academic for decades. we knew each other for more than 40 years. why we did not always agree, we always came back together. over the last two years, he and i were closely as co-chairs of the national campaign to have the black community fight covid. he was on politics nations of november 2020. we booked as late as a couple of weeks ago about this work and he was still fighting cancer all the way through, he kept fighting. we have the community on health conditions, housing and economic conditions, he will be tremendously missed. that does it for me, thank you for watching, i ll see you back here tomorrow at 5 pm eastern for another live hour of politicsnation. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. methank you as always, reference sharpton. hello everyone, i m alicia mendez. we begin to saturday in san francisco where federal and local investigators are piecing together the motive behind friday s brutal attack on paul pelosi. the husband is the spea
the 80th anniversary of d-day landings at omaha beach. on this day in 1944 more than 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of french shoreline. they took the fight to germany s nazi forces. to this day it remains the largest seaborne invasion in history widely regarded as the moment allied forces began turning the tide in world war ii. many heads of state and world leaders are now attending this ceremony. that s what is playing out on the left side of your screen. today, including president biden, you will see others who you recognize and, of course, the president of the republic of france is there along with his wife, the macrons, we ll take you there when the ceremony begins. there is a lot to get to today and with this in the forefront, so much history, so much forged in the name of freedom and our fighters at the forefront, too. we honor them, we thank them, we keep them in our minds this hour and we will cover this the moment it begins. there is a reenactment of
Snowdonia. Figures today show the number of people being rescued in the mountains is up on last year. Later in the programme we will find out why. Ten years ago today, the first iphone went on sale sparking a smartphone revolution. But how have they changed the way we live . Ill be finding out. Weve come to sheffield to hear about a multi Million Pound plan by the Lawn Tennis Association to revamp grassroots tennis and were also launching our Breakfast Summer Challenge with world number one andy murray the first to take it on. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. Weve got a lot of cloud across the skies today bringing heavy rain for northern and western parts. I will have a full forecast in 15 minutes. Good morning, first our main story. A retired court of appealjudge, sir Martin Moore Bick, is today expected to be appointed to lead the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster. The news comes as police say at least 80 people are believed to have died in the fire, but they do
they thought it was a different coastline. it took three days for the paratroopers to cut off a lot of those roadways. there is no gps back then. no internet. they are having paper maps, navigate their way around the french countryside and gather together after being dropped in the middle of the night. reconstitute as forces behind enemy lines and reestablish a chain of command and then take on fortified german troops in order to take back roadways still behind enemy lines so as to give the boys landing on the beach a fighting chance so that reinforcements don t arrive as they are landing. when i talk about the beach landing in a moment. this is just the airborne component, one part of the piece that had to go right. it didn t go right. with the weather and the evening and the training it was impossible but they overcame it with the spirit. harris: i m so glad we were able to catch some of those parachuteers and people could watch it live as i was talking
the only way it was ever going to work is if we have the support of people who love the outdoors, who love walking, who love maps, who love technology. the tech is powered by ezrauk. the geographical software uses powerful mapping and spatial analytics technology. it allows the team to create and manage the location information, and it is all done on your phone. digital mapping is really the way forward, isn t it? yeah, it means that we can make changes super quick and make it easily accessible to everyone, but also it is interactive and we can change things on the fly, we can highlight things, we can take things out, we can add things in, so it is much more responsive and adaptable compared to when you are updating stuff like paper maps. can you show me how it all works? yeah, of course. you go to the map where you are, you find the path you want to audit, and you tap on the path and tap on open survey, and it takes you through to the questionnaire.