little to anything against churches and pro life centers. they will get in a lot. senator ted cruz asking garland during his last appearance before the committee about promise he made to keep politics out of the d.o.j. it went like this. i asked you quote, will you commit to this committee that under your leadership the department of justice will not target the political opponents of this administration? your answer, quote, absolutely. it is totally inappropriate for the department to target any individual because of their politics or their position in a campaign. that was your promise just a few months ago. i m sorry to say you have broken that promise. dana: that was more than a year ago. the committee will have plenty of ground to cover today. jason chaffetz ahead with reaction. david spunt starting us off on capitol hill. attorney general taking a seat behind me ready to answer those questions. he said multiple times he wants to keep politics out of the d.o.j. he wi
bill: all that happening during a campaign event days before a national election. shocking a nation with some of the world s tightest gun regulations. violent crime in japan is rare. he was airlifted to a hospital with two gunshot wounds but they were fatal as doctors tried to revive him. the begunman was tackled at the scene. 41 years old. he is alive and an investigation underway how he got so close. alex hogan begins our coverage live in london with the late breaking details as we get more now. alex, hello. hi, bill. the former prime minister of japan has been assassinated. shinzo abe was at a campaign event when he was shot this taking place today in the western part of the country. minutes into his speech for a parliamentary election the 67-year-old conservative politician fell to the ground shot from behind. medics airlifted him to the hospital and doctors attempting to save him with blood transfusions before they officially declared him dead. the gunman is in c
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. six people dead, several more wounded, and now one man arrested. those are the bare facts of another mass shooting in the us. this time in a well to do suburb just north of chicago, at the start of a fourth ofjuly day of celebration. hundreds of people, mums, dads and their children had embarked on a parade through highland park, when a gunman started firing from a rooftop, armed with a high powered rifle. nomia iqbal has this report. the independence day parade had just started. americans in this wealthy chicago suburb were out in the sunshine, celebrating the day their country became an independent nation. gunfire child: are you kidding me right now? - ten minutes in, shots rang out. there was confusion and panic. people moved quickly for safety. rapid gunfire i remember hearing shootings, going like. tsh tsh tsh. and then reloading and then again. and people screaming and running. i thought it was the navy| tha
Heavy weather pushing through northern new jersey into man manhattan. In Delaware Valley, we have lighter shades of green. Every now and then you can see the yellows there were zoomed into upper bucks and Montgomery County south of the lehigh valley. Route 100 and route 222, 78 seeing wet weather. Thats the last of it. Theres a batch pushing through now, well catch a break in the Morning Hours another batch pushes through by midday. Well catch a break and there will be another batch. It will be on and off throughout the afternoon. It will not be a steady soaking rain. 44 degrees in philadelphia. It will not be snow. Allentown, 42. Millville, 46. Dover, 50 degrees, Sea Isle City 47. Beach haven showing 47. Forecast for today well see cloudy and mild with showers on and off 53 degrees is your forecasted high. Normally we should be around 42. Yesterday we topped out at 56. Again, we just continue this mild trend. This is all going to come to a screeching halt as we get into monday afterno
Continue to try to put out the flames and access the damage. Were waking up to a breezy morning with the promise of warmup ahead. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. I am chris cato. Lets begin with meteorologist bill henley in the first alert forecast. Bill, the breezy conditions probably not helping the firefighters in cobbs creek. I wouldnt think so. No not with winds gusting to more than 20 miles an hour in the area. We will see wind but well see more sunshine than we enjoyed yesterday. Thats going to lead to a warmup. At the shore it is dry. Showers are not far away from cape may. Passing from the west. The last showers are out of here first thing. 10mileanhour breeze in philadelphia. 16 miles an hour in wilmington. Temperatures in the low 50s in both locations and both locations will see a nice warmup today. Sunshine breaking through the clouds. 49 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00 55. Into the 60s by lunchtime and climbing. Winds 15 miles an hour. That will be a f