Our senior white house correspondent, the three generals playing suchl prominent roles, james mattis, h. R. Mcmaster, and john kelly, have apparently persuaded the president against his gut to do more, not less. Reporter this was not an easy decision for President Trump and in fact, fellow republicans have blasted him for taking so long to make up his mind. Increased troops, if he does that, would mark a major shift. In 2013, before he announced his candidacy, he said we should withdraw. Afghanistan is a waste of money. As president , hes taken a much more measured meeting at camp david on friday where he finally made up his minds and he was surrounded by those generals and his National Security team. The president of the United States. Let me bring in martha rad at as well. The influence of these generals cannot be overstated. It cant. And also the influence of iraq. I think donald trump remembers what happened in iraq, that barack obama took those troops out and isis moved in. Now th
And the park service has approved a permit for a group called patriot mare. T patriot prayer. But the mayor wants restrictions. My concern is guns. Guns and weapons of any kind, be it concealed weapons, sticks, poles. Reporter other redirections could include a limit on the participants and how much of the field they can occupy. And the groups request for live music could be denied. They are expecting San Francisco police to help with security, which the mayor calls unfair. Even if thevent is canceled at the last minute, officers could still face chaos the possibility that event does not go through, we will be prepared for protts, demonstrations, that type o thing, throughout san francisc reporter the city hopes the unity rallies will offer a peaceful outlet. One at noon friday on the steps of city ha. The other saturday afternoon at civic city plaza. Representate Nancy Skinner filed a bill to strengthen californias hate crime statue to include those acting in defense of protected grou
Unique perspectives from nasa high above the earth. We begin with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists. The president rolls out his plan for afghanistan. Afghanistan has been beating the tar out of invaders for thousands of years. The only answer is to step away and take our people out. President trump has the smarts to listen to his generals and take their advice rather than going the political way. Later today the president will hold a rally in phoenix. Its a very volatile situation and the timing could not be worse. Dozens of people are hurt after a train crash outside philadelphia. A septa highsp speed train hit parked train. The navy is ordering a broad investigation after two major ship collisions in two months. Ten sailors are still missing. We need to get to the bottom of this. The man suspected of driving his van into a crowd of people in barcelona killing 13 people is now dead. A strong earthquake struck off
Department under secretary for management Patrick Henry wanted to make a deal of the fbi to downgrade the investigation for one of clintons emails. Fbi agent said that buys that in exchange for marking the emails classified state would resip yat looking at more agents and countries where they are classically forbid den. Both the fbi and state department are denying any wrong doing. The assertion that it was tit for tat or quid pro quo or exchange in that matter frankly is insulting. They are getting donald trump an abundance of ammunition. Last night in wisconsin he called for Patrick Kennedys resignation. He was the most corrupt person ever to run for presidency of the United States. Under secretary of states made the request for altering classification as part of a quid pro quo. This is felony corruption. Understand kennedy needs to resign. Fbi documents also reveal as secretary of state Hillary Clinton had a con temp tus relationship with her security detail. At one point in 2009 on
The owner told me he has a rescue so sometimes he brings his pets over to give them daily attention, that is why there were cats inside the building and birds inside the building as well as a monkey. He was very emotional this afternoon, anytime i talked to him offcamera he starts crying because he doesnt suspect they survived, there were some cats that did escape but the monkey did not nor did some of the birds. He told me he plans to fix the building at some point but wants to sell it, he had no insurance, this is a big loss for him, hopefully pretty soon the firefighters will get into the building to put the fire out, they have been here for at you heard is a multipurpose building, you can see some cleaning supplies they house in the building many aerosol cans and many are definitely flammable. All of that inside of the warehouse you can see it is endless with the cleaning supplies, we will closely follow the story, stay with us for the updates onair and online at abcactionnews. Com