What is expected to be one of the hottest days on record. Is also the hundreds day 100th day of the Trump Presidency and people are concerned. People are here talking about Climate Justice. Last night at a forum at Howard University was a discussion about Climate Justice and climate racism. Climate disruption is the topic everywhere. We are standing in front of the ous kent along where a News Conference is happening, of the leaders who will be marching today. There are thousands. I wanted to start by going to 350. Org. Of good morning. You standing between the capital and the washington monument. Your thoughts on this day and why so many are gathered. It is an important day. It is the 100th day of the Trump Administration. We have seen nothing but bad news for people in the planet. That is why so many will come. Amy who came up with this . That is what is wonderful. It is truly a coming together of labor, health groups, environmentalists, community groups, over 900 organizations are ma
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im john henry smith. Thousands are fleeing their homes in into eastern iraq after ramadi has fallen under isil control. Some 8,000 have been forced to leave. Secretary of state john kerry spoke about isil during his trip to south korea. He said the group and others that he calls daesh are growing stronger in the region, and as such the Iraqi Government has no time to waste. Particularly in anbar where you dont yet have the presence of the Iraqi Security forces in the full numbers necessary to take the fight to dash everywhere yet i underscore yet. There are targets of opportunity like ramadi or somewhere elsewhere dash has the ability to inflict great damage. The head of u. S. Central command met with iraqs defense minister in baghdad today, and thousands have arrived to kick start the fight. They were caught in the cross fire and now they have no place to go. According to the International Organization for migration 8,000 people were
It is the biggest recall in u. S. History. The department of transportation says nearly 34 millionaire bags made by japans tackatta corporation are being recalled. The exploding airbags are blamed for five deaths, and 100 injuries nationwide. Lisa stark the automakers are already recalling some of the airbags, and why the expanded recall . Well, tony, thats true. And in fact, automakers have recalled about 17 million vehicles so here we are doubling it. The reason is that the manufacture, tackatta, has finally given into pressure, and finally agreed that a recall is necessary. Heres secretary of transportation, anthony foxx. Up until now tackatta has refused to acknowledge that the air gags are defective and today, they have agreed to declare that the airbag inflaters are defective. It is recalling them nationwide. Now the safety board says that it this is a good day for consumers, but its long overdue. Problem with the airbags started surfacing in 2014. And in 2004, and they trickled
Having a dysfunctional environment. So we begin tonight with the investigation into tuesdays deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. The Officials Say that the death toll stands at 8, and all passengers and crew are accounted for. And the investigators want to know what the engineer was doing before the crash. Lisa stark is live with us in washington, and lisa, they just held a news conference, and any information . There is indeed, tony. We have new information about the train and what was happening about a minute before the accident. We know the train was going into a 50 Miles Per Hour curve at more than double that speed. And what the ntsb has now discovered, and this is based on the forward facing camera on the front much that locative, it has a speed stamp on it, and about a minute before the crash, it was allowable but for some reason, the train sped up. So instead of slowing down as the train went into the curve it sped up to over 100 Miles Per Hour. And of course the engineer
U. S. Citizenship. He is now a plumber in richmond. The naturalization milestone for him comes six years after he immigrated to the u. S. To join relatives and escape nepals tense political landscape. But he left a lot of family behind. He is still waiting to hear from his mother and brothers. I called them so many times. They havent called me yet. Reporter now that he is a u. S. Citizen, he will be able to travel more easily and finally reunite with his wife, who still lives in nepal. He says the Career Change from sherpa himalaya guide to plumber has been worth it to get american citizenship. Anne makevoc, kpix 5. Thursday was a day of wild weather in parts of the bay area. Thunder and lightning accompanied heavy rain and even hail in the south and east bays. An unusual spring weather system moved in yesterday afternoon but only in certain areas. Multiple lightning strikes were reported at Stanford University and in clayton near mount diablo. Road conditions were a little rough for d