justified by its claim of self defence. he said the entire region was sinking into a sea of hatred that could define generations to come. the egyptian foreign minister, sameh shoukry, said his country is making every effort to deliver aid and treat injured gazans and joined the call for an immediate ceasefire. the numbers of people who were killed from civilians in gaza over the last few weeks, including working in relief and journalists cannot be justified any way. and in this regard, we are still asking for an immediate ceasefire and that israel would stop hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid. and we also demand an international investigation for these violations of the international law in this war. and finally, what we are witnessing of an escalation and the human tragedy and suffering of civilians as a result of not addressing the deep root of the problem and to address the rights of the palestinian rights. i reject any attempts to liquidate the palestinian cause
There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come in a half century in addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here at the Detroit Free Press where it won a Pulitzer Prize for its 1967 riot coverage. Were joined by Heather Ann Thompson and Detroit Free Press page editor steve henderson. Well be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets and facebook posts. Can we start with the definitions in the sense that the events that took place 50 years ago described as a riot. I would say its absolutely not a riot. Because that term connotes chaos and it suggests that everyone just showed up and destroyed the city for no reason. It also suggested how we should understand what happened and what the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion. Because all of the energy and anger and activism that went into that moment had long been predicted. People had been begging for some remedy, for the housing discrimination. The Police Brutality. The eco
This Safeway Store, they had some stuff falling off the shelves and this woman was just waiting for the third jolt to come but it did not. She said it was over quickly but people said it felt like it was longer. We spoke with a nurse who works in a nearby hospital. She spoke about what happens when it hits. All of a sudden there was a loud noise accompanied by the shaking, some people went into earthquake mode but most people went to check on their patients and just kept going, a lot of people did not have time to react. Reporter that nurse did not want to say what hospital she works at but she works at a nearby hospital. She told me that there were a lot of traveling nurses, the once that were not from california were scared. They ran for the doors and ran under the tables but she did not have time to do that, she checked on her patients. It did not cause a power outage so she went back to work. We have an earthquake section on our website, kron4. Com with a real time map. You can see
Six others were damaged force and no one was hurt. Darya we have a crew headed to the scene. Michelle apon 13,005 under a is a little but overton about the football field the brush is very dry in a steep in that area of the awful dilemma with some pretty warm conditions as of right now 71 degrees will have some live north wind that is not too bad but later on today customer to one of multiple digit heat but mid90s still pretty one does with the firefighters will be dealing with this afternoon along with a string shower thunderstorm chance donald from the mobile application in the news you can follow exactly whats happening but were looking at a little bit closer to the bay area we have mostly cloudy skies. Michelle apon 4 isolated showers and thunderstorms may bet if youre traveling man off to the east heading into top of this weekend your bill will showers and thunderstorms possibly tomorrow but as of right now most of the bay and is pretty much dried. Michelle apon looking at the nor
Being forced to leave and leave right now. All of this as President Trump tours the devastation beginning in corporate us krity Vice President pence will head to texas later this week Contessa Brewer will get the latest on relief and recovery earnings there lets go to john kern an, pretty dramatic scenes in dickinson, a lot of water between here and houston, turned into a bayou. I wish i could say that was the end but apparently not after opening down triple digits, the dow is positive. And investors brushing aside fears about north koreas latest Missile Launch United Technologies and caterpillar and apple leading gains and financial and material stocks the biggest laggards right now. Lets get you caught up on the latest on harvey the storm setting a rainfall record for tropical cyclones in texas. The National Weather service just over 49 inches of rain has been observed at locations southeast of houston flash flood warnings remain in effect throughout houston, about 300,000 people by