magnitude earthquake, the strong oft to hit the north african nation in more than a century. the quake struck late last night, centered in the high mountains around the tourist destination of marrakech. the quake brought down buildings and homes and people ran into the streets. look at this video, two men run when they begin to feel the shaking. moments later you see panicked people running by and then rubble falling where those men were just moments before. look at that. there you go. there s the rubble falling. nearly 700 people were reportedly injured in the quake. and now there is a race to reach the victims in the most affected area. but officials say rescue teams are struggling to get to some of these places. cnn s ben wedeman is joining us now, he s following this story, ben, we know that this large earthquake hit around 11:00 p.m. local time so a lot of people must have been sleeping. what are the latest on the rescue efforts and tell us about the concerns that mo
issues. we are just talking about donald trump. donald trump overshadowed the whole retreat, and they just came back today from this. and what we ve seen is already playing defense, and they re accusing the prosecutor, or the da, excuse, me of being politically motivated, there accusing democrats of being politically motivated, and all of this, i will continue to hear that writing from republicans, and specifically from mccarthy in the days tomorrow, especially if we should receive that grand jury decision. you know, glenn, down donald trump lawyer seems to change his mind about the hush money case over the years. listen to this. if there is an issue with that payment to stormy daniels, mean that was made on behalf of the candidate, okay, and was not declared, that s fair game. it s a legal agreement, it s fraud. i bought a, car and i wrote, i purchased a horse. that s an accurate, that s a lie maybe, but there is no
it s normal, and unfortunately it s sick. and they expected this to happen in november after the grand jury decision, and when we saw that massive destruction and a lot of shots fired, a lot of shell casings found in a parking lot, that s when people more expected a tragedy to take place. thankfully the officers survived, but going forward, i think it will be a question of how police respond and how protesters handle this and if they change tactics. what s the police position on gun? i ve been listening to i guess a lot of my liberal friends, fair enough, that s who i listen to sometimes, and they say this is just too many guns around. what s your experience? do criminals get guns out of the hotel rooms? we have a country with so many millions of guns in it. well, with the absence of a formalized and complete national policy on gun ownership, you know, different states have different rules and regulations.
other direction. there may be legitimate police purposes for drones, but to fund them out of this community policing some of it is for technology, like to know if there s gun fire in a neighborhood and to protect cops. you could make the argument that they could be the eyes of the police. but what surprises me is there s so little approach to what was essentially a approximate cause of the unrest in new york and ferguson, which is the grand jury decision, and there is a simple policy and a solution, that there it s an inherent conflict of interest between the prosecutor and the cop. it s not anybody at fault, but that s the way it works because the prosecutor works with cops every day. so it seems to me there s an easy approach after that that ought to be at least tried out where there s some change of who the prosecutor is, either from another jurisdiction or a special one, but some way to
reaction from president obama to sony to allow limited release of the interview. a white house spokesperson says the president applauds sony s decision to authorize screening of the film. as the president made clear, we are a country that believes in free speech and the right of artistic expression. the decision made by sony and participating theaters. an about-face after the president called sony s decision not to release it or pull it from christmas day release saying, i wish they would have filled me in and asked me about it first, but now applauding them. now to this story as new york city tries to heal from the murder of those two nypd officers. perhaps one question here. whether protests in the wake of eric garner and michael brown s grand jury decision should end. more protests are planned for today but some have put blame on the protests for fostering a culture of animosity towards of police. in a press conference yesterday, new york city mayor bill de blasio asks for a p