Casts. More now about the 2007 surge of troops in eric with a foe cuss on the planning by the Bush Administration. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is stef, it is my great pleasure this afternoon to introduce our distinguished panel of speakers. We have ambassador edelman who has served in the department of state and the white house, and u. S. Ambassador to finland, turkey, and was Vice President dick cheneys deputy assistance. He has a department of defense medal for distinguished public service. From the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and a distinguished service award. To my far left we have general lute, he retired in 2017, previously he had a distinguished 25 year career in the u. S. Army and he served for a total of sick years in the white house under both president s, george w. Bush, and barack obama. And in 2007 he was named to coordinate the wars in iraq and afghanistan. It was both on the joint staff in washington dc and on the United States central
Prepared to call a referendum on whether u. K. Should stay in the European Union and cullan smashes a record in his final test match. Details later in the programme beginning the newshour in uganda where police put the main opposition candidate under rest. Its the fourth time he has been detained. Police say it is to stop unrest after vote rigging in the poll. Results show the president is on course to extend his 30 year recall. Malcolm webb is in the capital kampala. Reporter police have described this as house arrest. To keep people safe. The chief observer of the european elections joins us. Has the election been free and fair . Its difficult it answer it directly. There were elements promising for the future of the country. The people, taking part in the election and voting they have tries many things, bringing it to the attention. Opposition arrival for the residents. So i think the country has come close to achieve that, to us. And the opposition says its been treated unfairly. T
Ready to handle it. Good evening, im keith jones. Tonight, there are more questions about americas response to ebola. It wasnt until today that the dallas apartment where ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan lives was finally sanitized. The car he wroed in wrapped in plastic. His family deliver that lived there moved to a different home late today after a week in quarantine. At least 17 people, including churn in the dallas area, are being monitored daily. In the meantime, an nbc news photographer working with dr. Nancy snyderman in liberia has tested positive for ebola. Hell return to the u. S. For treatment this weekend. And philadelphia, by the way, has a Large Population of people with ties to west africa. Nbc 10s George Spencer is live at Philadelphia International airport. George, i understand some of these local families have been trying to fly their loved ones out of west africa. They have, keith, and it has not been easy. There are between 5,000 and 10,000 liberians in our region a
Dramatically cut down the transmission of the virus and the numbers show how important this is because right now the u. S. Has more than 5 million coronavirus cases and almost 163,000 deaths. Schools are beginning their reopening plans and anxiety is already high among parents and educators and now alarming new finding from the American Academy of pediatrics that almost 100,000 children tested positive for the virus in the last two weeks of july. In georgia you will remember this picture from last week of students packed in the hallways of a high school. That school is now shut down for at least two days after several positive cases. College football is likely done for. There are reports that the leaders of the power five conferences may postpone or even cancel the football season. Over the weekend, the mid american conference announced it canceled the fall season and in the midst of the coronavirus chaos the secretary of health and Human Services is describing a Pandemic Response that
This week, we learned more about the best people donald trump hired to staff his administration. Starting with his former staff secretary, rob porter. Both his exwives have accused porter of years of Domestic Violence and abuse. That was not news to some senior members of the administration. White House Counsel down mcgahn knew of the accusations back in january of 2017. Trumps chief of staff, john kelly, learned of the allegations this past fall when he found out that the fbi was delaying porters security clearance. Yet porter stayed on as kellys right hand man, designated to see classified material, despite reports that porter was one of 30 officials working without full security clearance. That list including jared kushner. When the allegations against porter were first made public tuesday night, john kelly defended porter as a man of true integrity and honor. He reversed course the following day after porter first wife, colbie holderness, released this photo showing a black eye she