Pres. Trump our warriors in afghanistan have new rules of engagement. Heroicc afghanr partners, and military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines, and we no longer tell our enemies our plans. Amy as trump promises a new strategy in the longest u. S. War in history, we will look at why civilian casualties are soaring in afghanistan. On saturday, more than 100 people died in kabul when an ambulance packed with explosives blew up. We will go to kabul. Then, is everything you think you know about depression wrong . We will speak with johann hari , author of uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The fbi said wednesday it has grave concerns over President Trumps plans to release a fourpage document written by house intelligigence committee to devin nunes, purporting to show the fbi abused its power when it began surveilling Trump Ca
Powerful storm. Around here the accuweather seesaw is sliding back the other way from summer back to fall, plus were tracking storms that are strong right now. And doing that and standing outside right now dave murphy has more on accuweather and karen rogers is taking a look at your traffic. Good morning. Came out here and it wasnt raining. Now the rain is starting and the umbrella is about 20 feet over there. Oh, well. As we take a look at Storm Tracker6 live double scan, we have some heavy rain and some thunderstorms down in south jersey in cape may county, Atlantic County and a little bit of that in Camden County right now as well. And you can see the movement as all of this is pushing up toward the northeast. That additional rain to the north and west appears to be missing the area. Lots of clouds. Once the rain gets finished well still have cloudy skies for the most part and more pockets of rain possible straight into the evening. 69 degrees in philadelphia, 66 allentown, 73 in ca
Did someone use the storm to cover up a crime . And reunited. Thousands of pets displaced in houston, the families desperately trying to get them back. Michael is there for an emotional reunion, how to keep your animal safe as Hurricane Irma approaches. We do say good morning, america. And a lot of news to get to on this wednesday morning. Were getting our first look at Hurricane Irma hitting the caribbean islands right now. One of the most powerful storms ever in the atlantic. We want to show you the image of the hurricane from space right now. There it is, it shows the eye of this now category 5 storm. It is moving toward puerto rico right now then florida, states of emergency are already declared and some cities have ordered mandatory evacuations. Officials call this a worst Case Scenario for the florida keys. As you can imagine the lines are growing in florida to get gas and many of those stations, unfortunately, are sold out. People desperate to stock up and hit the road and thats
Going on towards orange and Sullivan County into the mid Hudson Valley. We have the area of activity going through this morning. It rained hard in central on to long island until midmorning. Thats about it. These showers will move on off to the east. You look at fox 5 sky guardian 3d. Theyre just kind of drifting off to the south and east. I dont think theyre going to survive too much towards beyond the sunset time period. Once they go and fall apart, therell be a humid night as side in the city in the 70s. Its 88 at poughkeepsie. 86 sussex. Allentown 89. 81 at the jersey shore. Low 80s to islip. 70s to montauk. The dew point numbers, yesterday we were in the lower 70s. Now its moderate. It is above 65. Thats our threshold. So upper 60s. It will stay that way tomorrow. Look at the futurecast. Quiet night with patchy clouds. Tomorrow morning, we start out okay through most of the day. Over the poconos. Theyll arrive here towards the Late Afternoon into the evening and particularly into
I was born in indiana. All my friends are in indiana. But i think indiana has gone nuts. Today they banned same sex car pools. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im dara brown. Breaking news out of kenya, armed gunman firing at people and setting off explosions. There are varying reports of the number of students killed and others possibly kidnapped. Tracie potts is live in washington. Tracie, we know this is still a developing situation but what do we know right now. Dar dar ark, we know as many as 15 were killed. 65 were wounded according to the kenyan government. The red cross is telling us 50 students escaped but there are hundreds of students and workers at that college who are unaccounted for. Some believed to be held hostage by al shabaab, the somali Islamic Group that has claimed responsibility. They are claiming this morning they targeted christians at this university in kenya. In this particular area its very dangerous. In the last hour the embassy in Nairobi Kenya i