We re about a block from the reflecting pool where the twin towers of the world trade center once stood. President joe biden arriving at this moment in lower manhattan. He and jill biden will visit all three memorial sites today. Starting here at the museum on this site. Vice president kamala harris will speak in shanksville, pennsylvania later this morning, that s where united flight 93 was forced down. She and second gentleman, doug emhoff, will then join the president and the first lady at the pentagon. Nicolle wallace, as i always say, for millions of americans especially anyone in the tristate area, this is the saddest place on earth. There s no way to walk by this spot if you re on jury duty a few blocks away, on an errand or going somewhere else that you don t feel gutted by what was lost here. Our day job is to cover politics, what you have in this place and what you have in this remembrance is heroes. Heroes who ran into towers. I think 20 years later that means more today tha
Distraught parents, a rebellious teen. A family meeting explodes into violence. That situation goes from calm to murder in 11 minutes? i mean it s homicide. I didn t hurt either of my parents. This was a lot bigger and a lot deeper than what initially we thought. They thought they picked out some weak minded kid. They didn t know who they were playing with. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Madison holton was a restless teenager itching for independence, but his parents were worried he was headed for trouble. They gave him an ultimatum, shape up or suffer the consequences. Then in the blink of an eye, two people were dead. Police thought it was an open and shut case but a chance meeting in church would lead to a jaw dropping conclusion. Here s josh mankiewicz with 11 minutes. The long road of parenthood, always watching as your kids grasp at life. You cheer from the stands. Get him madison. Do your best to keep them safe, hoping they make it through this world in one piece. Madison holto
Go back to where they were. We have to we have to face the new world, and we have to face the new world with a certain amount of willingness to sacrifice and make change, but anyway, that s just that s what i think. Yeah. Well, what are you going to be performing tonight, can you say? we were going to be performing people of the power, which my late husband and i wrote, which is a song that both celebrates the individual and the and the change that we as a as a human community to make together. And then we were going to do land which was really on h horses. It was it s a you know, an exploration into evolution and i was going to shift the lyrics in terms of focussing on our environment. And then we were to do because the nice with bruce springsteen, which i know would have made the people very happy. Yeah. So it is quite a disappointment, but you know, we re you know, with all the things that are happening in the world and the things that people are struggling and all the strife in the
And celebrate his nomination for a big award. A touch of hollywood comes to north wales. But who s responsible for this sign on a hill above wrexham? good on a hill above wrexham? morning. The weather t: similar good morning. The weather today is similar to yesterday in that there will be cloud, and some rain and drizzle, but some shine also and i will tell you where you can expect that in about 25 minutes. It s wednesday the 18th of august. Our top story. Up to 20,000 afghans will be resettled in the uk over the coming years, under a new scheme announced by the government. It follows the taliban s return to power in afghanistan, which has sparked fears of a refugee crisis. 0pposition parties have criticised the government for not going far enough, as our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. Arriving in the uk last night, british citizens and their afghan allies, some of those who have now fled kabul after the taliban takeover. Back in afghanistan, many more are desperate to
Used to it. Unlike the mountain west, which lives with forest fire, this kind of smoke has felt dystopian and new. In fact, it s not just your imagination of it feels that way to you, if you live in that part of the country, the air quality index in parts of newark city yesterday was over 170, which is the worst it has never been in 14 years. When you think about that air quality, there is no way to escape it. No matter how much money you have, where you live, in the end, everyone has to prove the same air. It s a real wake up call yesterday for everyone in the parts of the country covered with the smoke. Breathing that same air that emanated from wildfires thousands of miles away in the west. Turns out, we share the same climate with them. Right now there are more than 80 fires burning across the 13 states, many more burning across canada. And as this incredible new york times interactive map shows the smoke from those fires is why the air is so hazy in these parts of the country. Her