alex fields jr. Is charged with that car crash. Lets go to nbcs mia rodriguer. Good morning to you. Whats going on . Reporter it is much quieter this morning a stark different to the violence we saw yesterday. Things were quiet overnight as well according to authorities. We want to warn you now some of the images youre about to see may be disturbing. A day of demonstration turns violent then deadly. A car plowing into a crowd of people protesting the unite the right rally. The chaotic scene unfolding before a stunned crowd. Tinted out windows, we couldnt see them. It seemed like it was planned. One woman was killed, 19 injured. Police arresting the driver of the vehicle, 20yearold james alex fields jr. And charging him with Second Degree murder. Then several hours later a Virginia State Police Helicopter that had been flying over the rally earlier in the day crashed near a golf course,
Them. Plus for the first time were hearing from the controversial former deputy to the assistant who was either fired or resigned. Do you remember what ben kenobi said. If you strike me down i will be more powerful than you could ever imagine. We begin in houston. That is where Emergency Responders were overwhelmed with calls for water rescues overnight as torrential rainfall quickly turned to deadly flood waters. Lets get to jacob rascon whose joining me live from houston. How bad is it out there . Reporter its as bad as anybody can remember. I was watching the local meteorologist, the seasoned meteorologist talk about how much rain fell and how fast and they were stunned five inches of rain in an hour in some hours, 20 inches of rain in just since overnight and this is what it does just in a matter of hours. This is an inner state freeway and youre looking at a car thats submerged that couldnt see the flooding and this happens so often when we get this big flooding. Another one over
To leave hawaii for his crucial trip to asia, the goal . Meanwhile, cracking down on north korea by turning the screws on china, can he do it . And republicans releasing their tax plan. They had an opportunity for big, bold cuts. Did they miss it . For the next two hours, were all over it. First to bryan llenas here in new york where security is the focus. Bryan . Reporter good morning, david. As the investigation continues, so too does the mourning and remembrance of the eight victims killed in tuesdays terror attack including darren drake. Darren drake was one of two americans killed. The 33yearold programmer was on his lunch break when he was mowed down by that terrorist on tuesday. The wake is in new jersey today. Five of the eight killed were friends visiting from argentina for their 30year High School Reunion at the argentine consulate in new york, surviving friends called for justices and for love to unite us all. The victims were bicycling together when they were struck. This a