High temperatures engulfing massive tracts of land in 3 u. S. States. And arrested for criticizing the government crackdown lawyer and activist maxine snack is the latest opposition figure to be detained in belarus. No fires are again burning near to a greek migrant camp that was all but destroyed by an overnight blaze its left south of Asylum Seekers without shelter but locals are blaming them for starting the fire people are reportedly fleeing the area again as the new bases take hold around 12000. 00 people were housed at the maria camp on the island of lesbos Officials Say the fires were started by refugees forced to self isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus concerns of a Public Health crisis arising with the whereabouts of more than 30 migrants with coded 19 unknown. Correspondent on surpluses in the lesbos forest so what is the situation there now. Hello lauren as you can see over my Left Shoulder the fire is still burning well rather its burning again because the f
Vulnerable communities are being left behind by the move to Distance Learning. Thank you very much for joining us record fires are raging along the west coast of north america from mexico to canada at least 7 people including a one year old baby have been killed in the u. S. Several states are now battling flames which have consumed entire communities and blanketed cities from San Francisco to seattle in smoke 5 small towns in Central Oregon have been destroyed more than 80000 people in the city of medford have been told to leave their homes the governor is warning it could be the deadliest season. Over the last 24 hours oregon has experienced unprecedented fire was significant damage and devastating consequences across the entire state. I want to be upfront in saying that we expect to see a great deal of loss both in structures and in human lives this could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our States History. And the state of california is already ex
Guest whats funny about this book is that when i was in college and going for my journalism degree at this idea to write them Great American novel and i come from Rural Missouri were my family lives and everyone has all of these stereotypes about flyover country, flyover nation, sad part of it written and then as we barreled toward this political environment the whole thing we heard from president obama, this idea that we have from the west coast to the east coast that people in flyover country are a bunch of backward kill abilities that shoot our guns off when we practice animal sacrifice are ever whatever we do in the backwoods, they have the stereotypes, but none of this is true and there are a lot of issues that flyover nation has with east and west coast, but then there are a lot of issues we look at differently, so part of it is explaining that perspective, that lends to which myself and everyone else who comes from the midwest in flyover nation and also gets into sort of how we
New video emerging overnight as chaos in the concert hall. France in a state of emergency. The nation on lockdown. Its borders closed as countries around the world stand in solidarity today, saturday, november 14th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today terror in paris with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. We sat on the air two weeks ago to talk about the jetliner over sinai. Here we are two weeks later talking about six separated coordinated attacks on soft targets in a major european capital. Targeting france, our oldest ally. We are hearing stories of innocents slaughtered on a friday night. If you are just waking up, a lot of changes. Isis has claimed responsibility. French president Francois Hollande says the attacks were carried out as an act of war. The overall death toll at least 127 people. The majority of the victims were inside the packed concert hall where a band from california was perf
Programs. Twitter. Com booktv. Host well, joining us now on our outdoor set is harvarddoo professor Randall Kennedy. Hes been a frequent guest on booktv and on cspan and his most recent book which came out last year which hes talking about could be here in miami poor discrimination. Race, affirmative action, and the law professor kennedy, has a affirmative action been successful in this country . I think its been very successful over the past several decades. It has helped with the desegregation of American Life, particularly in Higher Education and in employment. And i think that it has done a very good job in a variety of ways. It is help to rectify past injustice. It is help to bring into important discussions, people have been excluded and, therefore, enriched or public debate and our learning in various schools. So i think it has been a success. Thats certain what our gym about. Host where did you come up with the title . Guest it was the last thing that was part of this project.