Scientists make history. 3 billion miles away. Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Hello pluto. We are at the big bay area Party Tonight as nasa scientists make history 3 billion miles away. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. Liz has the night off. Pluto is known as the icy planet but Christin Ayers shows us we earthlings are giving it a very warm welcome. [ cheers and applause ] reporter this is the sound of success a decade in the making as cheers went up inside nasas mission control. Hundreds of people at this party were cheering too. It is really monumental. It is a moment in history. It is really exciting. We got all the way out to pluto. It is cool. Reporter just shy of the dwarf planet pluto, the spacecraft new horizon phoned home with essentially this message. Yeah, im still working and everything went cool. Reporter new horizons sent back this very cool image of pluto. Scientists explain the probe which is the size of a baby grand piano has been hurdl
Scientists make history. 3 billion miles away. Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Hello pluto. We are at the big bay area Party Tonight as nasa scientists make history 3 billion miles away. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. Liz has the night off. Pluto is known as the icy planet but Christin Ayers shows us we earthlings are giving it a very warm welcome. [ cheers and applause ] reporter this is the sound of success a decade in the making as cheers went up inside nasas mission control. Hundreds of people at this party were cheering too. It is really monumental. It is a moment in history. It is really exciting. We got all the way out to pluto. It is cool. Reporter just shy of the dwarf planet pluto, the spacecraft new horizon phoned home with essentially this message. Yeah, im still working and everything went cool. Reporter new horizons sent back this very cool image of pluto. Scientists explain the probe which is the size of a baby grand piano has been hurdl
Flooding and tornadoes all a possibility. Damaging storms threatening many. In kentucky, two people were killed. Storms destroyed about 150 houses. Any senator who votes for this is voting for a Nuclear Arms Race in the middle east. An historic agreement with iran is facing backlash from republicans. Lets bomb iran . Is that the alternative . Some people want to do that. An explosion at a factory in washington. An apartment complex and Fast Food Restaurant had to be evacuated. Joaquin guzman escaped from a maximum security prison. These are transnational organizations. They are murderers. They are thugs. New horizon sends back the first pictures of pluto. We finally know what pluto looks like a malted milkball left in the rain. Walmart and amazon are going headtohead with a saleathon. Massive explosion is a construction site in switzerland. All that people got quite a kick out of it. Thats the sound of freedom right there. Its long gone. A home run for mike trout. For the first time a
The u. S. Has 5 of the worlds population but 25 of its prisoners. Speaking before the naacp, president obama calls for overhauling the nations criminal Justice System saying too many people have been locked up for nonviolent offenses. This is a cause ringing people in both houses of congress together, created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and Newt Gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu, the naacp and the Koch Brothers. Amy today we will be joined by two of those unlikely bed bedfellows criminal activist van jones and mark holden, general counsel of Koch Industries. Plus, we will speak to a Prison Reform activist who spent 19 years locked up. Then to a story about corporate espionage and activism. An employee of the animal theme park seaworld has been exposed for infiltrating peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congressio
Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. Several developing stories, and first tonight, the president fighting back. After that historymaking deal with iran. Tonight, taking on his critics at home and around the world. Defending the deal with iran. That country now agreeing to sharply cut back its nuclear program, submitted to inspections. The crippling u. S. Led sanctions will now be lifted. But tonight here, you will hear from one of his most vocal critics. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling me that america is less safe because of this. But first, our chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl with the tense moments during that news conference. Reporter the president came before the cameras ready to aggressively push back on efforts in congress to kill his iran deal. It looks like a large majority will vote to reject this deal. Do you have any concerns about seeing a majority of the peoples representatives in congress saying that th