Right to vote. Amy fifty years after the Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act, efforts to role back Voting Rights continue across the country. As president ial candidates proliferate, who gets to vote. Well speak with ari berman author of the new book on the modern struggle for Voting Rights in america. Then to venezuela. We should be proud. I dont know if there were someone proud about 11. Emiko we will look at the the making of Leopoldo Lopez venezuelas leading opposition figure. We will speak with Roberto Lovato, author of a new investigation into his rise to prominence. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fox news has chosen the top ten republican candidates to participate thursday in the first debate of the 2016 president ial election. The candidates include frontrunner donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker, marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul, ben carson, mike huckabee, Chris Christie and john kasi
Right to vote. Amy fifty years after the Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act, efforts to role back Voting Rights continue across the country. As president ial candidates proliferate, who gets to vote. Well speak with ari berman author of the new book on the modern struggle for Voting Rights in america. Then to venezuela. We should be proud. I dont know if there were someone proud about 11. Emiko we will look at the the making of Leopoldo Lopez venezuelas leading opposition figure. We will speak with Roberto Lovato, author of a new investigation into his rise to prominence. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fox news has chosen the top ten republican candidates to participate thursday in the first debate of the 2016 president ial election. The candidates include frontrunner donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker, marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul, ben carson, mike huckabee, Chris Christie and john kasi
And also the issue of synthetic marijuana. Its known as k2 and spice, and its creating a Public Health crisis. The homeless can buy it at bodega for 1 a packet. I thought i was having a heart attack. Reporter ma man ask this man asked us to hide his face, and he says the drug has a violent reaction, and you can see it here with the reaction from this naked man. Arresting the people becomes dangerous. The individuals on the drug are crazy. They have superhuman strength and are impervious to pain, and the normal takedowns will not work. Reporter the city released the latest Crime Statistics, and according to the numbers, overall crime is down by more than 10 , but homicides have gone up from last year, and thats something we asked mayor de blasio about. Reporter some people look at the statistics and some say the city is going downhill. What do you say . I would say look at the facts and stop the hysteria. Reporter ilana gold, cbs 2 news. Thank you, ilana. Time for traffic and weather on
Raising millions to help all those affected by Hurricane Harvey. And donations are still pouring in. Jason derulo here this morning to do his part. Good morning, america. And youre looking at beaumont, texas, still under water as you can see. Its been almost a week since that deadly storm hit and were seeing an incredible outpouring all across the country for those affected by harvey. People have said that were seeing the worst of Mother Nature and the best of human nature. And the staggering scope this morning, many people still stranded. The coast guard has rescued 9,000 people. And 1,000 pets this week. Nearly 100,000 homes destroyed and that number is likely to rise and perhaps dramatically. Meanwhile, this morning, new fears this is ominous, were watching a major Hurricane Irma intensifying over the atlantic. All this as a new threat of whats left of harvey is still causing so many problems. Lets go to our chief meteorologist ginger zee with new possible flash floods. Ginger. Robi
So im fully back to go this is al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also ahead iraqs government claims eyesore has infiltrated the disputed province of care partly under the control of the Kurdish Regional government plus. And the wind was just howling and so i knew this is it going to get out he was one of the lucky ones the death toll in the California Wildfires rises to more than twenty and then to made some to catalonians leaders the Spanish Government says they have until monday to declare their intentions on independence. Thank you for joining as the palestinian faction hamas says it has reached a deal on political reconciliation. With fatah a move that could signal an end to a decades long divide between the two groups hamas and fatah have been meeting in egypt in capital cairo to discuss the formation of a National Unity government negotiations brokered by egypt started on tuesday details of the outcome of the agreement reached overnight will be revealed at a News Confe