Weeks and months at a time in vienna and geneva, lausanne, other places negotiating a deal on the front lines. People like jon and i had the harder task of negotiating a deal back here in washington. Just want to make that clear note. Obviously, secretary kerry and secretary moniz and Wendy Sherman and others and people like russ deserve all the credit for what i think is a very strong agreement. Asking whether this is his final, whether thi this is the period at the end of the sentence as it relates to this issue, the final longterm answer to all the controversies with iran, its not. Is the agreement itself put in place a series of very important longstanding amendments for iran that we believe to get the International Community confident they will not develop a Nuclear Weapon. It puts constraints on their enrichment capacity, puts from the constraints on the arak heavywater nuclear, puts obligations under vanessa was to interested inspection sentiments on certain types of inspections
Today, releasing him saying he is not the guy. Connected to these attacks. Police were forced to use water canyons and antiimmigrant protesters clashed in march. Targeting christians. They were celebrating that Easter Holiday and a scene of unimaginable horror, at least 70 deaths far are dead. None of this has changed our president s plans to bring in 100,000 migrants to our country. Our openness to refugees is how we find isis. Not working out so well in europe. He is choosing to ignore that. Plus, a big weekend for Bernie Sanders. Alaska, whole way and washington. Keeping his campaign alive. They may push his victories now. Does this mean he has a shot . Plus the civil war in the Republican Party. California is set to save the states minimum wage to 15 an hour. Business friendly states like texas making it even harder to do business there. The cuban dictator responsible. After his historic trip. With friends like these, we have a lot to get through. Terror overseas. Belgian police cl
Snow actually fell in certain parts of the area today. The good news, were not expecting any more of this. But these cold temperatures are another story. Janice huff is tracking that for you. Hard to believe were talking about all of this in april, but we are. Yes, its still raining in some spots and actually still snowing in a few areas. Youre still getting flurries in rts of connecticut, back through the Hudson Valley and through sussex, new jersey and light rain in and around the city. This line is slowly moving through. Boston still getting some snow. This is all going to gradually move out of the area and dry air will move in. But so will the cold temperatures. Already were seeing that north of this line from white plains to the city, temperatures are below freezing, even in the the city will sre temperatures dropping through the 30s this evening and then the winds kick in. Wind gusts expects up around 30 miles an hour in the morning. That means when we wake up tomorrow, single di
Lots of speculation on the cause. Now, there were no measurable tremors and we now believe it was a sonic boom that originated two miles northeast of hammington, new jersey. No civilian craft can go the 700 Miles Per Hour that creates the boom. Whose aircraft went that fast. Mcgwire says they have no aircraft capable of supersonic flights and that they werent conducting ground artillery training. We are checking. South similar happened over the coast of south carolina. They do a lot of military Flight Training in that area. When we know, we will let you know. What a mystery. We are asking our viewers, did you feel the tremors . Go to abc7ny and let us know. We will keep you posted throughout the afternoon as soon as we figure out exactly what caused the sonic boom. We turn to the other big Police Shooting after an attempted robbery in brooklyn. Investigators say three suspects crashed their getaway car as they then tried to run away from the scene of the crime in the midwood section. A
Electronic intifada and Phyllis Bennis of the institute for policy studies. Then to the lords of secrecy. Over the last 12 years, weve seen a shift away from democratic dissipation dissipation. The people know less about what is happening. Congress is much less involved. All of these Vital Decisions are taken secretly by National Security elites. In the tools that has been used to accomplish that is secrecy. What people dont know, they cannot have any meaningful say in. As the first u. S. Drone strike of 2015 kills nine in pakistan, we speak to human rights attorney scott horton about the National Security elite and americas stealth warfare. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now w\elcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Thousands gathered in new york city on sunday for the funeral of wenjian liu, one of the two Police Officers killed in a targeted ambush last month. Lius widow, pei xia chen, paid tribute to her husband. A c