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Adequate training, make poor operational choices or improperly use equipment, these programs can facilitate excessive use of force and service highly visible barriers between the communities and the police and the communities they serve. now, the third headline coming out of the white house today, joy, is that president obama is ordering a task force to review police departments across the country. thats going to be headed up by philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey. president obama ex...

Going to happen. >> reporter: but no area is being hit harder than drought-stricken california. where in the midst of triple-digit heat, nearly 6,000 firefighters are now battling 12 fires across the state. destroying everything in their path and threatening more homes near sacramento and yosemite. >> i screamed, jesus, help me, because it was -- it was pretty scary. like facing hell on earth. >> reporter: its a scorcher here in southern california with record temperatures expected to top 108 de...

Now" on location? >> we should petition that. camera angle. thats awesome. >> very cool indeed. so a very interesting, very special honor at the white house. with president obama and vice president joe biden. commemorating the oldest female world war ii veteran. she is 108 years old. take a look at this very special meeting they had there. >> so nice to meet you. >> fantastic. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> she served in the womens army corps in world war ii. see the vice president chattin...

Is up or down. >> why cant we take "world news now" on location? >> we should petition that. camera angle. thats awesome. >> very cool indeed. so a very interesting, very special honor at the white house. with president obama and vice president joe biden. commemorating the oldest female world war ii veteran. she is 108 years old. take a look at this very special meeting they had there. >> so nice to meet you. >> fantastic. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> she served in the womens army corps ...

Never met. people who define themselves not by what makes them different from other people, but by the humanity that we hold in common. >> joining me now, richard kim, executive editor of "the nation." richard, youve been reporting on the aids researchers that were on the plane. there has been some wild discrepancies about what percentage of that plane was constituted by folks going to that conference. >> there were reports last night at 100 or 108 people, aids activists going to the conference ...

Six-day war and yom kippur war and the forces were on hair trigger alert in that region. when that passenger plane strayed into that airspace that the israelis were watching so closely, the israeli military, they sent two phantom fighter jets up to intercept, and those fighter jets shot that plane down. and 113 people had been onboard. it was a civilian aircraft. 108 of those 113 people died. thats usually the way these things happen. when passenger jets full of innocent civilians end up getting...

And the forces were on hair trigger alert in that region. when that passenger plane strayed into that airspace that the israelis were watching so closely, the israeli military, they sent two phantom fighter jets up to intercept, and those fighter jets shot that plane down. and 113 people had been onboard. it was a civilian aircraft. 108 of those 113 people died. thats usually the way these things happen. when passenger jets full of innocent civilians end up getting shot down by military-grade we...

Strayed into that airspace that the israelis were watching so closely, the israeli military, they sent two phantom fighter jets up to intercept, and those fighter jets shot that plane down. and 113 people had been onboard. it was a civilian aircraft. 108 of those 113 people died. thats usually the way these things happen. when passenger jets full of innocent civilians end up getting shot down by military-grade weapons. usually, but not always, usually its an aircraft-to-aircraft missile of some ...

About, and i think all i can say about it now is what president obama, what our governments said. we need to wait to make any definitive statements until we know exactly what happened, but it was sickening, and i hope they will know and i hope they will know soon. >> reporter: carol, there were 108 people on board mh17 who were en route tos trail yoo to attend the 20ther is bat aids conference, held in melbourne starting on sunday. president clinton is due to give a speech on wednesday, and by a...

I mean those are pictures that youre allowed to have. theres no nudity, nothing like that. we had to tear up your whole mattress because we thought there was something in there. >> 108. >> i dont care if they search the house as many times as they want to search the house. thats their job. the point is if they find the water bags, they dont got to rip it open in here because thats really disrespectful. weve got to sleep right here. >> these guys are creative. they have 24 hours a day, seven days...