Seeking damages. She accuses Carnival Cruise lines of negligence and fraud and says that she was injured as a result of the unseaworthy, unsafe, unsanitary, and generally despicable conditions in aboard the triumph. A spokesperson says the company has not seen the lawsuit and cannot comment. Meantime, the triumph has been moved to a shipyard in mobile, where extensive repairs and cleanup begin as the official incident investigation also begins. Because the ship is registered in the bahamas and the event occurred in international waters, the bahamian authority is the lead investigator. Both the u. S. Coast guard and the National Transportation safety board, the ntsb, are heavily involved, interviewing passengers and crew, trying to determine why the fire broke out and how it was handled and ultimately trying to prevent Something Like this from ever happening again. Lester . Thanks. The ordeal on the carnival triumph was difficult for everyone on board. For some, it did become a dire eme
Is in discussions between the conservative Freedom Caucus and house moderates. On another front, republican congressman tom cole of oklahoma sums it up this way. Quote, differences have narrowed and this thing is very much alive,en quote. House republicans will talk legislative priorities on a Conference Call this saturday. We would expect health care repealing and replacing obamacare the effort to revive that legislative effort to be one of those topics. Our National Politics reporter m. J. Lee is joining us with details. M. J. , walk us through the behind the scene efforts under way to revive this health care reform. Well, wolf, what we are seeing is some potential move minute on health care. What we know is that leaders of the tuesday group and the house Freedom Caucus have been talking throughout the easter recess to see if they can get to an agreement so that they can revive the Health Care Bill that failed about a month ago. Now, sources tell us that they have largely been talkin
U. S. Warships in the Mediterranean Sea fired 59 tomahawk missiles. The strike is in response to syrias chemical attack in idlib on tuesday, which killed 86 people. Tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this Vital National security interest of the United States, to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. The pentagon says it striked positions. Lets bring in brian. First, from the latest from the pentagon. And whats the Damage Assessment from the air strike. Reporter they dont have a formal Damage Assessment in yet. Were waiting to hear that. Were hearing what is targeted. Aircraft were targeted. And aircraft tied to the regime. Hangars, taxiway. They wanted to make the airfield no longer operational with the strikes. 59 tomahawk missiles coming down on to this airbase. They did it at a time of day that would minimize the casualties. There are russian personnel at the airfield.
Responsible for it or involved in it. After these claims are rejected what is your take on that . Are there other suspects or you think it was a mistake to blame British Intelligence for this and, by the way, my second question, are there from time to time tweets that you regret very seldom. Very seldom. So you never would have wished probably would not be here. We have a tremendous group of people that listen and i can get around the immediamedia when th doesnt tell the truth so i like that. As far as wiretapping i guess by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps. [ laughter ] and just to finish your question, we said nothing. All we did was quote aertain talentedegal mind. Who was responsible for saying it on television. That was made by someone on fox so you should be talking to fox. Fox news now saying it has no evidence of any kind that former president Obama Wiretapped President Trump. And not disavowing the statement from sean spicer yesterday. On
Major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. The reaction from the press is usually Something Like this. Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say its time for our viewers to crack each others heads open and feast on the goo inside . Yes, i would, kent. Look, in humor theres truth, but lets be serious here, seems like if there was any other president that there was a chance of a major, major conflict with nuclear power, there would be ber views, lester holt flying to seoul. Dont get me wrong the conflict as joe biden might say, a big deal, but lets face it weve been conditioned to discount the president s words already. And thats a big deal too. Folks, this might be the biggest story of the first 100 days, the loss of the power of the president s words. First off the president himself just admitted that this is not the job he thought it was. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a im a details ori