Are suffering from too much love after social media spread their secret location. Well take a rare official tour with forest rangers who are struggling to protect the trees from visitors. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Ive never seen anything like this. This is absurd. My heart was racing. That was a nightmare. A massive power outage cripples atlantas airport. Power has been restored, but the trouble is not over. The president s lawyers are accusing muellers team of improperly obtaining thousands of emails from the president s Transition Team. Is he setting the stage for firing robert mueller. No way. Hes not going to fire him. Were on the verge of getting this done, the single biggest change to the tax system ever that President Trump is going to sign this week. Massive tack breaks for the this is a grossly unfair tax bill. Wildfires in southern california, growing to the largest in the nations history. The flames are like three s
More time, this live look at the situation. At this very minute. You can see there, the train still dangling from the tracks. This is the southbound side of interstate 5. It is still shut down. The derailment happened just before 8 00 this morning. There were at least 78 people onboard the train, itself, when it crashed. It was traveling about 81 miles an hour. And it was actually the first train carrying paying customers on a new route for amtrak. It was reportedly equipped with a brand new locomotive. The first car was on the ground, the second car was, like, the passenger, was down and the third was dangling and the fourth and fifth were up on theprobably about 30, 40 peoplet on the freeway just standing, like, about 20 ems started flooding toward the area. And right now, as we take another live look out there, this derailment has actually impacted Amtrak Service all across the west coast. Including right here in california. The coast starlight runs through the bay area. I also want
This is the news hour live from london coming up. Theres again. A u. N. Security Council Resolution rejecting any change to the status of jerusalem is a vetoed by the u. S. Cyril ramaphosa elected to lead south africas ruling a. N. C. And likely to be the countrys next president. A passenger train has crashed off a bridge onto a major road in the western u. S. State of washington several people have been killed. And im santa how much with the sport our top story today the ashes down under as australia at. The famous cricket contest. The United States has used its veto on the United Nations Security Council to block a resolution critical of its decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel resolution was drafted by egypt. In the much lower court audio of the draft resolution stresses in its operational paragraphs that any attempt at changing or altering the character status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem. And must be rescinded we have to object to su
Well go to tegucigalpa to speak with the spokesperson of the alliance against the dictatorship. Then to President Trumps tax plan. Pres. Trump this is going to be one of the great gifts to the middle income people of this country that theyve ever gotten for christmas. Amy a Christmas Gift for the middle class or for President Trumps family and the lawmakers whose votes he was courting . Well look at how tennessee senator bob corkers abruptly changed his mind and announced his support for trumps tax plan after the addition of a lastminute provision that would personally enrich him. Then after the fcc votes to repeal the landmark Net Neutrality rules, what is next in the fight for a free and open internet . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Republicancontrolled Congress is poised to pass a massive rewrite of the u. S. Tax code after Tennessee Republican senator bob corker abruptly reversed his positio
Love. After social media spread their secret location. Well take a rare official tour with forest rangers who are struggling to protect the trees from visitors. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Ive never seen anything like this, absurd. That was a nightmare. A massive power outage crippled atlantas airport. Flight delays and cancellations rippling across the country. Power has been restored but the trouble is not over. The president s lawyer accusing muellers team of improperly obtaining thousands of emails from the president s Transition Team. Is he setting the stage for firing muler . Theres no conversation whatsoever in the white house. Were on the verge of getting this done, the single biggest change to the tax system ever that President Trump is going to sign this week. Massive tax breaks to the rich, cuts to social security. This is a grossly unfair tax bill. Wildfire tearing through Southern California has grown to the Third L