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Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of lo...

That were the United States of america, and you will not mess around with our election system. The Obama Administration retaliates against russian hacking. Of course, the president elect can reverse all of this. Even those who are sympathetic to president obama are saying that part of the reason he did this today is to box in president elect trump. A little sloppy right now. Real sloppy. On the east coast millions are in the crosshairs of the first noreaster of the season. Unless you have four w...

[ cheers and applause ] i believe that we must never hesitate to act when necessary, including unilaterally when necessary against any imminent threats to our people. But ive also insisted that it is unwise and unsustainable to ask our military to build nation nations on the other side of the world or resolve their internal conflic conflicts, particularly in places where our forces become a magnet for terrorists and insurgencies. Instead its been my conviction that even as we focus relentlessly ...

That happened inside of that garage and coming around this way about a mile ask a half that way at a car, a third reported inc he need to talk to about this incident. One video may help detectives find a man with no shame set on campus. I dont know like what point of it is anyway. It is not peeling to anyone. I guess hes probably doing it for attention. This video was taken last thursday evening, the night detectives got three different reports and the man with his i have been here four years an...

Heated every day. Bomb on board . What blew a large hole on the commercial jet. The growing fears it was a terrorist attack. State of emergency. Floridas governor taking new action after at least nine cases of zika are reported in that case. How did a virus you knew about just weeks ago become such a threat . And hello kitty. For the First Time Ever the only jaguar known to live in the u. S. Is captured on camera. The big cat scientists have been trying to spot for years. Today thursday, februar...

The big cat scientists have been trying to spot for years. Today thursday, february 4, 2016. Today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. We have covered campaigns in the past where it has gotten rough. Going back and forth especially on the republican side is getting really intense. And we have nine months before election day. The stakes are high. That is why we are seeing it get so heated. That is the top story. Hillary clinton and Ber...

Service through the transbay tube suspended. Janet has more on how to get around. 50,000 people are headed to at t park to hear billy joel take the stage this labor day weekend. Going to be a lot of people. A lot of people trying to figure out how to get to and from the city with several Major Construction project under way. Especially this weekend with the concert going on and Everything Else and the work on the subway and train track t. Whatever they are doing. Central subway project has muni ...

Protests against the eric gardener decision. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America thank you for joining us here. Coming to you live from new york city. Im Morgan Radford. More than a Million People are in search as a powerful typhoon tears through the philippines. If brought howling winds, toppling trees, and power lines, and cutting off communication. Its the same region where thousands were killed by haiyan ears ago. Reporter this is edison napping next to the radio his familys c...

250th birthday. First to iraq where there has been more air strikes, suicide attacks and misery for thousands of desperate people. There are signs that the war is turning against i. S. I. L. French fighter jets bombed the i. S. I. L. Held town. Several air strikes killed 50 i. S. I. L. Fighters. Kurdish peshawar forces are ready to launch a ground offensive. While iraqi and Kurdish Forces need help to save thousands of yazidi trapped in the sinjar mountains. Theyve been there for months, but win...

And you are looking at the scene in paris right now, marchers in the streets up to a million joined by political leaders from all over the world all gathering in solidarity against the worst attack by radical islam that paris has seen, unprecedented security in place, the french Prime Minister now says his nation is at war and abcs senior Foreign Correspondent terry moran is on the scene. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, george. It is an incredible moment here as this huge throng is j...