Resign today. They are blocking government buildings and threatening to storm them if he doesnt step down. A Massive Group of walruses in alaska, the environmental threat causing 35,000 to haul ashore and whats being done to keep them safe. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Health officials are on high alert as ebola fears stretch from texas to hawaii and we learn new details about the man diagnosed with the virus. His name is thomas eric duncan. He flew from liberia with several stops along the way. A dozen students had close contact with duncan. In honolulu, doctors suspect a patient may have contracted the virus. We are live in dallas outside Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. In liberia, he carried a stricken woman in his arms that was pregnant at the time. She was turned away from the hospital there. Days later web traveled to the United States and his family members say he did tell emergency workers that he had just come from west afri
Ns Surveillance Program is coming under increasing criticism in washington from an unlikely bipartisan coalition. We will speak with republican huggers member Thomas Massie of kentucky and democratic congressman or her john conyers of michigan on their efforts to tracking everyom phone call in the United States. It is my fear that we are on the verge of becoming a surveillance state, collecting billions of electronic records on lawabiding americans every single day. Then, a National Strike for a living wage and the right to unionize in the fast food and retail sectors spreads across 7 cities. [indiscernible] we cannot support our families on what we make. Workerill speak with one who went on strike. He is a father of three who works at both burger king and pizza hut. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is reconsidering plans for a summit with russian president Vladimir Putin next m
Nsa Surveillance Program is coming under increasing criticism in washington from an unlikely bipartisan coalition. We will speak with republican huggers member Thomas Massie of kentucky and democratic congressman or her john conyers of michigan on their efforts to tracking everyom phone call in the United States. It is my fear that we are on the verge of becoming a surveillance state, collecting billions of electronic records on lawabiding americans every single day. Then, a National Strike for a living wage and the right to unionize in the fast food and retail sectors spreads across 7 cities. [indiscernible] we cannot support our families on what we make. Workerill speak with one who went on strike. He is a father of three who works at both burger king and pizza hut. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is reconsidering plans for a summit with russian president Vladimir Putin next
Hijacked four planes. They flew two of them into the twin towers of the world tried center in new yorkity. Another plane crashed into the Defense Department in washington. A fourth plane went down in a field in pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 people were killed in the attacks. People observed the minute of silence at 8 46 local time, the exact moment when the first plane hit one of the towers. Victims then read out the names of lost loved ones. The victims names are inscribed around the monument. U. S. President obama and Vice President joe biden marked a moment of silence at the white house, obama then attended a ceremony at the pentagon. And president obama has addressed the country about his plans for syria. He laid out the rationale for a strike against the regime of president Bashar Al Assad and he asked congress to delay a vote on whether to approve military action. I determined that it is in the National Security interest of the United States to respond to the assad regimes
Have risen. More leaked last month of a tank. It is thought to have seeped into the soil. Monitors have assigned more to they say the level of tritium rose to 64,000 becquerels per liter. More than twice the reading the previous day. The well is not located near where ground water is flowing and managers say most of the tainted soil around the tank has been removed, so they dont know how the water is getting con tame that ed. Workers planted ground water and reroute it into the ocean before it passes through reactor buildings, but their latest finding may change that. The crisis has made headlines around the world, now, the french weekly newspaper has care a ried a car yakture mocking the crisis. A cartoon shows wrestlers fighting about. One wrestler has three arms and the other has three legs. Two people in protective gear referee outside the ring. A comment says sumo was picked as an olympic sport, thanks to fukushima. The editors of the paper said the cartoon expresses surprise that