Earthquake said the scene looked like dantes inferno. The quake was centered 100 miles northeast of rome. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live in the Digital Operations Center monitoring the new information and the video coming in. Pam, what do you have for us . Reporter tracy, the strong earthquake caused homes to collapse on top of residents as they slept. Rescue workers in central italy say the death toll is now up to 73. First responders raced to dig survivors from the rubble, but the death toll is expected to rise as crews reach homes in hardertoreach areas. The mayor of hardhit town, amatrice said the town isnt hearing more. They joined red cross workers in the rescue effort. Several large aftershocks followed the initial quake, which hit at 3 36 a. M. , italian time. Take a look at this. One survivor was buried under so much rubble, only their arm was visible. A rescue worker was able to talk to that person and keep them calm until they could be rescued. The quake hit during the summe
Reporter controversy phil the philly air waves today about blaine from swedesboro. A frequent caller to 97. 5 the phanatic but the africanamerican man from new jersey is actually ryan egan a white radio producer for the Mike Missanelli show. Missanelli apologized to listeners saying he had no idea his own producer had been making the fake calls for two years. Blaine whats going on man. How you doing man. Calls and tweets that included stereotypes of african americans. I apologize if that went over the line, and it wont happen again. Reporter kyle scott who runs the sports blog crossing broad uncovered the hoax. To find out that some of is maybe staged and then when you add in the angle there was a slight race component to this and it was offensive to some people, i think that makes it a little bit disappointing. Reporter now, we tried to cant tact the phanatic self times for comment on this story and to find out if there are any other fake callers on the air waves. So far were still wa
But weve benefitted as a society by having a wall between the government and the people. And lets keep that wall in place to make sure that nobody in the government can tell you what to do when it comes to your religious freedom. At the same time for those who believe in god youre not the enemy. We dont need to drive god out of the public square. We just need to make sure weve got the right balance. Josh thank you very much to bill ladd for that question. Back to the studio audience. A different take on foreign policy. For more than a decade, the medias coverage of American Foreign policy is focused on our militarys efforts to combat terrorism and extremism. Id like to hear your views on the World International planning policy despite popular conceptions, international aide only comprises 1 of the federal budget. Do you see international aide as an important tool in building strong communitys and allies around the world. Senator graham did yall hear this question . 1 of your federal bu
Fidelity or granularity during the q a period. During the war game, russia was able to operate with more flexibility and options. The russian team had a lot more options. They were less constrained by international norms, laws, alliances. For instance, during one of our turns, russia was able to delay armor and troops along the border, and this was cast as a defensive move or posture, and what it was was an overly aggressive move. Which leads me to the second point. Russia operates with a far more robust informational operations campaign. Their io was remarked by one of the participants as they more or less recognized propaganda. Oftentimes, russia was able to spin a particular narrative that the west could not easily counter, or if they did attempt to counter, it took a bit of lead time in order to gather the facts and figures in order to put forth more of a truthful message. Again, alluding to the first point, the russian team was more flexible in how they reacted to most of the scen
Dinelaris. This is the fifth nomination for alejandro g. Inarritu and his first oscar win. Cheers. Wow. The journey of birdman start three years ago when i ask nico, armando and alexander to follow me in a crazy idea and because they are crazy, they did it and we wrote together birdman. And for that, i am all my life grateful and thank for to share this experience with them. We want to thank our incredible cast. Emma naomi andrea amy, lindsay, mr. Norton zach and the maestro of maestro, mr. Michael keaton. Were making this film fly. Without you guys we would not be here. James, the producer. I want to thank, obviously, the great support from new lee region sy region. All the people to thank. My kids my wife thank you very much for all. Thank you. This award wait, wait. Family time. My daughters are my reason. Marianna, our dog larry. [ speaking Foreign Language ] announcer please welcome oscar nominee oprah winfrey. Before the crew is hired, before the actors are cast, before the sets