the freedom that matters is the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom of speech. that s the most basic and essential of all the freedoms. and that s why it s enshrined in the very first amendment to the bill of rights. it s central not simply to freedom, but to humanity. it s not opposable thumbs that separate us from the animalsk. that s our power. words in the beginning was the word, declares john . at the opening of the fourth gospel, the word the word is the most important thing that we have. take away our ability to choose our own words, and we are no longer fully human. we are subjects. we re chattel. authoritarians understand this. above all, that s why they hate freedom of speech. in fact, if you gave them a choice, they d let you have a fully automatic 50 caliber machine gun before they allowed you to say exactly what you want with a gun, you might be able to kill people, but with words you can expose them . with words you can change the world. in fact, there has n
julie: that is right, classmates explain kohberger as awkward and studio spirit he has a graduate student washington state university, just a 15 minute drive from the rental house where the people were stabbed to death. for more on this dan springer in moscow, idaho. good morning, dan. good morning, julie. we don t have the exact details what led the police to arrest bryan kohberger. that arrest affidavit, the public because affidavit they got signed by a judge to pick him up in pennsylvania has been sealed and will not be open until physically back in the state of idaho to face those four counts of first-degree murder. what a police source tells me is the dna and the investigative genetic genealogy played a key role in pointing toward kohberger who was arrested early friday morning at his parent s home in eastern pennsylvania after being trapped there for days by the police. there was a lot of blood at the scene of the quadruple murders. we know the police bagged the han
across parts of the rio grande valley, all throughout the deep and north parts of florida. south florida, no surprise freeze watches no freeze watches at all. any blue or purple temperatures are below 0. you get in toward these purple can be excuse me, below freezing, get in to the purples, and you ve got the temps below 0. this was all part of this storm that brought the snow and the wind and the cold. it is now beginning to move in towards participants of canada, but you parts of canada, but notice the circulation. that s winds that ll continue to go across parts of the great lakes, and we re going to have massive lake effect snow piling up. about a month ago we saw 6 feet of snow in buffalo, we potentially have another 4 feet of snow that s going to fall across the same spot, so wind is going to track right across the lakes, lake erie, and and take a look at this. feels like -19, very heavy snow to the north of buffalo. we also have winds at 33 miles an hour, so it s
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your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo