August 2001 News Today

Expected to provide another update. the president is expected to provide another update tomorrow around 4:00 p.m. eastern not only the evacuation out of afghanistan but also on hurricane henri. so we hope youll join us on msnbc to watch the presidents remarks. amna, in the long lens view of the war in afghanistan, i understand in your trajectory as a journalist one of the earliest stories you covered and the first wars you covered. what do you reflect now on what were seeing today and the war in...

But then you went back. tell us about your transition. >> i spent 20 years in the army but then i wanted to go to pharmacy school. i went to pharmacy school in north carolina and started on august 2001. and then back to the army. my aspirations were on hold. heather: i ask that because of another lesson with your story, it is never too late. >> never too late when you feel passionate about something. if we can make a difference it is our responsibility to make a difference until our last dying b...

As being in excellent health and fit for duty. george w. bush, the president before him, age 55 his first physical. late in the first year in office. august 2001. 6 foot, 190 pounds and bmi. mets just a multivit in, occasionally cigar. ran four times a win and swims and weight trains. outstanding health and fit for duty. we were getting a lot of questions about donald trump and his health. he did talk to dr. oz about how important it was that their president was fit for duty. >> when you are run...

>> doug: tonight, the enron scandal. we have a tweet about it. wanting to know what happened about the employees who virtually lost everything. tonight, the answers from casey stegall. >> garrett ashmore started his first company from college. by graduation, the young entrepreneur landed his first job with a prestigious company in texas. >> i came to enron. i went to their pipeline side. i was very fortunate to start enron communications. >> it was the late 90s. business appeared to be booming. ...

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Under u.s. sanctions as state sponsors of terrorism. according to securities and exchange commission filings unearthed by democratic research group, exxon did the business through a european-based third party from 2003 to 2005 with $53 million in sales to iran, $1 million to syria, and $600,000 to sudan. tillerson became a senior vice president at exxon in august 2001, rising to president and director in march of 2004 and then chairman and chief executive at the start of 2006. in response, exxon...

Million to syria, and $600,000 to sudan. tillerson became a senior vice president at exxon in august 2001, rising to president and director in march of 2004, and then chairman and chief executive at the start of 2006. in response, exxon said "these are all legal activities complying with the sanctions at the time" and that they "didnt feel they were material because of the size of the transactions." exxons overall revenue at the time was around $371 billion. the "wall street journal" this mornin...

>> i just started shaking. i mean, i really did. i started shaking. things were flying all over the car. >> the bus driver approaches as a shaken hummel gets out of her car. >> its the scariest thing ever. i was in tears. >> the drivers fired for violating his employers policy. though plagued with constant pain and high medical bills, betty jo hummel considers herself lucky to be alive. for distracted drivers, hummel has some advice. >> pay attention to what youre doing. pay attention when you h...

Every direction. the bus driver, knowing hes in trouble, pounds the steering wheel in frustration. >> i just started shaking. i mean, i really did. i started shaking. things were flying all over the car. >> the bus driver approaches as a shaken hummel gets out of her car. >> its the scariest thing ever. i was in tears. >> the drivers fired for violating his employers policy. though plagued with constant pain and high medical bills, betty jo hummel considers herself lucky to be alive. for distrac...

That motivated me more than the events of september 11th. i was going in and i knew it. >> i was in marine corps ro 12th grade -- >> were you deployed overseas. >> one in kosovo in 2000 the initial invasion of iraq in 2003 and then again in iraq. i sustained the major injuries december 3rd, 2003. we were ambushed by 35 enemy insurgents and used my body to protect myself. >> i took a couple of steps and figured what was actually a chinese made land mine that they had hooked up to two five-gallon ...