Clues behind a motive in ohio. The shooters family breaking their silence. In texas, the officials complete the grim task of identifying the 22 victims overnight. Plus, epidemic of abuse. The explosive new accusation against the boy scouts after hundreds come forward with their stories. Beloved. The tributes pour in overnight for legendary author Toni Morrison. And summer soaker. The new round of powerful storms that will strike from the plains to the northeast. Behind them, another heat wave. Als got the latest forecast today. Wednesday, august 7th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for being with us on a wednesday morning. Unfortunately, it is a sign of the times, people hear a certain sound in a crowded area, and they fear the worst. Clearly a country on edge. Lets get right to the breaking news, as savannah mentioned. Disturbing times after the M
Precountry new narkal limitation for employmentbased immigrants to increase the per country numerical limitation for familysponsored immigrants, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from california,s. Colorado, mr. Buck, will each control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. Mrs. Love gren i ask unanimous consent that address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Lofgren i yield myself such time as i may consume. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of h. R. 1044, the fairness for high schooled immigrants act, a bipartisan bill that would make a modest but important change to our immigration laws to alleviate hardships associated with lengthy visa backlogs. Let me begin by explaining what this bill does do and does not do. H. R. 1044 does not increase the overall number of immigrant visas that are available each year. Although raising the ceiling on visas is the only viable
Yemen horace state was looking at the growth of local militias which were causing problems and we think that that was probably the reason that he was taken out and that was the posture in our state this is indicative of when you start to liberalize a authoritarian system i mean weve seen this elsewhere in the world other things stop popping up and this i think is exactly whats happening in ethiopia my hope is that he will be up to still continue this reformist agenda and gradually deliver and then the tensions that were seeing in ethiopia which were very visible over the last 48 hours will reduce claymore had in the news hour including after fleeing deadly violence a new crisis now faces tens of thousands of displaced people in central mali. Also why the Czech Republic saw its biggest demonstrations since the end of communism 30 years ago. And support argentina and qatar is right now at south americas biggest international. As Tensions Mount between the u. S. And iran president onil tr
Also check out the rewind page at aljazeera dot com for more films from the series im come on santa maria thanks for joining us to see your concert. In 2008 traveled across the United States discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american 1st i didnt have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim to be elected to the United States congress. Rewind islam in america on aljazeera. But remember were watching those few showers developing over the caspian sea a couple days ago they were drifting east to be this lot coming over afghanistan tajikistan they were big enough to produce flash flooding in tajikistan there are still a few showers around as you can see left overs the might be more to come west of it although its nice and settles sorry wrong temperatures of around about 45. 00 mark in baghdad baghdad a streak of cloud the gray across the eastern med i think it will be no more t
Adjourned. We are getting ready to start the second half, that date night doubleheader. It will extend into the nighttime. I dont think it will. With that, im pleased to call this hearing to order. Welcome all of our witnesses, welcome to guests, and a special thanks to senator capito and our colleagues for being here for this important hearing. Today, we are to discuss the federal Highway Administrations communication of the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act. Its, im enormously proud. I know senator capito is as well. Weve worked with this committee did and literally, laying the foundation for the bipartisan infrastructure defense of. People say to me and im sure they say to you, senator capito, when you travel back to West Virginia around the country, why cant you guys and gals just Work Together to get stuff done . As it turns out, in this committee, thats what we do. We reported out parts of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation unanimously, 20 to 2. Ten