140,000 that have closed or consolidated in the last nine years. Its one of our hay meadows, its owned by my grandma. Reporter in pottawatomie county, kansas, 34yearold matt and his younger brother, tim, are also fifth generation farmers. You have guys my age that are trying to raise a family, trying to farm, and having to work in town, just to produce cheap food for the country. Its a crisis. Reporter they say they spent 34,000 last year farming wheat and other crops, but they only brought in 35,000. So they may have found a solution. They now sell cattle and cut out the middle man. When these cattle go to slaughter they might make 1,000 a head, but if they slaughter, process, and sell directly to the consumer themselves, each head would be worth 2,100. With an uncertain future, those like don teske can only hope the family farm will survive. Were going to lose another generation of farmers through this, and thats sad. Reporter david begnaud, cbs news, pottawatomie county, kansas. Pel
You work for us. Le tts aake couple more comments or questions about health care. [ shouting ] lawmakers face off with angry voters. The president and the white house say at least some of the outrage is manufactured. This wasnt an artificial cowd. It wasnt manufactured. It was real people with real concerns. The Trump Administration rolling back federal protections for trans gender students in Public Schools. Heel bieves in states rights and certain issues like this arent best dealt with at the federal level. Moreno is wreaking havoc in the bay area. The water is receding. We are far from out of this. We go back intote winr throughout the plains. A nasty return to winter. Talking about potential blizzard conditions. Back up unrest in Southern California as protesters gathered over a Police Officer firing a gun during a confrontation with teenagers. The fiery last stand over the demonstrators faced a deadline to leave the camp site. He t storm is bearing down on the uk. The warning is t
Be right back. Our cbs news pol found 77 of americans believe the economy is in good shape and that is the highest since the great recession. And the dow to close at the 10th Straight Record high. The first time that has happened in decades. Jim axalrod is here to tell us more about what many people are calling the trump rally. Well, scott, the dow just barely made it but manage to run its streak of record highs to 10. The markets have been on a roll since election day, up more than 13 in the last 107 days. But never mind that. Try this. This is the longest streak of consecutive 1997 of consecutive trade days we have seen. Theres a number of reasons. You have to understand Industrial Companies are expecting an increase in Infrastructure Spending as we saw when he met with executives to discuss jobs. The president has signalled he will push for an Infrastructure Spending bill and everybody likes the signals on Corporate Tax reform and regulation roll back and while some pull back could
Mark also at 6 00 p. M. , shaking children and force feeding them. Alarming accusations of abuse inside a hingham day came. Fox 25 investigates learned dcf is looking in to Bright Horizons day care and we have learned one worker has been fired an one is on leave tonight. Vanessa a parent told fox 25s jason law, he got a phone call from the day care, telling him about shocking allegations involving his own child. Jason joins us live now and jason, this father believes these alleged abuse may have been going on for months. Almost a year, and as soon as the father learned about the allegation, he says he yanked his two kids out of the day care, theyre no longer there. They spent 14 hours hath Childrens Hospital yesterday, making sure his 10monthold daughter was not hurt and the good news is, she didnt sustain any injuries, but he says, he was notified by the Day Care Center earlier this week, that two employees were accused of shaking and force feeding the kids. You can say anger, frustra
Brandnew details about the 14yearold girl violently attacked on her way to catch the school bus. Good evening, everyone. Im mark ockerbloom. And im vanessa kel can. Malini basu is standing live for us in borne where you just confirmed the suspect is a High School Football player. Yes, the 18yearold is a Football Player and within the last hour that suspect there just posted bell, he is now he posted bail and now resting at home waiting to face a judge in the morning. Reporter fox 25 cameras were there as 18yearold john allen was just released from jail. His Family Member dropped him off. One week ago a 14yearold girl was affected wild walking to her police say allen attacked her from behind. She was walking to the bus stop, the male came from behind her and brought her down to the ground. Reporter luckily another student at the bus stop saw what happened. Another individual called out her name and the male fled the area. Reporter fox 25 has learned allen is a senior at Cape Cod Regiona