kids in one new york city didn t take their exams today. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the greatest headline to be generated thus far from the hillary for president campaign has to be. mrs. nbc reporter heroically stands firm as rest of media chases hillary s scooby van. that heroic reporter will join us in just a moment. today marked hillary clinton s first day on the official campaign trail as a 2016 presidential candidate. she kicked things off this morning with a prearranged stop of the jones street java house in leclair iowa where the cameras rolled where she made small talk with staff and placed her order. started the lunch menu probably a couple months into how is that going for you. excellent. yes, it is. this is such a homey place. i love this. i ll try both your chai and maybe a glass of water too and maybe some lemon in there would be great. i m going to go over here. later clinton visited kirkwood community c
to have another face-to-face meeting. president obama just wrapped up his remarks at the plenary session of the summit of americas. let s take a listen. the point is the united states will not be imprisoned by the past. we re looking to the future and the policies that improve the lives of the cuban people and advance the interests of cooperation in the hemisphere. his upcoming meeting with president castro is the first planned meeting between the leaders and it comes less than 24 hours after their deeply symbolic handshake you re seeing there at the summit of the americas opening ceremony last night. joining me now in panama city panama is chris jansing. let s get an update on the plenary session and what we expect to have happen. reporter: what we just heard as president obama ended his remarks, alex, is the cold war s been over for a long time and that sort of symbolizes his approach to this, something he s talked about even before he was elected president, all comin
developments after that historic nuclear agreement with iran. the biggest breakthrough in u.s./iranian relations in decades. history may not be enough to protect it once the leaders try to sell it back home. on thursday president obama wept on the offense speaking directly to lawmakers who could decide to tear it apart. it is a good deal. a deal that meets our core objective objectives. this framework would cut off every pathway that iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon. when you hear the inevitable critics of the deal sound off ask them a simple question do you really think that this verifiable deal, if fully implemented, backed by the world s major powers is a worse option than the risk of another war in the middle east? we ll get a chance to see how the president of iran sells the deal to his country. he s expected to speak about an hour from now. the deal breaks down like this iran agrees to cut its iranian stockpiles and number of centrifuges, limits futur
with the united states there and this hassen occurred and today the united states government considers the government of afghanistan a really reliable partner. commitments that are made are considerable. and the funding proposal of supporting afghan security forces by 2017 and it has reached to $4.1 billion. it is nothing less. it is a significant issue. it is a very important issue. and also yesterday there was a new framework of our economic cooperation was laid out according to which $800 million a commitment was made to be spent through the afghan budget. but most importantly is the flexibility that has been shown in the area of security cooperation and this flexibility is going to ensure and provide confidence to our security forces and our people and also is going to send a very strong message to the region that this cooperation is not short-term but it is enduring and long-term. our strategic partnership is based on a very simple principle. we want the afghan peo
serb search and rescue mission, and i just want to be as clear osn that as i possibly can. at the same time i have confirmed that we have, in fact, had debris that has washed ashore in the area. and the full-scale launch of the search and the rescues mission is probably going to be starting here very quickly. the coast guard has actually deployed a number of vessels to the area. the county and some state organizations as well are providing boats to assist with the search mission. that is beginning now as the fog has lifted and we finally have daybreak. and, andy there was a lot of fog overnight. yes. do we know exactly where this chopper went down? it was in the gulf of mexico. not in the other bodies of water, right? no. not quite, jose. it was just north of the gulf. there is an area called the sound which is kind of an inland body of water. that is where we believe the accident occurred. and according to the initial reports that we got around 8:30 central time last