Against california wild fires. And a buzz military basis and nuclear plants. Drones are becoming a nuisance and it seems no one can stop them. Faa has released new numbers now already this year there have been more than 650 reports by pilots have who have encountered unmanned aircraft. State assembly man has introduced legislation that could send drone prayers to jail. He joining us now. Daniel ive got to start with you first youve had drones comes come within feet of your aircraft. Yeah, weve had several near misses in just the past month alone. In fact some of those coming as you mentioned within feet of the aircraft. Our Fire Fighting pilots have a risky job so to have the drones fly in the same airspace it not worth our pilots lives. Assembly man lets talk more about this. It would make it a serious crime to fly a drone over a wildfire. What kind of penalties are we talking about. How serious of a crime will this law make it . We need penalties thatter that are eye catching. Dont p
This is alJazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Friends and family are remembering two killed live on television and were learning what drove the alleged gunman to violence. The two were reporting live when a former colleague opened fire. Flanagan later shot himself after posting images of the attack on social media. Al jazeeras choosing not to show those images. Flanagans twitter and facebook pages were filled to outrage aimed at his former employer. Police say the gunman left behind a manifesto. In this bizarre manifesto that arrived by fax two hours after the shooting here at the Bridgewater Plaza, lee flanagan talks about himself as being a human powder keg, full of anger about things like the charlotte shootings in july in south carolina, after which he bought his weapons, he says, two days after that incident. He said hes also inspired by the columbine shooter back in 19. 99 in which 12 people died, including one teacher. Virginia tech shoot
As many as 50 refugees were under to dead in austria today. That truck was found on a main road close to the border with hungary. The grim discovery comes as the chancellor tells leaders the continent must fight human trafficking. They are meeting right now, with thousands of migrants try to make their way into the e. U. Barnabie phillips has more from the summit. We have heard from western leaders from countries like serbia, that they need more help. From wealthier countries in the e. U. , from germany, from austria, what we have heard from austrian and germman leaders is that the European Union as a whole has to step up to the challenge. That it has to share the responsibility fairly, equally, among the entire block. That if solidarity means anything, it will mean some form of quota system, relative to countries wealth, relative to their capacity to take in refugees. And this is something that we know has faced very stiff opposition. From Eastern European countries and from the Unite
Today, we ask our washington journal viewers what is your level of trust. He can also reach us on social media on twitter and on facebook. The Washington Examiner breaks down the gallup poll about the level of trust in the news media. It says the media is taking it on the chin in the area of fake news. According to gallup, less than three in 10 americans have confidence in tv news and newspapers and that is better than last year. 27 havetest survey, confidence in newspapers. For tv, it is worse. 24 percent. From a long range perspective, confidence in newspapers hasnt been high at any point for the past 30 years. In 1990. St was 39 the 27 who have confidence this year is the highest recorded since 2011. Gallup said. A little more from gallup on those numbers, gives a little explanation about what is happening. The bottom line according to gallup is despite recent discussions about fake news and suspicions about the motivations of newspapers as well as tv and internet news, americans co
I want to thank my legal team and i wants to thank the support of my family and staff and friends through this very tough time. Reporter fattah was found guilty in june of 18 counts of corruption. Namely racketeering bribery Money Laundering and fraud. Beginning in 07. The federal prosecutors proved to the jury there was a series of schemes to rip off programs he created federal grants and his own campaign money. Multiple former aides and political operatives have been convict the as well. Prosecutors asked for 17 to more than 21 years in prison for the once powerful 11 term congressman. He used his position in congress to benefit himself rather than constituents and engaged in krim cal activity for his own financial benefit. Reporter fattahs lawyers have vowed to appeal in part based on published reports about the dismissal of a descending jury member who claims claims he was removed because he refused to find fattah guilty. People make mistakes. I am not convinced that chaka fattah i