The man who created it. It became whimsy amounts to iron will. It seemed plausible. We took it to the beach, set it on fire and instantly our numbers tripled because a burning human form, if you put one up at the Republican National convention, the people would say, down in front, it would so compel, and it was so accessible. There wasnt a need to explain it and we havent explained it to this day. When we ask what that means, you have to achieve that through your engagement. Whats next with ukraine and larry harvey when we continue. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin tonight with the ongoing crisis in ukraine. Tensions are high after russia and allied troops seize ukraine and military facilities in crimea. Earlier this week moscow approved a treaty engage the region to join russia. Thursday president obama announced further sanctions on russian officials and financial institutions. This is not our preferred outc
The wait is over, the stars of fifty shades of grey in their first Live Television debut together. This morning, thursday, july 24th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today 7 oompl a. M. On a thursday. Extremely busy. Lets jump to our top story, the disappearance of yet another special airliner, this time it is a flight in western africa, nbcs tom costello covers the investigation for us, what can you tell us . Reporter this is the nigerian airline, 116 crew members on board. An official said within the past hour the plane has crashed, but we den foe where or how they know that. It left about 1 17 a. M. Local time. It disappeared 15 minutes into the flight from radar. The transport minister says the plane asked to change routes because of a bad stand storm in the airline. The Airlines Says half the passengers were french. It was an older Mcdonald Douglas plane built in th
Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the Airline Crash in the ukraine. The priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. There has to be a credible International Investigation into what happened. The u. N. Security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. In order to facilitate that investigation. Russia, prorussian separatists
and ukraine must adhere to an immediate ceasefire. Evidence must not be tampered with. Inves
Cnn newsroom starts right now. In rauk, isis has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack just north of baghdad. It happened at a cooking gas plant. You see the big explosion here there. At least five Police Officers were killed. More than a dozen others were wounded. Two suicides bombs went off at the plant. One at the entrance and another inside the actual facility. Six isis militants then tried to storm their way inside but Security Forces were able to hold them off. Following all of this, our ian lee joins us live in cairo, egypt. First of all, the fact that this happened so close to baghdad, its a big deal. What more can you tell us . Thats right, george. Were getting an update. Now were hearing that seven people have been killed and 24 wounded. What were seeing by isis now are these sleeper cells being activated around the country. As weve seen them lose territory with the advancement of iraqi Security Forces as well as the peshmerga. Weve seen an increase in the number of atta
Themselves on a story that we have been covering pretty intensively for the last couple of weeks. Its this astonishing policy decision by the Trump Administration to specifically target dying kids or kids who are receiving medical care that was keeping them alive in this country and that they cant get in other places. The Trump Administration specifically targeted those families last month and sent them these letters. Boilerplatelete letters advisin them they had 33 days to stop their lifesaving medical treatment and gettous of th out country. With no way to appeal, no second chances, nothing. Initial contact, final declaration. Trump Administration Never announced this policy decision. They just sent out these letters and i guess maybe hoped that they would get to do this without too many people noticing because, hey, its just immigrants, so who cares. Well, those brave families went public with the fact that they had received these letters. In some cases, these kids went public with