Again. Amy today we spend the hour with a young man with autism who learned to interact with the world in an unusual way. His name is owen suskind at the age of 3, he was diagnosed with regressive autism. For years, he didnt speak. And then his father, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist ron suskind, made a remarkable discovery he could communicate with his son by acting out scenes from disney films. Owen, wh did you and i become such good friends . And he said, when i watched aladdin, you made me laugh. And then we talked. Owen and iago, foa minute, a minutend a half. It is the first conversation we have ever had. Amy owen and ron suskind join us today at the Sundance Film Festival along with the Academy Awardwinning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams who directed a new film about owens life titled, life, animated. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In oregon, rightwing militia leaders ammon and ryan bundy
And were learning more about who exactly was flying on the plane. And United States investigators are offering help with the forensics of the crash. Fox 29s jeff cole live in the newsroom tonight with the latest developments. Jeff . Iain, we know this evening there was at least one american on board that flight and there was as many as 100 people on board who were aids researchers and activists head to go conference in australia. This was a global tragedy. An asian airliner was destroyed in european skies filled with citizens from many countries. Reporter president obama speaking from the White House Press Briefing Room one day after Malaysian Airlines flight mh17 was blown out of the sky over ukraine. 298 men, women and children were killed. Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile. That was launched from an area controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine. Reporter among the dead, a dual u. S. Dutch citizen quins shanks ma man seen on
Recover from injuries to his face and his head. Police tape marks the home, 5400 block of malcolm street, cobbs creek, where police say a four year old boy fell out of second floor bedroom window this morning. Critically injuring himself, hurting his face, and head. Well, we heard screams and stuff. Reporter lena dunkin said she was horrified by the boys condition after seeing emt taking him away from the scene. Orange, just like his legs were just like, you know, like he was wasnt moving or anything. I was surprised and im sorry to hear about that. Reporter not yet clear about how the boy fell from the window, neighbors say the parents have at least two other kids in the house, and they say they usually keep to themselves unlike many on the block. We pretty much tight neighborhood around here, we like to watch out for the kids. So that was an isolated incident as far as im concerned. Reporter i did speak with the Family Member at the house, as he was headed here to the hospital. He di
This survey sometimes is when there is New Historical work and or new work of Popular Culture that open up the book a little bit and tell the story of a first lady. That first ladys moves a little bit. Mary lincoln portray by sally field in the film about lincoln and some of the literature on lincoln of late has told, given a Wider Perspective on mary lincoln. She does not rise to the top. She remains near the bottom, about 10 places from the bottom, but her stature increased a little bit with more understanding of the difficult situation she was placed in. And no longer just thinking of mary lincoln as someone who was mentally unstable, as she had been portrayed for a long time. The other first ladies near the bottom, in many cases, are associated with presidencies that were seen as unsuccessful and that they added little to it. One notable first lady, Florence Harding, i think stands out near the bottom because it is more and more been saying that she played some role in some of the
But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on several important surveillance programs. One of them is section 215, as you mention. Your board came out with a 238 page report last month. I would say it is arguably the most extensive analysis of the legal underpinnings and the utility of the 215 program, which is, as most of the public now knows, a program where the nsa collects metadata, data about phone calls of americans, and puts it in a database