A bang and just run for me life and who told you it was a balloon . Staff. They stopped us from running. How did you manage to get out . Told us to be calm and then a few minutes later let us out. Then ambulances came and we realized it wasnt a balloon. In pal stint as part of the foreign trip, while british Prime Minister theresa may called for vigilance in the face of horror. At terrible moments like these, it is customary for leaders, politicians and others to condemn the perpetrators and declare that the terrorists will not win. But the fact that we have been here before and the fact that we need to say this again does not make it any less true. For us and often while we experience the worst of humanity in manchester last night, we also saw the best. For more, we or joined by nbcs matt bradley in manchester. Matt, a truly terrible story. What can you tell us . Reporter thanks, frances and gigi. We just heard from Prime Minister theresa may. She addressed the nation with a solemn, v
A bang and just run for me life and a balloon . Staff. Just started running. How did you manage to get out . Told us to be calm and then a few minutes later let us out. Then ambulances came and the department of Homeland Security says there are no Credible Threats to music venues here in the United States. As the blast marks the Second Attack in the uk in just the last two months. Lets bring in Law Enforcement analyst jim cavanaugh. Heart breaking story. Where does the investigation go from here . They are focusing on the bomber, gigi, its in full swing now. Uk police said they have over 400 officers on this and they are going to be very aggressive. Likely they are conducting a search, a search warrant over there they quacall it a queens writ to go in the house of the bomber and get everything out, bomb making materials if there. Try to walk this back, see who he is and what hes about, wa exactly the motive is. And if it turns out to be terror then who are his accomplices or people who
Question from one of our multinational partners. Im from the british embassy. Just following on from a point you made that and with the recent events in europe and the repositioning of some of your armored combat teams back to europe, are you confident that under the Restructuring Initiative that youve got the right assets or enough assets within europe or john, you want to take the first one . I think we spend a lot of time talking to our rsccs around the world. Army service sorry. Army Service Component commands. And sorry, with the acronym soup here. We were talking about pegs earlier. Great record on that. So we stay closely tied, and the aviation Restructuring Initiative is about adding capability, increasing capability even though were going to have less structure because it is the best step. And were going to tie that to the idea that we need to become more expeditionary and we need to proat a time forrotate force basis. We did in hawaii this summer and we put a company out of c
General, thanks for your time this morning. I was hoping you could clarify how air strikes are being conducted without any jtax on the ground in most cases and also how you assess civilian casualties in most cases, if at all . Let me start with civilian casualty piece. You know, the coalition is really very deliberate about how it conducts strikes out there. And we have some great capability in terms of precision. Whats in the balance here if youre not careful is you can be precisely wrong. You could strike, you know, tribe, you could strike Iraqi Security forces and you could create a very bad situation. To date weve got a very good record. Im tracking no civilian casualties where we just if we even suspected civilian casualties, we would immediately direct investigation, determine the cause and then seek to understand the lessons is learned from that and apply those lessons learned. So thats the civilian casualty piece of this. And again, a very deliberate process. And the second que
Bills for making it harder for minorities and young voters to vote. Who are you going to call . Colin powell or Reince Priebus, the field marshal of the rnc. James peterson is a director at lehigh, an engineer, and Clarence Page a columnest for the chicago tribune. Lets start with colin powell and what he said in his own words. He was speaking in raleigh, where he criticized republican efforts to limit voting. The news and observer quotes him as saying, quote, i want to see policies that encourage every american to vote, not make it more difficult to vote. It immediately turns off a voting bloc that the Republican Party needs. These kinds of actions do not build on the base, it just turns people away. You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud. How can it be widespread and undetected . What it really says is we really are punishing you. Clarence page, youve been covering politics as long as i have. He only comes in from olump pus or wherever he reigns from, and everybody he