Seattle mike mcginn. Then in a landmark ruling here in washington, a state judge has ruled a lawsuit can proceed against psychologists James Mitchell and bruce jessen, two of the architects of the cia torture program. Will the first victims of cia torture finally have their day in court . Amy well speak with attorney dror ladin of the aclu, which has filed the lawsuit on behalf of torture victims. And well also talk to former military Intelligence Officer colonel steve kleinman, who worked with mitchell and jessen at the militarys survival, evasion, resistance, and escape school in spokane, washington. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of civilians have been killed in an airstrike on a camp for internally displaced syrians in Idlib Province near the border with turkey. At least 30 people were reportedly killed, some of them children, and dozens more wounded. U. N. Humanitarian affairs chief Steph
It started before 1 30 this morning. A man climbed on ton of the light rail train and barricaded himself. He is refusing to come down. Pg e shut off power to the area. The sheriff is hoping to talk hill down. They do not believe he has any weapons. This will obviously back the light rail commute this morning. They are warning people there will be delays. We will monitor the situation and let you know of any updates on the morning news. Unusual situation. We appreciate the update. New over to sue and a check of the traffic. That is as we have talked big delays, so they have had bus bridges in place between santa teresa and the alum rock line between metro and alum rock station and from metro to Mountain View on win comfort line where the bus bridges will take place this morning. We will follow this for you, expect major delays if you take v. T. A. You will give yourself plenty of time or, perhaps, take another moved transportation. We have overturned vehicle in the middle lane before so
Will legal us know. They have two but bridges in place but it will still be a delay in Mountain View and the Second Center station, and this is only affected not of metro station but the rest of the system is delayed due to this. Now, in san rafael it is light but north of our camera at marinwood we had a car that hit a deer. The car has significant damage. It is in the center of the friend. You can expect delays from novato. Live doppler hd is more of an afternoon event for the weather. Check out our bay water the ferry riders are enjoying an easy commute the mild today with a the love us in the 50s to 60 and thicker cloudsbly noon and storms popping. All the way through the evening commute. Thunder is possible. Small hail and gusty winds. Cell phone video takes us right into the middle of a firefight between United States special forces and isis fighters in iraq. This is the battle where a navy seal, Charles Keating iv was killed this weak. This is a few moments of the fight lasting
Host Walt Mossberg, has technology plateaued . Guest oh, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Technology is always changing and always coming up with Technology Companies are always coming up with something new, and there are new Technology Companies all the time incubating, a lot of them are in what we call stealth mode. We dont even know who they are. Certain technologies plateau and things move on, but in general, no. Not at all. Host i guess i ask that because the last couple years weve had the explosion of smartphones, weve had tablets come online. Whats out there . Guest well, first of all, there are vast numbers of people especially in the less developed cups, but even in the developed countries who dont own a smartphone and, certainly, there are vast thurms that dont own numbers that dont own a tablet. To give you a rough example, apple which leads in the tablet market has sold somewhere around 160 million ipads since 2010. Thats a remarkable achievement and for people that own
Right now. Tonight, on the record, all your news right here and its a scorched earth and getting worse. A fire the size of chicago, san francisco, washington, d. C. All combined is blazing through homes and buildings, destroying everything in its path. Also Illegal Immigrants are pouring across the Mexican Border into the United States. Do you remember the children flowing over the border in 2014 . Well, finance happening again and now its happening in new alarming numbers. Plus, 2016 news, both bushes and 2012 g. O. P. Nominee mitt romney announcing they cannot support donald trump for president. What about Speaker Paul Ryan . Will he support trump . Speaker ryan making his announcement he would tell you his decision straight ahead. Right now, we are moments away from Donald Trumps first rally in west
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