Their allies with hezbollah. Amy that was Richard Engel three years ago. Now, two years after being kidnapped in syria, nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reveals he was actually seized by militants tied to the u. S. Backed Free Syrian Army, not shia militias tied to the asad government. Did nbc knowingly cover up the truth . Well speak to Asad Abu Khalil who openly questioned nbcls nbcs claim back in 2012. Then to the house the herman built. What you see before you is a model built to scale of Herman Wallace is cell. He spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. Amy we will speak to artist Jackie Summell about hermans house, her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, Herman Wallace. And we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. He is now dying of cancer in hospice care. While exonerated, he has not been compensated.
Zuckerberg is helping cohost a screening of his documentary that i have been working on and gabby will be working with us on this and the obeah. This event. We are going to have a marriage of unlikely allies. I personally invited people from the gay Workers Center to make sure they come to the screen. We understand that the Silicon Valley interest is far beyond this with engineers. This has to be beyond the dream act and beyond those. It has to be a conversation about all of us. The last thing that i was say is i dont understand this is how people can neglect that next week is the anniversary of the Martin Luther king water drops on freedom. As we preparing for this event, we know this. History will record that in this period of great transition, the greatest tragedy is not the clamor of the bad people but the good people. Far too Many American people have been silent and we need you. Thank you very much. [applause] i would like to turn to the mechanism of why this legislative change i
Pleased about is that last year when the legislature did their initial bills around happen trade revenue allocation, there is a requirement that up to 25 of dollars be spent in disadvantaged communities, historically, San Francisco, the definition of disadvantaged communities that the state uses is one that keeps income relative to the state and so we often dont count as a Disadvantaged Community though we have many neighborhood that are struggling, i think the definition theyre using for disadvantaged communities in the context of cap and trade dollars, the Bayview Hunters Point Community will be eligible for those funds so we are hope hating we can try to get access to some of those revenues for that, so we will continue to update you moving forward in the cap and trade, but you as lafco members may be interested in that. The secondary ya around clean energy that we thought you would be interested in getting an update around st prop 39 funds, you all will remember in november, califo
Football field blowing up, sending flames almost 100 feet into the air. And, we have a winner lexington, south carolina, home to the latest 400 million powerball winner. Youre live in the cnn newsr m newsroom. If i had a Million Dollars if i had a Million Dollars ah, we can only dream. Good morning to you. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for being with me this morning. We begin on capitol hill. The clock is ticking and the risk of a Government Shutdown growing. With only enough money to keep the government running another 11 days, Republican Leaders say they will approve new funding only if obama care is defunded. The president is calling it extortion and even some republicans disagree on this highstakes political gamble. Our goal here is to cut spending and to protect the American People from obama care. Its as simple as that. We cant let the government shut down. We cant be kamikazes and we cant be general custer. There is backlash from americans who feel the bite of a shutdown.
Censuses. The president elect told you what . Let it be an arms race. Well out match them in every pass. And out last them all. Vladimir putin took a question at his annual press conference this morning. When someone accelerates and speeds up the arms race, it is not us. Joining me now is nbcs kelly odonell and katy tur. Kelly, you are in florida and mr. Trump is spending the day playing golf with dwootiger woo. How is this leading the republicans in trumps team. Reporter one of the questions is how seriously or literally should Donald Trumps tweets be taken . Is he trying to set policy through twitter . Is he trying to preempt president obama of his final days by showing a change of force for u. S. Policy . These are open questions and it is coming to holiday times when members of congress are all comiing home to their families. There is not official washington is standing up and react to what donald trump is doing. You have Foreign Policy experts who are outside of government and tho