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electing a president. the u.s. is one year away, the campaign battle still ahead and the bold ways candidates are getting attention. in missouri tonight what good afternoowhat beganas a campus pe university of missouri s president is under increasing pressure to resign after african american students say he refused to answer appropriately, and the state s u.s. senator weighed in on the controversy. paul beban has more on the campus protest. reporter: protests aren t usually part of the college football play book racial but rl tensions may put the football season on hold. refusing to take the field in a el show of solidarity. saturday night, student government tweeted a picture of 30 players linked with jonathan butler. he is willing to die until the president resigns. racial slurs shouted at black students, even swastika smeared in feces on a bathroom wall. the time for talking is over. lots of conversations including conversations with protesters, where they came i ....
we begin tonight in missouri where weeks of student protests over campus racism came to an end. tim wolf, the president of the university of monsieur see system resigned today. his announcement appeared to resolve a stand-off that included student protests, a hunger strike and a football team that was threatening to quick. andy rogen reports. reporter: even though the president and chancellor are out, those protesters wanted other demands. among them, a more diverse fa faculty and diversity training for incoming faculty. everyone is trying to wrap their heads around this head-spinning day. a somber resignation by the school president tim wolfe? i am resigning of the president of the missouri system. led to an emotional reaction in the center of campus. for months, black students on this overwhelmingly white campus had said rachel tensions were poisoning the atmosphere. a swastica drawn in feces was drawn in a dorm bathroom. the school student body said someone use ....
closing down schools and factories. welcome to your world this morning i m stephanie sy. i m del walters and this morning political rivals on both sides of the aisle calling it american and unconstitutional and donald trump proposes to ban all muslims from coming to the u.s. frontrunner s plans contrary to american values and fellow republicans are calling it dangerous and flat out bigotry and john reports on what many say is a sharp escalation in anti-muslim rhetoric. reporter: del and stephanie good morning donald trump s anti-muslim remarks were delivered on the second world war craft carrier and began honoring the fallen at pearl harbor and the anniversary was yesterday and moved on to his main theme of the night was muslims. donald trump calling for a ban on all muslims entering the united states and speaking at a campaign stop in south carolina. donald j trump is falling for a shut down of muslims entering the united states until our country s represen ....
for decades. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m stephanie sy. the pentagon is praising the timely release of ten u.s. sailors handed over by iran. the boats were en route to bahrain from kuwait when they entered iranian waters. iran accused the boats of trespassing. translator: certainly the presence of the u.s. in the gulf has never been next. reporter: but the mechanic says one of the boats had a mechanical failure. rosiland jordan has been following this story all morning. we are learning more about this release, including secretary of state john kerry s role. reporter: that s right. we did know as of late on tuesday evening, secretary of state john kerry had spoken with the iranian foreign minister and directly appealed for the quick release of the ten sailors, nine men and one woman, who were on two patrol boats. as you noted, stephanie, they were headed from kuwait, south to bahrain, when app pair wently they had some sort of mechani ....
tomorrow. and that is a problem, because it just means that we re going to see this snow piling up, and although the year is only 22 days old, they re already calling it the storm of 2016. the monster storm is forecast to dump around two feet of though on the most iconic sights on the nation s capital. washington, gong, the most heartiest taking it in until it gets too deep. president lincoln never looks to pleased especially today. the city s mayor says, this is a dangerous weather event made worse by major winds. we see this as a major storm, life and death implication and all the residents of the district of columbia should treat i.t. tha it that way. we need the city s full cooperation. the city has only a dusting of snow and ice, and some commutes home took six hours. the snow we anticipate is wet and heavy which means we can expect downed trees and power lines. the winds are expected to be 30 miles an hour up to 50 miles an hour through saturday evening. and ....