Part. These blasts targeted the two mosques, the center of their region inside the capital of sanaa. Death tell staggering at 77 with 200 potentially injured. An appeal for blood across state television to be brought by donors to the hospital. Staggering scenes. Carnage shown on social media hard to watch and difficult for us to show to you here. This comes at an extraordinarily volatile time in yemens already fractured and messy politics. In the past few months houthies some backed by iran they say, are efficient at sweeping away the government. They now control sanaa and this attack has all of the hallmarks of al qaeda and many fearing that what were seeing here is a reprisal of sectarian violence across the middle east. Sunni against shia. We dont know who has claimed responsibility for this but the tactics have the hallmarks of al qaeda. The blasts followed up whenres rescuers rushed to the scene with a car bomb. There were months of a very fractured government having seemed to col
Michael brown. Who did they kill . Michael brown. There were no molotov cocktails tonight, no fires, no shootings. We did not see a single handgun. There were no confrontations. Who do you serve . Who do you protect . I know in the end, this is going to make us better, it is going to bring us peace and its going to make us better men and women and make our kids better, its going to make our nation better and i look forward to that. For the second straight night, relative calm, relative quiet here in ferguson, missouri. Good morning to you. It is thursday, august 21st, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Im craig melvin in for chuck todd. A smaller crowd marched past a dwindling Police Presence on the 12th night of protests since a Police Officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown nearly two weeks ago now. Live pictures here at the Justice Department. Attorney general eric holder spent wednesday here in ferguson using his personal story to reassure residents that the Justice De
The National Institutes of health will admit an american doctor exposed to the virus as a patient to learn more about it. Ill talk to the head of the nihs Infectious Disease division. And no photos, please. Thats what parents are saying about posting photos of their kids on facebook. A dad is hoping the push for privacy catches on in todays big idea. Good afternoon. Good to be with you. Im frances rivera. We begin developing news. Ferguson police are looking for two men they say shot a Ferguson Police officer last night. Heres what happened according to police. Two men were standing outside a Community Center last night which was closed. When the officer approached them they ran away. As the officer started to chase them, one of the men turned and shot the officer in the arm. The officer is expected to survive. Meanwhile st. Louis county police is investigating a separate incident not far from ferguson. An off duty Police Officer is injured when three people fired shots into the car th
Im ezra klein. The weekend of resistance in ferguson, missouri has begun. Two months and no charges have been filed. This weekend, thousands of people from all over the country are expected to arrive in the st. Louis area to demand justice for brown and protest what they say is police brutality. Any minute now, protesters are expected to kick off the weekend with a justice now march to the office of bob mccullough. Given the clashes that took place last night between police in riot gear and protesters angered over wednesdays Fatal Shooting over a black teen, authorities are on edge. Ferguson right now is a, quote, racial powder keg. Joining me now from missouri is tremaine lee. Good to see you. Likewise. What is the feel on the ground right now . Does it feel like a racial powder keg or are things calming . At the moment things appear to be calm. There is a steady wind and cold rain keeping many people at bay. But there is a sense of this underlying tension, anger and a clear racial li
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