After he was fired in february of 2013. When his rental car was pulled over after the shooting, flanagan had an extra license plate, a wig, sunglasses and a hat. When police tried to pull over the car. The Morning News Team at wdbj was back on the air 24 hours after their colleagues were killed. They embraced and shared memories about Alison Parker and adam ward. Within the last hour, an extraordinary show of support. Station employees stood side by side wearing ribbons with parker and wards favorite colors on them. Our coverage begins with fleischer. Tim . Reporter they are in mourning this day. They have been left numb by the cold blooded ambush of this reporter and photographer. Family and colleagues are remembering those young potential. Holding on to each other for strength, the Morning News Team who watched in horror the brutal killing of Alison Parker and adam ward started this day paying contribute to them. Of silence. The performance of this staff has been incredible. They cri
Here the shares are down 8 right now. Thats not even the biggest point decliner in the dow. Which goes back to how low its share prices got. Exactly. At this hour the Senate Finance committee is beginning to mark up its tax reform bill well tell you whats at stake there and what could be the most contentious issues between the house and senate. Meanwhile, amazon is reportedly considering a freemium option for prime video. Wel n will netflix make a similar move lets get to our top story today, the big decline in ge shares Morgan Brennan has all the ugly details for us morgan reporter hey, bill, yeah, so ge cutting its dividend in half. Its only the third time since 1899 its cut that payout, this is the first time its done it notscenario. Thats only part of the story here big part of why these shares are falling 8 is the updated guidance new eps numbers for 2018 expected to be 1 to 1. 07 a share, reduced by half since the previous target and lower than consensus estimate 6 billion to 7 b
Sessions wrapping up this afternoon. Cory booker a senator testifying against sessions. The first time a sitting senator has gone after one of his own. And president elect donald trump using his First Press Conference since winning the election to denounce reports that russia has compromising information on him. He announced plans to cut all ties with his businesses. But it was this exchange thats getting all the headlines. Can you give us a question . Mr. President elect, mr. Esidentelect, since you were attacking no, not you. Not you. You are attacking our news organization. Can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir . Go ahead. Quiet. Quiet. David for the president elect silencing a cnn reporter. We have Team Coverage bringinguses the very latest details on that and all on todays big events. Melissa first up Rex Tillerson where he admitted earlier he and the president elect have not discussed Russian Foreign policy in great detail. I assume to some degree that youve had some di
Says and the three, count them, stocks he likes. Okay. Well stocks well off their heigs this hour. The dow was up 173 points earlier on in trade. Todays big ipo stumbling out of the gate. Dom chu is on the floor with the juicy details. Mandy, tyler, the big deal here is this ipo here for pure storage at post eight right behind me. It was supposed to be this barometer, if you will, of tech ipos and the appetite for that kind of investment or risk in this marketplace. It priced at 17 bucks a share, right in the midpoint of the range. They sold 25 million shares. So again this company wanted to see their stock go up out of the gate. However, what youre seeing up there on the chart is down 5. 5 , near the lows so far today. Its traded in a range. It went as low as 16, as high as 17 at one point. As you can see on the bottom of the screen, this company is important for a lot of us viewers out there because it was one of the cnbc disrupter 50 companies from 2015. Those companies that were we