Whether the actual nominations might happen here, it is all up in the air. People are still talking. There are contracts involving the convention and visitors bureau. Even the charlotte hornets, who have the arena and have contracted that. There is still a lot of talking. Host what about the reaction within the Hospitality Industry banking on revenue for the region . Jim the Hospitality Industry is looking at this as a lifeline. No doubt they had a rocky last two or three months, lost business, restaurants boarded up or closed. With the news of the convention leaving, there was one business we had a story on this morning that is closing because that was like the last straw for them. It was a business downtown not far from the Spectrum Center where the convention would have been held. Businesses are looking at it as a lost opportunity. The Host Committee of the convention is still trying to negotiate and work out some deal where they can still salvage something. Host what is the reactio
Business of the Convention Still here in charlotte. We are not sure what that means. May be the actual nominations will happen here. It is all kind of up in the air and people are still talking. There are contracts involving the city and the convention and visitors bureau, even the charlotte hornets. There still a lot of talking to go on. What about the reaction within the Hospitality Industry banking on a lot of people coming in and a lot of revenue for the region . Jim definitely. The Hospitality Industry is looking at this like a lifeline. There is no doubt they have had a rocky two or three months. Lost business, restaurants have been boarded up or closed, in fact, with news of the convention leaving there was one business we had a story on this morning that is closing because that was the last straw for them. It was a business downtown not far from the Spectrum Center where the convention would have been held. Thisesses are looking at as a lost opportunity and the Host Committee o
[applause] good evening everybody, i am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of everybody here, welcome and thank you for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store Rashid Khalidi who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years and before that taught at the university of chicago for a decade and ahalf. He is also editor of the journal of palestine studies, the author of sevenprevious books on the middle east. His newest work , the hundred years war on palestine covers some aspects of palestinian history that he has written about before butthis is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members who were present at some key events and provocative because he offers a very different take on the Israeli Palestinian
As deputies in full Tactical Gear evict the moms squatting in that west oakland home. And a pittsburg woman crashed into a canal. The heroic move from a Good Samaritan who saved her life. The news at 11 00 starts right now. The pressure is on for the president ial hopefuls with the primary election less than two months away, a lot of people still undecided about who to vote for. Tonights debate featured six candidates and among the questions now is did any of those candidates make major strides . Nbc bay areas jean elle is in San Francisco where the voters are paying attention and they are listening, jean. Reporter jessica and raj, there is a lot of interest in this debate and the upcoming debates. Voters here are feeling that march primary approaching, and theyre watching this countdown clock to the november president ial election. It is ticking away here at mannys. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that theyve been in are the women. Reporter big reactio
Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in