U. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Schools in injury time penalty to down rights and. When. The man chosen to be lebanons next Prime Minister has resigned without ever forming a government most of all says he simply hasnt been able to get a cabinet of technocrats approved in a country where power is shared between different sects it sends the country back to square one and its search for stable governance in a quarter reports from beirut. Its been almost a month since most of a db was designated Prime Minister his job was to form a government independent of Party Loyalists after the previous cabinet resigned following the devastating explosion at the port of beirut last month its not easy in lebanon where the same political elite accused of pushing the country to near bankruptcy have been in power for decades i realise that the agreement on the basis i accepted this National Mission during this difficult time of lebanons h
Who took part in our 2017 studentcam documentary competition. And studentcam 2018 starts in september with the theme the tunisi tunisi constitution you. Were asking students create a video of why the constitution is important. Now a House Oversight hearing on a bill to reauthorize the office of National Drug control policy. This is almost two hours. The committee on government oversieft and reform will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call a recess at any time. Before we get to Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, our panelists, those in the audience, the members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal room. So thank you for understanding. Over the past two decades, elicit drug use has emerged as a Public Safety cries wis overdoses becoming crises with overdoses becoming the leading cause of injury or death in the United States. Opioids and specifically
You a very dear friend offered to it possible for us to be about. A big supporter of the group a picture taken. even boy there all the principles of this in the slot and said the president had to speak with them. Again the president has not yet arrived here at the front he will be doing so in the next hour to two hours and also tell you if youre the business schedule because the lease begin tomorrow at the Mountain View walmart about environmental policy will mention the presence pans trip to bay area wal mart all he is here that decision is not said it sit well with a number of unions are political analyst Michael Luckey will be here by 45 to talk about the controversy and more. Breaking news and talk about major bart delay at this hour between lake merritt and west oakland in the richmond sfo out millbrae in daly city corrections due to equipment problem on the track. No word on how long the delays are at this point or when the issue will be resolved. Were gathering Additional Inform
And now, a scientist is missing as the u. S. Is seeing the number of coronavirus cases jump. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we begin with the new independence at the Justice Department and attorney general bill barr. Despite barrs public show of frustration last night telling abc news that President Trumps tweets about the Justice Department matters make his job hart harder which is rooted not in the barrs look for independence, but the illusion of independence as some of the supporters on the president s Favorite Channel seems to suggest. And the media sees trump versus barr, but it is i got this. That is because when you see attorney general barr doing what President Trump would do this, and the officials told him this afternoon that he is ordering a reexamination of the high profile cases and bringing in a u. S. Attorney to take a second look at them and this is the case of the retired general mike flynn, the former Trump National security adviser, and flynn pleaded guilty
Narrow the search zone, again, word on that any time now. Were also hearing from flight 370 that it was the captain there on the left, not the first officer, who uttered those worded to air traffic control. That has gone back and forth, remember, from others who said it was the copilot. And they suggested that the plane descended sharply after crossing the malaysian peninsula. That and much more, lets start with Michael Holmes, so the air force michael detecting another signal after the other four that were heard. How did they detect it . Yeah, it is fascinating, anderson, what they are. They are called sonobuoys, or buoys, they are dropped from the aircraft and are being spread around the search area as an added tool if you will. Electronic ears, listening to anything from malaysian flight 370. They can carry up to 70 of these, peppering the ocean field. One has already picked up four pings from the towed pinger locator. They drop a line down from a thousand feet and listen basically.