grossman? well, i think..." "the ability for them to decrease rests a whole lot of considerations, um, but are certainly tied to the ability of hezballah to to gain still more political strength, and and across the board willingness to fight corruption, which of course provides, if you like, a culture, a medium through which non-legitimate interests can get into the political process and manipulate outcomes. policies and ultimately political opinions, so it's it's it's it's a it's a huge task that remains to be played out, but it's a start, but ultimately i think the most decisive factor would be to see hesbollah grow still stronger in its political manifestation in lebanon so that it can deal with "the other problems that are plaging lebanon from within amongst the political elite, better take care of the interests of ordinary lebanese people, who in recent years have certainly been through lot, they've had a very difficult time with the economy since around the time, well since really before,

grossman just mentioning very interesting point that israel seems to forget that lebanon unlike gaza is not under an arms embargo and it's quite capable of uh improving its arsenal uh and becoming even stronger than what it is now so uh do you believe that the israelies have not taken that into account by starting this kind of escalation which is clearly going to continue by hesbollah as uh they have vowed to retaliate for the assassination of their leaders later oh the question is for me i thought it was for mson um the thing is it's not even if there was an arms against it's not uh it's not hard to actually smuggle weapons to lebanon or any other country in the region if it's not under siege. gaza has been under siege for the past 16 to 17 years, if you remember since 2006 until today, so it's by land, air and by sea. lebanon doesn't have that, and that's the difference. yes, some people say that lebanon is not is not under arms arms embargo, but there has been an international community that came against lebanon, ban it from acquiring strategic weapons especially for the lebanese

muhammad khalid sayid. in capetown, south africa, so let's bring in political analyst barry grossman, who is joining us live from boli, uh, mr. grossman, uh, of course our... um guest from cape town did mention that it was only matter of time before we could see uh the clash is escalating to this level uh considering the fact that israel uh did not stop anything and they have been targeting lebanon and there are over uh 560 people mostly civilians of course uh targeted by israeli attacks in lebanon, so mr. grossmann, uh, in your opinion, what does this attack on tel aviv signif, the fact that we know mainstream media and israeli media uh had been um talking lot about uh hazbolah being weakened, particularly after these recent attacks, what does this attack on tel aviv show? well it certainly throws down the gauntlet to to the occupation forces and more over it puts everybody on notice that these very elaborate missile defense systems that israel has uh are not capable of stopping all incoming missiles of which of course hezbulah controls very many and whatever the occupation does to h

marsman from beirout, barry grossman, international lawyer from balle, indunesia.oth. with that we come to an end for our rolling coverage, thanks for being with us, do stay with us in just few minutes time, less than three minutes, we'll have international news for you. just bye-bye for now. the headlines: hamas political leader yahya sanwar sends a message to the hisballah leader expressing gratitude for the lebanese movements support for palestinians. this targets his builds main or defense based a settlement to northern occupied territories with rockets causing extensive damage and power outage and more palestinian civilians fall victim to israel's indiscriminate attacks across gaza with overall death dolls are passing 41,100.

program where we get in-depth in one of our top stories. turning us out for the program is barry grossman international lawyer and political analyst joining us out of bailly indonesia and dr. omar nashibi analyst. a criminal justice and human rights joining us from beirot, gentlemen, like to welcome you both to the program here barry, we'll start with you out there in in bailly barry, i mean the parents want and... independent probeer, i don't if you've read the the witness accounts exactly how this young girl was killed by the regime, they two soldiers climb up a roof, they open fire on these peace activists, one is shot in leg, she is shot in the head, but we never see the regime allow - independent probes, do we take place, in fact they don't allow un teams to go into gaza and probe war crimes or un teams to go into the occupied west bank and probe uh settler violence against local palestinians there so... what gives us any hope that these parents are going to get any recourse for their murdered daughter? well, it's not going to happen, that's the the the short answer. as you point out

nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking it for us. good morning again. to watch on this monday. >> there is so much. looking at the chance for some dangerous heat in the southwest once again. we're going to see temperatures soaring into the triple-digits. 10 to 20 degrees above normal. and 24 million people impacted by heat alerts today with heat advisories from san francisco down through monterey. also heat warnings in the hot pink for places like las vegas, yuma and phoenix. we're going to see temperatures dangerous on this monday, and it's going to continue over the next several days. take a look at some of the temperatures we could be seeing. las vegas 102. the record is 103. the record in el centro is 110. could see 112. tomorrow the heat does continue. temperatures continue into the triple-digits. 107 in phoenix. 102 in tucson. all right. that's your monday forecast. >> thank you so much, michelle. >> sure. >>> even the undefeated buffalo bills were no match for king derrick henry. >> there goes henry off a big running game against dallas. on the r

for the program is barry grossman, international lawyer and political analyst joining us out of balley these parents are going to get any recourse for their murder daughter? well, it's not going to happen, that's the the the short answer, as you point out, the occupation never allows independent investigations always commits uh to uh being prepared to do one, but of course we never hear the outcome of these so-called investigations, in fact as often as not i don't with the actually even happen, the standard mo of the occupation when something like this happens is to look at the available facts and use those as a foundation to fashion a lie that could be twisted into explaining what otherwise is clearly a criminal act and this case even an israeli activist was there witnessing events, and he said that it was a peaceful demonstration, there had been some minor conflict with the rock thrower a different location, a different time, and for the idf to come back and say that this was some kind of a response to that is outrageous, no trained milit. personnel alone special forces that are 200

let's turn to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman who is tracking the trouble. >> we will continue to track the remains today. the good news is finally moving off the coast tomorrow. one more day, could see scattered showers still tomorrow but we are looking at heavy rain in spots early this morning. this is radar on a six-hour loop. you see darker colors, the reds, oranges, the yellow throughout portions of west virginia, virginia, seeing that heavy rain and that's going to contribute to flooding and the chance for flash flooding as we go throughout today and then into early tomorrow. as we zoom in a little closer i overlaid the flood alerts. that's where you see the green. we had a flash flood warning that has since dissipated. we will see that pop in and out throughout the day. this is where we will see the lick least spot of seeing that flash flooding, the grounds are saturated, the rivers and streams are swollen. where you see the blue here, charlottesville included, could see the chance for flash flooding on this monday. this is why, we're going to see a quarter inch, a half inc

nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is back to track all of that. hi, michelle. >> hi, there frances. it's going to feel like summer in the west. temperatures into the triple-digits. 10 to 20 degrees above normal for this time of ear. and we're going break some records. we have 24 million people impacted by heat alerts on this monday morning. heat advisories, heat warnings in the hot pink color for places like death valley, las vegas, phoenix down to yuma. and temperatures soaring over the next couple of days. take a look at some of the numbers. palmdale 103. the record there is 100. we certainly will bring some records as we go throughout this monday. tahoe city 80 degrees. the record there is 77. 102 in las vegas. 111 in phoenix temperatures into the triple-digits in phoenix. tucson, 95 in el paso. that's your monday forecast. >> thank you so much, michelle. >> tour that sure. >>> country music legend kris kristofferson has passed away. ♪ feeling good was good enough for me, good enough for me and bobby mcgee ♪ >> his representative confirming tha

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michelle grossman is tracking the forecast for us. >> great to see you.ntry will see dry conditions. northeast and new england looking good and the south that we're concerned about heavy rain. it is been raining for days. we have two systems working together. this frontal system parked in the south and an area of low pressure that is funneling in gulf moisture, so heavy downpours. we're expecting the heavy downpours, two to three inches per hour. and this rain extends from texas along the gulf coast up into florida from the carolinas. likely in houston and also in tampa but could be see some delays in charlotte, dallas, new orleans and also miami and orlando xd and we'll see this continues on tuesday as well. if you're driving, we'll see the wet roadways and the windshield wipers are going along fast because along i-20 and i-10 and flash flooding that will continue throughout most of the week. look at the rest of the country though, nice and dry in the northern plains. it will be warm with teams into the 80s and 90s. the upper midwest looking good. the gr

barry grossman, welcome, when you take a look at the way that uh there so the regime's uh top chief, i guess if you want to call him uh prime minister, but netanyahu has acted when it comes to these. uh cease fire talks, it's pretty obvious that he doesn't want an agreement, and we can see uh one of the consequences of that, which is the retrieval that israel made on those six captives. what is your view about the way forward now when it comes to the ceasefire? should there even be any talks held any longer as long as pm netanya us in power? it's perfectly reasonable to hold to what the biden administration. said was done deal as far as the israelis were concerned with the july uh road map for sess fire for peace and i can't think of any reason why hamas would would enter into a series of negotiations that only sees the that new government to come back with more and more and more demands every time a concession is made to them, it leaves about hundred prisoners being held by hamas and "i would think that it wouldn't be that difficult for the netan yahoo regime to ensure that they too

international lawyer from indonesia barry grossman also shares his thoughts on what sinor's letter to nasa reveals about the resistance front. the letter makes it clear that's support for the palestinian resistances is unshakable and unqualified. so the palestinian people and the palestinian resistance and rest assured that they will not be left to fight this this battle alone against their occupiers and those who are supporting the occupation. when we couple that with what hezballah is actually doing, there's a marked difference between what hezbollah does and what the occupation does, where the oc pation is randomly targeting and vomiting to destruction any building or structure that they set their sites on often seeking out hospitals and schools and un establishments and the like, as well as very carefully targeting military installations. what is also clear from the letter is that all of this is driven by very different sense of martidom than the largely atheist occupation nation embraces, and at the same time, the the the resistance does not overlook or forget the assassinations

have to get back to our world news bulleting, i want to thank you both uh for joining us, barry grossman there from bai, indonesia, our press tv corresponder joining us from dear abalah. viewers, you can search the list, it's out there online and you can just be taken it back, it is just disheartening, it's sad, it's really disgusting that there is such a list and these are families, these are entire families that have been slain by the israeli regime since october the 7th, and now we're going to go back to our world news bulletin here a or start our world news bulletin here on press tv, and we following that aune massacre very closely here as soon as we get more in, we'll share with you, but so far 20 people dead in that alzi2 massacre in gaza today. meanwile, leader of iran's islamic revolution is called on islamic nations to use their strength in eliminating the occupying zionist regime from palestine. said ali khamenei issued the call in a meeting with participants of the 38th islamic unity conference in tehran. khamenei underline the israeli regime today is openly committing crimes

truth stocks have been held through mediators, but none has led to any significant results. bar grossman is an international lawyers from balley to discuss this further gross. welcome when you take a look at the way that uh there's though the regime's uh top chief guess if you want to call him uh prime minister but netanyahu has acted when it comes to these uh uh ceasefire talks it's pretty obvious that he doesn't want an agreement and we can see uh one of the um consequences of that which is the uh retrieval that israel made on those six uh captives uh what is your view about the way forward now when it comes to the ceasefire should there even be any talks held any longer as as long as pm netanu is in power? well, the talks are quite obviously useless in the sense that should say game being played by the netanyahu government is also very clear as you pointed out that from the startnyahu doesn't want to see fire, he doesn't want peace, in fact his political future depends on continuing the war, and more... for not withstanding the general strike that's been called in israel and the mass

fatality, and we'll see how it on. but thank you both for joining us on the program there barry grossman there joining us from bali indonesia and be joining us from lebanese capital bays this end your press tv news review program thank you for tuning in and goodbye for now. the turkish president recep typ erdovan says that hamas resistance movement is fighting the israeli regime on behalf of the islamic world. erdogan said confronting the israeli terrorism is a religious duty. he highlighted unity among muslims as the only way to stop israel's aggression in palestine. turkish president referred to the tel aviv's latest attacks on the occupied west bank. he said that if muslims'... fail to stop israel's expansionist policies, the regime may seek to occupy other countries like lebanon and syria. pro-palestinian demonstrators marched in the streets of london in solidarity with the people on the gaza strip, holding flags, banners and changing slogans. protesters marched toward the israeli embassy in the british capital. they demanded the uk government halt all arms sales to tel aviv. this is

let's turn to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman who is tracking it all. good morning, michelle. >> good morning, frances. we're going so see some wet roadways and air too in the south. we're tracking a cold front along with an area of low pressure that is pumping in some tropical moisture into the gulf coast states. so this is what we're looking at this morning. radar showing up that the showers are falling in portions of texas along the gulf coast. some of it heavy you see the darker colors. also a batch of showers in parts of the carolinas. we're going see the rains stretching from the carolinas to texas as we go throughout the day. here is the culprit. there is the front i was talking about, the area of low pressure. some of the rain could be heavy at times. we could see 2 to 3 inches per hour. that is going to lead the flash flooding. also tomorrow, could cause roadway problems and problems in the air. so likely delays houston to tampa. we're looking at possible delays in charlotte, atlanta, dallas, and could see some minor issues in parts of the caro

let's turn to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman who has your labor day forecast. good morning, michelle. i guess some of those picnics out there, or cookouts may not happen with the rain. >> we're going to be seeing heavy rain throughout the south and we're looking at continued rain. we saw rain the past couple days, it's a two-part system, we have a front lingering in a spot and also an area of low pressure that's kind of contributing to some of that rain. this is what it looks like, there is the front i was talking about, area of low pressure pumping in that tropical moisture. we do have the chance of storms texas all the way to the carolinas, we have a flash flood threat not only today but the next several days due to rain, could see 2 to 3 inches of rain per hour. we will see airport delays likely in houston, also tampa, could see possible delays also in dallas and new orleans because of rain falling. we will see plenty of rain in portions of texas, the carolinas and state of florida as well. darker colors is where we're expecting the highest amounts of rain.

michelle grossman has your holiday forecast. good morning, frances. so good to see you. it's all about location. in the northeast, feeling a little bit like fall. september temperatures, and then to the south, we're looking at some showers and storms. the west will be heating up. let's start with the south because we have a front that is kind of lingering. it's parked in place. we have an area of low pressure that's going pump in tropical moisture. that's going bring rainfall rates 2 to 3 inches per hour. very soggy along the south. we'll see the chance of storms stretching from texas all the way to the carolinas. that flash flood threat continues through tuesday and even later during the week. in houston and tampa, could see possible delays also in dallas, new orleans and the carolinas as well, charlotte, atlanta, down to orlando, because we're going see rain in the southeast as well. so for today, if you're on the roadways, we're looking at i-10, i-20 along the south. and the carolinas from florida to the carolinas. could see slowdowns as well. this is why. there is th

barry uh grossman to the conversation, international lawyer joining us from balli, indonesia, hello uh barry, good to check in with you, hope you're safe and doing all out there um in this uh balli um in bali very another 19 palestinians killed just moments ago on by in israeli air strike and a school housing displaced people in gaza's alzeitune. area there is not a day that goes by um a berry that we don't see just an agregious war crime committed by the regime against gaza's civilian population your initial thoughts yeah well of course why would uh the occupation forces pull up on their tactics rather than doubling down and and increasing them uh given that there is no serious international response uh there are no uh timely measures being taken in the international organizations like the united nations or the icj or even the icc uh that are doing anything to slow them down and stop them, why would they pull up when the united states continues to give them many, many more billions of dollars and weapons on an almost monthly basis and if we look of course at what recently played out i

of the entire gaza population that's been displaced in just six days, so joining us now is barry grossman out of balle indonesia, international human rights lawyer, hello barry uh, good morning and hope you're safe and doing well out there in uh balle far from the atrocities that gazan and lebanese have had to endure and continue to endure uh your initial thoughts on what's going on barry and what is the point of the israelis pushing this aggressively now for regional war? well, i think dan from the very beginning has always been to create a regional war with the hope that the us will formally put all of this military resources into the... on the ground and fight a war that basically targets iran primarily, but so finishes the job in syria, lebanon and yemen, so i don't think there's ever been any doubt about that, and of course there's no reason why wouldn't continue with that ultimate goal given that with all the crimes in his administration of... committed so far in the past year, his popularity at home has been soaring, when not so many weeks ago it looked like he would have had zero

thank them both, we already thanked professor f for joining us, also joining us, there was barry grossman, international lawyer out of bali, indonesia, we have a zainab zakharia now, press tv uh uh newsroom, a colleague of ours in our tehen studios uh joining us, but before we uh welcome her to our conversation uh your live images far viewers you're witnessing from lebanese capital beirot israel has carried out successive air strikes on the southern suburbs in the early morning hours of uh saturday here in the region of west asia raising multiple structures residential buildings to the ground uh there are still debris and uh it's difficult for first responders to access and get accurate account of the uh civilian casualties involved but at the moment lebanon's health ministry has put the death tool at at least six people killed, over 100 others injured, many critically, the israeli military claims that hezbulah central headquarters were targets of this air strike or these air strikes, i should say report sayid hasan nasulah and the executive council chief sheikh hashim safaiden have not b

i think congressman grossman is right in so far as the translation of to an alarm into support for the democratic party. right. you have to sort of understand where this comes from in terms of the sort of the, the, the but it's interesting, right? because dakota alarm is a moral principle, but it's a moral principle in a religious environment which has grown increasingly away from actual religious ya city. over the last i'm gonna say not even half century, but, but 75 years or so. you know, maybe even starting in the latter hard part of the 19th century with the creation of the society for ethical culture with jews who wanted to engage in the ethical tenants of judaism without dealing with the religious aspects of it. as someone who came out of an ethical humanist tradition in high school. and so you have sort of those non religious, ethical adherence, who sort of look at what the damage the traditional progressive wing of the democratic party of done. and they go there. but then when you look a little bit further, things have changed and some of it has to do with the rise of the pro p

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. >> time now for a check on the weather with michelle grossman. >> it's so sad.lene today. we look at the remains, finally moving offshore tomorrow, but this is days after. . and we'll see a chance for more flooding. this is what radar looks like right now. you can see herb rain falling in spots. this is on a six-hour loop. we're going to continue to see that area of low pressure bringing a chance for rain. and we will see a chance for some flooding. we have a flood alert in place. that includes charlottesville down to blackstone and we could see flooding. sit's dissipated in spots, but we're going to watch out for it today. we have a chance for flooding where you see blue. that includes charlottesville and areas around there. as we go through the afternoon we're looking at a quarter inch, 2 inches in some spot. they don't need any rain, and we're going to see that throughout the day. >> we'll bring you the latest as the day goes on. thank you so much. >>> next up here, we'll turn back to politics, and vice president harris takes her campaign to the southern bord

. >> tom grossman lives in the oakland hills.ansformed his palm tree property from this to this. >> it went right up and the leaves were into the window. we have the five foot noncombustible zone adjacent to the house, very few oily plants. keep these cut back really tight. >> $15,000 worth of fire mitigation. >> we don't want our house to burn down. >> when he first moved here in 2017, our old insurance company in danville refused to touch any houses in this area. now, seven years later, getting insurance up here is difficult to impossible. he says six of his neighbors have already been dropped by their insurance provider this year, despite investing tens of thousands of dollars into their property eyes. two bills that aim to prevent that failed in the state legislature this summer. no assembly bill 2416 would have rewarded homeowners with insurance discounts if certain mitigation efforts are met. senator becker and senate bill 1060 would have required insurers using risk models for underwriting to not only account for mitigatio

. >> tom grossman lives in the oakland hills.d his palm tree property from this to this. >> it went right up and the leaves were into the window. we have the five foot noncombustible zone adjacent to the house, very few oily plants keep these cut back really tight. >> $15,000 worth of fire mitigation. >> we don't want our house to burn down. >> when he first moved here in 2017, our old insurance company in danville refused to touch any houses in this area. now, seven years later, getting insurance up here is difficult to impossible. he says six of his neighbors have already been dropped by their insurance provider this year, despite investing tens of thousands of dollars into their property eyes. two bills that aim to prevent that failed in the state legislature this summer. no assembly bill 2416 would have rewarded homeowners with insurance discounts if certain mitigation efforts are met. >> senator becker and senate bill 1060 would have required insurers using risk models for underwriting to not only account for mitigation effo

. >> tom grossman lives in the oakland hills. he's transformed his palm tree property from this to this. >> it went right up and the leaves were into the window. we have the five foot noncombustible zone adjacent to the house. very few oily plants keep these cut back really tight. >> $15,000 worth of fire mitigation. >> we don't want our house to burn down. >> when he first moved here in 2017, our old insurance company in danville refused to touch any houses in this area. now, seven years later, getting insurance up here is difficult to impossible. he says six of his neighbors have already been dropped by their insurance provider this year, despite investing tens of thousands of dollars into their property eyes. two bills that aim to prevent that failed in the state legislature this summer. no assembly bill 2416 would have rewarded homeowners with insurance discounts if certain mitigation efforts are met. >> senator becker and senate bill 1060 would have required insurers using risk models for underwriting to not only account for

grossman's bill stopped thee baseline bloat act which requires to remove and certainly understand your failure statutory obligation here. but required to remove the assumption supplemental emergency spending will continue annually from your budget baseline. this would create greater exactness in the budget baseline. in some of our previous conversation we have discussed the importance of accuracy at the cbo. as you know cbo has had substantial messes in their scoring and projections over the past few years including a trillion dollar under assumption of our 2023 deficit. a substantial factor in the deficit underestimation was a biden/harris administration never ending stream of costly executive orders. how have you adapted your models to ensure greater accuracy this year? >> it is really a challenge that we face when they do something that we don't anticipate and sometimes could not possibly anticipate we are working hard to get you more information faster and to update the baseline. to do that as quickly as we can. but something the chairman and i have talked about and we are working

. >> tom grossman lives in the oakland hills.m this to this. >> it went right up and the leaves were into the window. we have the five foot noncombustible zone adjacent to the house. very few oily plants keep these cut back really tight. >> $15,000 worth of fire mitigation. >> we don't want our house to burn down. >> when he first moved here in 2017, our old insurance company in danville refused to touch any houses in this area. now, seven years later, we're getting insurance up here. >> is difficult to impossible. >> he says six of his neighbors have already been dropped by their insurance provider. this year, despite investing tens of thousands of dollars into their property eyes. two bills that aim to prevent that failed in the state legislature this summer. no assembly bill 2416 would have rewarded homeowners with insurance discounts if certain mitigation efforts are met. >> senator becker and senate bill 1060 would have required insurers using risk models for underwriting to not only account for mitigation efforts, but requi

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grossman from wisconsin. >> i want to point out for one second that america -- they talk about this deiobsession is being a succession to prior efforts of progressives or communists or what have you to the -- divide america. they fail to divide by income level so they are intentionally trying to divide america by race. the reason i believe this is true is if you look at this time in our history where people from all around the globe, and earn more than people of european descent. india, china, cuban people, there -- we live at a time were single women under 30 out-earn single men under 30. nevertheless we set up this bureaucracy that says if i'm a person of color and inherited $10 million, i'm put upon and should be given preference over someone of european descent who has virtually nothing. we have a bureaucracy in which if somebody comes here from spain, they are considered an evil european and have to be penalized but if someone comes from spain, spends two generations in cuba, and comes here, they it is so obviously offensive and it must be confronted wherever we go. i also want to