The bill would have given drivers licenses to any oregon resident even if you could not prove you were in the country legally. This conservative zillionaire decided he was against that. He personally funded an opposition effort. He personally put up 70 of the money it cost to get that law up for a referendum. It would have bn become law in january of this year but it didnt. Instead it will be on the ballot this november because this one guy paid for the services of all of the paid signature gatherers that it took in order to get that law delayed by getting it put on the ballot. Without him it would be law already. With him its not law. At least not yet. His name is lauren parks. He made his fortune in medical devices including doppler flow ultra sound manslaughter and a device called the plethsymograph. Used to measure the arousal of sex offenders. Many pl parks is not a doctor but fashion ed himself more than a hobby and less than a year in being an amateur hypnotherapyist. Especially
Charlest charleston, south carolina, mary schiavo, an aviation attorney who works for a law firm that sues airlines. Describe exactly what this team, u. S. Team, ntsb and faa personnel would actually do once they get there. Its true they have begun to find parts of the wreckage. One report is a door. If thats true, the most important thing the faa and ntsb will be doing is getting that wreckage in coordination and cooperation with the other countries that are investigating. Just from the pieces of wreckage, even a small piece, they can see if theres telltale fittings, if there was an explosion, explosive residue left on the plane, what that wreckage looks like, or if it looks like it was torn apart when the plane had fallen into the ocean. Thats going to be important. The fbi was detached to work on the case, whenever theres a threat of criminal activity, terrorism, certainly there was criminal activity with passports, we have a protocol the fbi takes precedence. You want to catch the
Their homes. Miguel almaguer has a look. Reporter doing all they can to beat back the flames, to beat this fire down. You can see why. There is so much dry vegetation and droughtstricken land down there. This fire could really explode any second. This plume of smoke is coming in our direction, shooting 8,000 feet into the air. Crews and air attack are crisscrossing this county, doing what they can to suppress the fire. Mother nature is in control here even at this altitude, we can smell the smoke and feel the heat. The intensity of this fire is incredible. If theres been any good news for firefighters, its that this blaze is burning next to a major reservoir, helicopters dipping into the water and making those drops literally minutes later. What make this is fire unique from so many of the others we have covered is where it is burning. There are huge plumes of smoke next to neighborhoods. This fire is poised to make runs into communities if firefighters cant keep those flames back. Tha
The world is following tonight. President Obama Meeting with his top aides at the white house at this moment about the crisis in ukraine. This comes after rising tensions and russians threat of what is a, quote, military storm. Ukraine tonight accused in russia of an ultimatum. Either surrender the Crimean Peninsula or face attack. And these conflicting reports are just part of a day of fastmoving developments in the Southern Region of ukraine, the peninsula of crimea. Senior american Officials Say russia has moved as many as 6,000 troops to crimea. Ukrainian ambassador to the u. N. Says that number is 16,000. Its pretty incredible in this day and age when we are talking about the nsa surveillance of peoples phone calls around the world and social media and spying that we dont even know how many troops are there. At this hour tonight, the president says the u. S. Is looking at ways to isolate russia, with economic and diplomatic penalties, calling russias actions a violation of interna
Ripping trees from the ground. Indra petersons tracking who will be the hardest hit this morning. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. And im john berman. It is thursday, march 13th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. A lot going on this morning. Absolutely. We do begin with breaking news from the south by southwest festival in austin, texas. At least two people are now dead after a car plowed into a crowd outside a club where a musician was performing. The car apparently barreling through barricades right into the crowd, leaving nearly two dozen people hurt, five of them critically. Look at these pictures. This happened just after midnight. You can imagine how crowded it must have been. Police say the driver just sped off, had sped off from a dwi stop, racing the wrong way down a oneway street before crashing and trying to run away. The entire thing this entire episode took less than a minute. The driver is now in custody. As of now, his name is not being released my. All r