the news of the day from our nation s capital. the supreme court, for example washington, d.c., president obama and his family getting ready to take off on the long trip to africa. we ve got that covered as well. we ll bring you up to date on everything that s going on as well and give you a chance to comment. that s what makes if so special. your calls your comments, your calls at 1-866-55-press. your comments on twitter at bpshow and on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow. president obama and the first family leave this morning for a week-long trip to africa take them to senegal to south africa and tanzania. by the way former president george w. bush is going to be on the african continent at the same time. there is no plan now for them to hook up. but of course, all eyes will be on the hospital in pretoria where the great nelson mandela remains in critical condition. here in the united states, the supreme court took a sledgehammer yesterday to the voting rights act and vl
if the phone is too old-fashioned for you, join us on twitter at bp show or on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow here in washington, d.c., this is the last week before congos on its extended july 4th break. the senate busy trying to get the immigration bill passed. the house meanwhile with nothing else to do will probably hold another hearing on benghazi pass another abortion bill and who knows they might even repeal obamacare for the 38th time. in florida the trial of george zimmerman gets underway today with opening arguments. and meanwhile has anybody seen edward snowden? he has disappeared from hong kong. popped up at moscow. apparently spent the night there and is already on his way to havana cuba. and from cuba, he will be going on to ecuador where he has sought asylum. we ll tell you about it right here on current tv. at 9 eastern. i m a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current s morning news block. you
successful. you would find people on the upper west side who are msnbc watchers who say i really like this guy. you say well, you know, he s kind of this middle class tribune also. you say i don t know that part of him. yes, for a while it was a very smart strategy of putting togethern squ quencies around many issues, whether he ll put those coalitions together. call me a little skeptical. i m dubious, he s out there, working hard i m sure he s up have shaking hands. no one will shake him. maybe john lew. i was talking to a number of people about what is the strategy, what is the logic, you kind of get the sense this is what he does. he s going to be miserable if there s a mayor s campaign and he s not in it.
flash flooding and extensive damage leaving 90,000 people without power. these latest storms come less than two weeks after the series of deadly tornadoes ravaged moore. killing 23 people. the tornado touched down in st. louis prompting the consolation of the baseball game. for more on the deadly tornadoes in oklahoma, we go to nbc s mark potter who joins us live from oklahoma city. reporter: hey, steve, the last thing that central oklahoma needed at this time was another round of tornadoes but that s what they got. they cropped up yesterday afternoon into the evening, out west of this area. they first hit in rural areas and then in small towns and then made their way to the suburbs of oklahoma city and into the airport area. the airport was closed down. all flights canceled. they are still not running at this time now. as you said, five people were killed. confirmed so far. two of them include a woman an her infant killed in their car. three others also killed in their veh
there, d-11! d-11. what s d-11? i think it s the 11th all things digital conference. the 11th year of the all things digital conference. ooh! that s what it is. let s talk about it. apple s ceo tim cook kicking things off at the all things d conference, sees more changes, says apple will continue to innovate, but he stopped short about talking about specific products. he was also asked about wearable technology, something we talk about often. take a listen. i think for something to work here, you first have to convince people it s so incredible that they want to wear it. because where you two guys are wearing watches, if we had a room full of 10 to 20-year-olds and we said, everybody stand up that has a watch on, i m not sure anybody would stand up. yeah. i don t see it. and cook was also are you wearing one? i don t. i m wearing one, but it s not set. i don t have one. let me see what the date is. i m not wearing one. sometimes i do wear one o