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June 17, 2024
Connection with the same woman who helped bring down the director of the c. I. A. , retired general David Petraeus. Now general allens nomination to be supreme allied commander of nato is on hold. Two of the top military men of their generation have been brought low by their acquaintance with jill kelley, a tampa socialite seen here at her home with the story playing on the t. V. Behind her. Last spring, kelley complained to the f. B. I. Of receiving harassing anonymous emails. Turned out, those...
June 17, 2024
Down fall of c. I. A. Director David Petraeus was rooted in jealousy. The f. B. I. , uncovered evidence of an affair between petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell after she sent harassing messages to another woman who broadwell thought was too close to petraeus. Source have identified the second woman as 37yearold jill kelley of the tampa area. Cbs news has been told kelley is a civilian who does work for the u. S. Central command. Petraeus headed the Central Command from late 2008 to mid ...
June 17, 2024
Privileged zip codes. New reports that make this grisly case even more perplexing. Someone apparently dropped off 40,000 in cash at the doorstep before the house and the people inside went up in flames. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Alarming news out of north korea. The rogue nation says its scientists have shrinked down nuclear war heds small enough to fit on the top of rockets, rockets that could potentially reach the United States. The white house says they ha...
June 17, 2024
Answer is we dont know. I spoke to Marlin Kimpson earlier this afternoon when senators adjourned from that special session to enter caucus meetings to see where republicans and democrats stood on this issue. The bill, of course to remove permanently the Confederate Flag from the state grounds earlier today, we thought that there may have been enough votes. In fact, the post courier saying that there were enough votes to have it go through. A republican here in the state of South Carolina proposi...
June 17, 2024
Final act. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are respon...
June 17, 2024
My honorable friend makes a very good point. This government have made available money for a council tax freeze. That has the consequence that money for that freeze is available in wales, so people in wales will know who to blame if their council tax is not frozen. It is the Labour Assembly government in wales they are to blame; they are the ones who are charging hardworking people more for their council tax. We all remember the Prime Ministers promise last october that he would legislate to for...
June 17, 2024
It is a bad economic policy. It is bad governing policy. I really do not like it. It is working with the leadership to be able to find a way to avoid the sequester in the hopes that a higher power find a way for the nine years that it is mandated. What we hope to accomplish today is to take a look at the impacts if the sequester happens for the American People. Thank you for everyone coming. We thank you for speaking about defense. It has been well heard and well spoken. We look toward to hearin...
June 17, 2024
This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody and welcome. This morning the Committee Considers the nominations of two very distinguished officers to two of the most active and challenging combatant commands. General lloyd austin United States army nominated to be commander u. S. Central command and general David Rodriguez u. S. Army to be nominated to be commander of the u. S. Africa command. These two combatant commands centcom and africom are the centers of gravity for o...
June 17, 2024
Also today from the air chinese searchers spotted a field of floating white objects about 60 miles from where those pings were picked up. Here is the time problem though. If a pinger still is working in the water somewhere, it probably wont be for very much longer. Its batteries are designed to operate for 30 days, maybe a few days more than that, and that time is almost up. So its now 5 00 in the morning in western australia. Headquarters of the multinational Search Mission. Planes will fly aga...
June 17, 2024
Theres been another deadly shooting at a school this time a middle school in sparks, nevada, east of reno. The police are telling us that a student shot and killed a teacher and then wounded two classmates then, they say, the boy killed himself. John blackstone is on the scene of this breaking story. Reporter the first shots were fired by the 13yearold gunman just before classes were about to begin. Deputy police chief tom robinson. The best description is chaos. The kids were running out and th...