We will speak with investigative three reporters who exposed the forprofitprisons substandard conditions and medical care. Then the olympics in rio where police are contradicting claims by olympic Gold Medalist swimmer ryan lochte that he and three other teammates were robbed by gunmen impersonating Police Officers. At this exact moment, what the police can say is there was no robbery the way the athletes reported. They were not victims of the criminal facts they described. The police can say that now. We will get reaction from the nations sports columnist dave zirin. His latest piece headlined ryan lochte is one of many privileged first world tourists and brazilians are fed up. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a historic announcement, the Justice Department has told the bureau of prisons to end the use of private prisons. In a memo released yesterday, Deputy Attorney general sally eight road that
Partly sunny sky for the rest of the day. Mid 70s where we stan at the airport. We have a haphazard win, light wind but you will not notice it that much. Seventyone in ac. In the lower 60s in the mountains. As day proes fromes we will call it partly sunny and nice and warm for sure, high reaches at least upper 80s. We will do harmless flirtation with extend ago this heat wave for yet another day but i dont think we will get there we will see how we do. Were looking good any war we see on the blue route. Schuylkill, it is sterile i. This is early reiser but overall, that is basically where everything is looking like. But we have an accident here, you guys, pennsauken new jersey involving down traffic signal route 130 southbound before route 38. Two right lanes are still block. That has not yet been cleared and two right lanes still blocked there. Also we have got down wires new castle county, delaware marsh road at philadelphia pike, the intersection is still closed as well. Ill let you
Exclusive interview. Today august 18th, 2016. Talk about competing the most the first sweep in olympic history. Its over. The United States won the bronze. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today with the olympic lauer and savannah guthrie. Good morning. I have hoda here on the beach and we wake up and everybody is talk about this swimming korch tigs. Yeah, over night the drama at they were on the plane and taken off. Officials investigating their claims of being robbed with ryan and another steam mate. We talked to ryan last night, and we will tell you what he had the say. How about the team us skparks the team hurdles. A gold, bronze and silver. And then to carrie and them in Beach Volleyball. Yeah, they dominated the competition and whats left for the final five . We will find out when they join us live on the beach. Let us go back to new york. Unfortunately we are still covering the raging wild fire in california. How are crews going be able to get it under control. We wi
Go back to school. Classes start today and Lakewood Police are reminding everyone to watch out for those little ones walking to school. There are156 schools with about 86thousand students returning to classrooms today. Officers with the Lakewood Police department are reminding everyone drivers, parents and students of all ages to stay safe. They say if youre driving near a school be aware everything from buses to students to bikes. Police also recommend that parents talk to their children and remind them to do things like use the crosswalk and stop, look and listen. Tarhonda thomas will be at bear tips coming up at 5. And back to school means back to homework. Kids are getting more and more tech savvy these days even when it comes to studying. Theres a big market for apps that help with penmanship, math, and science skills. And many students are all over it. Cut to teachers use an app called canvas where they post homework and extra study materials. Back in june toxic chemicals contami
The blue cut fire and has been going strong for 36 hours. The latest numbers show 25,000 acres have burned, fire crews are trying to assess the Property Damage but a number of homes have been lost. Here is video from earlier this evening before it got dark. Firefighters said there was nothing they could have done to stop the advancing claims. The local battalion chief in San Bernardino told the l. A. Times, we got our butts kicked. Another said they were no match for the combination of wind, dry vegetation and steep terrain. Tens of thousands of people in the area have been ordered to evacuate. Some of them wont have homes to return to. It was devastating. A lot of homes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing. We want to show you where this fire is burning using data from cal fire. We created a map showing the fires perimeter. You can see it burned on both sides of interstate 15 north of the cajon pass. And west toward highway 138 and the resort town