Shots fired. The nras heated response to walmarts new move to ban sales of some guns and ammunition, and the pressure on Mitch Mcconnell this morning. Those stories, plus, billions pulled from the pentagons budget to help pay for the president s border wall. How democrats plan to fight back. Dislikes. Why some are worried facebook is about to get rid of its most iconic feature. And good news. The little boy thrown from a mall balcony is headed back home. Today, wednesday, september 4th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. Weve been watching the track of dorian and unfortunately weve seen what its done to the bahamas. The hurricane so large that watches now extend from florida all the way to North Carolina. And again, we are getting a clearer sense now of the damage in the bahamas. Just look at that. Those are
It would be catastrophic all around. Amy israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack rafah where over 1. 4 million palestinians are seeking refuge. We will go to rafah to speak with Mohammed Abu Lebda, a poet and translator who used to translate poets like Edgar Allan Poe but now translates for the International Medical corps. Then we remember u. S. Peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli Military bulldozer in rafah as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a palestinian pharmacist. The bulldozer proceeded toward rachel. She took a position indicating she was not going to move. She was in an orange jacket. When they kept coming, she rose on the mound and the out mrs. Testified her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen by the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her. Amy we will speak with Rachel Corries parents who devoted t
It would be catastrophic all around. Amy israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack rafah where over 1. 4 million palestinians are seeking refuge. We will go to rafah to speak with Mohammed Abu Lebda, a poet and translator who used to translate poets like Edgar Allan Poe but now translates for the International Medical corps. Then we remember u. S. Peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli Military bulldozer in rafah as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a palestinian pharmacist. The bulldozer proceeded toward rachel. She took a position indicating she was not going to move. She was in an orange jacket. When they kept coming, she rose on the mound and the out mrs. Testified her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen by the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her. Amy we will speak with Rachel Corries parents who devoted t
Plans to snatch up his real estate empire. Lawrence and riff rumors between him and biden. Brian new yorkers can pout in peace at the citys first popup cry spa. Im wailing up thinking about it. Ask Jesse Watters about. Ainsley pay to cry. Steve there you go. This is free to you, the home viewer, remember, mornings are better with friends. Brian we hope. Interesting way to spell brian. 1000 americans are stuck in haiti. Lawrence brianinnis joins us at the gate of hatziti. Bryan we are in the Dominican Republic. People have just started to come in. This is important lifeline for haitians. Today the market is closed, legal haitians are allowed to come in. 1000 americans are trying to get out. Yesterday a dozen were killed in portauprince. Their airport is under control, making Airplane Evacuations difficult to impossible. Working on ways to get americans to santiago, by land, air and sea. Helicopters are the preferred method. Traveling by air is dangerous. A charter flight organized by th
Be done by American Military and diplomatic shenanigans such as we are seeing now. Amy as northern gaza faces imminent famine, the United States says it has begun shipping parts to build a port off the coast of gaza to bring aid in even as it continues to send bombs to israel. Meanwhile, israel is expanding its attacks on lebanon, striking amid growing concern about a regional escalation. Well speak with rami khouri, a palestinian american journalist and fellow at the American University of beirut. Well also speak with civil rights advocate and the author Michelle Alexander. She says only revolutionary love can save us now. Refugee camps are bombed and killed with entire neighborhoods laid waste. When International Law is treated like a night suggestion, we must naive suggestion, we must speak. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Following tuesdays primaries, President Joe Biden and former President D