Including a wide visa that ah and when you book rep, welcome to the program. Pakistans climate minister has told d w that much of her country looks like a small ocean over a 1000. People have been killed by weeks of devastating floods and an estimated 300000 homes have been destroyed. The latest flooding hippy areas in the northwestern part of the country for the south and baluchistan and cindy province is, are taking the brunt of the extreme, whether the flooding has knocked out. Transporting communications and a state of emergency is in effect with millions of people left homeless. The Prime Minister is appealing to the world for help. Its hard for people in southern pakistan not to feel that all is lost. Vast moving currents have swallowed up their homes and swept away their belongings. Sakina dod is in disbelief as she and her family wade through waste deep water. Not that thou die every labored and built a house by investing money. Now look at it. We are poor. How will my husband
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
That the germans i find out if it had even 24 hours of warning that this invasion force is coming to normandy rather than some other point on the french coast. It couldve been, probably wouldve been. To the anxiety level is unbelievable when isenhour has to postpone it, makes the decision to postpone it. So june 6th is the day we celebrate as dday. Number of troops, number of deaths . Well, there are five divisions ago when over the beaches basically. Two american in three british and canadian. And then there are three airborne divisions. Altogether you talk about a couple hundred thousand troops going in on june 6. Most of the deaths the worst beach was omaha, where one of the two american beaches. There were several thousand deaths there. There had been concerned that the number of deaths could run in the tens of thousands and this did not happen. By no means were the casualties light, but they were less than anticipated at utah beach, which was the furthest right invasion. The briti
Not much rain, we thought it was going to be more. And not much voice either. We will soldier forth. We have a cloudy pattern and the lows have come up, now 40s and 50s and if rainfalls, we will have if rain falls, we will have 50s and 60s, here is sal. Travel times are looking good across the span and also on the san mateo it looks good all the way out to foster city. Coming up on 6 00, lets go back to the desk. A newly approved policing plan in oakland. Shortly after 2 00 this morning, city council took a vote to help reduce crime. Alex savage has more on why there is so much opposition to this plan, alex . Reporter they approved the consulting deal with bill bratton and many are upset about the chiefs hiring and they believe his policies may lead to racial profiling and the vote that happened this morning did not sit well with many. 7 yeses and 1 no. Boo, boo, boo. Reporter we had the only camera in Council Chambers once the vote came down and there were about 275 people who spoke a
Counsel Robert Mueller. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us live more on these changes. High john. A little more on that in a second. The white house right now, Anthony Scaramucci who was one of our contributors is supposed to be meeting with the president right now and supposed to be taking a job as the White House Communications director. See you know who that person is, thats the person organizes and coordinates all of the intraadministration communication strategy, not the person who comes out before the podium every day, that remains a press secretary. The Communications Director will often go on television on sunday and that sort of thing. Hes a fierce defender of the president s policies, the president likes him and believes he can throw a punch. We will find out later in the day whats going on with this meeting, which apparently was supposed to be taking place this hour. Not to the russia investigation. The president has shaken up his legal team a little bit.