Hopefuls, front runner joe biden fights back ahead of next weeks democratic debate. What did you mean when you said you wont be as polite in the next debate . Well see. Those stories, plus, remembering ally. Friends and family gather at a vigil for the murdered ole miss student gone way too soon. Scooter skirmish. New battles over the rides popping up in cities across the country. Are they too dangerous for riders and pedestrians . Fortnite fever. We take you inside the first ever world cup of fortnite, getting under way this weekend. Massive numbers of fans gathering. An even bigger jackpot up for grabs today. Friday, july 26th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us on this friday morning. Thanks to kristen welker, who is filling in for savannah, who is enjoying some time off. You picked a good friday. I picked a great friday to be here. Im excited about this c
Again im peter w. Watching aljazeera live from doha also coming up out of the inner circle reports the u. S. President s son in law is being excluded from top secret security briefings. A german court gives cities the green light to ban diesel cars to help reduce air pollution also at. Forty million indonesians are living in areas prone to landslides. Reporting from banks in central java the people are risking their lives clearing the road after the most recent landslide. A second attempt to impose a humanitarian ceasefire on a rebel held enclave in syria is due to begin in the next few hours russias partial truce is planned to allow aid in and get the injured out of east and close to the capital damascus the first attempt on tuesday failed to stop the onslaught osama bin as the story. When the bomb stop it was time to see whats left of the home day one of the five hour cease fire brought by the comfort to the people trapped in besieged eastern. Theres no food or water they always say
Eroded hills, the gull yid fields, the ccc working with the Forest Service and agricultural experts have started to put the warm fields and hill sides back together. Black walnut and pine, roots for the cut over and burned hill sides. Roots to hold the water in the ground. Black walnut and pine for the new forest reserves. Soil conservation men that worked out crop systems with the farmers of the valley. Crops to conserve and enrich the top soil so that the day a million acres of land in the Tennessee Valley are saying instead of speeding the water off the ground. But you cannot plan for water and land unless you plan for people. Down in the valley, the Farm Security administration has built the Model Agricultural Community living in homes they themselves built paying on long term rates, they will have a chance to share in the wealth of the valley. More important, the Farm Security administration has loaned thousands of dollars to farmers in the valley. Farmers who were caught by years
Comes down. Down from a thousand hill sides, washing the top off of the valley. For 50 years we dug for cotton and moved west when the land gave out. For 50 years we plowed for corn and moved on when the land gave out. We planted and plowed with no regard for the future and 400 million tons of top soil, 400 million tons of our most val valuable resource have been washed into the gulf of mexico every year. And poor land makes poor people. Poor people make poor land. For a quarter of a century, we have been forcing more and more farmers into tenants. 10 are shared croppers down on their knees in the valley. A share of the crop their only security, no home, no land of their own, aimless, foot loose and impoverished. Unable to eat even from the land because their cash crop is their only livelihood. Credit at the store their only reserve. A generation growing up with no new land in the west, no new continent to build. A generation whose people knew Kings Mountain and shilou. A generation wh
Growing up without proper food, medical care or schooling, ill clad, il housed and ill fed and in the greatest river valley in the world. There is no such thing as an ideal river in nature but the Mississippi River is out of joint. Dust blowing in the west, floods raging in the east, we have seen these problems growing to alarming extremes. When we first found the great valley, it was 40 forested. Today, for every 100 acres of forest we found, we have ten left. Today 5 of the entire valley is ruined forever for agricultural use. 25 of the top soil has been shoved by the old river into the gulf of mexico. Today two out of five farmers in the valley are tenant farmers. 10 of them share croppers and we are forcing 50,000 more into tenancy and cropping every year. Flood control of the mississippi means control in the great delta. Control. We had the power to take the valley apart, we have the power to put it together again. In 1933 we started. Down on the Tennessee River when congress crea