News 4 at 11 00 begins with severe weather. Powerful summer storms bring lightning, strong wind and heavy downpours to d. C. , virginia and maryland. Here is a look at the storms. We have reports of tree damage and 5500 pepco and dominion virginia customers without power. Doug is tracking showers around the area now. We begin now with team 4 coverage with darcy spencer, live in Montgomery County near Georgia Avenue and the icc. Darcy . We are live on norbeck not far from the Leisure World retirement community. This tells the story of what happened tonight with this storm. The wind came through, literally snapped the pole. It came down to the ground bringing power lines with it. We spoke to a resident not far from here. She was here when the storm hit. She had to seek shelter in her bathroom. It was not a 50 Miles Per Hour wind. It was like, whoo i said, oh, my god. Is that a tornado . Reporter Jacquelyn Jackson was home alone when the storm hit. She was so frightened she hid in a room
Three dead in the french city of nice after a knife attack near a church. The mayor calls it an act of terrorism. Jeremy corbyn has been suspended from the labour party, following his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti semitism were handled during his time as leader. The equality and Human Rights Commission found that the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harrasment and discrimination. The interim chair of the ehrc said, our investigation has highlighted multiple areas where its approach and leadership to tackling anti semitism was insufficient. This is inexcusable and appeared to be a result of a lack of willingness to tackle anti semitism rather than an inability to do so. In response, Jeremy Corbyn said, 0ne antisemite is one too many, but the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media. That combination hurtjewish people and must never be rep
And it was not that big a deal. It was a big deal and lead to further big deals because in the aftermath of watergate, it had the rockefeller and Church Committee investigations that rattled theeeply u. S. Government was with this abuse of power. Watergate was much more than one burglary. That was the third burglary they pulled off. As repercussions, you had the president resigning. You had the Vice President resigning two attorney generals resigning. 12 corporations and individuals pled guilty and maybe two dozen men went to jail. How significant was the w thatation of spiro agne led to the appointment of gerald ford . I think it was significant in itself. I think there is a good chance nixon would not have been impeached if he had agnew as insurance. It was no great payoff for the democrats to get rid of nixon just to get agnew. Nixon might have been better for them in the 1974 elections than agnew. Agnews troubles which had nothing to do with watergate were a major part of what happ
An american tragedy. This program is about one hour. 40 years ago, the white house was the scene. We will continue with your calls and comments on American History tv. Our guest is john farrell who is coming out with a new book, Richard Nixon an american tragedy. Thanks for being with us on American History tv. You wrote a piece for politico and said this dwarfed any other political scandal in American History. He tried to put the entire nixon presidency in context. How so . Talking was sort of a point over the years that watergate was this third rate burglary, that everybody did it, and it was not that big a deal. It was a big deal and lead to further big deals because in the aftermath of watergate, it had the rockefeller and Church Committee investigations that rattled theeeply u. S. Government was with this abuse of power. Watergate was much more than one burglary. That was the third burglary they pulled off. As repercussions, you had the president resigning. You had the Vice Presid
The verge of energy independence, whats going to happen to saudi arabia and what sort of impact are they going to have on the rest of the arab world . Saudi arabia has made it clear that in general with the exception of syria they are against what is going on in the arab world. They dont see this as a historical transformational process. They see this as an arab inferno, a revolutionary process that is going to really ruin the arab world, etc. And they see the world, i think, in terms of two prisms, if you will; a sunnishiite prism and a status quo change prism. And these are not always, you know, converging. And so in most of the arab world, they see it in terms of status quo versus change, and they have attempted to do so, to slow down the process if not reverse it altogether through basically financial means. Theyve done so in their own country, theyve done so in the gulf, theyre doing so with egypt where basically, now, theyve poured billions with of dollars not towards necessarily