Arrived in midland, hours after a Freight Train slammed into a parade float that was carrying wounded veterans. Abcs larry jacobs reports. The trailer got hit by a train. We need as many units as you can. Reporter a parade float carrying wounded veterans to a banquet in their honor, was broadsided by a Freight Train. It happened at this Railroad Crossing in midland, texas. Two 18wheelers with flatbed trailers were carrying dozens of Wounded Warriors and their families. The first truck crossed the Railroad Tracks safely. But the second took the full force of the collision. Saw the truck crossing the track. About halfway across, the gate started coming down. The truck tried to blow his horn to get the other people in front of him out of the way. The gate actually hit the first people on the trailer. Some people were able to jump off. And some, they were sitting on the wheelchair on top of that. And they couldnt do nothing about it. Reporter sirens from the police cars in the parade may h
Lama . Reporter good morning to you, brandi. We saw the ceasefire agreement yesterday that was mediated, brokered and announced by the egyptians. We saw the egyptian foreign minister announce that late last night that a ceasefire will take hold. That both israel and hamas have agreed to some of those terms. Now, we saw the other major player in these negotiations, the united states. The foreign minister was flanked by u. S. Secretary of state hillary clinton. And the feeling is that having her presence in the region has made a difference in expediting the negotiation talks. Now, as for the ceasefire, its safe to say that the region remains on quite tense at the moment. Just waiting to see if the agreement will hold. Now, both israel and hamas have agreed to some of those terms. And the main term is to stop the fighting. Were about over 13 hours, now, into the ceasefire agreement. And it seems to be holding. But having said that, the Israeli Defense forces, the idf, did report at least
Following the latest and he joins us live from tel aviv. Martin. Reporter good morning, brian. Well, did hamas get the message that the israeli Prime Minister was talking about . Apparently not. They fired rockets towards tel aviv always mentioned. A game changer for israel if those rockets had actually landed and done damage in tel aviv. They didnt. Two landed short and exploded harmlessly in feels and one landed harmlessly in the sea but more important for the symbolism than the effect. Israels main goal apart from eliminating the militant islamic leadership of hamas has been to destroy their rocket capability aiming most of rare raids, more than 450 in the last couple of days, at destroying the longrange rocket capability of hamas so the fact that they were able to launch three rockets which failed just short of tel aviv. Well, that says something that israel needs to as netanyahu said expand its operations if it wants to destroy that capability. So ground war is the option. But the
Of emails to a second woman. It isnt just a triangle, its a pentagon. That general down there, he is the Top Commander of our war in afghanistan. Afghanistan, really . Please. If our troops were really still fighting in afghanistan, dont you think wed be hearing about that on the news instead of all this bull [ bleep ] . Good morning. It is friday. It is friday, november 16th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. Richard. Good morning. Chairman of deutsche incorporated, Donny Deutsch. Get over it. Okay . Get over it. Get over what . What are you talking about . All of you are in here. In washington, msnbc and Time Magazine senior political analyst, Mark Halperin. Richards in here . I dont know why. Im serious. Whats going on . Also, look at this cast we have today, the author of Thomas Jefferson, the art of power, historian jon meacham. Is meacham here . Meacham, look at him. Lots of books. And willie, congrat
Good morning, everyone. A salute to american heroes has turned into a horrific accident scene at a Railroad Crossing in texas. With four people dead, and 17 injured. Federal investigators have arrived in midland, hours after a Freight Train slammed into a parade float that was carrying wounded veterans. Abcs larry jacobs reports. The trailer got hit by a train. We need as many units as you can. Reporter a parade float carrying wounded veterans to a banquet in their honor, was broadsided by a Freight Train. It happened at this Railroad Crossing in midland, texas. Two 18wheelers were carrying dozens of Wounded Warriors and their families. The first got across the Railroad Tracks safely. Thebut econd took the full force of the collision. Saw the truck crossing the track. About halfway across, the gate started coming down. The truck tried to blow his horn to get the other people in front of him out of the way. The gate actually hit the first people on the trailer. Some people were able to