June 1979 News Today

and deadly when it gets to hot that often. >> good to see you, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening. at often >>welcome to a special two hour edition of eamonn. ahead, systemic failures, and egregious decision-making. we have the breaking details of a new preliminary report into the uvalde school massacre. plus, conservative supreme court justices are erasing the line that separates church and state in america. then, bernie sanders on the attack. who he is accusing of sabotaging t...

on the may 24th mass shooting inside a uvalde texas elementary school, spread blame across every law enforcement agency responding to the attack, faulting local police for mistakes, and more experienced agencies for failing to take charge. a texas house investigative committee issued a preliminary report detailing what it described as a systemic failure by authorities during the shooting at rob elementary that left 21 dead. one of the stunning details in this preliminary report is the ...

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In june, 1979, jerry falwell sr, a flamboyant baptist minister announced his intentions to build one of the most powerful political coalitions in history, the moral majority is not only instrumental to the election of ronald reagan it formed a bond between the republican party and christian fundamentalist groups that persist to this day and consider how many call for their christian beliefs to serve as a bedrock of their primaries, and matriano claimed that the

I think president trump now that the democrats have taken over the house needs to operate very differently in washington because washington is different. he will be under investigation for everything he does and basically everybody and his administration, political appointees will be as well. they need to operate under that space. obviously, you know, one hopes that we do get answers through this. it is strange eliot engel you mentioned is creating a subcommittee to look into president trump. th...

have been killed since saturday. almost 2,000 others and dozens of others hurt. three american college students are being held for allegedly throwing molotov cocktails. within the past hour the supreme court military leadership accepted the resignation of the cabinet and promised to speed up elections and other reforms, well get more details minutes from now. president obama heard a few years today, some occupy demonstrators chanted, tried to drown him out as he took the stage to pus...

And defensor of human rights. george weigel, welcome back. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> i know its been a remarkable day for you, george. lets talk about the late appoint, who is remembered for many things, but contributing to the fall of communism. how did he help usher in a new era? >> i think those nine days in june 1979 when he returned to poland for the first time as pope were nine days in which the history of the 20th century pivoted in a fundamental way. wow ever mentioning pol...

The iraqi army destroyed tankers and wells releasing at least 241 million gallons of oil into the ashian gulf, considered the largest spill ever. a deep water well blew out off the coast of mexico in june, 1979, spilling about 140 million gallons of oil. and all of those are much larger than perhaps the most famous spill, the exxon valdez, which ran aground in the prince william sound area of alaska in march 1989, spilling 11 million gallons. arizonas tough new immigration law sparking, growin...

But that crack that developed sunday allowed 1,500 barrels of crude oil to escape. 700 barrels were recovered. and in the gulf of mexico, oil workers are trying to handle a much larger oil spill. a burning offshore oil well is dumping 30,000 barrels of crude each day in into the gulf. >> so, yeah, that was from 1979, june 13th, 1979. that nbc news anchor reporting on a pipeline spill in alaska on the same day that an oil well was leaking out of control and burning in the gulf of mexico. 31 years...