Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im paige hopkins. Finally relief on the way. 21 people have died as the polar vortex blanketed the u. S. Shadowing the record books with record temperatures. It was below freezing somewhere in each of the 50 states tuesday, yes even in hawaii. An estimated 190 Million People faced the icy blast head on. So did pets. Its a reminder to not leave them outside. This guy peanut was frozen to the ground in mississippi when it reached4 this week. Hes okay now. The record cold even made the small town of hell, michigan froze over. Sara has more. Reporter the view from above captures it perfectly, a chicago city frozen in place. In minnesota a car off the bridge, the driver walk ago way from minor injuries. Many put are long hours to bring power back to life. All 50 states recorded freezing temperatures at some point tuesday. An unlucky few recorded negative temperatures. A continued cold meant a continued travel might marry. I65 turned into a parking
The owl whisperer, how long this guy was trying to get that owl out of his home before coming up with this ingenious idea coming up in the trend. Good day, everybody. Thanks for joining us on this tuesday, june 24th. Another Beautiful Day on tap, chris murphy, it is exciting when we feel like we are in the mode where kids are heading to camp. Maybe your children are going to camp. Just perfect weather for it, sue. It is, it is not too hot. We had a couple days in the the 90s when it was impressive last week. You will notice it is more humid later this afternoon and that is why were going with a nine instead of the ten but temperatures will be seasonal right where they are supposed to be this time of the year. Mostly sunny skies, just a bit more humid, temperatures they range from 67 degrees in the city, and to 60 in the mountains. We are at 59 in millville and in Atlantic City international. Compared to yesterday, maybe a couple degrees mild inner some spots but it was a pretty comfort
Countdown hello welcome to hello. Welcome to countdown. At 11 00 a. M. London time, eu ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting in brussels. The deteriorating relationship with russia and the threat posed by islamist militants and iraq. International correspondent hans nichols is in brussels. They have a lot to discuss and just the first day. They have very little hard intelligence about what is happening on the ground in both of the situation. Iraq appears to be improving but on ukraine, theres a great deal of conclusion confusion so there will be an attempt to see clarity. Its unlikely there will be another round of sanctions according to an eu official. They will assess the impact of and thenimport ban they will try and figure out what is actually happening right now in the city of donetsk. Vladimir putin in crimea talking about a worsening crisis. There are reports from local of armored incursions into rebel held territory. We still do not know what will be happening with this
Range. Companys roadshow is here in San Francisco today. We are learning more about the tense relationship between Tech Companies and the nsa. Court documents say the government threatened to fine yahoo 250,000 per day if it did not turn over user data. Apples biggest iphone appears to be off to a hot start. To the apple website the device is on backorder and isnt expected ship expected to ship for another three weeks. In addition apples website had some issues due to all the traffic. One user tweeted to me not everyone having problems. Apple facing a supply chain problem or is it a way to drum up demand . Joining me as cory johnson. Is this a marketing stunt or do they have supply issues here . Every time they come out with an iphone this happens. This is the way they probably wanted it to play out. Would be a disaster if it were two or three months. Is this an indication the six plus is going to be the most popular phone . Them all without a doubt people want a larger phone. If you t
Former idaho soldier who served in afghanistan and helped the late reporter Michael Hastings write his groundbreaking piece on Bowe Bergdahl, americas last prisoner of war. Farwell came to know bergdahls parents after they attended the funeral of his brother who served and died in afghanistan. And we look at the five members of the taliban released from guantanamo. I would say these five arent the worst of the worst. It doesnt mean theyre good guys. Its not my job to defend them. We will speak with frank goldsmith, the attorney for one of the freed men, and Andy Worthington, author of, the guantanamo files the stories of the 774 detainees in americas illegal prison. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The political firestorm is continuing over the rescue of Sergeant Bowe bergdahl in exchange for five guantanamo prisoners. The deal has come under partisan attack amidst reports bergdahl voluntarily left his