Policy and what he describes as republican right wing revolution. It is not just the trump presidency, it is the rightwing revolution, which is captured, control up to this moment, of the presidency, the house am a part of the senate, and now the Supreme Court. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in moscow meeting with his Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, amid mounting tensions between the u. S. And russia over the war in syria. On tuesday, white house officials accused russia of trying to cover up the Syrian Governments role in last weeks alleged chemical attack, which killed 86 civilians, including dozens of children. While the u. S. Asserts the Syrian Government carried out the attack, russia has blamed it on the antigovernment rebels. The Russian Foreign minister has called the u. S. Rhetoric primitive and loutish. Russian president Vladimir Putin has sig
Written to both the United Airlines to ask is this your policy, is this how you handle things, how might you have handled things differently and lso to Chicago Department of aviation which controls the airport, but more importantly officers who removed the person from the flight n. Addition, House Democrats on the Transportation Committee led by ofer difazio and rick Larson Washington have asked secretary transportation chow for the results of her investigation to say, is his the way things ought to work . Should the department of transportation perhaps take realm. Ory nation this host part of the statement, we recognize importance of having comply with lawful crew instructions, it is hard to believe better planning, raining, communication or additional incentives would not ave mitigated this incident or avoided it altogether. What do you expect the response from members of congress to be united . Guest well, first they want to get the response from the and everyone involved this point
And economic warfare. Shes just back from afghanistan and is now among 20 peace activists who are on day five of a vigil and fast in front of the United Nations to protest the ongoing u. S. Support for the saudi bombing of yemen. Were hoping to this fast and vigil, people all across the United States will start to recognize we cannot turn the other way and ignore what is happening in yemen. We also hope to bring people attention tobring south sudan, nigeria, somalia, countries nearby which are also nearing a trio of near famine conditions. Amy then hundreds of undocumented immigrants are on Hunger Strike to protest the conditions and extremely low wages at the forprofit northwest to Tension Center in tacoma, washington. Rodriguez. S jonathan i would like people to know that im on a Hunger Strike, not just for me, but for everyone out there in the future. Amy the Hunger Strikers are demanding better food, hygiene, and medical care within the prison, which is owned by the major private P
News. Thank you, sharon. A new storm moving towards the bay area. Skies may be clear across the bay area now. But rain is on the radar. It will be in the north bay first. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us, tracking it. We have seen pockets of rain and little bit of sun all day long. That is going to change. Yes, the storm system does promise to pick up the rain. More moderate intensity, possibly a few heavier pockets. About 100 miles out here offshore. Maybe even bringing us some gusty winds and also a little bit of lightning as well. Currently heaviest rainfall remains well off to the north. Producing a quarter inch per power hour for the bay area right now. Little shower activity. Contra costa, alameda counties. I expect things to ramp up once we hit 9 00 tonight throughout the north bay. Eventually some rainfall down to San Francisco, by 10 00 p. M. Again, as this rainfall pushes throughout the bay area, it will push wind possibly up to 29 Miles Per Hour here in the region a
Intensity, thats where the rain fall has begun. As we getni a closer look, you o see across the consistent area from rain toni concord, of the rain fou heavier rain on traco hitrno palo altoni by 11 41. Jose has been more of scattered rain fall atco the moment. . 8jr o we are tracking exactly how much is left of that morning commute, plus rain fall ahead for theni eastern weekend aftere. Cco 11 c tonight. Onq the verge of breaking a rain record. By tomorrow morning the 2016 2017 season will likely go down as thefa wettest in xdhist. 88. 5 inches of rain. Right now the monitor says e1e1. Its mvr. The streetsover the das decision to exonerate two Police Officers who shot and killed a young man in 2015. The xddas office a two plaint clothes officers were justified as killing him after he lunched an officer with a knife. Here is more outside the substation and this has not been a popular decision. It really has not, the group has t propesters broken down a little bit here at valencia,