Reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our Younger Generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents. This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we have in america today. [cheering] it is not moral, not acceptable and it is not sustainable that now own1 10 of 1 almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . Boo or that the top 1 in recent years has earned 85 of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change. Boo abouts election is remembering where we were 7 1 2 years ago when president obama came into office after eight years of republican trickledown economics. [cheering] the republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the great depression. That is where we were. Some 800,000 people a month were losing the
Join with us,r happen together and win the [music playing]nr good evening and welcome to our special npbs news hournprc coverage of the Democratic National conventioncoth inxdnr philadelphia im judy woruff. And im gwen ifill, joining us as . ; they did t last week i leave land across the0l arena . Podium nprs rachel re, and in the anchor booth with us is mark shields andw3 new york re columnist, davidnihtxd brooks. And me havep, along with amyq havei]ni john yangnir congressional reporter, susan davis. Thee1 democrats roled intoe1 p1 but not without some controversy. We will get to all that tonight along with speakers after this break. H q thats quite frankly, many of them would have liked to have seen her on the vicepresident doorbell stage instead of tim caine. An Bernie Sanders will give us a sense of how this is going but i bumped into david and he said it takes a long time to get over this, this campaign has gone a long time, he went all the way through california, there are a
Michelle obama endorse Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive. In contrast it was a chaotic breakfast for a florida delegation led by outgoing Democratic Convention share Debbie Wasserman schultz. Some shared others booed. Im jim donovan. Im brooke thomas. Democratic convention hasnt even started yet and we already have drama. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos is live at the Convention Center with a rocky start for day one of the dnc. Reporter thats exactly right there brooke. A message from Party Leaders this morning is that we are going to see a very unified democratic party, a very unified Democratic National convention. One they say which will differ very much so from what we saw last week with the republicans in cleveland but the reality is this morning there is a lot of division, a lot of controversy within the democratic party. Everybody settle down, please. Boo okay. All right. We have
That terror is even tougher to prevent. People are figuring out how they can create the most destruction. Reporter after the attack in nice last night, the weapon of choice, a simple but deadly truck, targeting a soft spot full of innocent people. Guns are one thing, or bombs, poison. But being able to rent a truck and kill over 80 people, i dont know. Reporter experts call attacks like this a form of lowtech terror. Let this be a lesson to everyone, you dont need a bomb to cause mass casualties. 80plus people dead all from a motor vehicle. Reporter the doityourself assaults are posted online. Its very detailed. This is how youre going to carry out an attack. This is a bomb recipe. This is a method to cause mass casualties. Reporter nbc 10 surveyed terror and Security Experts who say theres no easy solution. These attacks are hard to prevent, renting a truck is easier than getting a bomb. But police can use vehicular barricades like those at the white house to protect crowds, and road
A frantic fight on the front lines to stop it. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer the Democratic National convention. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. Their partys chairman off the program, an apparent russian email hack and now a revolt among Bernie Sanders supporters. There was chaos on the floor below us this afternoon. Just minutes after the opening session was gavelled to order, sanders supporters began screaming his name, disrupting the program and shattering any illusions of party unity. Party chair Debbie Wasserman schultz off the speakers platform. Andr Andrea Mitchell starts our coverage. Reporter tonight the Convention Theme is united together. But theres signs thats not happening. A stunning scene, combative party chair, debby Wasserman Schultz, booed by Bernie Sanders supporters. And you will see me every day between now and november 8 on the campaign trail. Reporter whats happening here this morning is a bi