As well as his latest project, the new documentary, Long Distance revolutionary a journey with mumia abujamal. [indiscernible] and no way out. Freed american hiker shane bauer rights, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. I spent seven months in a prison cell. I thought this was one be better than it is. This is one of eight in a pod. A little over 11 by 7 feet, smaller than any i have ever inhabited. Shane bauer was held in solitary confinement in iran for four months, now his written a major expose on shocking conditions of solitary confinement inside the u. S. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Were on the road in san rafael, broadcasting from the Community Media center. Both the u. S. And iran are denying claims of having reached an agreement in principle for direct oneonone nuclear talks. The New York Times reported saturday a deal had been struck between u. S. Diplom
From wjz from hartford connecticut. Reporter cars are having a tough time navigating the snowy roads in hartford connecticut. This family went out for lunch and got stuck. Thank you so much. We were a little ways. Luckily we got out of it. There were people out there to help us. Reporter across the northeast, millions of people are digging out are from up to 3 feet of snow and thousands in 8 states with still waiting for the lights and heat to come back on. Crews are making progress with street cleaning, but the next challenge is getting rid of mountains of snow that are piling up all over town. Bus service is getting back on track are. Ray and doris gunter radar on one of the first arrived on one of the first buses. They celebrated their wedding anniversary in st. Croix. And more than 5000 flights were canceled on thursday and friday and. Crews are working to clear cars from the long island expressway are, trying to get one another of the busiest expressways open and ready in time for
Abbott is announcing a series of executive orders and laying out a plan to begin loosening certain restrictions there. Governor abbott joining us now with more. Governor, we were just listening to andrew cuomo of new york talking about that testing is key to reopening his state. Do you agree with that . And if so, where is texas on testing . First, with regard to future strategies, testing is going to be so important. Remembering this, however, leland and that is the situation happening in new york is far different than what is happening in texas and other places. For example, there will be unfortunately more people who pass away in one day in new york than we will have in texas in the entirety of this whole pandemic situation and as the president made clear, there are different strategies for different states. Texas has not even come close to needing to use all of our hospital beds, all of our ventilators. In fact, all the prognostications about the potential dire situation in texas d
Thats according to commander marks with the u. S. Search team, and were going to be getting an update from him in just a moment. First, though, this failure so important, because its on the back of whats been called the most promising lead yet, pings that have been consistent with both the planes flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. On sunday, an Australian Navy ship towing a u. S. Pinger locator, thats the device you see in the water here, right there off the edge, the yellow device, called a t. P. L. , or toad pinger locator, twice detected signals. Keep in mind, the black box signal is designed to transmit 30 days under good conditions. Were now day 32 in not good conditions. The first detection lasted two hours and 20 minutes, the second just 13 minutes. These pings were detected 375 miles northeast from pings friday and saturday. From everything we understand, by the way, these things cant all be to the same plane, these two situations will not both be true at the same
Good evening. With a death toll of 4 and 16 wounded, all of them members of the u. S. Military, all of them shot by one man on home soil, tonight the u. S. Army launched a massive investigation into what went wrong and into security within the confines of ft. Hood in texas. The massive home to so much of our nations infantry and mechanized forces. For the ft. Hood community and the u. S. Army, its a second tragedy of course in five years. For the families of the departed, there is only mourning and sadness along with the lingering question of why. We have it covered tonight from texas to puerto rico, the home of the alleged gunman here and one of the victims. Nbcs mark potter starts us off from ft. Hood. Mark, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Were learning more tonight about the events leading up to the shooting. Officials dont believe this was a premeditated killing spree. Investigators say they believe shooting suspect ivan lopez acted alone after a confrontation with othe