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July 7, 2024
8:00 in the morning. so right in the early morning rush hour here in kyiv. and the early times there was sirens going off for a very long time. and then just blast after blast that took place as the rockets were impacting the ukrainian capital here. and some of the places that we went to were in central kyiv. for instance there was a playground that was hit leaving a gigantic kracrater and a busy insection and there was just a seen of carnage at that intersection with several cars comp...
July 7, 2024
people traveling on trains as flames roared near the tracks. in france the fires forced at least 37,000 people to evacuate. in uk today was the hottest day ever. 104 degrees fahrenheit. the heat is triggering fires around london now as well. back here in the u.s. 60 million people will experience triple digit temperatures in the next week. there is no bigger story right now, no issue affecting more people, billions of people. the u.n. secretary-general says half of humanity is in the c...
July 7, 2024
law. and now this is how its going. >> it is the sound of the police, the home of the 45th president of the united states has been rated by the fbi. >> nothing like this happen, before we dont know how this ends. >> they even broke into my safe, exclamation point. >> busy news week on, monday the fbi spent more than nine hours searching donald trumps mar-a-lago home and now, we actually know what they found after judge publicly released a search warrant. according to the list of items,...
October 10, 2022
Speak. but it is not the only thang going to be doing. they still have other capabilities in their arsenal. some of those will be more conventional things like weve seen already. more rockets, i think they have more cruise missiles available and that will probably be what theyll use. but that supply is still limited no matter how big it is. >> and it is indeed. im curious how this is being received inside of russia and interesting to note that vladimir putin has chosen this attack on the crimea ...
August 13, 2022
And such a very racially polarized state, i am around so many people to provide comfort in the safety that we wont get outside of our circle. you know. >> i want to bring in. i am sorry to interrupt, i want to bring it into the conversation mayor shockwave lumumba who really wanted to be a part of this conversation. mister mayor, you and i have talked many times about some of the challenges in mississippi. from an infrastructure standpoint, but also just the white supremacy that still persists t...
January 2, 2022
Effort towards legalization mean. is this a major turning point not just for the industry which is growing but also legal applications? >> right you need gop support to pass legislation and this idea that you mention at the beginning of each state passing his own legislation is not going to work from an infrastructure standpoint you need to create a federal legal industry you need federal legislation supported by both houses and whereby you could have a decriminalization of marijuana and therefo...
September 8, 2021
Thats not necessarily a favorable place for them either because the courts have been so beefed up with trump nominees through don mcgahn over the past -- during trumps tenure. >> let me give you the last word, brian fallon, and ask you if this reality, which is laid bare in mikes reporting, even if the house does muster the votes for their law, i think were all saying the same thing. it meets a certain fate in the senate or in the courts. does it reanimate the conversation about court reform in ...
August 29, 2021
In a hurricane, its like a fog of war situation. we may not know exactly what happens in realtime. you, of course, were on the air during katrina and for the hurricanes since. do you feel new orleans is better prepared than it ever has been for this size of a hurricane? >> from an infrastructure standpoint, theres no doubt about that, that the levees are taller and more sturdy and theyve been armored and built now to be resilient and with withstand over toppling, like they did in katrina, 80% of...
July 7, 2019
Closed as they were dealing with that. the good news, though, is that dr. lucy jones, the world renown seismologist tweeted that looks like were in for less earthquakes as she puts it the sequence is decaying so the probability of more aftershocks is dropping. next week could still see magnitudes 4 and 5s. thats going to be less damaging than those larger earthquakes which she says now look like they are improbable. so thats good news here and from an infrastructure standpoint, especially when y...
September 2, 2012
Developed or implemented. >> now that people have more access to insurance, we would potentially have a problem where there is less access to care. >> um-hum. we actually saw that in boston. obviously in massachusetts, we covered another 500,000 people. what we saw is the cost in massachusetts of health care go up by 33%. why? everyone got an insurance card, but didnt have the primary care capacity. they got the insurance card and where did they end up? the emergency room. most costly setting in...