. i ll have the latest sports new, including former champion andy murray books his place in the last 16 of the us open. we ll start this newshour are the refugee crisis. thousands of people are waiting to enter their desperate journey to europe to escape war and poverty. this is the worst refugee crisis europe has seen since world war ii. many people are at the border between hungary. they are allowed to go through the country. there are thousands of others waiting to make that trip. near the southern border with serbia, police are moving people into a new camp. hungary says it will seal the crossing with new high fence in less than five days. for many, a perilous trip is over. they have arrived in germany by train and bus. many of them are met with cheers and applause. we have our correspondents along the route that so many of these desperate refugees are taking. mohammed jamjoom is on the austrian-hungary border and rob reynolds in the german city of munich. rob, let s
disagree, call this number. or ave a separate line, special line for afghanistan war veterans. if not by phone, you can weigh twitter,ial media, facebook, or send us an e-mail. new york times, here s what peter baker writes this morning on all of this. obama s afghan shift is tied to the iraq meltdown. as he described factors that went into his decision, the one word that president obama did not mention on thursday was iraq. his years ago, he stuck to plan to pull out only to watch the country collapsed back into sectarian strife and a renewed war with islamic extremist. ining a similar situation afghanistan, mr. obama has decided not to follow a similar course. goes on to write, whether keeping a residual american force and iraq would have made a difference is a point of contention, but the president chose not to take a chance this time. ofseeking to avoid a repeat the iraq meltdown by keeping 9800 troops in afghanistan next year and 5500 after he leaves office, he abandoned
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: tomorrow, vermont will become the first aid and then union that require food manufacturers label products that contain dmo s, genetically s, to nattily modified organisms. coleng us now from chester, vermont is the governor of that state, peter shumlin who will sign that groundbreaking bill tomorrow. thank you for your time. it s great to be with you. tavis: let me start by asking why you intend to do this tomorrow when you know the very next day i suspect you are going to be sued by more than one person. that wouldn t surprise me. i just feel strongly that vermonters deserve to know what is inside of there fitted. european countries are way ahead of us on this. vermont consumers have a right to know what they buy. when you go shopping, you can look at the ingredients and see what you are eating. it just seems that it should be a patriot a basic right that people should be able to know
and ammunition sales. we have a look at what this could mean for the hot-button political issue. live from cnn headquarters here in atlanta, we welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m george howell. the cnn newsroom starts right now. 4:01 here on the u.s. east coast. thank you for being with us this day. what was once hurricane dorian is no longer a hurricane but still packing a punch in canada right now. it slammed nova scotia, bearing winds of 100 miles per hour, about 155 kilometers per hour, and it knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses as well. this is the image in the bahamas. a very different story. a story of just a lot of devastation there. officials there ramping up efforts to recover to help people get back to what they can find. this after dorian left the islands in total ruin. the storm killed 43 people there. but that number is expected to rise. some on the island who lost everything are now scramble to go tr
it is 4:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast. thank you so much for your time today. they were key u.s. allies in the fight against isis, but right now kurdish fighters are being targeted by another u.s. ally. that would be turkey. the u.s. withdrawal from that region cleared the way for an offensive by the turks and arab militia in northern syria. despite criticism, u.s. president donald trump keeps defending the move. the kurds are tending to leave, and that s good. let them have their borders. but i don t think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years guarding a border between turkey and syria when we can t guard our own borders at home. i don t think so. the largely kurdish-syrian democratic forces accuse on the united states of betraying them. barbara starr has the story from the pentagon. reporter: as the turkish military action continues, cnn has learned new details how they feel about what has happened with the u.s. in his view very much turning their b