i'm amy goodman. a new opinion poll shows vermont senator bernie sanders is the leading democratic presidential candidate in new hampshire. the poll shows sanders has 44% support among likely new hampshire democratic primary voters, compared to only 37% support for clinton. this poll follows a series of speaking events where sanders has drawn record crowds. on sunday, 28,000 people turned out in portland, oregon. it was a large is campaign rally for any democratic were republican presidential candidate this year. a day later, more than 27,000 people attended his event in los angeles. before his speech the campaign's , new press secretary symone sanders, an african american criminal justice advocate, spoke about the black lives matter movement and said -- "no candidate for president is going to fight harder for criminal justice reform and racial justice issues than senator bernie sanders." in more campaign news, hillary clinton is turning over her private computer server she used while serving as secre

i'm amy goodman.sident obama is unveiling a new set of power regulations highlighted as the strongest actions taken in the united states to combat climate change. it could shatter coal fire power plants and fuel a shift toward wind and solar power. the final rules are reportedly stronger than earlier proposals requiring existing power plants to cut emissions. the plan faces opposition from republican lawmakers and coal companies who have vowed to sue. tomorrow, we will speak with naomi klein. the release of the roles coincide with a reminder of global warming's impact in california, where wildfires are raging. a firefighter has been killed. the spokesperson for the california department of forestry said the largest of the blazes consumed an unprecedented 20,000 acres over a five-hour period. >> that fire grew 20,000 acres in a five-hour period. that is an unbelievable amount of acreage to burn in such a small amount of time, but it is because of these drought conditions. amy: president obama has autho

i'm amy goodman. in ferguson, missouri, police shot and critically injured an african american teenager on sunday night amid the protests commemorating the first anniversary of the death of michael brown. "the st. louis post" is identifying the teen as 18-year-old tyrone harris, a graduate of normandy high school. tyrone harris' father told the "post-dispatch" his son and michael brown were "very close." the police say four officers opened fire on tyrone harris after he shot at them. he shot at them with a nine millimeter gun from the scene. a video posted to twitter by a ferguson activist appears to show a police officer standing over tyrone harris' body as he lies on the ground, his hands cuffed behind his back, with blood on his white t-shirt. in the video, the activist pleads with the officer to get the young man some help. >> give him some help, man. please, get him some help. he is bleeding out. please, get him some help, man. please, get him some help. he is bleeding out. you see it. he is brea

i'm amy goodman. in virginia, vigils have been held for two journalists who were fatally shot on live television during the morning broadcast wednesday of the local news station wdbj. 24-year-old broadcast journalist alison parker and 27-year-old cameraman adam ward died after suspected gunman vester flanagan opened fire. flanagan was a former journalist at the station, who was fired two years ago. he also went by the name bryce williams. after the shooting, he faxed a 23-page letter to local abc station saying -- "i've been a human powder keg for a while....just waiting to go boom." flanagan is african-american. the letter cited racial and severalt wdbj other stations. the letter also said troll sin shooting was "the tipping point" and he a put down a deposit for a gun two days after the charleston massacre. police say vester's -- vester flanagan shot himself as they closed in on his car on the virginia parkway. he died in the hospital soon after. president obama democratic , presidential candidate h

i'm amy goodman. this news from ferguson, missouri, authorities have declared a state of emergency for st. louis county amid continuing protests marking the first anniversary of michael brown's death and the shooting sunday of another african-american teenager. nearly 150 people were arrested monday as protesters blocked rush-hour traffic on interstate 70. authorities also filed charges monday against 18-year-old african american tyrone harris, who was critically injured sunday night in what police describe as a shootout with officers. tyrone harris' father said his son and michael brown were "very close." the two attended normandy high school together. during the protests, heavily armed men from the militia group the oath keepers also roamed ferguson's streets. the militia largely consists of active and former military members and police officers who claim to uphold the u.s. constitution. meanwhile, st. louis county has filed charges against two reporters who were arrested last year covering the prot

. >> amy jane was an angel. traveling the world with her church to help children. >> we loved amy. they loved amy so much. >> but back home something sinister lay waiting. >> it was a pretty horrific crime scene. >> a bright young life snuffed out. >> who would do that? it doesn't make any sense at all. >> months later a mom out for a walk vanishes. >> karen's gone. i don't know where she is. i just cried. >> one murder, one disappearance in the same small town. but soon police would discover a creepier connection. >> one of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of amy jane brandhagen and karen lang together. >> oh, my god. >> the dead teenager and the missing mom arm in arm. >> in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. >> was someone stalking the women of this tight-knit church? this sounds more like a zodiac-type killer. >> absolutely. >> a race to connect the dots revealing a truth darker than anyone imagined. >> i don't get that. i mean, it's just evil. >> i'm lester holt. and this is "dateline." here's keith morrison with "someone was out there." >

i'm amy goodman. president obama has ramped up his push for congress to accept the historic nuclear deal with iran, comparing arguments against the deal to those heard in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. in his speech wednesday, obama said iranian hardliners who reject the nuclear deal and chant "death to america" are "making common cause with the republican caucus." ultimately, obama said, the decision to support or reject the nuclear deal comes down to a choice between diplomacy with iran and war. >> rejection of this deal leaves any u.s. administration that is absolutely committed to preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon with one option -- another war in the middle east. amy: in news from europe, an overcrowded fishing boat carrying as many as 700 migrants capsized in the mediterranean sea off the coast of libya wednesday. at least 25 people died and as many as 100 more are feared to have drowned, according to italian officials. human rights groups say at least 2000 migrants have died t

i'm amy goodman. in news from the campaign trail, republican presidential candidate donald trump has sparked outrage over his decision to remove univision news anchor jorge ramos, one of the nation's most influential latino journalists, from a press conference after ramos attempted to ask a question about the trumps plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. >> [inaudible] next? who is excuse me, sit down. you were not called. said down. sit down. go ahead. >> i have a right to ask a question. >> know, you don't. you have not been called. go back to univision. amy: jorge ramos was later allowed back in the news conference and the two sparred , for nearly 5 minutes over trump's immigration plans. finally, trump ended the questioning by reminding ramos that he was suing univision for defamation and warning -- "they're very concerned about it, by the way. i'm very good at this." meanwhile, former ku klux klan leader david duke has offered praise for trump's candidacy and his immigration plan, say

i'm amy goodman. china is calling it black monday. global stocks are falling as china's market saw its sharpest daily fall since the global financial crisis in 2007. the shanghai stock exchange plunged 8.5% monday, sending shock waves throughout asian and european markets. today's fall comes after weeks of decline in the chinese markets, which led the dow jones to plummet by more than 500 points on friday. the decline also caused oil prices to plunge to their lowest levels in almost six years. french president hollande has awarded the legion of honor, france's highest award, to the three americans one british citizen on monday for the role in thwarting an attack in a high-speed train traveling to paris from amsterdam friday. no one died. the three americans, two of them service members, tackled and disarmed the suspected gunman, a 26 year old moroccan man. police say european authorities suspected him of being an islamist militant come although he was not being tracked. the lawyer for the suspected gu

i'm amy goodman. the obama administration has granted royal dutch shell final approval to resume julie for oil guess since 2012, despite widespread protests from environmental groups. shell first obtained drilling permits in the arctic during the george w. bush of administration , but drilling stopped in 2012 after a series of mishaps. the permit was issued monday 's icebreaking ship arrived at the drill site carrying a required piece of equipment known as a capping stack. the quitman arrived on the same protesterseace temporarily blocked from oregon, byortland, hanging suspended from the st. than 40idge for more hours. shell now says it majorly its first well as early as the summer. the interior department has said there is a 75% chance of one or spills once shell begins drilling. we will have more on the arctic drilling after the headlines. is obama administration expected to announce as early as today the first-ever federal the oilons requiring and gas industry to cut methane emissions. is a powerf

i'm amy goodman. civil rights pioneer julian bond has died at the age of 75. for more than half a century, bond helped found student nonviolen student nonviolent con data committee, chaired the naacp. he spent 20 years in the georgia state legislature come despite the thames by white colleagues to block them from sitting over his opposition to the vietnam war. he appeared on democracy now! multiple times, including a 2009 when he reflected on the 100th anniversary of the naacp. >> i'm constantly asked, what new thing is the naacp doing? americans what you to do something new every year. in new year's, fight racial it- discrimination. amy: we will spend the hour the headlines. documents from nsa whistleblower edward snowden have exposed how extensively the nsa relied on telecommu'ications giant at&t for its vast spying operations. records described by "áhe new york times" and propublica laud at&t's "extreme willingness to help" the nsa's spying efforts, by providing access to billions of emails flowing

i'm amy goodman. imprisoned army whistleblower chelsea manning has been spared the punishment of indefinite solitary confinement after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling on military prison authorities to drop the charges of possession of unauthorized meeting -- reading material and other minor infractions. manning had been called before the disciplinary panel at the military prison at fort leavenworth for having an expired tube of toothpaste, an issue of "vanity fair" in which transgender celebrity caitlyn jenner describes her new life living openly as a woman, the u.s. senate report on torture , and other "prohibited property." on tuesday, a panel a ruled that manning did have unapproved reading material. her punishment is 21 days of restricted recreational activities, including no access to a gym, a library or the outdoors. manning is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking u.s. government cables to wikileaks. two -- to see our interview with chase strangio, one of chelsea's lawyers a

i'm amy goodman. as many as ten thousand people fleeing violence in their home countries are surging through the balkans in efforts to reach hungary before the country seals its border. many of the people are fleeing wars in syria and afghanistan. they are traveling by busses, on foot, in wheelchair and wheelbarrows. once people reach hungary, they can travel freely throughout most of the european union. the hungarian government has said it will completely seal its border by august 31. meanwhile, in germany, a sports hall that has been converted into an emergency refugee shelter caught on fire this morning in the eastern town of nauen. the town has seen anti-immigrant protests by right-wing groups in recent days. the fire comes after right-wing protesters clashed with police during demonstrations against a newly opened migrant shelter in a small town outside of dresden over the weekend. german chancellor angela merkel denounced anti-immigrant violence by right-wing protesters on monday. >> there was a

amy: d.c.nnections between what we're seeing in the united states -- i mean, you have the republican rhetoric, donald trump saying, build a wall, mexicans are rapists, all 11 million a document of people .hould be deported your chris christie submission be treated like fedex packages and tracked. what are the connections you see between what is happening in the united states and what is happening in europe? >> there are commonalities between the right-wing in both europe and the united states. what this is really about is some sense that the migrants are somehow destroying american culture or european culture, that these societies cannot incorporate the changes that would result from welcoming in hundreds of thousands, in some cases in the u.s., millions of people. the u.s. in fact is just fine. in fact, it has been greatly enriched by the immigration. it is not as if american culture is radically different today from what it was two or three decades ago, it is not as if american democracy is i

friend of amy jane's from church? karen always parked their car in front of her house when she took her late afternoon walks. >> says, is karen at your house? no. i just got home and i asked lisa if she'd been over. and i said, no, haven't seen her. >> and i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there. so we went out to the car and she wasn't there. >> so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked a couple of blocks from their house down to the river levee. there in the parking lot sat a pendleton policeman. what should they do they asked him. >> he just thought it was unusual enough that he got ahold of dan. >> as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa kept looking through the dark along the riverbank. >> there's a fear of not finding anything. and there's a fear of finding something. >> when i got to where the policeman was, we were talking, and he said, you seem to be awfully calm for your wife being missing. and at that point i thought, holy mackerel, you know, if there's something -- if the

amy: we recently spoke to the former u.n.pertoire on human rights and the palestinian territories. his temper fez or emeritus of international law at the university of leiden in the netherlands. he was born in south africa. we spoke to him at the hague many compared israel to apartheid south africa. >> i have lived through apartheid. i'm no hesitation in saying israel's crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of south africa. for seven years i visited the palestinian territory twice a year. conducting a fact-finding mission after the operation in gaza 2008-2009. i am from a he with the situation and familiar with the apartheid situation, i was a human rights lawyer and apartheid south africa. and i like virtually every sub african who visits the occupied territories has a terrible sense of dÉjÀ vu. we've seen it all before, except it is infinitely worse. what has happened in the west bank is the creation of a settlement enterprise has resulted in a situation that closely resembles that of apar

scott and amie, thank you so much for taking a break from your show to be with us today. >> hey, we're happy to be here. >> we're really excited to be here. >> like millions of other viewers, i love your show, "flipping vegas," on the a&e network. and i'm assuming a big network like a&e wouldn't run so many episodes of your show unless the market was red hot, right? >> exactly. >> so, why is right now such an exciting time to profit from real estate? >> well, when the real-estate market bottomed out, of course there were great opportunities to pick up properties for a fraction of the previous value, but it was challenging to flip them because banks really weren't lending to a majority of the buyers, so even if you had the cash, got an incredible deal on a property, there were really few buyers that could actually get financing that you could sell it to. >> but now prices are steadily on the rise, and banks are lending more, and people are starting to get back on their feet. >> yeah, definitely. the market is becoming very active again. we're definitely experiencing what is called a rec

i'm amy goodman. at least nine people were arrested when protests erupted in st. louis, missouri, after police shot and killed an african-american teenager. st. louis police say they shot 18-year-old mansur ball-bey after he pointed a gun at officers as he fled from a house where police were executing a search warrant. the shooting came 10 days after the first anniversary of the police killing of michael brown in ferguson, which sparked protests nationwide. as protesters gathered to condemn the killing, police fired smoke canisters and tear gas, accusing demonstrators of throwing glass bottles and bricks. images on social media overnight showed a car and a building on fire. activists and clergy condemned the police response as overly aggressive. reverend renita lamkin told the st. louis-post dispatch, "there has to be a better way, but the better way is not to terrorize an already terrorized community." in washington state, three firefighters have been killed and four others injured as wildfires conti

i'm amy goodman. in news from greece, prime minister alexis tsipras announced his resignation on thursday, paving the way for new elections. the move came after tsipras lost the support of many members of his own syriza party who opposed his backing of the demands of international creditors for yet more austerity and economic reform in exchange for a new $96 billion bailout. tspiras, who is expected to win in the snap elections, said the vote will give the greek people a chance to have a say on the new bailout. >> i would like to summit the government's resignation and i would like to express my believe that the constitutional process needs to be set in moment -- movement immediately and with all disability to elections of the greek people can decide which way the country should be led safely and quickly out of the crisis will stop amy: we'll have more on greece after headlines. we will hear from bernie sanders. new data show july was the warmest month ever on record. the data, released by the u.s. na

i'm amy goodman. today the united states and cuba are taking the next step in restoring diplomatic relations with each other. secretary of state john kerry arrived in havana this morning to attend a ceremony marking the re-opening of the u.s. embassy there. joining him are three marines who lowered the flag at the embassy in 1961, after the two countries cut off ties when fidel castro toppled the u.s.-backed government of fulgencio batista. the same marines will raise the flag over the embassy. we will have more after headlines. the greek parliament passed a daybreakon deal around this morning after contentious all-night debate. the draft terms of the agreement include harsh austerity measures. it does not include any debt relief. widerogram passed by margin. the prime minister tsipras faced a growing rebellion within his own left-leaning cerise a party which came to power promising to fight against austerity. nearly a third of syriza lawmakers voted against the bill, including former finance minister

i'm amy goodman.fox news has chosen the top ten republican candidates to participate thursday in the first debate of the 2016 presidential election. the candidates include front-runner donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker, marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul, ben carson, mike huckabee, chris christie and john kasich, who eeked out a spot as the tenth-highest polling candidate. the remaining seven republican candidates who will participate in a forum earlier in the afternoon are carly fiorina, rick perry, bobby jindal lindsey graham, rick santorum, george pataki and jim gilmore. fox news calculated its top-ten list by averaging five national polls, a process which came under fire from polling agencies earlier this week. the mayor's institute for public opinion temporarily suspended its polling saying fox's debate criteria ignores the margin of error. another top pollster said based on current polling, there's no good rationale proper to early selecting a top 10. in more news from the campaign trail, repub

i'm amy goodman. president obama has unveiled his long-awaited climate change plan to slash carbon emissions from u.s. power plants. speaking at the white house, obama unveiled a plan which includes a 32 percent reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. president obama: i am convinced that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a changing climate. that is what brings us here today. amy: president obama's announcement comes as scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the hottest year on record. we'll have more on his climate plan with naomi klein after headlines. in news from yemen, soldiers from the united arab emirates have become the first foreign -- has arrived in the southern port. the rate becomes the first foreign ground troops to enter the ongoing conflict. the uae troops are fighting with the u.s.-backed, saudi-led coalition, which has been battling the houthi rebels in -- rebels. a report by the independent monitoring group airwars