Transplant tourism business. Have Reform Efforts stopped the practice . Theyve obviously got a lot of people sitting around, waiting to be killed for a transplant. And they are picking the right person to be killed depending on who the patient is. Brangham all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brangham americans spent this memorial day honoring the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. Since 1775, more than 1. 2 million americans have died serving our country. Lisa desjardins reports. Present. Desjardins on this national day of remembrance, t
This is always a profound and somber moment as we watch the president at the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington cemetery. Well try to come back to this in a moment. Meanwhile, we are also keeping an eye on our weather on this memorial day and here is a live look at center city where it is cloudy and cool, but will we see more rain today . If youre at the shore, it is not beach weather quite yet. Here is a live look right down the shore at cape may, but will thing improve before people have to pack up and head home . Good morning. Im vai sikahema. Im katy zachry. You might think youll have to cancel that barbecue, but thats not necessarily the case. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast. Hi, vai. A gloomy start to the day, and we still have clouds around and you can see the top of the comcast building cut off and that means the clouds are low. We do have some showers moving through to philadelphia itself, but this is the last of it, back to the wes
Breaking news tonight, involving Olivia Newtonjohn and her health. Good evening. Great to be back with you after the memorial holiday. Growing scrutiny involving president trumps inner circle. The investigation has now reached his personal attorney. The president s soninlaw is under scrutiny by the fbi. Why did he meet with the Russian Ambassador and the bank . Our own brian ross breaking the news today that the president s personal lawyer is under investigation, hes refusing to cooperate with congress and tonight youll hear why. Brian ross leading us off. Reporter the actives and future roles of the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner. Another close confidant of donald trump, his personal lawyer, michael cohen, has become a focus of the expanding congressional investigation. Cohen told abc news hes been asked to provide information and testimony about any connections to the russian government but is refusing to do so. I declined the invitation, as the request was poorly phrased, overly
Construction growing at modest to moderate rate. Wet weather across districts and a majority of districts have a positive nearterm outlook. The labor market continues to tighten. District cites shortages across a widening range of occupations and one firm had to raise salaries 10 . Rising input costs, lumber, steel and other commodities continue to go up. Prices fall for groceries, apparel and automobiles. District reports slowing Economic Growth but the tightening labor market coalmining firms continue to invest. Consumer spending sales in new york city lagged the rest of the region, but broadway theaters, revenue up 25 . San francisco, a quote from the report sales of retail goods grew modestly and growth in the consumer business and Services Sectors remain strong. Trish, if it were an automobile, a v8 firing on 7 cylinders. Trish yeah, look, talking about moderate, modest growth, i hear you, nothing necessarily in this report, though, that makes us go wow the economy is on fire. I s
Yeah. We are finally starting to see a lit bit of sun breakthrough after what seems like endless gray days. This is wilmington, delaware. It is kind of a glow of light. It is burning off some of those clouds throughout the area. This is a little hard to tell here. Theres peeks of blue on the screen right now. The clouds are starting to break a tad. It will continue the next couple of hours until we finally have sunshine over our region. It is stajust starting to happe. It is a little more deep gray to thin gray moving off to the east. This is on our satellite viewing. Theres no rain right now in our region. Wish i could say theres no rain for the rest of the day in the forecast. Thats not going to be the case. We do have potential as temperatures warm up. We will have that potential to fire up some thunderstorms. We are at 68 in millville and 69 in wilmington. Well talk more about the look at the thunderstorm potential coming up. Thank you. Breaking news just in. We found out the judge