America tonight remembers. Jay la monica. Our program is different tonight as is our world. A little dimmer as we mourn the loss of a very dear part of the america tonight team. So many people you never see play a role in bringing our stories to air. Weve lost one of them. But we wont ever foresight the impact jay la monica made on the work we do. Our program tonight honors hits memory and we hope reveals how much he touched each of our lives. Jay led our america tonight investigative team. Never letting up on the drive for accuracy for proof and urging us to tell the hard stories as he helped our Sheila Macvicar do in an under cover investigation on how the state of florida warehouses kids. This is a hidden camera video from inside a florida nursing home. Children in wheelchairs parked in a hallway in a place called kids corner at fort lauderdale. More like a storage of kids. Marcel la martinez knows about it, his son andrew has lived there for more than a year. Andrew martinez was an
The two shooters reached out to isis or other radicals before the attack. Sot james comey, fbi director we have hundreds of people running down leads all over the world on this the fbi also raided the home of enrique marquez, the man believed to have supplied syed farook with two highpowered rifles used in the attack that killed 14people. Sot dorian, neighbor i woke up to a loudspeaker phone saying residents of 3838 please come out with your hands up. Sot freddy escamilla, neighbor thats when i heard the windows crashing, the garage door being pulled, doors being broken down. Officials been unable to talk to marquez as hes checked himself into a Mental Hospital shortly after the massacre. But an fbi crime scene Reconstruction Team is using lasers to retrace every bullet fired in a room that bears horrible memories for survivors. Sot regina kuruppu, witness it was scary. It was really really scary. I saw two bodies laying on the floor in a puddle of blood. Elizabeth hur standup close pr
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Now it turns out that exxon isnt alone. A new expose from inside climate news reveals nearly every major u. S. And Multinational Oil and gas company was likely aware of the impact of fossil fuels on Climate Change at the same time as exxon. Well speak to neela banerjee, the Insideclimate News reporter who broke this story. The story sparked a new york criminal investigation and calls for federal probe, like the one that brought down big tobacco. But some arent waiting for the Justice System to act. Will go to an unusual afternoon in paris during the yuan Climate Summit. Over those 25 years, exxon continue to maintain that architecture and ecosystem of denial and deception and nfnfnfdisinformation. And for that, we ask for a in favoragainst exxon of the future of this planet. Amy we broadcast highlights of mock trial of exxon for what prosecutors say our climate crimes, staged by environmentalists during the u. N. Climate summit in paris, france. The prosecutors, Bill Mckibben, cofounde
While other contenders vow to take the fight directly to isis. Sot cruz if im elected the next commander in chief we wont cower in the face of evil. His military strategy is straight forward. Sot; cruz bombing directed at isis republican president ial candidate donald trump says america is in a war. While talking with reporters before a speech in spencer, iowa california was an act of terror. And he accused president barack obama of not clearly stating the problem which trump says is radical islamic terrorists. This is a war. Were in a war, and if were not smart and if were not really cunning, and if we dont beat them to the punch, its going to be very ugly over here. Its going to be very bad. Trump says America Needs to be vigilant. On meet the press this morning, attorney general Loretta Lynch talked about the investigation into the San Bernardino terror attack and the fbis investigation. This is an fbi investigation now because of the indications that we do have of a radicalization.