But Bernie Sanders. China its a huge day around the world and Varney Company is go to begin. A lot of tension and happening around the world thatc1 a lot of tension and happening around the world that will influence your income your 401 k and a lot of other things like commodities and on that note lets take a look at oil. Down more than 10 , were less than a week into the month and dothing again after being up a little earlier today a lot of news coming out of iran that could make that go lower or higher. Lets take a look at gold in the traditional safe haven, its down 15 at 1157. The ultimate i call it the safety if you will our yield. Obviously money pouring into u. S. Treasuries once again, dothing six basis points 2. 22 . Its amazing the last two weeks out of greece and Ashley Webster with the latest from athens. Ashley. Ashley hey good morning to you charles. Wel157 we continue to wait to see what happens in brussels. The greasis are b10ng asked to give a new proposal on how to ta
We are learning new details about stunning reported admission from cosby. He testified a decade ago that he obtained sedatives with the intention of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. The deposition was part of the 2005 civil suit involving cosby and a philadelphia woman that claimed cosby assaulted and drugged her. Nbcs joe fryer has more. Bill cosby says he obtained quaaludes in the documents made public by an attorney. When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind you were going to use them for young women you wanted to have sex with. According to the deposition cosby implied yes. At the time he was being sued by a woman who claims he was drugged and sexually assaulted in the 1970s. When asked about an encounter cosby says she meets me backstage, i give her quaaludes and we then have sex. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2006. Attorneys fought hard to keep the documents from being released. More than two dozen have accused him of sexual assault. He has denied allegations
Stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently
Wednesdays deadly shooting it was three months after his release from jail where he was held for drug charges that were dropped. First of all, it is a tragedy. Reporter we talked to the chief Legal Counsel for the Sheriffs Department. About the chain of events that led a convicted felon who was deported five times out of jail to walk free in San Francisco. I. C. E. Called it positivable. Preventible saying today bottom line if the local authorities had notified i. C. E. That they were about to release this individual into the community, i. C. E. Could have taken custody of him and had him removed from the country preventing this terrible tragedy. I. C. E. Wants local Law Enforcement agencies to work with us so we can work to stop needless violence in the communities. I dont disagree with them. Preventible. But preventible by a change of their procedure in cases like this. The Sheriffs Department says it was i. C. E. That handed Francisco Sanchez over to face the drug charges knowing Sa
About immigration, jana. Reporter ken, the District Attorneys Office says that Lopez Sanchez is expected to appear before a judge at 1 30 tomorrow here at the hall of justice as you mentioned this is really sparking a debate on immigration that goes not just from San Francisco city hall but all the way to the white house. The victims family says 45 yearold Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez told investigators after the shooting that the it was an accident. That he was trying to shoot a seal. Today people gathered at the site for a mourning prayer vigil. We went to give our condolences to the family and assured them our church was praying for them. Reporter today mayor lee fired back with this statement. San francisco sanctuary policy protecting residents and is not intended to protect repeat criminals. San franciscos law gives the sheriff discretion and compliance with i. C. E. Requests. He was released from jail march 27th after a marijuana charge was dismissed. The attorney for the family