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staggering. numbers are more than 1500 has to be since we spoke in the last hour, some heavy weather has moved in. it is raining here now, there's a flash flood warning now effect. you can take a look at the woulding creek me hind me, this is a raging river. normally it is a small creek. selling everybody to stay back because it is simply sinclair. again, we are getting so many stories of rescue. the governor's story is incredible. the governor was up with his national wrong. they saw those people waving for help, they were able to pick up two sets of six people, animals and pets. so far here in boulder
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county as the rain comes down, we have about 235 that are unaccounted for, nobody knows where they have been. they have had not contact with those people in larry more county. behave approximately 350 people that are still unaccounted for this morning. six people now believed hisave died in this tore flooding. and again, the rain coming down. the ceiling has dropped here, dale, this is not a good situation. they had hoped to get 24 there 20 used those helicopters to get to the people that are trapped. but again, as you can see this rain coming down, and it is predicted much to last all day long. >> jim, how do you rescue people you don't even know exist, officially? i understand that some of these people are in remote regions without power, and the batteries on the cell phones have died, how do you rescue them? >> well, thats the
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tremendous challenge right now. especially if they can't get the aircraft up today. it is going to be very difficult. they were lucky yesterday, the governors helicopter, they were able to get down and get those people. it's not the fact that the roads have a lot of water on them, as you go into the foothills there is roads that are completely wiped out. so they can't get access to those towns it is a very challenging situation. >> and jim, sometimes we talk about areas that are flood prone. this was a flood region, but they hadn't seen anything like this in a long long time. >> no, we haven't had a fluke like this history wise in terms of 100 years. the cliche, 100 year flood. some areas here have been calling this not the 100 year flood, but the 500 year flood. you take a look at this creek behind me, you get an idea of what they mean by that. >> joining us live from boulder colorado, thank you very much. and to make matters
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worse, through it all, the rains continue to fall. i understand there might be thunderstorms in the forecast? >> going to be a very trying 24 hours. 24 to 36 hours, yell, there will be thunderstorms there tonight. we may even have lightening, tonble rain expected. the winds are pushing in out of the south. plenty of moisture in the south, this happens every single summer, this happens throughout the months of july, august, but unfortunately, in september, that's when things begin to die down, the summer monsoon. relief is on the way, winds will be pushing in out of the west. showers and thunderstorms. mostly goa cast skies across much of colorado, as jim said, flash flood watches out across denver, aurora, whenever the area of low pressure pushes across, there's a lot of steep terrain, and that water just rushes down, and that's the
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reason why we are seeing what looks like a great lake across portions of denver. that's the story today, tonight, folks need to be vigilant with their safety. luckily, sun is going to come out as we track into tuesday, certainly through the next of next week, so recovery can get underway. today, people need to stay on their roads. >> thank you very much. just hours after the u.s. and russia reached that deal on syria, secretary of state john kerry has taken his pitch to israeli prime minister. saying this morns that he hopes for the complete destruction of syria's chemical weapon stock pile. and secretary of state reit raided president obama's commitment to diplomacy, he says military action is not off the table. >> diplomacy has always been the preferred path of the president of the united states, and i
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think any peace loving nation's preferred choice. but make no mistake, we have taken no options off the table. the adrien yous use of chemical weapons by the asaad regime against innocent, men, women, children, their own citizens, all indiscriminately murdered in the dead of the night, is unacceptable and we have said in no uncertain terms that there should never happen again. >> some of president obama's political foes expressed renewed doubt about the deal, senator john mccain saying it is a sign of weakness, and that the sufficient should act with force. the president two years ago said that asaad needs to go. they need to lead to the negotiations departure, that has always been the goal. now there is noment about
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that. now, he is able to have killed 1400 people. and he has called've 100,000. where is the united states response to that. >> al jazeera has more on the political fall out from capitol hill, and secretary's comments this morning. >> reactions to the frame work deal have predictably split largely along party lines with democrats, generally welcoming the break through between the russian and the u.s. on syrian chemical weapons. however, from the republican side of the aisle, criticism particularly from then john mccain of arizona. he criticized the agreement for giving russians more innuance in the middle east, more influence than they have in 1970. yesterday, he issued a statement in which they strongly criticized the agreement, calling it an act of provock tiff
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weakness that would encouraging iran to develop nuclear weapons. and that the u.s. was being led down a diplomatic behind alley. jean kerry was speaking in israel after meetings, he spoke up very strongly that the threat of force is still very much on the table that there is an understanding on the part of the u.s. that it was the threat of military action that got diplomacy to this point, and u.s. is not going to let it up now. >> egypt's transitional period is on today's agenda. not in attendance, though, the muslim brierhood, allies of that group are refusing to participate in the talks. in the meantime, the one's long time leader was back in court. he is facing charges for the deaths of about 900 protestors during the 2011 uprising that led to
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his ouster. 50 years ago this sunday morning four young black girls lost their lives while going to church in the segregated south. the story of the birmingham bombings. >> on guy yet sunday morning it was youth day. but the quiet was shattered when a bomb ripped through the black church. killing four young girls. >> mean and unkind. >> 14-year-old adddy collins, cynthia morris, and the youngest 11-year-old, all died. it would take years for the fbi to discover that four members of the local ku klux klan were responsible. for dennis' mother, the memories of burying her child are fresh. >> i had to keep pitching
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myself, you're not here, you're not here, then unlock the door and go home. >> it only increased racial tensioning. the killings shocked the nation and held support for civil rights around the country. dr. martin luther king jr. spoke at some of the funeral as year later, president lindon johnson signed the civil rights act. lisa mcnair never met her sister. >> the first memory i remember that my sister was killed by white people that didn't like white people. and how i carried that around forever, and always wondered why. >> four lives forever lost, the result of racial hatred and a mark on history still not forgotten. ray lynn johnson, al jazeera. >> denise mcnair a good friend of secretary of
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errry met with israeli prime minister is this morning. in a statement kerry reiterating the threat of military forced remains for syria does not agree with -- or comply with the agreement. remembering those four little girls the nation now marking the somber ran versery. among those in attendance, secretary state condoleezza rice and attorney gender rick holder. it has been five yeared now science lehman brothers collapsed. intercepted 15th, 2,008. said the global economy into free fall. >> we are now down 43%.
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>> what the world is happening on wall street? >> went from 190 to 166 in the blink of an eye. >> u.s. housing market imploded homes were foreclosed, unemployment numbers soared as businesses lays off millions. >> president obama signed off on a $700 billion bail out for banks and companies and vowed to joe all financial regulations. >> we did not chewed how this begain, but we do have a chose in the legacy of this crieses leaves behind. >> so what does that legacy look like five years later? >> washington and the wall street bankers are in the pockets of each other. >> and has first hand experience with the industry sense of immunity. >> it isn't just wall street that we have to hold to account, it is our elected leaders. and then even the judge whose allow this kind of thing to remain so deeply embedded in the culture. >> lehman brothers and sterns are gone.
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followed up by j. b. morgan chase respectively. for most of the big banks it is like the financial crieses never happened. jpmorgan made $1.6 billion in the second profit this year. wells fargo reported a profit of $5.2 billion up 20%. and also posting huge gains was city group, which received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer money, it made $4.18 billion up 42%. for the economy is undoubtedly improving millions of mens are stick struggling. >> there are other people that are continuing to rely on consumer debt, credit cards and other debt to pay basic living experiences, and relying on food stamps and other benefits. and this includes workers that were working full time. >> for september 2008, could it happen again? >> banks are reducing the amount of cash that they
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are holding in order to protect against another crash. that basically is a recipe for disaster. >> the big apple will always be one of the biggest and most important financial cities in the world. two moment down exposes the system fueled by corporate greed, and the federal government still unable to reign it in. al jazeera, new york. >> investigators are working to figure out what caused a bus to leave the interstate and flip over. at least 35 people were injured. the detroit bound bus overturned and slid into a corn field outside cincinnati, six passengers had to be taken by helicopter to a hospital. the bus company says the driver had years of experience, and the bus has just undergone an inspection. two most spectacular salvage operation in history begins in hours. two raising of the sunken
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concordia cruise ship. 24 process has never ever been tried oen a ship this large. it is said to take at least 12 hours to upright the flooded 100,000-ton vessel. 32 people died when the luxury liner went aground ahonk the italian coast. the bodies of two of the victims have yet to be found. at least 27 people are dead following a mining collapse in afghanistan. the chance happened on saturday night. 20 other miners were injured, four of them critically, it is unclear what caused the accident. the president has called for a bull investigation, and sent the minister of mines to that area. tropical storm manuel is brewing near mexico southwest shoreline, thousands on the rim are seeking shelter from approaching hurricane ingrid. there are threats of heavy rain, dangerous flash flooding and mudslides along both coasts.
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for here the focus remains untinning hundreds of people missing in colorado. we know this morning that as many as six people are believed to be dead. joining us now by phone to give us the latest on the flooding in colorado is liz donahoe. she is a public information officer with the boulder office of emergency management, do we have any numbers at this house. >> at this point, we have 234 people that are unaccounted for. but of that list, we do have some duplications and we do have -- we are trying to work through that list, and find those people that maybe have moved to shelters or perhaps been air evacuated. >> liz, aside from flying over all these regions by helicopter, how do you reach out to people who will sitting in houses waiting to be rescues but they have no electricity, and their cell phone batteries have long since died?
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at this point, we have search and rest crew crews going out to find people that need assistance like that. jamestown was an area of concern, and at this time we have reached them land, which means that anybody left in there will be able to get out. >> for your crews how difficult is it to find these people and to rescue these people? >> it's difficult for the smaller mountain communities where people are spread out, but we do have a lot of staff that are going around and helping find those people. >> what are you telling those crews? are you telling them -- to what, take precautions to make sure they don't become victims as well? >> oh, of course. >> so with regards to finding these people who are missing, in some of these remote areas, what's the best way that you are finding that you can reach them? it is by helicopter, by car, what type of vehicles are you employing? >> it depends oen the
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communities. we have some community that it is more by a tv or by foot. and we have some communities that they have been able to use the national guard high water vehicles. >> this is got an area that was used to this type of flooding. did you have resours on hand, or did you have to call from someplace else to bring the troops that were rescued? >> we co have a lot of staff on hand, that handles that type of thing. but fema is here helping us. and we also have several agencies from across the state. >> i want to make sure before we leaf you, that the numbers remain the same. we are reported six people have died as a result of this flooding? >> so in boulder county, what i can confirm is that we have three people that have died in boulder county. i don't know across the state. >> we are reporting six people in two counties. thank you for joining us,
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she is the public information officer the r the boulder county department of emergency management. liz, thank you very much. >> thank you. yet again, we will have to deal with some strong thunderstorms across portions of colorado. we will have heavy rain tonight, and through the day tomorrow, but i think we will see as track as we go into tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. as for now, take a look here at the warnings we have across portions of colorado. we are looking at flash flood warnings. headed southbound towards albuquerque, a very dangerous trying day, please stay in your homes and please use precaution. roadways are not a safe place to be unless you are a trained professional. that moisture will continue to push into the south, luckily as i said, western winds will push in, and it is certainly going to aid in the
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sunshine, and finally a break from all the rain we have been dealing with. now we have hurricane ingrid that is pushing across the gulf of mexico. it is going to make rainfall as we track into torning we are looking at devastating amounts of rain. we do have conflicting reports close to five them already dead. all the way through there, because we have to continue to monitor even in southern portions of texas. from corpus christi all the way down into brownsville. we could see an additional one to six inches of rain. they definitely need the rain, but flash flooding is going to be a major problem. two tropical storm manuel, which made land fall and is going to continue to push towards the east. that's the reason why we are looking at hutch heavy rainfall. you can see we already have warnings out. and we need folks there to be vigilant with their safety, and stay off the roadways as we track into
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rescue workers in colorado are issues a stern warning to those in the flood zone, get out now. air, boat, and land, hundreds of others zillion have yet to be heard from. it is called manning bout three. both brothers the denver broncos today taking on the new york giants. payton has the 2-0 edge over eli, those victories were both when payton was with the colts. eli, though, has two super bowl rings and payton only has once. now when he biced the broncos back in 2012, he and his younger brother knew the day was coming, mark morgan is standing by life, and mark, this is certainly the biggest game of the day, what is it like over there?
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i debt you what, it is the biggest game of the day, yeah probably in the nfl overall. beautiful day weather wise, sunny, breezy temperature, maybe nudging 72 degrees so a great day if football, you talk about manning bowl three, and the hype machine has been in overdrive all week long, with people really around the league, even people who don't have a rotting interest in either squad, who are very very focused on this game, and it is going to kick off late they are afternoon. again, denver broncos with the one super bowl ring, as you mentioned now in his opening day against the baltimore rains he was unstoppable, payton manning with seven touch down passes in that game. it was a crazy effort by him, especially in that second half, he couldn't be stopped so he had started with a hot happened here in the regular season, now, eli manning his team last sunday night lost to the dallas cowboys down in dallas. he threw four touch down
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passes but did have three interceptions as well. dale, the two brothers have met twice so far, and both times the payton mannings indianapolis colts bread eli's joints so it is two h zero payton as they head to round three of the manning bowl here in east rutherford. their father archie, a long time quarterback. archie will be here at met life stadium today with the boys more, olive yeah, they will obviously be cheering for whoever has the ball at the time, brother cooper is not going to be at the game, he said in the past it is hard to watch his brothers play in person, and decide who to root for. >> mark joining us life, and then there is that little game in lambeau field when rg three and the green bay packers. that's it for this
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edition, thank you for watching. in the middle east they call egypt umm udunia, the mother of the world. a country that for centuries has been the cultural and economic powerhouse of the region. at its heart lies cairo, built by the fatamid caliphs to dominate the nile and red sea trade routes, it is today a sprawling metropolis where a
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