This morning, we have new aerial video to show you of this firefight. This is burning in a remote part of the merit island preserve on the southwestern tip of the preserve. It is not threatening any buildings or homes on merit island. It is an air are i cant that is step with heavy brush and veg taig, its been difficult to access some of the fire. It has burned 7 acres since 3 00 this morning. The fire is a percent contained according to firefighters so its not spreading out of control, just accessing it has been difficult. They do have hydrant service on merit island, the challenge for firefighters have running fire hoses to get access to the flames, firefighters tell us this fire was started by someone who intentionally cut power poles causing lines to come down and spark the fire. Can you clearly see someone tried to saw into the sides of the power pole there and caused the line to droop, the fire investigator believes someone who did this may have been trying to steal copper wiring
Of the illness since may 1st, and three workplace cafeterias are part of that investigation, including two of them in mclean. One in the capital one building and the other in the valo park buildinpe ple most often get infected by ingesting contaminated food or water. Right now theres not a known source for e outbreak. Wendy . Thanks, erika. Were signature on top of the latest developments of the arrest of 16 active doubty ton, rs at camp pn california. They are accused of smuggling people over the border from mexico. Todays arrests ste om an investigation that began earlier this month when two camp pend telebased marines were arrested after Border Patrol agents caught undocumented immigrants jumping in their car near the border. The undocumented immigrants told investigators they had paid the marines 8,000 to take them to los angeles. As nbcs Courtney Kube explains, theres still Unanswered Questions about the marines who were arrested today. What we dont know athis point is whether thi
Biden speaking at a convention in chicago. And for the next few hours, we will take your calls in reaction to the Second Democratic president ial debate last night in miami. Washington journal is next. Vice it was former President Joe Biden who had a bullseye on his back last night as 10 more Democratic Candidates squared off at the second nbc news debate. This morning we will spend todays washington journal getting your reaction to the back and forth between the candidates and compare it to the first night. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. You can go to twitter at cspanwj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. First, john mcardle with us on more details of the debate. Host 2 before we get to the substance, here is some of the raw numbers and social media trends including this chart tracking the total number of words spoken by each candidate last night. Former vice President Joe Biden leading in
Free cspan radio app. We will get to your calls in a minute but first john mcardle is whether some details of the debate. Before we get to the substance, here are the social media trends. This tracks the total number of words spoken by each candidate last night. The former Vice President leading in the polls which is not surprising that he has the most numbers of words spoken, under 2500 words spoken. Over 2000 words spoken by Kamala Harris and mayor Pete Buttigieg last night. Bernie sanders was most in polling secondmost in polling as far as total word count and every other candidate on the stage last night below 1500 words including andrew yang at the bottom with just over 500 words spoken last night. The hillon with newspaper, a senior correspondent, with the wrapup, comparing the total time given to candidates over the course of the two debates. Among the 20 candidates, it was only joe biden and Kamala Harris who had over 11 minutes speaking time last night. Bernie sanders, cory bo
Option if he doesnt get a coalition the next few minutes is to get a law enacted to dissolve the knesset and have another round of elections in 3 months time that would be unprecedented in israeli history and he also needs to convince members of his own party the ones who only just scraped into this knesset by the skin of their teeth and might feel that given a another round of elections they may well not get in he has to convince them to vote for dissolving the knesset anyway and with their 1st piece of legislation potentially rule themselves out of a job so its an extremely difficult situation that he finds himself in thank you very much for lesters them harry for set. Well now iranian president Hassan Rouhani has suggested talks with the u. S. Might be possible if washington lift sanctions imposed of attack Irans Nuclear program it comes after the u. S. National security adviser blamed Iranian Naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates earlier thi