Welcome back. Im christine romans. It is monday, august 25th. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. We have good news this morning concerning an american hostage overseas. Journalist Theo Peter Curtis freed by islamic militants in syria after two years in captivity. The 45yearold curtis was kidnapped in october 2012 and turned over to an Al Qaeda Linked group. Curtis is expected to be reunited with his family, shortly. Nick paton walsh is following the developments for us. Good morning, nick. Reporter john, interesting to know he was handed over. One of the strangest parts was the Syrian Border partially controlled by rebels, but a long way away from where he was kidnapped in northern syria, held for six months in aleppo. We know he was held with another american. For six months together, they shared the cell, torture and hunger and shared an escape plan. That involved theo pushing matt up to a window in the cell. Matt got out. Tragically, when he reached down, theo was stuck. He left. Today,
Deal to prevent iran from developing Nuclear Weapons is expected to go through, and this week it has garbered enough stepth support to withstand any opposition in congress. That obviously did not silence either cruz or trump today. If i win the presidency, i guarantee you that those four prisoners are back in our country before i ever take office, i guarantee that. They will be back before i ever take office because they know thats what has to happen, okay . They know it, and if they dont know it, im telling them right now. So, i have a story that just came out an hour ago, and as president obama calls him very routinely, he calls him the supreme leader. Our president is calling the person who is really the boss in Iran Supreme Leader and i look at people shaking their head and they cant believe it, but it just came out a little while ago he said israel will not exist in 25 years, think of that. He just said this. He also said very strongly, very, very strongly, that this is the end of
Responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. Democrats from capitol hill to the campaign trail are urging a quick replacement, but Senate Republicans are vowing to block any nomination president obama puts forward. They argue a lame duck president with less than an year of office should not be able to tip the balance especially in the middle of a heated election cycle. The president can nominate whoever he wants but the senate wont act. Scalias body was escorted from the west texas ranch where his body was found. He was found dead saturday morning. He died of natural causes. Scalias doctor actually reported a texas judge that Justice Scalia had been suffering from main another ailments but thats all the doctor would say. He was 79 years old. Heather . Kristin fisher live for us. Thank you, kristin. New overnight. Dozens of people r
Robots our friends and helpers and just as intelligent as us. Ideally they would do the jobs we dont like doing but in the worst Case Scenario they would control us. Will the human mind one day be connected to robots and it may sound like Science Fiction but its becoming reality scientists around the world are working on Artificial Intelligence whoever achieves the final breakthrough will become immensely wealthy and powerful. Be a driving work in communication or war Intelligence Systems are making inroads into every aspect of our lives and our machines taking over. We start with a small experiment can a machine trick us into believing its human. My colleagues are supposed to find out whether theyre communicating with a Computer Program or with a person in. In this case with our trainee. I enter my colleagues questions and read out the answers. Each chat takes five minutes. Diminishing the machine sometimes pretends to be human and sometimes a person pretends to be a machine i read th
/PRNewswire/ The global voice speech recognition software market size is projected to progress at a CAGR of 13.72 % between 2022 and 2027, and the size of.