Its tuesday, october 22. Im megan lopez and you are watching rt. Tomorrow, president barack obama will meet with the Prime Minister of pakistan in an attempt to smooth over relations between the two countries. Turbulent is an understatement. Topping the list of issues to be addressed, drone strikes. Some 376 drone strikes have been carried out in pakistan since 2004. Resulting in somewhere between 2500 and 3600 deaths. As if this statistic were not a big enough hurdle to overcome in these talks, to human Rights Groups today released reports accusing the u. S. Of war crimes, as well as a gross violation of International Law. Our political commentator looks into the numbers. We have presented evidence today of potentially unlawful killings, and in light of this evidence, we are calling on president obama to immediately commit to insuring investigations of these cases and of all other potentially unlawful killings. Today, to human rights organizations presented reports documenting multipl
And pray for our elected officials and, god, pray for wisdom for them in areas they need it and guidance to follow you, lord, in all things. God, we pause today and ask you to use us as your servants. We realize our dependence on you and look to you for answers to the problems that face our country. And i pray that the discussion and the decisions made in this chamber today, god, will reflect your heart and your direction and, lord, we pray in jesus name. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise . Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor independent diindicate by saying indicate by saying aye. Those opposed, no. In the op
Towards bet they will avenue. I also heard from todd clark, who said it was pouring. Claudine wong 580, 680 and then a little bit over towards 880. There can be dries theel or light rain and it is 5 to 7 degrees and you see the lower wrapping on its way south and that will set the stage for a windy pattern into tomorrow, so morning rain, some afternoon sun and it will be upper 50s and very few cooler areas. As you are driving you can see it is wet, itings not raping right now but you should give yourself extra time anywhere on the east shore freeway and it is still wet from vallejo to berkeley. If you are driving on highway 23 through the caldecott, we went a little bit slower as we approached the boors. Claudine wong has more on storm watch coming up in just a few, but now lets go back to the desk. A hate crime is underway and janine della vega has more on a hate crime against an africanamerican student. Reporter it occurred at one of the highrise village campus dorms and we are not s
What to expect with this report. Reporter the report comes out tomorrow in washington 6 30 our time. Its expected to be comprehensive several hundred pages long. Detailed to detail more of the crash. The plane was flying lower and slower than it was supposed to be we to be when it clipped. You have the pilots, and you also have corroborating information. Reporter a primary cause of the accident is expected to be the flight crews over reliance on the automatic throttle control that maintains flight speed. By the time they reacted it was too late. They had lost too much air speed and they could not recover. Reporter tomorrows report will likely recommend changes to the planes design. The airplanes design and lay out. We will look at pilot training. Crew manage management. We will look at any automation that has been installed. Is it a hindrance or help to the crew. Reporter the report will also discuss the actions of firefighters who ran over a student. The attorney for the teens family
And William Shatner has something completely different. First, we kick it off with what everyone is talking about. The standoff between ukraine and russia. Tensions rising in ukraine. Prorussian militants continue to occupy buildings despite a deadline to leave. An emergency meeting of the un security council. The u. S. And russia blame each other for the violence. Tensions between russia and ukraine are kicking up a notch over the weekend. At least one Ukrainian Service member was killed in a shootout with a prorussian gunmen in the eastern part of the country, which has a large russianspeaking population. Cities in this part of the country that we are talking about our kiev and others, that had flareups last week. We have just seen of a police unit changing sides. We cannot say that this is just the russians. There is obviously a part of the local citizenry that is prorussian. There have been suggestions of russian involvement in organizing these bodies. That is not what the Russian