But instead of collecting on it, we will abol an offshoot ofl street has launched a new limit to about the people, not the banks by buying up distressed debt from Financial Firms and canceling it so that borrowers do not have to repay. Then, tasing ice. 1984, the glacier was 11 miles away. Today, is back here. The glacier is retreating but it is also thinning at the same time. The new documentary looks at how photographer james balog captured Climate Change on film by placing two dozen time lapse cameras throughout the arctic and other areas to film melting glaciers. He will join us live. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israel is threatening to launch a Ground Invasion of the gaza strip after breaking an informal ceasefire with a series of deadly attacks. On wednesday, an israeli airstrike assassinated the head of hamas military wing. The bombing continued, killing at least 13 solutions, including a ba
fate. he says if you accept the demands, i live. if you don t accept the demands, i die. he said it was important that the president accept the demands quickly and not delay. he says there will be no benefit in delaying. it will just make things more difficult for me. he tried to reach out in personal words saying hopefully i can enjoy my two daughters like you enjoy your two daughters. this is the second confirmation by al qaeda that he s been held by the group. bill: he was taken in eastern afghanistan. has he been moved to the more volatile area? report report suspicions are he was moved to the west to waziristan where the majority of al qaeda operatives are in safe haven these days. the al qaeda operatives took him in august. it could be a criminal gang. though the police had no real leads. even the u.s. embassy is remaining quiet about it. he appears to be looked after fairly well. he s 70 years old and has a heart condition. he did say that he was being looked after and
above his left eye there is growing debate about releasing the gruesome praofr of death photos. word a short time ago that they could release photos of usama bin laden s burial at sea. reporter: a reuters report was released a half hour ago which quotes a government official speaking on the condition of anonymity that case the white house is considering releasing the photos of usama bin laden s burial at sea later today. now the white house is denying that through official channels. no final decision has been made as far as we know. that is the bottom line. we can add that here at the pentagon there were a couple of media availabilities that had been scheduled for early this morning. they have both been canceled. typically when that happens it means the white house is calling the shots. if the photos are going to be released it will probably be coming from the white house and not from the pentagon. there has been no mention, however, of the release of the photos of usama bi
power and prince george s county has 755 outages. in northern virginia dominion power has more than 8400 customers in the dark tonight. bge reporting more than 6900 still in the dark. seems many people have to spend the weekend cleaning up from the storm damage while others are happy to get home after roadblocks showed up during the rush hour tonight. we go live to ken with what it looked like. reporter: looked crazy everywhere you looked around the washington area. the winds may be gone for now but not before it left behind a trail of destruction. take a look at this massive tree. this will answer any of the questions about how strong the wind was today. now neighbors in this bethesda neighborhood and throughout washington are left dusting themselves off from today s rattling winds. in most cases it came quick but fierce. winds uprooted this massive pine tree and sent it crashing right back onto its lawn and this bethesda neighborhood, same thing. all of a sudden drivi