Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
202 5853880 for democrats. Independents. For you can let us know on our social media pages. You can send this email, too. The New York Times highlights the use of airs trikes as a possibility. Michael gordon and helen cooper writing. Should the Obama Administration go forward with airstrikes, the unstable situation in iraq would require the aircraft to be based in neighboring countries. Armed drones could be based in the region or possibly in kurdistan. If the Obama Administration wanted to use air power to influence battles closer to baghdad where insurgents are operating your civilians, the strikes would be most effective if the United States deployed small teams of special forces or s. Telligence agent identifie it isng iraq highlighted in the m on the map. Highlighting the fact that drone strikes against militant likely re more are already two armed with tomahawk missiles in the persian gulf. Would you support it . For republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853882 for indepen
Day, today, sunday, june 15th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a sunday morning. Its, of course, happy fathers day. Happy fathers day to our dad here in the studio. Lester holt thank you very much, erica hill and thanks and happy fathers day to my father who is also lester, by the way. Makes it easy. Dylan dreyer and ron mott here and nice to have you here and thats because jenna is down in baltimore where she is getting in an Early Morning workout. Shes there with the ravens today as part of our shine a light series running the stairs so the rest of us dont have to. Shes going to be hanging out. Not true. With some of the players from the team, the citys mayor is also there, a bunch of fans, all there as part of our shine a light series so were looking forward to checking in with her a little bit later. Im feeling her exercise vibe. Feeling, it too, burke the calories. Actually winded watc
Break. Fog is back on duty as the temperatures dropped into the 60s. A foggier view in just the lat few minutes. Thicker in south philadelphia. You could see showers and thunderstorms for the game later today. Fog this morning, especially thick in coatesville. Half mile visibility in quakertown. Mount pocono and hazelton down to a quarter mile visibility. 63 at Philadelphia International and northeast philadelphia, just a gentle breeze blowing here at the nbc 10 studios. Fog to start with, 66 degrees. By 9 00, warmer. The fog will start to disappear. As we head into the noontime hour, showers and heavy thunderstorms start to develop moving into the afternoon. Look at the future weather when i come back. First, jillian mele has traffic. Good morning. Good morning to you, bill. Good news on 76. Its clear in both directions. This is a live look at montgomery drive. It looks good here. No problems to report. 14 minutes both ways on 76 between the blue route and the vine. They are also clea
Getting news from afghanistan. Taliban insurgents have launched an attack against a nato supply base destroying 37 vehicles including fuel tankers. Thats in eastern afghanistan. Three suicide attackers armed with heavy weapons attacked a nato supply base in the base of torcon. Afghan Security Forces shot dead the three attackers. Three drivers have been injured in the attack. A nato spokesman said there were no nato casualties. The attack has caused a significant amount of damage to vehicles. A complex attack against a nato supply base. Well bring you up to date as soon as we can. Afghanistan has been going through an election process. U. S. Troops plan to pull out this year. Well keep you updated. Spain is entering a new era with King Felipe Vi and his family at the swearing in. These are live pictures from madrid with the king in a ceremonial car being driven through the streets of madrid. Many people there welcome him in the madrid sunshine. He is the first king of spain in nearly 4