team last night released a statement to cnn talking about the impact that this young girl had on her teammates. it reads in part quote. quote. leila was a caring young lady, an amazing athlete, a cherished teammate to so many young girls. sarah harless, carlos warner. thank you. for all those details. it s really really sad story. stay with us. we will actually speak with sheriff billy woods live next hour, john. so a huge ice column falls during a climbing expedition. the tragic and heroic story out of utah. what happened to the climber who saved another climbers life as the ice came tumbling down? and we re just moments away from the opening bell on wall street where u. s futures are down right now heading into the last day of the trading week, new jobs numbers out just moments ago showed weekly jobless claims coming in above expectations. this is all a prelude to tomorrow s monthly jobs. report.
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from the prison at guantanamo bay. neither change satisfied critics on the right in congress or on the left while he was speaking. why don t you sit down and i will tell you exactly what i m going to do. thank you ma am. ma am, thank you. the second voice you heard there was code pink s medea benjamin, less than impressed with president obama s new drone policy or his plans for prisoners at guantanamo. there are 102 people on a hunger strike. desperate people. you are the commander in chief. you can release guantanamo today. john: medea benjamin was escorted out of the event. we welcome her back. she s dough director of code pink and cofounder of global exchange. her latest book is drone warfare, killing by remote control. welcome pack to viewpoint. thank you for having me on. john: did you know you were going to try to interrupt the president s speech before you arrived? no, john, i really didn t know. i went in there with a positive attitude thinking from
today s birthdays include david beckham, dwayne the rock johnson and inglebert humperdinck. this is viewpoint. john: i m john fuglesang. this is viewpoint. good evening. last resort of the powerless prisoner, a hunger strike. since february, a major hunger strike has been building momentum at the military detention center at guantanamo bay. the hunger strike began as a response to what the detainees described as raids by guards where copies of the koran were mishandled. it has grown into a protest against the obama administration s policy of holding the vast majority of detainees indefinitely while doing nothing to arrange transfer to their own countries. of the 166 detainees held at guantanamo 86 have been cleared for release. yet continue to rot in can jail while only six are facing military commissions. right now, there are around 100 detainees on hunger strike, including 23 who are now being force-fed twice a day. on monday, the pentagon sent around 40 additional me