Migrants welcomed in italy. And in a few hours england will play italy in an historic world cup match the first ever in the amazon. The Iraqi Military said its holding back the advance of sunni rebels on baghdad, and it has been targeting hideouts it says are rebels. Within the last five days rebels have taken over several towns and cities, including mosul, tikrit. They have captured three towns in just three hours. The iraqi army are ramping up answering the calls of leaders to join the fight against the rebellion. Well have more on the pentagon moving an Aircraft Carrier to the gulf. First we have the latest from iraq. Reporter in the last 24 hours Prime Minister Nourial Maliki has gone on the offensi offensive. Its a decision that some opposition politicians regard against the constitution. The iranian president said iran is willing to help if asked. If the Iraqi Government seeks assistance from us, although there has been no request for help so far were ready to help with the help
It was a big day at the u. S. Supreme court. Today the high court gave a huge victory to the big four television networks. The justices ruled that the internet start up company aereo is violating copyright when it takes programs from the airwaves and allows viewers to watch the programs on smart phones and other devices. How did they lose this one . Aereo is just over two years old but it was a company that struck fear in the heart of broadcasters. It allowed consumers to watch over the air, stream it by internet. The Court Decision against aereo may mean one less big competitor in the tv world. The nations highest court has pulled the plug on an Innovative Streaming Service that was hope to go change the way americans watched television. In a 63 decision the Supreme Court ruled start up aereo violates copyright law by rebroadcasting Television Programs without paying for them. Its a big win for Television Companies and the four major networks. Its probably the biggest supreme Court De
It was it is was created by the National Stark act of 1966. And its recently a couple years ago celebrated. Its 50th anniversary. It is a Regulatory Agency and as we will see has responsibilities not only in that area but also to advise the president in congress on matters concerning preservation policy. The regulatory section is called section 106 and that is a requirement that all federal agencies have to request the to take into account the impact of their projects of their undertakings and thats broadly construed permit of funding actual license a connection nexus in any way that they have to take that into account if theyre going to have a an effect on a Historic Property or a potential Historic Property defined as a property on our eligible for the National Register. And then they have to request a comments of the Advisory Council give the council a reasonable opportunity to comment and thats the regulatory section in their regs that implement that statutory requirement. Can the
Welcome to mornings on 2, it is saturday march first, im mike me beck. Im claudine wong. The rain is coming down in the bay area. Lets check in with rosemary. It finally begins to taper off. Look at where its really coming down in the mountains. Shades of yellow orange and red out there. Some of the rates are a half inch per hour to an inch and three quarters. This hammering parts of the santa cruz area and Scotts Valley is getting good rain. It moves south to had the monterrey area. San jose is seeing scattered showers. Were getting a break, were mostly cloudy and breezy out there. Antioch picking up light rain here. And across the American Canyon, getting into napa and san raphael we have light rain over your area and the wrap around moisture continues at this hour. This system continues to move south and east, it will take the rain with it. Ill have a timeline for your saturday tell had you how much rainy expect well get and when it will finally come to an end coming up. Multiple fi
Angela merkel have tough questions on whether they can reach an agreement on stronger sakes against russia and whether they can bridge the divide between the u. S. And germany on nsa surveillance. President obama also faced a question from the International Press about tuesdays botched oklahoma execution. On ukraine both leaders seemed amenable to the possibility of further sanctions that take direct aim at key sectors of the russian economy. Sanction that is could potentially damage a sluggish european economy as well. President obama said it all depends on how deeply russia interferes with ukraine in the leadup to its elections later this month. If, in fact, we see the disruptions and the destabilization continuing so severely that it impedes elections on may 25th, we will not have a choice but to move forward with additional more severe sanctions. For her part chancellor merkel told the Associated Press the assembled press that, the postwar order has been put into question by the ac