The impair oh in the straits of hormuz in july escalated tension in the gulf it came after britain detained Iranian Oil Tanker in gibraltar. U. N. Human rights experts are urging saudi arabias to release a female activist who is in whos been imprisoned for 500. 00 days jane a fool is being detained on National Security grounds she was instrumental in a movement that fought to lift the ban on women driving the un human rights special Procedures Group says its shockingly hypocritical that flew remains behind bars for campaigning against a law that saudi arabia has since since changed. An attack in egypt has killed at least 7 soldiers and one civilian it happened in the northern sinai region the military launched air strikes in response killing a man and his 2 sons eyesores claimed responsibility for the initial attack. Were going to weather update next here on out is iraq then. It came in the Austrian Parliament on sunday voters with elect new members to this chamber who form the next go
28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today the impact of Hurricane Harvey, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. So glad to have you on us on a busy monday morning if youre just waking up. Craig melvin is in for matt. Weve been seeing images out of texas they take your breath away, words like catastrophic and historic being used to describe the flooding and damage from harvey and yet those words hardly seem to do it justice. Hard to believe that that part of this country is actually expecting more rain as well. Meanwhile, fema says they expect at least 30,000 people to live in those temporary shelters. We are just at the beginning of this. Heres where it stands right now. At least two people have died, but officials expect that number to rise as crews work that are way through still rising floodwaters. In houston alone more than 1,000 high water rescues
Proportions. A dire situation expected to get even worse today wednesday, august 30th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special of today, the impact of Hurricane Harvey with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaz and. Good morning. Welcome today. We have craig in for matt once again. Hard to believe this storm is still sitting on top of the gulf of mexico. Another busy morning. Lets get right to the latest on harvey. After making its third landfall just north of cameron, louisiana. More than 51 inches of rain has already fallen, its still coming down hard in places like beaumont, texas opini. That region seeing a years worth of rain. The official death toll is up to at least ten overnight with an undetermined number of people still missing. An overnight curfew is now being enforced in houston, amid disturbing reports that people are going door to door as policemen to lure them out to rob them. Reporter there are concerns that so much rain has fallen so qu
French fighter jets have bombed the i. S. I. L. Held town in Northern Iraq and several strikes over the past through days killed dozens of fighters there and pershmer gshg a forces are ready to launch a ground offensive and dominick reports. Reporter fighters in the hills above and from the positions they can look down on the village that is controlled by i. S. I. L. And since it fell a few months ago more than 70,000 people have left to escape the violence, now the pershmerga want to take it back and the plan is based on a combination of air strikes and ground attacks. On friday dozens of i. S. I. L. Fighters were killed in bombing raids, on sunday Coalition Planes came back and carried out a second operation. [bomb sounds] the vent coalition rates were effective and more than 40 i. S. I. L. Fighters were killed and forced i. S. I. L. To leave 17 locations and ready to progress and storm the village when we get the order to do so. Reporter and the significance stems from the closeness
Canadians fight a downhill battle for the right to go toe bag goning. Nigeria has postponed the legislative and president ial elections to take place on the 14th. Its been pushed back by six weeks and will be held on march 28th. Theyve said the new date is because of security concerns especially in northeastern nigeria. Lets get the latest now from yvonne in the nigerian capital. Any more details about why this vote was delayed . Reporter well the election boss hear in the capital said to the assembled journalists that the decision to reschedule nigerias election was based on the heads of various security agencies. He was advised by security chiefs they could not guarantee the safety and security of millions of voters and several hundred elections staff deployed to places across the country, in particular the northeast of the country where we have seen deadly violence perpetrated by the group boko haram. He said other than the commission was very keen to go ahead with the poll but the