Announcer this week on q a, institute for policy studies fellow Phyllis Bennis discusses her book, understanding isis and the new global war on terror. Ms. Bennis also talks about u. S. Foreign policy since 911 and the obama administrations recent negotiations with iran. Brian Phyllis Bennis, how would you describe what you do for a living . Phyllis ooh. It is one of those great privileges. I get to work my passion, which is working as a public scholar. For me, it means working against wars and occupation and bad foreign policy, mostly by our own government. What does it mean daytoday . I write stuff, i speak, i talk to people. I work in social movements. Brian who pays you . Phyllis i work for the institute of policy studies. It is the longest lasting multiprogressive think tank in the country. Its been around since the early 60s. We raise money partly from foundations and partly from individuals. We do not take any government or corporate money. Brian when people give you money, what
This morning. Nbc10 was of the first on the scene. Drew smith is live. Whats the latest . Right now passengers continue to come up to the entrance of the station being turned away by the Police Officer. The entrance roped off by police tape. Upstairs there are a number of investigators and engineers tries to figure out what happened. Reporter derailed and surrounded by interstate highway. The market train is front car hanging off the tracks. It was a lot of screaming and panicking. Reporter on board, 30 passengers waited for the third rail power to shut off before evacuation. Several rescue crews fire and Police Dispatched to the station. The train went off the track. I thought we were going into the highway. And i have never been so afraid in my life. Reporter one woman on a stretcher on the way to the ambulance. Heat exhaustion and will be fine. There was so called single tracking happening today. The train had to cross over from eastbound to westbound to get through. The train speed
We can say good morning. Hopefully, you have yourady for. Im kendis gibson. And im lynda lopez. The search for american sailers after the second collision in two months between a navy and a commercial ship. You can see the damage. The sleeping quarters, were told, among the places that were flooded with seawater. It happened overnight in the waters overnight near singapore. Several sailors were airlifted to the hospital. Arlette sainz joins us from washington. Reporter good morning. Ten u. S. Sailors are missing and five injured at the u. S. S. John s. Mccain collided with a vessel off the coast of singapore. The second incident in the summer where a u. S. Destroyer has collided with a mer chant ship. To focus on the search and rescue effort. Reporter the search and rescue operation is under way for ten sailers missing after the u. S. S. John mccain collided with an oil tanker. The navy says the collision occurred as the guided missile destroyer was headed towards singapore for a routi
They had been talking about the eclipse for months. We have been waiting for this for a long time. Its amazing. Ive been typing it up and looking all about it and im like oh, my god its so cool like im like wow mom like i cant believe were seeing this. Reporter everybody was like that, wow mom, i cant believe im seeing this. This is the lark ken family. They came from pottstown to see the eclipse and experience all of this here at the Franklin Institute. Why did you make the trip . Why did you need to be here. Well, we thought this would be a super fun place to see where real live science goes down. Whats happening in the sky behind us and this is science. What is science. Science is amazing. Reporter what was it cool to be here with so many others. It was really fun. Ive never seen anything like this. I love science. Reporter so cool. Reporter does this enhance your love of science more. It was really fun. Reporter will you tell your friends at school about it. It was really fun. It w
Tell you much more than. That there was blood every where. Driver was all banged up there , was one girl bleeding out of his face pretty bad. They were pretty fast. They were pretty responsive. You know, emts got there within four minutes, about, i guess, i dont know the elapsed time but they were real fast and everybody was real helpful. Reporter heres what that passenger also said. He said he got on at gulph mills station but train first blew by and back up to pick up waiting passengers. He said exact same thing happened at bryn mawr station, that is when he and other passengers were talking and they knew something wasnt right but too late to get off the train. Then the impact at 69th street three lanning now, one transported to penn, we have learned that train operator was taken there. She will have more on that update. Mike, alexian investigation into what happened. If you might remember back in february a similar crash happened here where a train slammed into an unoccupied car tha