To the fbi about the money. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams has the latest. Reporter the charges are a bolt from the blue involving hastert, a public official for more than 25 years and House Speaker from 1999 to 2007, the longest serving republican in that post. The rule and it stands as approved. Reporter since 2008 hes been a lobbyist in washington, but prosecutors say for the past four years he has paid 1. 7 million in apparent hush money. Court papers say the payments went to someone identified only as individual a from yorkville, illinois. The papers say he agreed to pay that person 3. 5 million, quote, to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a that occurred years earlier. The documents do not say what the prior misconduct was or whether individual a is a man or a woman. Prosecutors say he started making withdrawals of 50,000 at a time then cut them to 10,000 when questioned by the bank. Prosecutors say when asked about whether he was trying
Train echoes that means we are having waves of moderate to heavy rain roll over the same areas two or three or four times now and thats going to create flooding. Good news the winds are very light now so hopefully the trees can hold on. The rain is heaviest during the morning, then scattered showers for the afternoon. You are going to deal with the worst of it now through 9 00. Roads are slick, wet, a lot of accidents, east shore freeway, earlier accident in the westbound direction past Golden Gate Fields, just jammed bumpertobumper that accident has been cleared. Eastbound at gilman other direction that accident cleared. A bit of moderate slowing through that area of Richmond Berkeley and very slow commute on 80 westbound this morning. 24 west wilder accident still blocking two lanes San Francisco north 280 accident blocking a lane there heres a look at drive times 580 not bad highway 4 not so bad typical but there is your commute carquinez bridge into the maze 45 minutes if you look
Security breach, the retailer says not to worry. An assassination today in beirut. A car bomb killed former finance minutes Mohammed Shata and five hours. Shata was once lebanon ambassador to the United States. The explosion happened in the upscale business district. Dozens were injured. The United States and the u. S. Security counsel condem councile attack. Reporter in the heart of beiruts posh downtown area. The car bomb killed former finance ambassador shata. His car was tossed in the air and landed here. Avenues close aid and top adviser and leader in the antisyria coalition. The explosion took place just a short distance where shata had his office. Security has been very tight here lately but that was not enough to prevent this attack. We were inside and felt glass breaking and coming in. Then we heard the sound. Thats what happened. An explosion happened, an explosion continue to break. We waited until it was all broken and then went out and saw this. As you can see all the shop
Note. As for the european markets lets go to the map. There is more red than green on the screen today. Mirroring really what we saw in the United States post the yellen News Conference. Our roadmap today starts with the markets. Stocks under pressure again after sliding during janet yell yellens First Press Conference yesterday. Is it all about interpretation . Well explain. Plus, Goldman Sachs is the latest bank to go bearish on china slashing its Growth Outlook for the next couple of years well tell you why . And how about lennar and underarmor as well the Companies Making big moves thus far this morning and, of course, nike reports after the bell this afternoon. Well go behind those numbers and tell you everything you need to know. Well, its the message heard round the market world. Courtesy of janet yellen in yesterdays News Conference following the fomc meeting the fed chair said the period between the end of the feds bondbuying program and the first rate increase from the centra
So, its a bit of a shock. Reporter this morning, most of minnesota is buried in white, after the state got its monthly snowfall total in one day. In minneapolis st. Paul cars were a heavy casualty. Some were buried. Others like these found along emergency routes were towed. We were going to move our car in the morning. And it was gone. Reporter the snow made driving conditions miserable. State Police Reported hundreds of car crashes. Across wisconsin, plows were out in heavy force. But the seasons first snowfall was a welcome sight. Its definitely got everybody excited. Reporter winter was mild last year in parts of the midwest. So, businesses like towing companies and Hardware Stores gladly went to work. Nice to see some snow. Nice to see winter here. Gets business back. Reporter across the south, a different weather threat. Severe storms spawned tornadoes. Officials confirmed one in southern louisiana. In the town of baker, strong winds tore the roof off a car wash, littering streets