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hundreds of thousands of people die each year because the prescriptions they need aren t the real deal. we begin in southern california where seven people are dead after afternoon overnight shooting spree near the campus of uc santa barbara. they say people were gunned down in drive high by shootings. al jazeera s brian rooney is there right now. what do we know at this point? reporter: isla vista is a student residential area off of the santa barbara campus. it is crowded with students at any time of day or night. last night, friday night obviously, a lot of people were out. apparently a black bmw pulled up to a group of people and the driver started shooting. there wereples nearby who engaged him. we don t have the exact sequence but there ended up being as many as nine locations where gunshots were fired. it ended with the gunman in the bmw dead. six other people were killed by the gunman. seven were injured. the police are still sorting it out. it s a big crime ....
millionaires tax, no tax increase, period so he fits the governor norquist filter. he gets through? yeah. i think somebody you re looking at is somebody who can finance a campaign all the way through, look you in the eye and say confidence, seriousness rand paul? let me do the governors first and then we ll do the three senators, because i think the advantage is with governors. they can raise money more easily. the senator says, look what i did, but yeah, 50 other people voted the same way. christie is serious? christie, certainly. governor scott walker of wisconsin who has changed it from a blue state to a red state, changing labor laws and all sorts of things. who are you more for, walker or christie? as long as they re all running, i m cheerfully agnostic. and governor bush of florida, a successful governor. he didn t have as republican a state as governor scott does now there in the legislature, but he governed well. and governor perry will run a ....
easeians are voting for a new parliament. the air force has launched a new airstrike against isil hitting serial targets in the past few hours. in syria, five airstrikes near kobani destroyed seven vehicles and a building occupied by the group. in iraqi, three airstrikes southwest of muss ill dam and three air strikes were carried out southeast of saluza. we have our reporters in iraq and on the syria/turkey border as well covering this story from all angles. in a moment, there is bernard smith who will update us from the turkish border town of erfa. but first, charles strafford joining us from erbil to tell us whether this is a significant escalation of the u.s. air strikes in iraq in particular targeting isil and if so, why. it s not really an escalation. what it does show, though, is the importance of protecting this dam, mosul dam there, taken by pesh perfect forces in mid august. these airstrikes are an indication that the centcom as confirmed, an indication of h ....
good morning, it s wednesday, september 20th. we are following a number of stories. president trump was america first se u.n. and steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on health care reform. some gop governors aren t so sure about that. the russian investigation rolls on with new details on who s paying the president s legal bills but first, two natural disasters unfolding in real time. rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and hurricane maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. we ll go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storm s latest track. bill. power knocked out. roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. overnight, can you see the storm, 124-mile-per-hour winds in st. croix. now the storm is about to make landfall. let s get into the zoomed in radar. you see s ....
told that national security adviser michael flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. that warning was issued by acting attorney general sally yates, who told white house counsel don mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the vice president and others about the nature of his conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. despite her warning, president trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top national security post for 18 more days, according to the report. mueller s goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. as nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, mueller s investigators have asked witnesses, including white house counsel don mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as national security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to ....