Sort of. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries. What do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal elections but. Its more about what it says about the state of politics its what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting abou
A grim and to the year in syria asked strikes continue in the rebel held suburb of ghouta as fighters announce theyre forming a new united front under us points the finger at neighboring guatemala over a wall of rubbish that biologists say is killing nearly everything in its past. And happy new year cities across the world are fireworks crazy as they ring in twenty eighty. Iran has temporarily blocked some social media apps including the messaging Service Telegram which is being used to spread details about upcoming protests the app is estimated to be used by around fourteen million iranians for three days now and theyve been protests across the country against the clerical elite the government is warning of a crackdown if they continue on saturday night two people were killed in the city of daraa road though there is confusion over just whos responsible for the deaths here to shop reports. And those that im going to find as antigovernment protests escalated on saturday night the first
Through an Apartment Building in oakland. The fire broke out at 3 45 a. M. This morning. When firefighters arrived two units were engulfed in flames. We had occupants evacuating one of the occupied apartment windows and people evacuating down the stair wells as well. One woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Six units were damaged. This was the second fire at an oakland Apartment Building in a week. Last monday four people were killed after a fire in an Apartment Building before city officials visiting they found a dozen safety violations. The fire was accidentally started by a burning candle. President trump approved more help for california to deal with winter storm damage. The major disaster declaration frees up federal money for repairs. The it it is the 4th this year, covers all bay area counties except San Francisco. Some of the money could help people in san jose trying to recover and rebuild. The coyote creek over flowed causing damage oseveral neighborhoods to s
77 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00, get some breaks of sunshine, 80 degrees. 85 at lunch time. I dont think it will go much warmer than that. Temperatures this afternoon will run about ten degrees cooler than yesterday. Well be tracking showers and thunderstorms later in the day. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood to show you which areas will get them and Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Were looking live right now at ongoing construction scene right here. Lane restrictions, 95, our camera around melrose avenue. You can actually see, they do have signs in the area. Traffic squeezing by to the right. Thats on the northbound side. Just something to watch out for when heading out there. On 95 well take a look at the drive times around the philadelphia area. Southbound from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. Were still at a 14minute trip. 60 miles an hour is the average speed headed northbound. The opposite direction from the vine up towards woodhave
That if you are a baseball player and that 500, just about the greatest in the world. The fbi and the cia, we cannot afford to bat 500 and we cant afford to that 900. One person out of a hundred getting through can be not just a tragedy but Going Forward could literally affect the sovereignty of our country. That is how serious the problem of terrorism became and how we took this. June of 1995 the unabomber sent out his manifesto. It did not go out to the New York Times and Washington Post but Scientific American and penthouse. I did not know that. Tell us your reaction when you learned about the manifesto. Was it a major break can you lead to complications . Have the difficulty to catch any criminal that is not communicating makes it very difficult. You have opportunity to develop. The unabomber had been quiet for seven years up until he started bombing again in 1993. In 1994 it continued and he started writing letters. That is good. He wrote a letter to the New York Times, an editor