All right. I think well get started. Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for cspan for coming. My name is mark schmitt. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and all i want to do is welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson who has been a fellow in our National Fellows program and also a fellow in the Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me, and, you know, tremendously important. Hes now a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice which is an organization that as you can see, the signs here, its occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center which is a wonderful organization and ted is bringing a bit of a of a nonlegal beyond legal, i guess he would say, scope of analysis to t
Latin america. So the referendum win for greeces government has actually done little to ease defensive crisis over the state of its economy. There is still serious concern of greek parentings which are supposed to reopen on tuesday and the Prime Minister has been meeting with other Political Parties as he prepares to return to negotiations with International Lenders and he wants a credible solution to his countrys debt crisis but before that he has to pick a finance minister to replace Yanis Varoufakis and said the bailout talks have not been exactly welcome. Resignation said after there was no to bailout terms by the creditors and once that want cuts for loan and 61 supported the deal and the Vice President of the European Commission said greece needs reforms after his referendum. With respect to the democratic choice of the greek people the no result unfortunately widens the gap between greece and other european countries. There is no easy way out of this crisis too much time and too
Day with more twisters possible. And reporting for duty. Prince william begins a new job as an air ambulance pilot. Nervous. And hes opening up about his growing family. More responsibilities, especially when george is around. Hes a little monkey. So is there a possibility of three . Today monday, july 13th, 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. We have willie in this week for matt who is taking time off. I thought that prison break in upstate new york was impressive. El chapo has this mile long tunnel that had vent lags and rail car. Had a rail system. Not the first time he escaped from prison. One of the most notorious drug pins in the world. Its clear he had tunnel. You wonder if theyll ever find him again. Well have that in a moment. We have breaking news. Marathon talks leading now to a new bailout deal with near bankrupt greece overnight. Lets get to keir simmons c
And welcome back. We continue now to follow breaking news out of new jersey. A wild Chain Reaction crash that sent one car flying on to a sidewalk and into a Jersey City Police officer. Yeah. News 4 obtained this video from moments after the crash. The officer is one of several people hurt that happened at ocean and myrtle avenue in jersey city. Lets go back to the scene for an update. Reporter police are removing one of the cars involved in the Chain Reaction crash. Several people injured including an officer were told is expected to be okay. Take a look. According to witnesses, a car hit that car that is being towed away hitting an officer. Tonight, several people are in the hospital. Look at this exclusive cell phone video obtained by news 4. You see the aftermath of a Chain Reaction crash around 8 00 sunday night. Police say a man speeding near the corner of ocean and myrtle avenue in jersey city hit one car striking a jersey city officer. In the video, neighbors rush to the office
Have been tips coming in this morning. Thats encouraging. Police say they saw a group of kids on bicycling late monday night. Today still no sign of laquan. The family is offering information about his whereabouts. They say the 11yearold elementary student bikes but hes never been out past 8 30. Its been a tough couple of days for families. Shes been up crying. The little sister with me all day. Its hard for a kid not to come home, just bike riding and stuff. Its getting out of hand. Reporter Laquan Lattimore was last seen riding his bike to family dollar. The family says thats normal for him. Its not normal for him to be gone for two days like this. They say hes never been missing before. Were expecting an update from police and fbi. Well let you know the latest as soon as we find it out. Live in Delaware County, drew smith, nbc10 news. The red cross is helping more than 30 people after fire destroyed their apartment complex in berks county. It started just before 1 00 this morning. T