Car. What police did next to save his life. And from the sea lions rocking this boat to an unusual search for a missing dog to the owl getting cozy inside this familys christmas tree. All the top trending stories for your friday morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with the big holiday escape now under way. Millions of americans are hitting the roads or heading to the airport. In some places the weather will not be cooperating. Today is expected to be the busiest air travel day in history for the winter holidays with 3 Million People expected to fly on the major airlines. The toughest travel will be in the pacific northwest. You can see why right there. Heavy rain along the coast and heavy snow in the mountains. Wind gusts could hit 60 miles per hour. The other big weather story is the cold in the east. People from syracuse to boston are starting the morning in the Single Digits but temperatures will head back to normal today. Well take a closer lo
,ife of imprisoned former cia will join us. Then to israel and the occupied territories. Have killed more than 30 palestinians in the last two weeks. With tensions rising over is really control of the temple mount in jerusalem, Palestinian Authority president abass accuses them of sparking a religious war. These days the israeli aggressive assault against our people in its land and its holy places is escalating in the racism is showing its ugly face and making the occupation uglier. Threatening peace and stability and threatening to spark a religious conflict that would burn everything. Not only in the region, but also in the whole world. Amy . We will go to tel aviv, haifa, jerusalem to get the latest on the worst violence in over a year. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has announced the United States will halt its military withdrawal from afghanistan, instead keeping thousands of tro
Conference, the spouse of a jailed cia whistleblower will speak out today for the first time. Her she heads to the National Press club, holly sterling, the ,ife of imprisoned former cia will join us. Then to israel and the occupied territories. Have killed more than 30 palestinians in the last two weeks. With tensions rising over is really control of the temple mount in jerusalem, Palestinian Authority president abass accuses them of sparking a religious war. These days the israeli aggressive assault against our people in its land and its holy places is escalating in the racism is showing its ugly face and making the occupation uglier. Threatening peace and stability and threatening to spark a religious conflict that would burn everything. Not only in the region, but also in the whole world. Amy . We will go to tel aviv, haifa, jerusalem to get the latest on the worst violence in over a year. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace
Conference, the spouse of a jailed cia whistleblower will speak out today for the first time. Her she heads to the National Press club, holly sterling, the ,ife of imprisoned former cia will join us. Then to israel and the occupied territories. Have killed more than 30 palestinians in the last two weeks. With tensions rising over is really control of the temple mount in jerusalem, Palestinian Authority president abass accuses them of sparking a religious war. These days the israeli aggressive assault against our people in its land and its holy places is escalating in the racism is showing its ugly face and making the occupation uglier. Threatening peace and stability and threatening to spark a religious conflict that would burn everything. Not only in the region, but also in the whole world. Amy . We will go to tel aviv, haifa, jerusalem to get the latest on the worst violence in over a year. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace
United states kills at least 43 people. We will speak with the leading climate scientist about the connection between tornadoes and Climate Change. Then to chicago. It hurts me all over to know the family is going through this tragedy going on, Police Shooting without asking. Why you got to shoot and ask questions later . Amy protests continue in chicago after police shot dead to the africanamericans a , 55yearold africanamerican mother of five and a close student. Could these latest killings force mayor rahm emanuel to resign . We will go to chicago for an update and also speak to a statistician with the Mapping Police Violence Project which has documented how police have killed at least 1152 people in the United States so far this year. And we remember the oscarwinning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. What advice would you have for the next generation coming up . Or to sayilent something is debilitating, and i hope they dont fall victim to that. Has died at wexler the age of 93. We wi