Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Thousands of mourners say goodbye to former israeli Prime Minister ariel sharon. His body will lie in state and monday will be laid to rest at his family farm in israel. Dignitaries are expected to attend the journal and Vice President joe biden will lead a delegation from the United States. Nick schifrin joins us live from jerusalem. Walk us through the next few hours and days leading up to Ariel Sharons funeral. What protocol will be observed according to jewish law . What you are seeing now is the equivalent of ariel sharon laying in state behind me. That is the coffin and these are the visitors. Behind me is the israeli knesset, the parliament, the closest they have to the u. S. Congress. What you see is ariel sharon laying in state, being given the honours that a former Prime Minister, general, as decorated as he is is given here. He will lay in state for the next few hours. Tomorrow mor
Journalthe washington pos morning that is in the the wall street journal this morning. The Supreme Court is working on things. If you have a public aussie issue youd like to discuss this morning, here are the numbers. Front page of the Orange County register. First call this morning comes from julia, a democrat in greensboro, north carolina. Good morning, julius. What is a Public Policy that is on your mind . I want to let the people know that the aca is working and karl rove, i dont know why he wants to come up. And say that he couldnt get 7 million people, but he did. Want to thank all the democrats and let people know that the aca is working. Billy, miami, independent. Good morning. Caller i have an issue around gay people. I my partner and i have been together until his death in 1999. We ran a business together, we own a home, we have a mortgage is like everybody else. Saying that iis was not entitled to benefits because we were not married. I ofnk is a complete rip off this countr
Either heavy drizzle or sprinkles out there. Now, stormtracker 4 really not picking up on it because we are talking about the pesky showers where you dont know whether or not to use your windshield wipers or not. It is moist out there. You will definitely encounter that as you hit the roads but we are looking for drier conditions and partly cloudy skies as we head into later on today. Heres a look at your temperatures right now, thanks to the cloud cover, we are a little warmer than yesterday. 52 degrees right now in fairfield, San Francisco at 51, 53 out the door in oakland. We are looking for Clear Conditions by later on today, its going to be a little breezy especially along the coast but sunny skies are anticipated as we start the next workweek. We are also talking about a warming trend that will carry us into the middle of next week with High Pressure back in effect. Ill be talking about just how warm its going to get, ill be highlighting the 90s in the forecast coming up in 15 mi
It was another shock. The mystery of the murdered major. Hello and welcome dateline extra. Im craig melvin. Like so many others, this story involves a husband and wife. He was a military man, a respected major in the u. S. Army, when he was attacked in the middle of the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets, secrets that might hold the key to murder. Here is keith morrison. The wind in the Northern Prairie sweeps across a vast flatland. Grave markers around a military ceremony. The final resting spot for a few dozen veterans, many of whom died in combat. This is where he is resting now. Major David Shannon, who lost his life in 2002. His mother shirley comes here to visit and remember. His sister brenda too when shes in town. Oh, how they worried that war might put him here. Except war didnt. No, there never was a thought back then about what could happen far from combat, what did happen. All those strange things down south in north carolina.
Im Ayman Mohyeldin, we begin though with President Trump lashing out on christmas night, questioning whether the house even has the authority to impeach him. The president tweeted last night, why should crazy nancy pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the house be allowed to impeach the president of the United States . Here he is on camera on Christmas Eve after a Video Conference with u. S. Troops. She hates the republican party. She hates all of the people that voted for me. And the republican party. She doing a tremendous disservice to the country. And shes not doing a good job. And some people think that shes, she doesnt know what she is doing. Were in a very good position. Ultimately, that decision is going to be made by Mitch Mcconnell, and he will make it, he has the right to do whatever he want, he is the head of the senate. Meanwhile, one key republican senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska says she is quote disturbed over Mitch Mcconnells promise to be in quote total