Education secretary betsy devos gets booed at a historic black college. What was behind the anger and how the school is defending its choice to let her speak. And espn tragedy. Wife of sports casting legends chris berman killed in a deadly car accident along with another driver and this morning the tributes are pouring in. Its important to all of us on this show to make our love to chris and his family known. Investigators are trying to determine what caused that crash today, thursday, may 11th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody, welcome to today on a busy thu thursday morning. When we say mother of all storms were saying mothers day. Not storm of the century. A clever line. I saw what you did there. People dont go running for cover. Dont stockpile stuff quite yet. This morning were covering politics. Were hearing from President Trump and james comey as the fallout ove
Held at the Detention Camp at Guantanamo Bay navy base, but that does not stop it from being the most expensive prison in the world. Even with the slow attrition in population, there are plans on the drawing board for spending 69 million for a new high security lock up on the eastern tip of cuba. In the recently passed 1 trilliondollar spending plan for 2015, congress was shore to include a prohibition of transferring detainees to the u. S. Plai mainland. There are occasional trials. Occasional transfers and never ending arguments over the law, security, human rights, force feeding, and the future. In early disease six prisoners werdecember six prisoners were taken to uruguay. And they will all begin new lives at refugees. Hes hopeful now that hes out and free with proper medical care here in uruguay he can get better and rebuild his life. Reporter these six were never charged, and cleared to leave the prison back in 2009. But not until uruguay came forward to take them did they leave
We were talking to a young lady saying she just wanted her voice to get out there. By the thousands, theyre sending their government a message. Ahead of em is a humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of people are without food, water, shelter. A special one hour look at global attacks on free press. Monday 9 00 eastern. On al jazeera america. Its a chilling and draconian sentence. It simply cannot stand. This trial was a sham. They are truth seekers. All they really wanna do is find out whats happening, so they can tell people. Governments around the world all united to condemn this. As you can see, its still a very much volatile situation. The government is prepared to carry out mass array. If you want free press in the new democracy, let the journalists live. Youre watching inside story on al jazeera america. Im ray suarez. The legal, moral, political dimensions of the continued operation of the Detention Camp for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay naval base. Just recently si
Youre watching inside story on al jazeera america. Im ray suarez. The legal, moral, political dimensions of the continued operation of the Detention Camp for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay naval base. Just recently six prisoners were transferred to uruguay on south americas east coast. Joining us now, the representative of detainees early in the war. The former prosecutor in the department of justices Counter Terrorism section, shes currently counsel, and representative of 18 guantanamo detainees. Courtney, do the International Convention differ when youre talking of a Guerrilla Army of a no longer sovereign government. Theyre describing them as unprivilege enemy of we ledge republicans. Thats the what is used now. Would that extend to a soldier fighting for the government. Not just a nationstate but other legal aspects such as wearing uniform, openly carrying your arm, not attacking civilians, not attacking red cross workers, not attacking ngos, all of which not particularly det