Ld hear almost the sound it was amazing. I kept jumping and jumping. Amy in a victory for press freedom, two jailed al jazeera journalists have finally been pardoned and released. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy spent over a year in and egyptian jail. We will speak with the third al jazeera journalist, peter greste , who was imprisoned with them for more than 400 days and reported to australia. He has yet to receive a pardon. The fact is, we did nothing wrong. There was no evidence of wrongdoing. Ande guys are innocent men innocent men are in prison. That is what it is about. One day in prison would be unjust. Amy peter greste has traveled to new york to lobby for a pardon from egyptian president elsisi whos here for the general assembly. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis has left the United States after a historic sixday visit. During his trip, pope francis addressed congress and the Uni
The rich, we speak to former labor secretary robert reich. If our democracy are working as it should, the rules of the market would help most of us. Instead, as income and wealth is concentrated at the top of the last 40 years, so has the power to make the rules of the market, influencing the politicians, regulatory heads, and even the courts and the lawyers who appear before them. With a result the market is rigged the benefit of the few. Amy robert reich on his new book. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In afghanistan, the u. S. Military has carried out two airstrikes in efforts to bolster the Afghan Governments attempts to retake the Northern City of kunduz. It became the first major city to be taken over by Taliban Forces since 2001 on monday. The Afghan Government counteroffensive appears to be faltering. The u. S. Strikes come despite president obamas declaration of an official end to the u. S. Co
Him. Come on, guys. Its not as easy as it looks. Alrntsly not. Bam. Oh, well. Oh. Oops. Oh. Oh. Right in the glasses. Oh, my goodness, its a busy wednesday morning. In just a minute kim davis on that secret meeting with the pope. You see her right there and it is a wet day here in new york with a lot more to come. Right to the weather. We begin with that massive storm churning in the atlantic. Joaquin picking up strength as it moves towards the east coast as a hurricane warning is issued this morning for the bahamas. Ginger following its path and this one could be a big problem. Right, so max sustained win, 70 Miles Per Hour with joaquin drifting westsouthwest at only six Miles Per Hour. Hurricane warnings for the central and northern bahamas and rip current and advisories from coastal South Carolina to miami. Our confidence is high through friday. Its got hot water. It will develop into a hurricane. Could even become a category 2 through friday into early saturday. After that, things
The park. Teterboro two inches in northwest new jersey. We will talk about joaquin. It increased in intensity fast. Its backing down now southwest to the bahamas. This is where it will hang around a few days. We will talk about its path. Coast. It will be days before this takes place. We will talk about this in your accuweather forecast in a few machines. David, back to you. Thanks. They are taking precautions on the jersey shore. New jersey Anthony Johnson is there in belmar with the latest. Anthony. Reporter david, they have been starting the preparations since yesterday, getting word about joaquin so they said they would go ahead and jump into action. Lets show you what is place on the beachfront in belmar. You can see that the dunes are behind me. They are about 8 to 10 feet high. We see frontend loaders out here putting down more sand. They got a lot of this sand after Superstorm Sandy so they are using it to protect beaches because they do not want to see the water coming from th
But were at 76 degrees. 73 in roxborough, northeast philadelphia. 76. A warm muggy cloudy but mainly dry start for philadelphia. Showers likely to pop up this afternoon as the temps climb a little bit. 79 degrees later today. 77 by 2 00 this afternoon. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood and have the latest on Tropical Storm joaquin. Updated information since you woke up. Vial that one back in 10 minutes. Katy zachry is following your first alert. Katy. There was a disabled vehicle right before you hit the girard accident. You see traffic is moving fine now. Theres not a lot of backup. Though because of the slick roadways and the rain that moved in as bill said, were seeing a slight delay southbound if youre headed between woodhaven and the vine street roadway. Moving west now, flooding has been cleared. The last ten minutes i told you about flooding and there was a lane restriction on 202 northbound. In the last few minutes as soon as i got back to my desk i saw