Your ideas for reducing moneys influence in politics. To do that this morning, we are setting up our phone lines a bit differently. If you are someone who has made a political contribution in this or previous elections, want to hear from you. 2027488000. If you have never made a political contribution, your number 2027488001. You can catch up with us on social media this morning on twitter cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Toery good Tuesday Morning you. It is anyones guess how much money will be spent one campaign 2016 is over, but as of the end senate forhe responsive politics had numbers on how much had been spent on this campaign so far in terms of candidate fundraising. Well over 1 billion has been raised by candidates and the super pacs supporting them. 619 million by the candidates themselves. Superillion by supporting the various by super pacs. We will get into the various numbers this morning on washington journal but that massive fundraising and how it electionng up
Rinivasan. Lightning skrieks a plane bound for new york. And parents demanding answers as the state lans to state the water supply for lead. And tonight, an investigation. Good evening, im chuck scarborough. We are starting with that scare in the sky. Passengers shaken, but safely on the ground after their plane was struck by lightning. It was headed to la guardia when it was hit forcing it to land at kennedy. Frighting moments. Heres the story. Reporter tonight a 5 passengers have a story they are never going to forget. Their plane was circling new york city tonight as it was struck by lightning. Here at Kennedy Airport. A tremendous bang. Reporter she says she can still feel it, she can still hear it. A Lightning Strike hitting her plane. It lit up blue inside the plane. It was such a loud bang. It was right there. It happened thursday night. The plane operated by Republic Airlines was supposed to land at la guardia. It hit turbulent skies. Moments later, she saw and felt the flash o
Hostages inside the Radisson Blue Hotel and some are sharing their terrifying stories of survival with nbc news for the first time. Islamic extremes armed with rifles and grenades storming the hotel and screaming religious epithets. We are in mali tonight and tells us what happened through the eyes of one american. Reporter in the hunt for a gang of killers. Men who had gone from room to room shouting allahu akbar. And from the moment the gunmen stormed the hotel. This man from florida saw it all. A group of four or five men came from across the street, started shooting. Took out the guards. They shot at us. We ran back inside. At which time i fell. Reporter but managed to crawl away. Some guests barricaded the hostage takers under a breakfast table. I heard three terrorists coming in. They were standing right next to me. They never seen me. The shell casing were hitting me under the table. I knew i was going to become a victim. Because all they had to do was look down. Reporter were t
Good evening. We begin tonight with harrowing new details from inside that hotel in mali in west africa where Al Qaeda Linked terrorists killed 20 people, including an american on friday. Exactly one week after the devastating massacre in paris. Dozens more were held hostages inside the Radisson Blue Hotel and some are sharing their terrifying stories of survival with nbc news for the first time. Islamic extremes armed with rifles and grenades storming the hotel and screaming religious epithets. We are in mali tonight and tells us what happened through the eyes of one american. Reporter in the halls of the hotel a hunt for a gang of killers. Men who had gone from room to room shouting allahu akbar. And from the moment the gunmen stormed the hotel. This man from florida saw it all. A group of four or five men came from across the street, started shooting. Took out the guards. They shot at us. We ran back inside. At which time i fell. Reporter but managed to crawl away. Some guests barri
Accused of injuries a hamilton girl. And that babysitter is facing serious charges. Reporter this woman is facing a number of serious charges and being held without bail. Very shocking. Neighbors in thomasville cannot believe that a woman abducted a two yearold from her home in hamilton. Our hearts are with the family and the girl. Reporter hours later found alive miles from her home on a rural road on ipswich, with her head shared and cigarette burns on her body. Her head was down and her and brought her into the car. She was alert but had a big contusion in her head, a big red mark and looked like someone had chopped her hair off or shaved her head. Reporter and now the babysitter is arrested. People in hamilton were thinking what happened here. I have grandchildren and this is a worse fear we all have. This is nothing you ever imagine happening here. The suspect attented nearby gordon college, and one that attended that college knew the suspect and says there is more to this story.