Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Babbel. A language app that teaches reallife conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. Babbels 1015 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. More information on babbel. Com. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff President Trump responded today to word that he demanded Robert Muellers ouster last june as special counsel in the russia probe, by saying it is all fake news. The New York Times initially, and now other news organizations, report that the president backed off when
Author david grann answers reader questions and talks about the significance of the osage inan murders. I dont think you can understand our country unless you understand this part of our history. This is one of the worst racial injustices and crimil conspiracies in American History and it was never taught in school. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributionso your pbs ation from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff its been nearly two weeks since a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in parkland, florida. Now, Congress Faces the question what to do about guns i america. The answ is anything but clear. Lisa desjardins begins our coverage desjardins walking the halls of congress today, sctdents turnedists from Marjory Stoneman douglas high, preing for more gun control. The
Mainly people who are over 65, and very sadly the loss for each customer has been about £1,150. And last week, we heard of an elderly gentlemen aged 81 who had fallen foul of this scam a couple of times and had lost £20,000 as a result. So if such a call comes through, hang up. The same applies to apple, they say you can only buy apple stuff on an itunes vouchers, you cannot pay a tax bill with it. And now the weather. Things are looking quieter before more wild weather pushes in. Low pressure will bring Gale Force Winds to england and wales. 45 mph inland. Plenty of snow showers or even longer spells of snow across Northern Ireland in central and southern scotland in particular. Further south, a bit drier, but very windy. A wild night to come. Sunday will be very windy in the east to start. Gaels will eventually clear and sunday looking better than saturday with central, southern and eastern parts will be dry with sunshine. Blustery showers across western areas. Falling as snow in p
This is our cold front that is not scheduled to hit until tonight, and i think that it will touch off a couple showers and thunderstorms, in the overnight hours anytime after dark, 73 degrees right now with 73 percent relative humidity not often that matches, 7 miles an hour wind. Maybe that is lucky number today, seven. A lot 607s here. Should have made number a seven. It is in the 60s to the north of us. Seventythree as we said in philadelphia we have wind that are still coming out of the southwest, for most of us and that is where the humidity comes from as well. So even though it was hot over the weekend it it wasnt excessively humid. We will get more humid to day before, those thunderstorms hit tonight so, sun and cloud upper 80s by lunchtime a bit more humid with a high of 93. This will make the seventh day of our current heat wave, 8 13 is your sunset time so you still have a nice long day to enjoy for the first monday in august. We will have the seven day forecast coming up in
This guy needs to introduction. His project is called sad clowns and hillbillies. It marks his 23rd album over the course of a remarkable career. Here are some of the videos for easy target from John Mellencamp. So black lives matter who are we trying to kill its an easy target dont matter crosses burning such a long time ago we still dont let it go so i was waiting to seat other night at the Greek Theater in l. A. Whether or not you were goinging to do this song. And im watching you and the band the entire concert except on this one song because i know the lyrics so well. You gave thus video back in january when you first did this. We premiered this video on this program. I know the lyrics. I want to watch the audience when you performed this song. A overwhelmingly white audience to see how they responded. I was so relieved when they got into this song at the end, the applause for this was amazing as you recall in that audience. Those are tough lyrics. Dinlt know how the audience was