Press has had a topsy turvy sometimes even brutal history of abuse here in the United States of america while most of the time attacks on us journalism has been through very indirect or opaque means like the influence and lure of the almighty ratings dollar the or the herd click mentality of beltway ivy league journalists or even newsroom employees putting their climb up the corporate ladder before their journalistic integrity but every so often throughout our long history there is a very direct abuse of the press by members of the government institutions they are paid to report a lot like the exchange that took place recently when defense one news over ben watson tried to make his way through customs at Washington Dulles International airport the whole reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u. S. Customs and Border Protection agent of writing propaganda when he attempted to reenter the United States this week apparently is watson was going through customs after informing th
In 2015, she was sexually assaulted by a member of the Stanford University swim team, brock turner. He was later sentenced to just six months in jail sparking nationwide outrage in the recall of the judge. The text of her victim impact statement was read by millions around the world. Today Chanel Miller will join us to talk about her remarkable new memoir titled know my name. In court was so stripped of identity. You dont have any. You dont have characteristic traits. Your spoken about in terms of being a some of your body parts and really nothing more than that. So coming forward is my way of saying, i have a history. I have people that love me and i also have talent in writing. Amy today, Chanel Miller for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In northern syria, dozens have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes amid the Turkish Military offensive against kurdishcontrolled areas
Members you heard the german ambassador there saying so condemned in the strongest possible terms and that is also the statements weve heard from the french. That they condemn it the u. K. Though is simply saying it is concerned so difference of language even among the e. U. Members who called for this meeting to read ok jim space thank you well the military offensive has raised concerns of a new humanitarian crisis the red cross and the Un Refugee Agency warned that 300000 people could be displaced as a result of the fighting syria remains the worst refugee crisis in the world with nearly 10000000 people displaced in 8 years of conflict and turkey hosts the largest number of those who have fled more than 3 and a half 1000000 people from Brits Carbone is the regional director for the near and middle east that the International Committee of the red cross he says its hard to predict the humanitarian consequences. You have cams with many civilians we mentioned often the case of ill cab wh
We want to begin this morning with updates on two accidents that had major impacts on the morning commute. The first on the outer loop of the beltway. This is between university boulevard and New Hampshire nvga t. Clpd e thhcr leavasing morning commuters sitting in a six mile backup. Still no details on the victim or how the crash happened. And the other accident was also on the beltway. Chopper 4 on thecene on the inner loop just after connecticut avenue. E e there. You see a truck split open spilling bundles of magazines on to the road. The lays remain. No word yet on what caused this crash either. That is how it sounded and looked yesterday, mt. Airy was under a tornado warning. Peoplh waking up wit a big mess to clean up. You cane see on of yesterdays storms blowing right across the district. Severe weather being blamed for one deathn maryland. A tree fell on a home in carroll county, killing an 89yearold man inside. There are tree branches down ale across t area. Including right h
Devep over the next couple of hours. Ill take you hour by hour. See you back here in a minute. Thank you, doug. Follow the weather on the nbc washington app, and can you stay connected with storam 4 even if you lose power. Well, a desperate plea from d. C. Leaders after a deadly we end. Seven people have been shot to death since thursday, and that includes 11yearold karon brown. A suspect was arrested this weekend in that case and made his First Court Appearance today. News 4s Mark Segraves is outside the courthouse with the latest on that case and the message from the mayor this evening. Mark . Reporter thats right. You know, he just appeared before a judge an hour ago and was ordered held without bond despite his insistence that he only fired into that car in selfdefense and had no idea that the 11yearold boy was in the back seat. But thathuncident on tday all led up to what turned out to be an extremely violent weekend. Four days of violence, four days nfire. Nobody want to live in