Protests spread across University Campuses in egypt against new laws restricting political disisnt. We begin this news hour in iraq. Islamic state in iraq and the levant closer to gaining control of anbar the u. S. Said up to 160,000 people have been displaced in fighting in and around the town of heat. They have been withdrawn in the last base. Overnight isil overran an army camp there as they named what it called a tactical withdrawal. Toplevel generals also retreated from the base. Anbar province where isil has gained significant gains, strategically important cities of ha haditha, ramadi and fallujah, is the iraqi army going to completely lose control of anbar . It is close to losing control of anbar. Undoubtedly this is another set back in the spring of military set backs suffered over recent weeks. Heet si city is an strategic cally important city of anbar and that raises the capability of iraqi forces. They have not been able to recapture territories but they cant even hold thei
Attack in syria and then escaped the country. One man is sharing his personal story. Hopes for a horse racings triple crown in jeopardy. The device that could keep California Chrome from running in the Belmont Stakes. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Massive flooding triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the balkans, destroying into your towns. 25,000 have been forced to evacuate homes. The flooding has disturbed land mines buried 20 years ago during the war in bosnia. Threeinches of rain falling producing the worst flooding wins measurements began in the area 120 years ago. We look at the damage one official is describing as cots traffic. Nat air and on the ground, the mission i guess to get to the old and sick. We meet this woman after her rescue by the serbian army. Her house was submerged underwater. She first alone for days without food and drinking water. This is a massive logistical operation, threatening to completely overwhelm serbias emergency services. The damage will co
Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. We start with breaking news on two major storms posing a significant threat to the gulf coast. The first one expected to make land fall, marco, strengthening into a category 1 hurricane. It is barrelling toward the louisiana coast with a direct hit likely tomorrow and just days latter another hurricane is expected to slam into that very state. Cnn meteorologist tom sater is tracking the latest developments for us. You got an update moments ago. Marco is still a hurricane, a category 1, laura is a Tropical Storm and expected to possibly make landfall within 48 hours. Behind marco and be stronger. Who had this on the 2020 bingo card . Well start with marco and it will be making landfall first. When we look at this, 280 miles south southeast of the mouth of the mississippi. It is a category 1, and as it makes the way to land, late tomorrow afternoon we could see Southeast Louisiana parishes easily have winds hurricane strength, 74, 75, 76
There mccaskill posted second in a series of roundtable discussions aimed at combating Sexual Assault on College Campuses. College officials and victims advocates. This is just under two and a half hours. Thank you all for being here today. Assume senator tester and senator blumenthal will join us at some point today. They will have an opportunity for putting anything on the record it would like. I would like to start by welcoming the participants. This is the second round table in a series of three focusing on the complex and various issues that surround Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Two weeks ago we had a discussion on the clary at and the campus safe act. On thursday we will be holding the third roundtable discussion on something i am very concerned about, and that is the coordination, working collaboration between Law Enforcement and University Campuses in terms of holding perpetrators criminally accountable. I am holding these roundtables to bring together a Diverse Group of
Wore it backstage but took it off for the tour. These were his words, i dont want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. Its worth pointing out that three of the president s top Health Officials, all who are worried about their own exposures, are not only Wearing Masks in public but they are in some form of quarantine. We have clear evidence that wearing a mask can help save lives. Most people are doing it. I think its a sign of respect and caring for others. Its not like theres no reason not to make every effort to protect the people around you, even people you dont know. Thats just being a good citizen. The outbreak continues taking lives, more than 94,000 so far. Theres a new study suggesting if the country had begun taking social distancing measures about a week earlier about 36,000 deaths could have been prevented. President trump calls the study, quote, a political hit job. Cdc director redfield warns about the surge of cases in the Southern Hemisphere that could lead to a