To know coming up ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Its friday july 10th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Christine romans is off today. Happening in a few hours, the confederate battle flag flown at the South Carolina capitol for generations will be lowered for the last time and taken to a state museum. This is the culmination of a stunning turn of events that started with the murder of nine people last month at the africanamerican church this charleston. Killed by a gunman who posed with a Confederate Flag in social media pictures. The debate followed 13 hours of passion passionate pleas. Cnns don lemon is in columbia with the latest. Reporter john 22 days after the massacre at the ame church in charleston, South Carolina Governor Haley signed the bill that the flag must come down. It will come down within a few hours here. There will be a ceremony. When she signed that bill yesterday, what she said was that generations of americans, generations around the world wi
First from the fox news desk this tuesday afternoon, it could be the biggest hit against al qaeda since the death of osama bin laden. The white house now confirms a drone strike took out the terror groups number two leader who also headed up its most dangerous offshoot. Officials say that he once was osama bin ladens own personal secretary. He was in charge of al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, also known as aqa 3rkz. The white house says he oversaw plots against the United States and our allies. He wrote tips for followers to sneak bombs onto airplanes and led the group during that failed underwear bombing of a flight to detroit back in 09. His death comes after a u. S. Strike against another top terrorist, this one in libya. U. S. Officials say this guy was behind an attack in algeria back in 2013. Dozens of people died then including three americans. The pentagon reports its still working to confirm his death, but a spokesman does say and i quote there is nowhere on earth to hide if
Shepard smith reporting. Im jon scott in for shepard smith. The United States is putting russias president putin on notice says a top u. S. Commander who compares russias recent moves to nazi germany. The defense secretary Ash Carter Says the u. S. Will send hundreds of tanks and other equipment to several of our nato allies including former soviet states in Eastern Europe. Its a show of military might meant to match russias war games. The defense secretary says the u. S. Will also help equip natos socalled Rapid Response force. Thats a team to defend our allies from any russian threat. This comes after economic punishments failed to force Russian Troops out of eastern ukraine, or as president putin once called it the new russia. Putins already taken over the crimeian peninsula. He denies sending Russian Troops into ukraine but he also says he wants to protect russian speakers in ukraine. Sound familiar from your history class . Thats the same reason the nazis gave when they moved into
Which started with the murder of nine people last month at the africanamerican church in charleston. Killed by the gunman who posed with a Confederate Flag in social media pictures. The debate ended in the house with 13 hours of passionate pleas like this one from republican jenny horne. She said take that flag down. Cnns don lemon is in Columbia South carolina with the very latest. Reporter john 22 day as after the massacre in the ame church in charleston South Carolina governor nikki haley said the flag on the statehouse grounds in columbia must come down. It will come down within a few hours here. Theres going to be a ceremony. When she signed that bill yesterday, what she said was that generations of americans, generations around the world will look at South Carolina differently. This is a new South Carolina. How the action of nine individuals laid out the long chain of events that forever showed the state of South Carolina what love and forgiveness looks like and i will tell you t
The sixth time youre live in the cnn news room. Hello and thanks again for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. Its a big day for republican president ial candidate donald trump. First a stop at a libertarian conference in las vegas. Then hes off to phoenix for a rally on immigration that is expected to draw thousands. Meanwhile, protests like this one in los angeles friday continue over trumps controversial remarks about people crossing the border from mexico. But today on cnn a trump executive says those remarks are misunderstood. What donald trump said in his speech was not directed to mexicans. Thats a gross distortion by the press, by the liberal media, that wants to take donald trump out of this race. He did not say mexicans and he certainly did not say latinos. He said mexico. He was referring to the Mexican Government. What he then did is on probably more than 10,000 speech es and meetings with both liberal media as well as print and television he went ahead and explained exactl