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calculated tides and tempestuous weather. and as normandy slept, the stage was set for a day that would change the world forever. the paratroopers prepared for their perilous passage. the royal air force soared toward enemy lines. and a naval fleet, of a scale unrivalled, traversed a channel chocked with mines. and soldiers, most barely in their 20s, armed with fortitude so few acquire, faced with a fate we just can't fathom, each charged head first into that fire. for a second, contemplate that courage, that sacrifice, so void of self to give your life to foster freedom for the benefit of someone else. when the longest day was finally finished, and they'd seized a foothold on that ground, because of all who bravely bore that burden,
troops relied on it and it could determine the outcome of the war. months and years of waiting were over. in 1944, three forecast units — two british and one american — fed information back to southwick house, near portsmouth. and it was this man, group captainjames stagg, responsible for advising the military. it was really difficult to go into that room and see poor general eisenhower with his head on one side and he's just staring, waiting to hear what the forecast would be. because, normally, we had got accustomed to him being such a bright and a spritely man, going about with a broad grin as if he were almost a gymnastic instructor. 80 years ago, unlike today, there was very little technology available to help. our supercomputer today does 14,000 trillion calculations every second, and we feed millions upon millions of bits of data
see this moment as different rihanna, it could be different. what you could be seen right now is the beginning of what i would describe as a holding action in gaza. let's just assume for a second that most of the tactical missions have been achieved. there and then it displays the israeli ability, the idf capacity to operate on multiple levels and they are now going to put an emphasis on lebanon. so it wouldn't be surprising to see an increase in terms of the operational effort up north to go against what is now clearly an increase he's a provocation on the part of hezbollah and when you see israel increasing the cap of how many reservists can be called up from 300 to 300,000 to 350,000. >> what does that tell you and how are you reading? their military capabilities right now yeah. >> i think this demonstrates
staring, waiting to to hear what the forecast would be. staring, waiting to hear what the forecast would be. because, normally, we had got accustomed to him being such a bright and a spritely man, going about with a broad grin as if he were almost a gymnastic instructor. 80 years ago, unlike today, there was very little technology available to help. our supercomputer today does 14,000 trillion calculations every second, and we feed millions upon millions of bits of data into that supercomputer every day, as well. back in stagg's day, a handful of observations across the atlantic. the pressure of forecasting even one day ahead, whereas now, these current circumstances, with the advances of technology, we can forecast several days ahead. so, catherine, what are these? so these are the original weather maps from the d—day period. and these take us through the 4th ofjune, where they were making the decision on whether they could
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after israeli forces withdrew. israel's military raid in march was the second at the site and it was dramatically destructive. four mass graves containing — local search teams say — hundreds of bodies have now been dug up at al—shifa, prompting international calls for an investigation into possible war crimes. there are reports of suspicious finds. translation: we've discovered bodies of women and children _ and people without heads, as well as torn body parts. israel's military says it exhumed bodies which palestinians had buried earlier as it searched for hostages seized by hamas. but some of the dead were patients. waleed believes his mother, lina, died of malnutrition and dehydration. her corpse was badly decomposed. translation: i identified her- from particular marks on her legs. she'd been wounded in
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weapons being used to bomb inside russia. this is a change in u.s. policy. watch. >> over the past few weeks, ukraine came to us. and asked for the authorization to use weapons that we're providing to defend against this aggression, including against russian forces that are massing on the russian side of the border and then attacking into ukraine. and that went right to the president and as you have heard he has approved the use of our weapons for that purpose. >> laura: first of all, did biden sign that with a purple crayon? first of all, biden doesn't know what he is doing. second of all, how big of a uptick in u.s. response to russia is that for people watching tonight? >> laura, i cannot tell you what a horrible idea this is. there is no upside and there is potentially huge downside for the united states. but, let me tell you what has been happening there. ukraine side has been using their weapons to attack the russian side for the better part