Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this september 10th. Im willie geist. This morning there is a desperate race to find survivors in morocco after a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake struck in the overneat hours on friday killing more than 2,000 people. Those who survived forced to sleep in the streets with their homes and surroundings buildings reduced to rubble. We are live on the scene with the latest. Then, we will turn to a much brighter story here at home as 19yearold american phenom coco gauff wins the u. S. Open in thrilling fashion. We will go oneonone with coco just ahead. Plus, our sunday focus on whats driving the recent uptick in covid cases including a positive test for First Lady Jill Biden. How concerned should we be with a new vaccine on the way as early as this week . Then, our sunday spotlight on the hottest show around as we turn the tables on the host of hot ones. The viral hit that makes celebrities sweat. And later, a new sunday sitdown with the woman of the mom
Identify ebola victims, as the nationwide lock down continues. Plus 200,000 forced to flee their homes from a major storm in the philippines. Hello there. 49 turkish citizens held in iraq by the Islamic State of iraq and levant, i. S. I. L. , have been freed. Turkey denied paying a ransom to secure their freedom. They were flown na apping carra from southern flown in to ang carra using the Prime Ministers plane. Imran khan has more from baghdad. Reporter the former hostages arrived in ankara where they left from a Turkish Border town near syria. Also on the plane, the turkish Prime Minister. He said it was a preplanned intelligenceled operation. Many wonder whether a ransom was paid to get the 49 hostages out of i. S. I. L. Held territory. The turkish government claimed they didnt way ransoms. They knew where the host iments were and now they changed locations and said there were a number of rescue attempts to get them out. Companies on the ground didnt allow the rescue attempts to go
People. The top u. S. Diplomate arrives in russia since the fall out of ukraine and russia. Nepal has been shaken by another big earthquake early reports say 13 people have been killed. Police say another 300 are injured and hospitalized. Now the epicenter of the magnitude 7. 3 tremor was near a popular stop on the way to mt. Everest and sent people in the capitol running from buildings and felt as far away as the capitol new deli and two weeks since they were devastate by another quake which killed more than 8,000 people and injured 17,000 and Andrew Simmons is live for us in kathmandu. Now andrew tell us where you where are you now and where you were when the earthquake hit, describe to us what happened. Reporter well just an extraordinary experience really. This is the building i was in along with the rest of our team. I was on the third floor when suddenly there was this what i thought was going to be yet another aftershock then it turned into something much more serious. The whole
We begin tonight with the growing u. S. Response to escalating violence. The u. S. Is now deploying 150 marines to help evacuate americans and to provide security for the u. S. Embassy. Tens of thousands of civilians have now fled, and are taking shelter at u. N. Bases. The Security Council held an emergency session today, to discuss sending ab extra 5,000 peace keepers to help protect them. The future of south sudan is in jeopardy, and this moment demands urgent leadership to avoided further bloodshed and to restore stability. The leaders of south sudan face a stark choice, they can return to the political dialog and spirit of cooperation that helped establish south sudan, or they can detroy those hard fought gains and tear apart their newborn nation. More now on the situation there. In south africa. He says he was apacked by men carrying machetes. When soldiers staterred fighting what the government called an attempted coupe, young people with no apparent hollywoodtys starting to att
State and has one of the busiest shipping channels shut down and president obama spoke at the hague and International Summit happening there but ukraine is topping the agree do for commander and chief and leaders around the world. A crew of Malaysia Flight 270 and what they think they spotted. Welcome to Al Jazeera America, live from new york im stephanie sy and its 3 00 a. M. In Washington State where crews have been searching through the night for people missing the after a massive landslide, on saturday a wall of debris went through the town of oso, 50 miles north of seattle and a state of emergency has been declared in the area and covers a square mile. At least 8 people are known dead and more than a dozen unaccounted for after the rainsoaked Mountain Side came sliding down blanketing the town and destroying 30 homes and we have more on the rescue effort. Nothing like they have ever seen is what many here in the Community North of seattle are saying about the mudslide that devasta