Who even conducts a heinous crime such as this, leaves seven people dead, many others injured, and why its important for people to know as much as possible about this individual. Because i believe in the capacity of the public and government to learn from the past. And i believe that the responsibility of Public Officials is to speak truthfully about what information that i have to disclose to the American Public and policy makers about how we can do better next time. I have lived in the world of Disaster Management and Crisis Management my entire career and we often say the devil only wins if you dont do better next time. That is what we have to learn from. So i dont know who he is. I dont know his motivation. I now have got an entire social media i was looking at it, thinking its whitewashed, thinking hes a trump supporter, whatever. They dont know because the Public Officials didnt disclose it. This is ive never im just telling you. Ive done this a long time for you guys. I have nev
it because it s too hot. we expect most of the crowds to come later when it starts to cool off. but it began with a old-fashioned 4th of july parade down constitution avenue. lots of floats and marching bands. they had to struggle with the heat but a lot of people lining the sidewalks and family fun and they enjoyed that. people who did have problems with the heat have places to go here because there are some cooling centers stationed around the mall. we can look at one of those. doctors are there waiting and ready to treat people if needed. lots of water stocked up, fans, they could get cold packs if they re in serious trouble and cool off and resume the festivities after that. steve, the city could get hit with even more bad weather tonight. how are officials preparing for that? nothing like the big storm that caused so much problem but any hot summer day in d.c. you can have thunderstorms. today is a 50/50 chance and they re prepared. here s part of the plan from bill
on studio b. happy independence day. first from fox at 3:00, 4th of july celebrations are underway across the nation but continuing power problems, drought conditions and threat of more wildfires all have some cities and towns changing things up this year. officials in the chicago area, for example, canceled or postponed more than half a does fireworks shows because of damage from the weekend storm. police in denver saying they re cracking down on illegal fireworks to prevent more wildfires. several colorado cities canceled official fireworks events because of the dry conditions. in west virginia, people are concerned about getting supplies after the weekend super storm. we re putting out over 100,000 meals today, our national guard. and 40 tractor-trailer loads of water every single day. power is still out for nearly a million people throughout the mitt mid-atlantic, many in the fifth straight day out electricity. areas around the nation s capital among the hardest h
admitting he hid explosives in his underwear and tried to blow up the airliner. fortunately it malfunctioned and only caused a fire. had it worked it could have killed everybody on the plane. today before the sentencing passengers on the plane will address the court. jenna: what do we expect to happen today, mike tobin. reporter: umar farouk abdul-mutullab represents himself but he does have a court appointed legal adviser. that legal adviser is in a very difficult position for trying to argue for leniency. the first argument he will present is the idea that umar farouk abdul-mutullab did indeed cooperate with the government, at least from his opinion, because he gave up information about al-qaida in the arabian peninsula. he did provide some information to the government, and typically when a person provide some information they receive a benefit, so to speak for the bargain. and in this particular case, obviously he has received absolutely zero benefit. reporter: now
admitting he hid explosives in his underwear and tried to blow up the airliner. fortunately it malfunctioned and only caused a fire. had it worked it could have killed everybody on the plane. today before the sentencing passengers on the plane will address the court. jenna: what do we expect to happen today, mike tobin. reporter: umar farouk abdul-mutullab represents himself but he does have a court appointed legal adviser. that legal adviser is in a very difficult position for trying to argue for leniency. the first argument he will present is the idea that umar farouk abdul-mutullab did indeed cooperate with the government, at least from his opinion, because he gave up information about al-qaida in the arabian peninsula. he did provide some information to the government, and typically when a person provide some information they receive a benefit, so to speak for the bargain. and in this particular case, obviously he has received absolutely zero benefit. reporter: now