Weather. Midday news starts right now. Another historic day plays out with president obama. He is meeting right now with cubas leader raul castro. A formal ceremony is happening right now after the two shook hands a few minutes ago. They are meeting in the formal palace there in havana. And were just watching as the formal ceremony gets started, just beginning just a few minutes ago. The National Anthem playing out there. Just about 30 minutes ago, we watched the president take part in a wreath laying ceremony. Its been a busy morning. This is at the jose marti memorial, which is an important landmark for the cuban, also very formal, where the si participated in that event. This is the president s first visit to the communist nation in more than 90 years. Once the two president s actually sit down and have their chat, they are expected to talk about lifting the trade embargo and touch on the deep divide on human rights. And then at some point today, we expect the president to make an a
Historic visit. European leaders have so far failed to agree on an unified policy to deal with a refugee crisis. Thousands have arrived by train and by bus. Many are now head to go austria from hungary and slovenia, many by foot. The slovenian Prime Minister has criticized croatias decision to send refugees to its border. They visited a refugee camp with croatia. Thousands are hoping to enter slovenia and travel on to austria and germany and they accuse croatia of not doing enough to control the situation. We know were confronted by a large wave of refugees coming from croatia. Unfortunately, croatia has not fulfilled its responsibility. They have not been behaving appropriately as they send refugees towards slovenia. Laurence lee has been speaking with refugees we have this report. Since hungary closed its border and put a razor wire up, croatia has had no choice but to try to disperse them in different directions. Some are forced into hungary. They have been moving them towards the b
Good morning, toni. A lot of detectives on the scene, continuing the investigation here. Three people fatal liver shot. The nypd is questioning one person. The shooting happening around 2 00 this morning inside the Raymond Ingersoll houses just after myrtle avenue, and the shoot the happen in the walkways around the complex. Police say a 43yearold man and 39yearold man, both shot in the head pronounced dead at the scene. A 76yearold man was taken to the hospital earlier this morning with the gun shot wound to the stomach, and he later died. It spoke to the young man who lives at the complex, and he said it can be dangerous out here. Something happened up here, and they came down here. Reporter are you concerned about this . Of course. Reporter no arrests have been made and the nypd says they have taken one person in for questioning, and we are live in downtown brooklyn, Kristin Thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We are just days away from pope francis arrival here in new york city. Bel
House conveniences for business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The house is expected to take up Energy Legislation that week. Live coverage of the house of representatives is on cspan. On cspan2, the senate comes back monday at 3 00 p. M. Later that day the Senate Begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u. S. Agency for international development. Coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the Civil Rights Division. They heard members from that division. This is about three hours. This hearing will come to order. Welcome to everyone here. Welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. A great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing Police Officers the subject of public vilification. Seeing Police Officers being undermined and hearing from Police Off
To put forward, so, i commend the u. S. Senate proappropriatio committee providing some assistance in that regard. I want to just invite david to ask, to address whether the, whether we can wait another 30 or 40 or 50 years to take action and expect not to have consequences. Thank you for the question. Not acting increases the cost of action. The longer we delay in action will increase the cost of action. Because we will have infrastructure lock in and other dynamics that will make it increasingly difficult to in fact shift to low carbon xwhis. We have the opportunity and i think we in fact are on the trajectory as lisa and others have said, we are on the trajectory of moving very rapidly toward that low carbon economy. The price of solar panels for example has fallen 75 in the last five years. And we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in doing so . And we are in fact creating, there are 100,000 jobs in texas alone. Thank you. I want to welcome sam adams, who works with the World