In this annual race that is popular with members of congress and the media. Reporter a bunch of us ran the capitol challenge today, and part of the race route goes around the second mile mark and i came around the bend and saw a person down. People were attending to him and on one side was a guy named matt flood and he is pushing on the mans chest. On the other side was a man named tj cooney and he works for aarp. He had his phone up to his ear and was calling for help. I realized that they were talking to senator thom tillis of north carolina. I didnt realize that they were trying to revive him and keep him alive, basically. It didnt look like a good situation for a while. At one point, they were pushing on hers that they were losing him. Then, it seemed like he was revived because they pushed on his chest and another guy from the department of education came up on his bicycle and realized he had lifesaving information. He thought the senator was having a seizure, perhaps, not sure. H
Issue through comedy and satire. It is called dear white people. A group of black students at a fictional, predominantly white, Ivy League School. We will speak with actor Marque Richardson, an awardwinning firsttime director Justin Simien. I say to all the white people in the audience, on behalf of all of the black people in the world, you have the right to left. You get a free honorary lacquered with the two sundance ticket. It is meant to be a satire. I think if you start with the title for you get the kneejerk reaction it is going to be an hourlong indictment, you miss the point. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is holding an emergency meeting with g7 leaders in the netherlands today following russias annexation of crimea. The session comes as the russian government continues to strengthen its control of crimea , seizing more bases and attaining detaining ukrainian commanders. The cr
Themselves. A new partnership in the middle east could mean the end of peace talks between israelis and palestinians. The two main palestinian parties are joining together after a decade of dispute. We have reports now. Reporter the leaders of hamas and fatah agree to form a government of technocrats within five weeks with the aim of Holding Elections in six months. The leaders believe the time is now to make a change. If we do not move quickly, it will weaken both of us than is no future for the palestinian state. The groups have been at odds and sometimes even at war with each other since 2007. Following hamas win and the democratic cratic national election. Since then la mass has ruled the gaza strip home to 2 million palestinians. While palestinian president Mahmood Abbas covers areas of the west bank home to 2 million palestinians. Reporter reconciliation agreements have failed in the past, but if this deal is successful it could be a winwin situation. It adds more legitimacy to p
Bonuses even though they were in trouble with tax issues themselves. Several new Development Notice crisis of ukraine. Ukraine has resumed antiterrorist operations against pro russian activists in the eastern part of the country. Meanwhile they are conducting military exercise notice region. Mortaring ukraine as u. S. Troops take part of exercises in poland and prorussian gunmen say they are holding an american journalist because of suspicions he is a spy. Lets begin with more on the pro russian activists. They say they are not afraid of the ukrainian governments latest antiterror activation. We have reports now slovesk. Theyve heard the acting president has relaunched the socalled antiterrorist operations but they say theyre not worried. This is not the first ultimatum. Secondly, we dont consider any of his words to many action. He doesnt do anything. He is just a false governor. Reporter the operation is apparently going to focus on breaking up what the government in kiev describes a
At noon and up to 66 with thick are high clouds at 4 00 and calm are at 7 00 and 59. Inland we have 40s and a line in napa and temperatures in the mum 60s this afternoon and a milder 62 at 7 00 and calmer along the coast with high clouds and around 60, seasonal average. Leyla gulen . Good morning, everyone, at 6 00, it is very busy on the roads right now as we take you to san jose. It sounds like the fashion photo hoot could be put on hold with a camera if the lane. It sounds like there could be a car in the Center Divider. As we head over to southbound 101 at alum rock we have a crash and most of the traffic is in the northbound direction and this crash is in the clearing stages but one lane is blocked southbound 101 and backups at 16 Miles Per Hour. Now, breaking news in the north bay, an Early Morning house fire chased a man from his home can we just talked with him and joins us from the seen. He tells me he is shell shocked and saying that he and a roommate were inside the home and