Where families were celebrating easter. Many victims were women and children. A faction of the taliban publicly supported isis claiming responsibility. Now funerals are being held as those left behind mourn the loved ones they lost. Conor powell is live in jerusalem. Conor . Reporter andrea, pakistan is in mourning today, beginning a threeday period remembering those killed on sunday. The death count right now at 70, with more than 300 people injured this was the deadliest attack in more than about a year or so in pakistan. Now, the group that claimed responsibility was a taliban faction that recently broke away from the taliban and pledged their allegiance to isis. They have a specifically targeted christians in the past this is at least the fifth attack they have launched in about last yearandahalf or so. They said they were targeting christians. Now many of the dead on sunday were in fact christian but overwhelmingly those injured and killed at this Amusement Park were in fact musli
Welcome back to this special edition of hardball, im Chris Matthews up in new york. The results are beginning to come in from puerto rico. 67 delegates at stake including 7 superdelegates. The democratic contest is heading toward the finish line of course and Hillary Clinton is within striking distance of the nomination itself. According to nbcs count clinton has fewer han 60 delegates away from winning the democratic nomination for president. Today she called the senate or called on senator Bernie Sanders to help her unite the party after several big primaries on tuesday. Theyre coming up. Sanders is threatening to fight it all the way to the convention in philadelphia. Kristen welker can covering the Clinton Campaign in vallejo, california, tonight. Kristen tell us the hopes of Hillary Clinton. Lets start with the rosy scenario. Is there a rosy scenario for party unity at this point . I think that the Clinton Campaign is concerned about that quite frankly, chris. Thats why you hear s
Most importantly who watched. What all of this will ultimately come down to. Who is winning in the race for 270 electoral votes. We have a wlizard of new polls coming in over the last 48 hours. We have the big board fired up and ready to go. Headed straight for south florida, this could leave massive introduction. We are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best and not taking any chances. In south caroline a evacuations have just begun. We are awaiting the latest on the storms path and keep a close eye on that. We begin with our top story, the Vice President ial debate and the fallout from it. Vp candidate mike pence and the republican tim kaine squared off for 90 minutes for the first and only time in the campaign. Before that debate yesterday, we said that mike pence had perhaps the biggest challenge in front of him. He was there to stop the bleeding in the Trump Campaign heading into that debate. Trump was coming off a very difficult week nationally falling behind and losing
Rex tillerson has his saturday night live exit interview with the help of john goodman. Okay, gentlemen. Any insights into trump is a moron im sorry. I done splurted that one out. Woo feels nice to say what i want. Call jurrasic park because the rexie is loose. And good day, everyone. Im andi rea mitchell in washington, where President Trumps yearlong frustration with the special counsel investigation appears to be boiling every. Hes blasting newly fired fbi director Andrew Mccabe and james comey in a string of tweets and targeting Robert Mueller himself, marking the first time the president has name checked him on twitter. Just this morning, calling the russia probe a total witch hunt with, quote, massive conflicts of interest. The president now heads to New Hampshire this hour. Lets begin with nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house and msnbc political analyst robert costa, National Political reporter at the washington post, and moderator of washington week. Pet
Trees tossed like twigs, too often into homes and businesses, multiplying the mayhem. The challenge for us, to capture what the storm has left behind, the need that exists, and where it is headed next. And we have the best information available. We have reporters all over the place. People willing to put themselves into the worst of it. And we have weather legend sam champion, the one and only back with us to walk us through the toll and whats still to come. It is all hands on deck. Lets get after it. All right. Heres what we know right now. Hurricane michael barrelling through georgia. This storm is moving fast. Its so different than what we experienced with florence. Whats the plus minus on that . The plus side is youre not getting hit and soaked as long. The downside is there is intensity to this as it moves and more areas are getting hit. We have scott mclane there in albany, georgia. Scott, situation . Hey, chris, look, weve seen over the last couple of hours the conditions really