Tom yeah, alison, that incident highlights why the metro gm wants more time to work on the tracks. The hearing started at 12 30 this afternoon. The last speaker walked out those doors about 10 00 tonight. Until metros Safetrack Program ends next spring, it closes at midnight seven days a week. The question is what happens after that . Government jobs, closing on saturday and sunday. Tom they want weekend latenight service back. Until june, metro stayed open until 3 a. M. Fridays and saturdays. Now sometimes workers have to take taxis instead. We cannot afford that on a does not with the system open as many hours as it used to be, giving crews time to maintain the tracks. Metro was looking at a bunch of choices, everything from opening at noon sundays to shutting down at 11 30 on weekdays. The gm said he could live with a compromise in which latenight service ended at 1 a. M. Weekends. We use it as safe transportation around the city. Tom most speakers and metros most restaurants and ba
Footage to the public, but intends to show stocks family. Always followed another chaotic native gunfire and tear gas in charlottes city center. North carolina governor has declared a state of emergency, the National Guard has been deployed, and Loretta Lynch is sending doj officers help police. Police related shootings have been one of the most explosive issues in American Society for is anst few years, and it issue that both president ial candidates have just on the campaign trail. Heres donald trump, speaking today. Mr. Trump Many Americans are watching the unrest in charlotte unfolding right before their eyes on the tv screens. Others are witnessing the chaos and violence firsthand. Our country looks bad to the world, especially when we are supposed to be the world leader. How can we lead when we cant even control our own cities . We honor and recognize the right of all americans to peacefully assemble, protest, and demonstrate, but there is no right to engage in violent disruption
A police s. W. A. T. Team storms a plane after a passenger makes a direct threat against the flight. With the skies increasingly unfriendly over the past week, many of you are tweeting us with your concerns, especially with the safety of flying. The air Safety Task Force is standing by to answer your questions. Let us know what you think. Make sure you tweet us using the askdon. Also ahead tonight, is it time to bring back the firing squad for death row inmates . With another botched execution making headlines, were going to hear from a federal judge who says the firing squad and the guillotine are more efficient options than lethal injections. Israel and hamas agree to a 12hour ceasefire set to begin in three hours. Were going straight to correspondent john vause. He joins us from jerusalem. John, the day is breaking and the ceasefire will take effect very shortly. What is the feeling . Will it hold . Well, don, keep in mind they agreed to a twohour humanitarian ceasefire last sunday.
Trump, where does he stand on that muslim ban . We are one on one with rachel. General policy is what he says. It is a total shut down of muslims entering the united states. You should see what he said last monday, from known exporters. Which makes no sense. Good day im Andrea Mitchell in new york. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton back on the campaign trail and taking the attacks to a new level. Childrlinton ready to slam trum the wing leader of the altright. Joining me now is katy tur and kasie hunt. Kasie, take us to what clinton is expected to do today and what does she mean by propagating her attacks on the so called altright . Reporter sure. You showed a little bit of the preview Hillary Clinton gave of the speech, casting trump as essentially embracing and becoming the leader of the so called altright Movement Starting from when he talked about president obamas birth certificates all the way to what he has been saying about muslims, mexicans and other groups. The idea to push bac
good evening, lawrence. rachel i believe you just expanded the staff of the rachel maddow show by millions and millions of people. oh if there were just millions and millions. at least dozens and dozens. thanks rachel. this morning, president obama credited president john kennedy with the principle that has guided the obama administration s approach to iran. he quoted jfk s inaugural address saying let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. a landmark deal setting off a global debate. a comprehensive, long-term deal with iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. we are the first administration to actually stop their program. this is an important step. what a stunning historic mistake. making comments way over the top. the next battle for israel is the battle on capitol hill. i welcome a robust debate in congress if in fact it s a fair deal as i think it is at this moment we ll do everything we can to stop it.