This is al jazeera live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. In about an hour, president obama will make his case for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. That ho long been a promise made during his First Campaign eight years ago. The plan presented to Congress Today will likely call for transferring some detainees to u. S. Soil, sure to provoke a fight with lawmakers who oppose that move. Some lawmakers are already speaking out against the plan. They did so yesterday. How difficult will it be for the administration to convince congress . Almost impossible. The Obama Administration says its going to try. They say look, Congress Asked for this plan, and so theyre submitting it on the deadline that its supposed to be submitted. They hope it will start a conversation about whether or not theres a way to bring some of the detainees at guantanamo who cant be tried and cant be transferred to other countries to the United States so that they can close guantanamo, which the Obama Admin
Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. And im del walters and the gop caucusing there today. And donald trump say he is the frontrunner but its very unpredictable and we are live in las vegas outside of what will be the gop caucus headquarters and good morning and what in particular explains the trump phenomenon in nevada . Well, stephanie i think you hit on a very interesting point which is the unpredictability of the state and has a population of 3 million and expect 3040,000gop caucus goers later today and that is not that much as percentage of republicans which means the state has been unpredictable in the past when it comes to polling, now having said that though donald trump has a comfortable double digit mark over cruz and rubio and what some supporters had to say from monday night rally. He gives us what we need and Financial Stability and Strong Military and need to feel secure when we get on an airplane, when we go out to anything in las vegas or anywhere and thi
This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Short time ago, president obama layed out a plan to close the guantanamo pay prison. For many years its been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security. It undermines it. This is not just my opinion, this is the opinion of experts, this is opinion of many in our military. It is counter productive to our fight against terrorists. Closing guantanamo was one of the promises president obama made back when he took off in 2008. He pointed out that both sides agreed on closing the center when he took office, but said the issue has become highly politicized. Al jazeera is live at the pentagon, so jamie, what are some of the specifics of the plan to close fit mow . You know there are no surprises many this plan. But it has been sometime in the making. Its basically a fourpoint plan, to close guantanamo, and dispose of the final 91 detainees who are still left there. You know at 1 point, as many
Because if they dont, we cant then use their plans to provide the coverage that we want to provide. Now, you can still have a debate about whether that is the least restrictive means of doing all this, but i dont see really how you can have a debate at that point about whether there is a substantial burden on religion because youre comipelling peope do something and if they dont, they have to pay millions of dollars this penal ciin penalti. Every court below that has gone the other way. Im not sure the government will fair nearly as well before the Supreme Court on that piece. But we shall see. Im agreeing with you that to the extent it turns on the fact of the government providing information, but i dont think the governme cases turn on that. Ill turn then to the press. Questions. Yeah. Will atmospherics on kim davis affect the justices thoughts on this . Kim davis is raising a claim under the kentucky state rifra. Her case is obviously a little different because shes a public officia
Car, crashed it near a ft. Meade gate and got out of that vehicle, ran away on foot. Still unclear if the man actually entered the base property after he ran away. This brings back memories when two men crashed ft. Meade and set off an intense investigation and created a lockdown at that time. Were live on the scene and will stay on top of this developing story. Back to you. Thank you, molette. Another cold day as you step out. Storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal with your weather ahead. Amelia . It starts off with temperatures in the low to mid50s. Comfortable and cool this morning. As the sun comes up, were looking at plenty of it. Actually forecasting what the sky will look like at 8 00 a. M. In the suburbs, michigan d50s washington. Temperatures warm to the 70degree mark. In ten minutes ill have the High Temperature today in your neighborhood but for now were tracking a new crash this morning. Eastbound 50 near davidsonville road, we have two lanes blocked a that point. Were go