Chronicling seven decades of hiw home. It is friday, july 26th, 2019. Here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. A black eye for the marine core. 16 marines face charges in a human smuggling and drug system. A massive arrest of u. S. Marines. The arrests took place in a public display for the entire unit to see. A deadly shooting spree. Police in los angeles arresting a man suspected of killing at least four people including his father and brother. We havent come up with a motive. Parts of europe continuing to be in the grips of a scorching heat wave, shattering records. It hitn09 i paris. My brain is actually melting. The cofounder was grilled on capitol hill as lawmakers probe the growing trend of teenage vaping. You sir are nothing but a poison and your target has been young people. North korea says the latest missile test was a warning to south korea over its plan to hold military exercises with the u. S. The derailment of about 70 train cars. This video is incredible. Lo
Safely. We are learning more tonight about the 11 people who were killed friday night when a skydiving plane crashed and burned in hawaii. It went down shortly after takeoff on the island of oahu. Jonathan vigliotti is there. Reporter those who saw the skydiving plane plummet to the ground looked on in horror. All 11 onboard were killed. I saw it hit. I was right there, man. I was right there. Reporter Carlos Zapato drove denver tourists brian and Ashley Weikel to the doomed flight. They were celebrating their oneyear wedding anniversary. If you knew them for five minutes or five years, they touched your life. You couldnt ask for any two better people in your life. Reporter the ntsb have their work cut out for them. The impact of the crash and the massive fire that happened afterwards reducing this aircraft to just charred and mangled pieces. Witnesses say just after takeoff, the plane reached only about 100 feet, spun twice, and clipped trees before hitting the ground nose first. The
court and laura jarrett. i remember the reporting in december, you were reporting on what a critical impact this could have should the lower courts be overturned? yes, the state legislature said they should have the power to draw the lines, and what justice roberts saying today and the majority opinion is the way north carolina interpreted that theory, it was way over broad. he s not saying the court should never weigh in on this issue, but specifically, and the way north carolina interpreted this, it was too broad and they went beyond their authority. what this case boils down to what it could have been, if the supreme court said, yes, the legislature was within their power to draw the districts, it could be within their power to manipulate a number of ways to conduct elections from the state level and it could fall into each state s individual party to see how people are registering to vote and how the congressional districts are drawn based on the parties ruling them, bu
biden. abrams battle tanks finally heading to ukraine. cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly has the reporting. we are fully, thoroughly, totally united. reporter: a diplomatic break through with dramatic implications. the united states will be sending 31 abram tanks to ukraine. reporter: the u.s. tanks set to significantly expand ukraine s battlefield capabilities. it makes it possible for germany, but also other european nato allies to provide battle tanks to ukraine and that will significantly strengthen their combat capabilities. reporter: at the same moment europe s largest land war in 80 years is in its most after weeks of u.s. officials say it was untenable. the maintenance and high cost it would take to maintain an abrams doesn t make sense to provide that to the ukrainians at this time. reporter: their inclusion a demand from german officials in order to clear the way for delivery of their own tanks and to sign off on the german-made
President for foreign policies here at the kato institute. Thank you for being here today and the outstanding conference stuff who do a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching at cspan and online at kato. Org. Following the september 11 terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States issued combat operations inside afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorist there is. The ensuing 16 years, u. S. Goals have changed marginally but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Aassessments are mixed at best. In june secretary of state james mattis stated we are not winning in afghanistan right now. Estimates what have we spent prang from 840 billion to over 2 trillion plus over 2300 u. S. Troops killed and another 20,000 wounde