Yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. Good. I hate surprises. Surprise at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and see your fico® credit score. Stay tuned to msnbc for tonights breaking news from ferguson. Thanks for watch withing. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Suburban war zone. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im in for chris matthews. Leading off tonight, all eyes are on ferguson, missouri, where authorities are bracing for another night of protests toefr shooting of an unarmed africanamerican teenager by a Police Officer last saturday. Protesters are once again taking to the streets at this hour. They have been joined by local Ferguson Police in the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Ferguson police are expected to hold a News Conference at any moment. When that happens well take you there live. Last night the streets of the st. Louis suburb looked and felt like a war zone. Police in riot gear launched tearga
Like a war zone. Police in riot gear launched teargas and smoke bombs to disperse crowds. Some officers had guns trained on the crowds while standing on their vehicles. They fired teargas at a crew from aljazeera. A local politician was arrested for unlawful assembly. Today a host of National Politicians from Claire Mchaskill and Elizabeth Warren to rand paul called the Police Tactics over the top. Police say they were protecting themselves after getting attacked with molotov cocktails and bricks from some in the crowd. President obama spoke about the crisis for the first time this afternoon. Now is the time for healing. Now is the time for peace and calm on the streets of ferguson. Now is the time for an open and transparent process to see that justice is done. Meanwhile, missouri governor jay nixon this afternoon announced a major change. He appointed the states Highway Patrol to direct the security situation in ferguson. Whats gone on here over the last few days is not what missouri
Welcome to our viewers here and around the world. I am wolf blitzer. This is the situation room. We are following breaking news on the hurricane emergency in the carolinas as Disaster Relief is beginning in the bahamas. A new forecast shows dorians eye passing 45 miles off myrtle beach, South Carolina. It is hammering the coast with 105 Miles Per Hour winds, unleashing destructive tornadoes as well. The streets of charleston are flooded, with up to 15 inches of rain forecast for the carolinas, and storm surge up to 7 feet high. In the bahamas tonight, more than 100 people rescued on islands decimated by dorian, but thousands are in dire straights now, without homes or safe living conditions, in urgent need of shelter, food, water. Our correspondents, experts and other guests are standing biy a we cover this story. Martin savidge is in South Carolina. Dorian is miles from myrtle beach. Reporter wolf, conditions here continue to deteriorate in myrtle beach. It was tornadoes that was the