We look at how a falled u. S. Mission in somalia still affects washingtons thinking. We start with news that a boat sunk off the coast of italy. At least 60 people have been killed and 250 are still missing. The vessel went down about half a mile from lampedusa. Its thought to have carried illegal migrants. What more do we know, sonya . Reporter we know the latest figure that has just come out. We hear that at least 80 have been found dead and still 250 missing. From the sea rescue workers are describing scening of horror with bodies being found in the sea. This is an enormous death toll for this boat. Now, they described how many of these people have been in the water since the early hours of the morning, and emergency workers have been really racing against time to try and rescue as many of the survivors as you can see. What apparently had happened was that there were approximately 500 people on board a boat that was carrying subsaharan migrants. There was a small fire on the boat to
Catherine lets go back to the News Conference they are starting. Reporter this is my third and will be my last press release while on scene. Ntsb express our sincere condolences to good friends, family, and coworkers of the deceased. Finding the activity and after yesterdays phase is just a fact gathering phase until we continue to gather evidence that will assist in this investigation. Now an update to include what we did today. On seeing preliminary calculations based on land of track segment was accomplished. This equipment does not have the type of reporters to capture trains speed we would need to use other devices to obtain training speak. Speed. The damage to the equipment has been documented. During this inspection. An examination on some of the rear car wheels were noted such a flat spot may be the result of application on the train prior to striking the two persons on the track. We have also requested 30 days of maintenance on these railcars. We continue to achieve at your do
Defended federal intervention in the city. Because we did a very good job in portland. If we werent there right now, the federal courthouse would have been ripped down, burned down, it wouldnt exist. Harris republican senator ted cruz chaired a hearing on nt for violence tuesday this week. He accused democrats of facilitating violence and endorsing terror tactics, repeating the charge later in an interview with sean hannity. Seven democrats spoke and question the witnesses. Not a single one dared to criticize antifa in any way, calling for federal Police Officers stormtroopers like nancy pelosi did, or gestapo, as jim clyburn did. Cops are not nazis, and it is grotesque, it is offensive. Harris this is outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today, most of kennedy on fox kennedy, ken herself. Dagen mcdowell, marie harf. For his inaugural visit to outnumbered, trey gowdy, former South Carolina congressman, fox news contributor, and host of the trey gowdy podcast. You will need more than e
Keynote speech last night for the Democratic National convention. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 18th, along with joe, willie welcome back and me, we have white house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. Politics and journalism professor and msnbc political contributor jason johnson. And senior opinion writer at the boston globe, Kimberly Atkins is with us. Good to have you all. Its good to have willie back. It is. Youre not going to be talking ability ttal talking about the red sox. Willie has been on assignment, we cant talk about where that was but hes been on assignment. The Convention Last night, judging from the reviews across the political spectrum was quite a success. You had a couple of fox news anchors talking about dana prino talking about how Michelle Obama stuck the landing and Chris Wallace talking about what a great contribution she gave to the Biden Campaign. That she splayed donald trump. Its great to be back. Id rather be
Brutality. Two french teenagers charged with complicity in the murder of the teacher samuel paty. Welcome to the programme. We will start in the us where the director of National Intelligence as iran and russia have both attempted to interfere in the forthcoming president ial election. Speaking in washingtonjohn back accused the two countries a of using illicitly attained Voter Registration details. We would like to alert the public that we have identified that two foreign actors, iran and russia, have taken specific actions to influence Public Opinion relating to our elections. First, we have confirmed that some Voter Registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia. This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate force information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, so chaos, and undermine your confidence and american democracy. Undermine your confidence john bateman is a former a nalyst of john bateman is a former an