grandson on an extraordinary journey to visit every one of america s 61 national parks. love her. it is friday, august 16th, 2019. here s today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. the first person i came in contact with was mr. earnhardt laying on his back. the airplane was fully engulfed. all the people had gotten out of it. dale earnhardt jr. and his family escape a fiery plane crash. just pulled a baby out of there. president trump is taking heat for putting pressure on israel to deny entry to two muslim congresswomen. they said horrible things about jewish people, horrible things about israel. president trump wasted no time in going after other democrats in his latest rally. we have a group of socialists or communists, could be. projtis into s t extend a recent streak of weapons tests. five people were shot in philadelphia the day after a man shot six philadelphia police officers. i say to our state and federal lawmakers step up or step aside.
countries to switch from russian energy to american supplies. and the malaysian prime minister calls the investigation into the downing of flight m.h. 17 politicised and say stronger evidence would be needed to blame the 2014 tragedy on russia. a world where commuters r.t. international with your world news headlines i m making are and now we start this hour with news of a mass shooting in the u.s. state of virginia at least 11 people have been killed 6 others are injured after the taco opened fire in virginia beach police reportedly killed the shooter inside the city s municipal center we ll keep you updated on this story as and when the information comes in. now united nations expert on torture say s junior sanchez being subjected to crawl and degrading treatment and that several democratic states are trying to break his will the special rapporteur visited the wiki leaks found in london s belmarsh prison not nils melzer explains more in going underground here on r.t. . juli
expect to get another ten thousand signatures light rail supporters like martha mclean says the region is in desperate need of a multi modal transportation system that knitting patterns that are all over the place and so people have to have some other alternatives besides getting in their car and driving everyday and if the city doesn t get state support for this now expanding the light rail me never happen. it ll be next to impossible for the city to come up for the region to come up with the kind of dollars necessary to do it independent. now i spoke to me or will see us and on the phone today he says he is in the process of writing cemetery lane a letter to get more clarification on this i also spoke with councilman bobby dyer who says that he is planning on introducing a resolution to put this light rail issue on the ballot for now reporting live in virginia beach on january thirteen is now the homes of massive fire in office today crews knock down what remained of those
they are not pointing fingers just yet. some residents came back today to salvage what they can only spread to one of my bedroom in soledad that particular room is pretty much damage and the roof and everything in the attic is gone. everyone got out safely last night medics treated one firefighter for cuts in right now the red cross is helping families forced out by the fire crime alert at yorktown were told someone burglarized the bargain box thrift store and derr road near daryl him entry school deputies say the suspect pictured right here pried open the door to get inside but it looks like nothing disappeared from the store if you know this is contact the crime line. it was the celebration today at lansdowne high school in virginia beach officials cut the ribbon this morning at the school s new solar panel a one kilowatt system electric power dominion virginia power says that s enough to power fifteen desktop computers thirty three ten gallon aquariums or four flat screen
beach. 12 families whose loved ones won t be coming home tonight. think about that. 12 people losing their lives for absolutely no reason. no reason. a municipal building on a friday afternoon, shortly after 4:00 p.m., just as the workday was winding down. that building was full of city workers as well as residents. taking care of just mundane errands. like paying their water bills and so on. the gunman, a long-time public utilities worker, police say that they are not releasing his identity at this time. they still have to notify some family members of his. and also the people who have been killed. authorities say he was killed in the shootout with police. after he shot an officer who was saved by his bulletproof vest. authorities are trying to figure out tonight what set him off. here s what sources are saying now. they say he was disgruntled. police say he entered the building and immediately started firing. indiscriminately. shooting anyone and everyone that he could. we