Technology a vietnam and the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft here earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation the calls of the lightweight fighter 1964 to 1991 and ladies and gentlemen please help me in welcoming doctor michael handguns. applause all right. Ill try not to keep you from the reception, i did want to start off by talking about something that happened a year ago. There was an air force f15 flying overseer yeah and this is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture but stay with me, he shoots down an iranian drone. A uav, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event ppened. I dont know about you but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing, and what they are arguing about is does shooting down that drone count as a kill . Is that something
Died by apparent suicide. Theyve pleaded not guilty. A lawyer for one of the guards says the two are scapegoats. All we have is a rush to judgment, a rush to charge the smallest of people who are getting paid the least, and make those people pay for the ndhe t didnt happen throughout an entire system. Reporter but the prosecutor points to jail surveillance allegedly showing the guards sat at their desk and appeared to have been asleep, at times shopping online. Guard Michael Thomas allegedly later telling a supervisor, we messed up, we didnt do any rounds. Epstein had just been removed from suicide watch, but was left for eight hours before he was found with a noose around his neck. Prosecutors say no one was seen entering epsteins cell block. The defense wants to see those videos. The prosecutors say the evidence in this case includes hundreds of hours of jailhouse surveillance. Eva pilgrim, abc news, new york. Russia may be banned from competing in the next two olympics. Experts at t
We witnessed a fullon song on reproductive freedom. Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this may 5th, 2024. Im joe fryer in for willie this morning. Its a scene of despair down south where flash floods have left neighborhoods in texas, oklahoma, and arkansas under water, forcing residents to flee their homes. The rain has not let up yet. Now a round of Severe Weather, including tornadoes, is set to move across much of the country this week. Well have the forecast and the latest in a live report from texas just ahead. Then, in our sunday focus, maybe youve heard about this one. As many as a trillion cicadas invading the southeast and midwest. Why now . And what should you do if theyre crawling all over your backyard. And a sunday spotlight where lester holt will take us to the newly opened alabama park that brings visitors on an emotional journey through this countrys dark history of slavery. And later, willies sunday sitdown with chris pine and a long career as a leading man, h
Had been so concerned about just a short time ago, with the s p trading up nearly 1 . And nasdaq is over a percent. Former trump advisor rick gates will appear before a judge any minute now. He is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy and making a false statement in the ongoing russia probe. I want to be very clear here, there is still no mention of collusion. We have more coming up later in the hour. First to blake burman at white house where were about to hear from the president in just a short couple minutes. Hey, blake. Reporter momentarily what we were told. President trump, the australian Prime Minister as well here for a joint press conference. The president saying earlier today that the issues of trade of course, security would come up, this is one of those instances where they are going to get questions from both sides. You know the issues of guns and School Safety will be most likely asked upon the president today. Earlier today he made several comments both in the speech at
Its monday, september 18. From abc news, this is world news now. A good morning to you all. We begin with the latest in a string of powerful late summer weather systems in the atlantic, including one following in the path of hurricane irma. Were keep ago keeping an ey hurricane maria, lee and jose. Maria is expected to hit tonight, antigua and barbuda. The coast guard has a view of some of the damage caused by irma. The 185mileperhour winds lasted an incredible 37 hours, and taking a look at what that could mean. At least far ahead. Lets take a look at Paul Williams. Good morning, kendis, diane. Jose causing problems on the east coast. Swells beginning to develop. Were expecting heavy seas, rough surf, coastal flooding, strong rip currents and gusty winds between 50 5060mileperhour winds, then maria causing problems. And a category three as she passes over puerto rico and approaches hispaniola. This is how shell go from now until friday. Now to floridas recovery from hurricane irma. Ma