You cant make extortion routine as part of our democracy. Barack obama tells u. S. Republicans to stop making threats over the budget and bring an end to the government shutdown. Afghan families have had to wait decades for information on relatives who went missing under communist rule. There are signs of the west and iran are growing closer together. Its a week now until negotiations resume. There are reports that iran has put together a new package of proposals. That would mean it stops making weapons Grade Nuclear material in return for sanctions being relaxed. The British Government says its looking at reopening its embassy in tehran. Heres the reaction from the iranian capital. Translator in my opinion, its natural that there would be relations between iran and all other countries. I think its a good idea that the British Embassy reopen in iran. Having relations with any country, even if its limited, is a good idea. Anyway, International Relations are beneficial and in my view it
Wait decades for information on relatives who went missing under communist rule. Maritime disputes of the South China Sea are expected to dominate talks at the summit. Leaders of the 1 10 Southeast Asian Member States have joined at the annual meeting in brunei are joined rather by eight other countries including china, japan, south korea and russia. Japan says it controls a group of uninhabited islands in the east china sea. But china, which says they are part of its territory. Another collection of islands in the South China Sea known as are claimed by several countries including again, china, fill philippines, brunei, vietnam and malaysia. Well go live to brunei in a moment. For more on that summit, but first a report from a fishing port in southern china. Reporter the fish port is one of the busiest in southern china. Last year the catch brought back here was more than 70,000 tons. Worth some 200 million u. S. Dollars. But fishermen say its not as easy to earn money now as it used
That this will jump buildings. They are trying to move the media including myself to a different location, so i may have to go in a minute. Definitely still going. All right. Yes, we can see that. If you can understand him, there is several collapses that are unfolding before us where several central parts of the building are collapsing. This is an apartment property under construction called mb 360, 360 units in this mission bay property. One started going up in flames around 4 56 this afternoon. Jean elle is in a different location and jean, lets bring you in. What are you seeing and hearing from firefighters at this point . Reporter jessica, we just arrived and police are aggressive keeping us far away. Showing you the flames but im going to ask him to pan down to the left of the building, you can see a lot of s and they are holding hoses. Just a few minutes ago, i saw some firefighters running away from the scene. I dont know if they are switching position. There are dozens of fire
Morning. It is open again now for the moment. Miguel marquez is there. Tell us whats happening now and was it your sense from your reporting on the ground that this rushing of the border was a oneoff . Part of a plan . They may have been emboldened by this demonstration that took place and thats what led to this mele. This is one of the areas that got closed off yesterday. The Border Crossing, foot Border Crossing where many migrants come, especially those from central america, they come up here to try to apply for their asylum status. Its also a place where thousands of residents of tijuana use it every day to go to work or school in the u. S. Its upsetting the course of life on both sides of the border, certainly. One thing that the chief of patrol for the san diego sector is saying, you can see this bridge over here. They went under this bridge and pushed on to several different parts of the border and the head of the san diego patrol says that many of them tried to push through to
A capitol hill condo for the wife of a lobbyist of big oil companies. He paid that amount six months last year on nights he was in washington. The epa saying they found it was not a gift and was quote consistent with federal ethics regulations. We want to break this down with nbcs jeff bennett who is traveling with the president in florida. Jeff, how are the officials in the white house viewing this allegation against scott pruett. Reporter people close to the president say he doesnt like these sorts of unforced errors. He doesnt appreciate it when cabinet officials generate negative headlines for the administration. With scott pruett, its not just the question about his apartment lease. He is under investigation for his expenses and using his 247 security detail for personal trips including a vacation to disneyland. That said, people familiar with the president s thinking says scott pruett has more leeway than did the ousted Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin in part because pru