From representatives tom price and Keith Ellison. Brown then, president obama sat down with mexicos president elect, enrique pena nieto, this afternoon. One topic for them and for us tonight the war on drugs, on both sides of the border. Suarez as lawmakers talk of reducing the countrys debt, paul solman offers a History Lesson on centuries of federal borrowing. The United States was going into default. We defaulted on many obligations to foreign creditors and to our own soldiers. Brown plus, every month, 1,000 Young Americans are infected with h. I. V. , and most of those with the disease dont even know they have it. Hari sreenivasan looks at a new report from the c. D. C. Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And w
That means it is 943 millibars. Sounds technical . It means it is a really deep storm, even for a hurricane, and it is transitioning into a nonhurricane, and yet maintaining its strength. Thats one important factor. The other important factor is take a look at the bends that this storm is making. You can see that really well on the satellite photograph. That bend from east to west is very important, because it is bringing the water with it. In fact, the only storm that ever did that before, at least in my lifetime, is the perfect storm back in 1991, just one day different from today. It was october 30th in 91. The differences between that storm and this one well, that storm, as you could see, basically skirted cape cod, never really making a full landfall, but but, there are important similarities as well. The similarity is, number one, extra tropical storm, was a hurricane, turned around. And number two, both those storms moving from east to west bringing both the winds because of the
Neil all right half past the hour want to give you a little bit of an update on harvey and what the fall out is a category 1 storm remember it first hit the state late last night as a category 4 with winds in excess of 130 miles an hour it quickly slowed down but it is still dumping a lot of rain and is expected to be in the neighborhood for days dumping depending on the report up to 5t period. More than 211,000 are without w. That effects better than 20,000 cruise travelers in and out of this normally friendly neck of the woods, not so today. To rockport, texas where were getting indications of 10 injured, you might recall that the acting mayor of rockport had been telling those who refused to evacuate, do me a favor and write your Social Security number and name on your arm in case we collect your bodies, that was not well received but the message was what are you thinking . Also, fema has indicated right now that this is looking like a very extensive storm, some are putting estimate
Excan i have executive spoke to moscow three times. And good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, august 29th. With us we have mike barnicle, mark halperin, now an msnbc political contributor, rick tyler and from usa today heidi pryzbyla. The russia story. I mean, rush just keeps moving forward. They keep saying theres nothing to it, its dying and then you find out hes trying to build trump tower and then they say theres nothing there and then the guy they say had no contacts with russia you can even go back to mike pence being asked did the Trump Campaign talk to anybody in russia regarding no, no, we just talked to the American People. You stack up all the lies but to really get the gravity of the lies, you have to get g back to the getting. Thats apparently what people are doing. And then theres the president firing a guy because his crowd size was small. And he fired a guy because his crowds were tiny . How do you do that . Its not like he was a promoter for a led zeplin concert. This i
An annual pentagon report to Congress Warns of chinas military is likely training for strikes on u. S. Targets, the Peoples Liberation army has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, gaining experience in maritime regions and likely training for strikes. The Chinese Air Force has also shifted to a nuclear mission. The report echoes public warnings from top pentagon officials that China Remains the u. S. Militarys biggest longterm challenge. Without focused involvement and engagement, china will realize its dream of hegemony in asia. We should cooperate where we can but stand ready to confront them where we must. Chinese Strategic Bombers landed for the first time on disputed woody islands, a dramatic expansion of their claims in the oilrich South China Sea. Last year they signed a 99 year at least for a fort in sri lanka which could be used for its military. A year ago, they opened their First Overseas Military base in djibouti deploying a company of marines and equipme