Worth tens how fast thousands of dollars in exchange for favors. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. The jury has made up of ten women and two men and seated yesterday. Jeff cole was in the courtroom today. Joins us live outside federal court in center city. Jeff . Reporter lucy, this is a historic trial, right . Youve got a sitting da arc sitting da whos being tried for corruption bite federal government. The government says the District Attorney williams accepted bribes and gifts. Defrauded the government his moms nursing home to support his sometime lavish lifestyle. In testimony this afternoon, prosecutors pressed on their claim that he misused about 20 grand supposed to go to his moms care in the st. Francis nursing home its a nonprofit. A nursing home collections person told the jury williams didnt seem to care about. Didnt seem to want to pay. Williams attorney argued it wasnt made clear to him what his financial obligations were. We pressed williams attorney for answers
The s p 500 will do in the next six months of these 23 folks 63 say it jumps more than 5 . 21 say moves up, but less than 5 so 85 say stocks are going higher yeah. And you know how i love to play a contrarian, judge, but unfortunately, im not a contrarian with this one i agree with it. I think the second half of the year, we pick up momentum again, that we had in the First Quarter, that we basically traded sideways, except for tech and a couple of the health care names, in the Second Quarter, but i think second half, a lot stronger than weve just experienced. All right pete, so youve got the dow up 8. 5 s ps up 9 nasdaqs up 16 history guests that docs right. If you look since 1988, when youve had firsthalf gains of at least 6 , im going to read you some of these numbers. 2013, we were up 12. 5 first half we finished 29 . 2014, we were up 6, we finished up 11. 2012, we were up 8, we finished 13 2003, we were up 10, finished 26 and i can go on and on and on. The gains are pretty magnific
A law heading into turn number 3, once the green is displayed. The leader must reach. If the leader reaches that line in turn 3, there it is on the wall, then its considered an official attempt and the next flag will end the race, whether its the white flag coming around to take the checkered or theres a caution. We saw it last week at indy. As kasey kahne approached the line, carnage behind him but he reached the line before the caution came out. Well see, marty . Marty Chris Gabehart did tell ryan preece its going to be an overtime restart. As you mentioned, dave. Ryan preece kale on the radio and said this is more my game. And they joked back, hey, we havent seen anything thats not your game what are you talking about . He said you just wait and see. I think ryan preece is kind of viewing this a little overtime restart, as a short track saturday night restart. Hes pretty good at those, dave. Dave he is, marty. Been doing that most of his life. Started racing at age six. Worked his w
You can see a couple of people taking a peek at the surf as it makes its way to the shore. Little dangerous this is expected to drop as much as 35 inches of rain. On top of that we have life threatening storm surge that could hit many coastal cities. With that we bring you inside welcome to the 9 00 hour. We will check in with Sal Castaneda in a little bit but already tens of thousands of people in their cars on the road getting away from the gulf of mexico. We know the coast guard has already moved some assets from the coast, oil rigs are shutting down. People are definitely getting prepared. We have seen the pictures of people all morning putting up boards on the windows, things that typically happen whenever people prepare for a major hurricane. This could be one of the biggest hurricanes to hit the gulf coast in a dozen years. A lot of people are evacuating and some people are trying to write it out. Always dangerous. Also we are keeping an eye on President Trump and his first Natu
Rose up against the authoritarian regime. Members of the army deserted and rebel groups formed, all with the common aim removing president Bashar Alassad from power. But today, almost six years later, assad is still at the helm. Syria remains a battleground with russia and has black backing the president s forces and the u. S. , turkey, support ing the rebels. In the mix, a terror organization, the i. S. And alnusra front and kurdish units fighting for control of the region. Syria is a patchwork of the occupied zones. Who knows how many lives have been lost. Estimates range of up to 470,000 people. That is not including the vast numbers of injured and maimed, many of them children. [speaking a foreign language] swimming is all about upper body strength. For this 10yearold boy, it is especially important. He comes from syria and may one day decide to compete in the paralympics. This is his first Training Session today. We are in the capital. Amman. He arrived here two years ago. He is i