From a member of congress. Maxine waters joining the crowds and demanding justice. Listen. Question have to persist calling for justice. We have to let people know well not be satisfied unless we get justice in these cases. Reporter waters said if exminneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted we got to get on The Street, get more active, get more confrontational. They have got to know we mean business. Anticop sentiment spreading nationwide. Sacramento police declared an unlawful assembly after protesters threw rocks and hurt officerses with a irritant liquid. Same in new York City. What are you doing for . You can open the door. Oh. Oh [bleep] Reporter Suspect throwing a chemical on an officer after being pulled over for running a red light. He threw a Molotov Cocktail before being arrested. Even the citys emts are being targeted with a Union Chief telling the new York Post a crew had a brick thrown at their ambulance. In d. C. Several protesters were arrested. They were throwing f
Moment. We want to begin tonight with a Historymaking Decision from the White House that is not without controversy. Today the president announced The End of our nations longest war. He announced that all u. S. Troops, about 2,500 of them remain, will leave afghanistan by september 11th. Leaving afghanistan was a goal of both of his two immediate predecessors, obama and trump, but a goal that was never realized. The twodecadeold war has taken the lives of over 2,000 american service members, left some 20,000 of them wounded and cost 2 trillion. Im now the fourth united States President to preside over american Troop Presence in afghanistan. Two republicans, two democrats. I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. Its time to end americas longest war. Its time for american troops to come home. War in afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking. We were attacked. We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. Bin laden is dead and Al Qaeda i
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper, the iconic asian elephant is found mostly across the south and southeastern parts of the continent, including in sri lanka, which is home to roughly 7,000 wild elephants but these animals are in danger. rapid development in sri lanka has pushed humans farther out into the while building homes and farms and factories in areas where the elephants live these remarkably intelligent creatures are learning to live alongside humans, but that means they are destroying farmlands of aiding fences and even holding up cars at times it s on the road to demand food. farmers try to protect their lands with firecrackers, flash grenades, sometimes guns to keep the elephants away. and the elephants will often attack and kill the people they encounter. more than one elephant today is dying from human activity and one person every two days from elephant attacks. cnn s nick paton walsh traveled to free lanka to witness this deadly conflict and ov
only on cnn thank you all very much for joining me this evening and all weekend. i m alex marquardt. good night and have a good week. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper, the iconic asian elephant is found mostly across the south and southeastern parts of the continent, including in sri lanka which is home to roughly 7,000 wild elephants. but these animals are in danger. rapid development in sri lanka has pushed humans farther out into the while building homes and farms and factories in areas where the elephants live. these remarkably intelligent creatures are learning to ve alongside humans, but that means they re destroying farmlands of aiding fences and even holding up cars times on the road to demand food farmers tried to protect their lands with firecrackers, flash grenades, sometimes guns to keep the elephants away. and the elephants will often attack and kill the people they counter. more than one elephant today is dying from human activity and one pers