The world. July 1, 1940, tacoma got to connect with the tiptop northwest corner of washington state. Its a bridge that spans what they call the tacoma narrows, but the tacoma narrows bridge that they got on july 1, 1940, it was not a good bridge. Look at that. Look at that. When they were building it, they knew something was wrong. 1938, 1939, 1940, the construction workers were telling anyone who would listen there was sothing wrong. This thing just movedayoo much whenever the wind picked up. See the car there . Construction workers who built this thing called it gal lops girdy. It would twist and undue late and get going. It was basically a break dance move. And it was amazing to see. It was sort of funny, object of fascination for a time, but then december 7, 19140, the same year it was opened. It was two days before that bridge opened. It broke apart. The winds were 30 Miles Per Hour that day and the twisting that had been so sweerd, it finally blew the thing apart. They actually j
Extraordinary first combat use of this weapon. The president was very cryptic. Did you authorize it, sir . Everybody knows exactly what happened. So and what i do is i authorize my military. We have the greatest military in the world and theyve done a job, as usual. So we have given them total authorization, and thats what theyre doing, and frankly, thats why theyve been so successful lately. Reporter total authorization. So, yes, commanders have authorization to carry out missions. The critical question, however, still unanswered. Did President Trump know about this mission . When did he know about it . It is an extraordinary event. And would the u. S. Military have simply let him find out about it by watching cable news . Probably not. But well have to see. All right. We will get those answers somehow, im sure. Barbara, thank you very much for your reporting. Meanwhile, the world is on edge amid mounting fears that north korea will conduct its sixth nuclear test this weekend. China w
Nature, it is a tinder box. This is new day. With chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. Welcome to new day. Chris has the day off. John berman joins us. Great to have you. Great to be here. We have breaking news. U. S. Commanding general in afghanistan calling the massive bomb that the u. S. Dropped there the right weapon against the right target. The most powerful nonnuclear bomb ever used in combat. According to afghan officials, the bomb destroyed caves and tunnels used by isis fighters and killed dozens of those fighters. A lot of people are asking the question if this bomb was designed to send a message to north korea. That as officials accuse the dama dangerous situation. Is north korea on the cusp of conducting a nuclear test . It is day 85 of the trump presidency. Lets start with Barbara Starr. She broke the story of the bomb strike. We have new information. Reporter good morning, john. General nicholson holding the conference in kabul just wrapped up. He did say at fi
New this morning, moment of impact. The pentagon released this dramatic video of the largest nonnuclear bomb ever deployed by u. S. Forces. The 10ton bomb took out dozens of isis fighters in afghanistan and destroyed their tunnels and hiding caves. That blossoming Mushroom Cloud you see visible from some 20 miles away. But the intended audience may be all the way across the continent with north korea maybe just hours away from a new nuclear test. Is this confrontational dictator paying attention to President Trumps Second Military action in a week . I dont know if this sends a message. It doesnt make any difference if it does or not. North koreas a problem. The problem will be taken care of. I will say this, i think china has really been working very hard. Reporter Cnns Barbara Starr is at the pentagon for us. Good morning to you, barbara. The thought being this sends a signal, the dropping of this moab bomb to north korea. Is north korea sending a signal right back to President Trump
Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday, august 2nd. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. All right. We start with the white house that has confirmed something the president s team has repeatedly denied ry ed denied, that he helped draft the initial response between the meeting between a russian attorney and his top campaign aide. In response, claiming the june 2016 meeting was about adoption policy and made no mention of the Broader Campaign being discussed. Emails reveal that donald trump jr. Was explicitly offered documents. Even after the president s legal team dismissed the report of having worked on, quote, fake news and of no consequence, the white house acknowledged that the president did take part, claiming that his knowledge of the full story was, quote, limited. Look, the statement that don junior issued is true. There is no inaccuracy in the statement. The president weighed in as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. This is all discuss