Morning . The president obama is defending this deal saying the sanctions would snap back into place if iran violates any part. President obama says a deal with iran over Nuclear Weapons outweighs the alternative. Why we are taking the steps, because an iran armed with a Nuclear Weapon would be far more destabilizing and far more dangerous to our friends and the world. The u. S. Worked with five other superpowers to abandon its Nuclear Program, in exchange for lifting crippling economic sanctions. The nation is still on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, and had ignored agreements over its Nuclear Program in the past. This deal is not built on trust. Its built on verification. Critics in congress along with leaders of israel saudi arabia and other middle east allies wasted no time condemning the deal. This is the most dangerous irresponsible step ive seen in the history of watching the middle east. This does not guarantee that iran will not achieve a Nuclear Weapon in the future.
Think he should be punished severely or no, not severely, but no, should be reprimanded. I am told he will spend the night in jail. Is he due in court sometime tomorrow afternoon. We are seeing brand new video tonight that is reported to be the last video taken inside Malaysia Airlines flight 17 before it was shot down. This is posted to instagram by a passenger as people were still taking their seats, and as a pilot made an announcement. The caption reads, in the name of god, feeling a little bit nervous. Theres some confusion surrounding the post. The name on the account does not appear to match the name of the passenger who is reportedly widely who is widely being reported, that is. International investigators, meanwhile, are arriving in ukraine as the world begins to mourn the loss of nearly 300 people. Tonight a vigil will take place at the dump embassy in northwest to remember those lost. We learned earlier today that one of those victims is an american. Meanwhile, there is more
Not a u. S. Citizen per se. About an hour ago Indiana University confirmed that one of its students, carline keger was a doctoral chemistry student, on the schools rowing team, was from amsterdam and was on the flight and died as a result. Meanwhile the United Nations also meeting as we speak. It has released a statement with its condolences to the victims of this flight talking about how it wants to move forward with the investigation. The u. N. Has offered to put an International Team of investigators together. They made that offer to the ukraine. Obviously the area where this plane went down is not in a ukrainiancontrolled area, so we dont know what will happen with that offer from the United Nations. Weve also learned that at least one person from the National Transportation safety board from the United States will travel to the ukraine to help with the investigation there. The question now, though, is how effective will this investigation be. Nbcs tom costello has an explanation o
Watch. First alert meteorologist erica grow has the latest on our yellow alert. Bruce, the severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 9 00. You can see the line of thunderstorms that is moving toward the beltway on doppler 9000. Severe thunderstorms already rolled through the hagerstown area. Look at how the lightning strikes have really diminished, though, in the past hour. We have practically no lightning strikes anymore. Thats a good indication that that particular thunderstorm cell is losing its energy. I think thats the reason also that the Severe Thunderstorm Warning was not extended for that particular thunderstorm cell. Everything is moving at about 20 to 25 miles per hour. Even though we dont have much in the way of lightning anymore, we still have very heavy rain and the heaviest downpours are just starting to make their way into the city of frederick. Were going to be looking for some very heavy rain through the next half hour to minutes, as this heaviest cell moves throug
Nasa says its ultimate tool a spacecraft has thrown as flown past the most distant celestial body ever studied. Im phil girl welcome to the program. As the clock moves around the time zones around the last parts of the world ringing in twenty nine say the new year is officially underway from east to west revelers have been celebrating with music dancing and dazzling fireworks displays so lets take a look at some of the highlights. For millions of people around the globe the last moments of twenty eight thousand were spent holding their breath then as the clock struck midnight the show began. From kuala lumpur to sydney. To hong kong. Hours later twenty one thousand came to pakistan. Then to dubai. The home of the worlds tallest skyscraper the board khalifa. And on to the lebanese capital beirut. One of the largest new years eve celebrations in europe is in berlin at the Brandenburg Gate hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered for the show. But. It was a similar scene in the city of