Social media giant seeks to address charges that it failed to prevent the spread of fake news especially during the twenty sixteen u. S. President ial election those were the headlines of course is here with the aljazeera news grid in thirty minutes to stay with us. This is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context its hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on aljazeera. Hi im femi oke a enjoying the stream today a new bollywood film has people talking about the cost of the songs but most importantly about the message the importance of Mental Health and hygiene by bringing the story of one indian innovator to the big screen the films producer director and cause they are removing stigma around periods not all superheroes away capes this is. A medical. Spiderman. Looking in the. Armor but only becoming. A little more. Bold big strong man not making country stronger and says i am.
County to the Eastern Shore of the bay. There were heavier showers there earlier. They will move out. Farther west we are tracking an area of showers across western maryland that will move east as well. The larger area is farther northwest. Look at this. A huge area of intense thunderstorms. For us it will miss us and it will head south southeast. But the same time we have to deal with a cold front. Rain totals today are well over an inch in many areas. In washington we have had 15 inches of rain just since the first day of june. Guess what else . We have the third Tropical Storm of the season. A few hundred miles off the coast of ocean city. A busy day. Kellye thank you doug. The heavy rain caused nodding in part of Shenandoah County in virginia leading to evacuations. We continue with the Northern Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg in woodstock. Jeff . Jeff well you can take a look. The flooding is bad. While it is bad its not as significant as it was a few hours ago. The water has really re
Broke yesterday so i got a new one. Thats the good news. Once you get out of this neighborhood theres gas and stuff. Reporter getting out is not easy. North shore roads in Suffolk County are littered with massive trees. Wrapped around lines pulling down poles. Traffic jams are miles long. If there was an emergency it would be big trouble. Reporter the storm cut a 50mile s. W. A. T. From smithtown to southold. My kids thought it was the end of the world. Reporter the town supervisor called pse g to the carpet late yesterday complaining response was slow of the now he sees thousands of crew members on the job. In its defense pse g said it had 87,000 out at the storms heighted. 82 restored this morning. We stayed at a local hotel. Reporter the mann family of setauket counting their blessings. Uprooted trees buried in the deck sticking to their skylights. I hope we get our power back soon. I dont know, i have my doubts. Reporter above us you clearly see the sheared treetops from the danger
At the colorado. We go to the heart of the operation at the Colorado Gold mine. Good morning to you, this is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im jonathan betz. The search for survivors temporarily stopped this morning in china after a massive warehouse explosion. Authorities are now concerned about toxic chemicals leaking on site. At least 44 people are dead, more than 500 others were hurt when two blasts erupted at the port justified outside beijing where women kelsey and gases are stored. These are images that the blast occurred and then the immediate aftermath. The fireball could be seen from space. This is what it looks like this morning, plumes of smoke in the port city and debris everywhere. Authorities say the death toll is expected to rise. Adrien brown has more. This is close to the epicenter of wednesday nights debt nation. People say what happened was like an earthquake and in fact, everywhere you look, you feel youre looking at the aftermath of an earthquake. The
In a jet and landing at an airport, having an appearance, getting back in the fly and fly getting back in a plane and flying off. We have politics that are delinked from the humanlevel interactions. Candidates tell me they will tell you, in many cases, that huge portions of their days that used to be spent interacting with humans are now devoted to running down a list of names of rich people, calling them and asking them for money. Sometimes candidates have told me they spend seven or eight hours a day making campaigns to ask for money, thats seven or eight hours out of every campaign day that is taken away from your constituents, your community and political process and put into a scrambling, a desperate search for money. Its hard to imagine something more unhealthy for the democratic process. One of the things we talk about in the book is a critical juncture that happened in the early 1970s. Demomeracy was winning. We had had a series of developments from the 1950s, maybe from the en