Bothis is al jazeera live. It was a momentum day. First ever by a pope. In a nearly hour long speech, the pontiff spoke hotly. The death penalty, modern day slavery, and traditional marriage. We will have more on the pope in just a moment, but we want to update you on a developing story out of saudi arabia, more than 700 people are dead, and hundreds more injuries during a stampede at the annual pill gram imagine. The accident happened a large valley just a few miles outside of the holy city. The government says the stampede respected while bill. Grays were performing the final right ceremony. It is the deadliest disaster since 1990, when more than 1400 people were killed during a similar stampede. Omar is in mecca, and filed this a short time ago. Saudi authorities and especially the Civil Defense authorities are sending more ambulances. I just saw about five ambulances arriving to the area behind me, and also i heard two helicopters and say 2000 helicoptersing. I dont know if you can
This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Pope francis will make history once again this morning on his first visit to the u. S. He is becoming the first pontiff to address a joint meeting of congress. Thousands will watch the historic address inside and outside the capital. The popes first day in the u. S. Was a whirlwind. He visited the white house and met privately with president obama, then he thrilled huge crowds during a parade along d. C. Streets before a special mass to canonize the saint. You are taking a live look at the National Mall where some 30,000 people are expected to gather. Del walters is there, too, where he will hear the popes address. Del, tell us whats going to happen outside the capital building. What you are hearing is the National Anthem as a climate day rally is kicking off, co in crieding with the papal address that will take place inside congress at 9 20 this morning. There are expect to go 40,000 people on the m
We started off cool but its going to be gorgeous today. You said today will be the pick of the litter . Steve oh, yeah, gorgeous, 60s. Mild. Look at the numbers. 38 in chapel hill, 40, rdu. Sanford, colder at 28, 34 in roxboro and 32 in roanoke rap i said. Rapids. And temperatures climbing quickly. 60 by lunch time today and midupper 60s later on this afternoon. Well see the clouds coming in later this afternoon. Big changes on wednesday. Could be dealing with obvious rain and thunderstorms too. More on that in a few minutes. Caitlin a tragic ending this morning in the search for a missing girl from virginia. Lovell, in surrey county, North Carolina. Shed been missing since wednesday. This morning, an 18yearold Virginia Tech student is facing charges in her murder. David eisenhower is in jail and being held without bond. Anthony a fight and a footing at northgate mall. Shots fired just after 7 00 when several rounds were fired in the parking lot. By the time it was over, one person hit
Soviet army from afghanistan. Im in iraq looking at how afghans remember that occupation. Welcome to Al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Autoworkers in tennessee say no to unionizing dealing a blow to organised labour. It was two years in the making and pro and antiUnion Leaders tried to persuade workers. 712 voted against allowing the united organizers to organise the plant. 626 voted for it. Its a stinging plough to the union and organised labour. After three days of secret balloting, employees at volkswagens chattanooga plant voted no. We are thankful it turned out the way it did. Volkswagen invested a million in the plant, which started building the distance. The company was lured by 777 million. Some viewed it as a set back that would benefit the uaw. Its a problem that the uaw has a need for our money. They dont care about the guys, they dont. The campaign was seen as organised labours best chance to expand in the south. The idea brought more reaction f
You bring up the next president. Were all anxious to see who she is. I feel confident hillary will be the nominee, i feel confident shell be the next president. Joining me from louisville, kentucky, covering the Clinton Campaign, nbcs kristen welker. My sense is the Clinton Campaign strategy for West Virginia was basically to pretend like it wasnt on the calendar and move right along. Thats pretty accurate, chris, actually. Very good political analysis. Thats right, and i just spoke with the Clinton Campaign official a short time ago who said, they were bracing for this loss in West Virginia. But now theyre really focusing on kentucky and whats interesting about that is that wed seen this large pivot by secretary clinton to the general election and what weve seen in recent days is that to some extent shes pivot back to this primary race, acknowledging that she really needs to win a few of these states in may. In particular for the optics so that she heads into the convention on a stron