Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i
Witnesses say they saw a truck driver slam his vehicle into a crowd of revelers celebrating the French National holiday bastille day in the french city. Others describe bodies on the promenade everywhere. The driver of the truck was reportedly killed. The city of nice immediately put in place its antiterror claus calling for everybody to shelter in place. Nobody has taken responsibility so far for this attack. U. S. Officials say they are monitoring and president obama has been briefed on the situation. Again, at this hour, no official word on a motive or who is behind this. Live in new york, im elizabeth hur, abc news. Thank you, elizabeth. Stay with abc news for the latest os then story. Get breaking news any time with the abc news app enable push alert. Breaking news after weeks of speculation, donald trump has picked his running mate, indiana governor mike pence, and before becoming governor he served in the congress for six terms, a socialist they believe would help unify the part
Welcome back to squawk alley. Joining us as always, john ford. Joining us as well the cofounder of aol ventures. Good to see you this morning. Markets down 148. Simon brought you up to speed on the comments regarding oil and opec and would be Production Cuts. Well keep our eye on that. Bill gates breaking with tim cook in an interview with the financial times. Gates said quote this is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing. They are asking for a particular case. Gates actually walked back some of those comments later in interview with the bbc in bloomberg saying he was disappointed with the headlines saying he was backing the fbi. He pushed for tech and government to strike a balance and additionally with charlie rose didnt answer it that plainly. This is right in your wheel house. Thats the general consensus view where you live and then your own view . Its a very thorny issue. You have zuckerberg, cook, dors
And in sport the world of football remembers one of the games alltime greats. The dutch legend who helped change the way football has played as died at the age of 68. The former bosnian serb leader has been given a 40year jail sentence after being found guilty of genocide during the bull cans war. He was acquitted of one count of genocide against bosnian mays limbs and bosnian crow ave avesn 1992. But was convicted for another in which 8,000 men and boys were killed. He was also found guilty of crimes against humanity during the siege of sarajevo the judge said he was possible for murder, and hostage taking. His war crimes including Holding Thousands in detention camps in appalling conditions. Here is how the judge delivered his verdict. The chamber find that murder, extermination and persecution were foreseeable to the accused. The underlying acts of persecution which are foreseeable, were cruel treatment, forcible labor. Labor at the front lines, the use of nonner is,s at human shiel
Possible ban from world competition. Managings migration. This is about protecting peoples lives. The eus 2 billion plan to stop the flow of yurch young afs across the mediterranean. Policing the police. Each of you are sentenced to 15 years in prison. The case in south africa, widespread brutality by officers. Good evening, im antonio mora. This is al jazeera america. We begin in myanmar, which appears to be on the verge of a peaceful transition to democracy after decades of military rule. The scope of the victory of Aung San Suu Kyis party in sundays election became clearer today. She won her seat in parliament and her party the National League for democracy is headed towards an absolute majority. Also today, incumbent president sent a letter of congratulations to the Nobel Peace Prize winner and to the nld, essentially, confirming defeat, first time in a quarter century. It is not clear how much power suu kyi and her party will have. Patricia sabga reports. Military aligned presiden