To our speaker. To provide background, in 2012 house passed our office to compile oral histories from current and former numbers of congress involved in the selma to montgomery, alabama marches. We have been conducting interviews related to the Civil Rights Movement with members of congress, their family members house staff, and house pages. We wanted to use our oral histories in a creative way to connect the dots the an event that happened in the country and the corresponding legislative response. We created a documentary short. The documentary is in its final stages of production, so i do not have it today, but the three clips are brought would give you a taste of the documentary. The first is of representative from missouri. The second is cookie roberts, the daughter from louisiana, and the final one is frank mitchell, the first africanamerican page in the 20th century for the house. These are special because they provide personal memories of the Voting Rights act, while allowing us
Chipotle, express scripts, Texas Instruments, just a few of the names set to report earnings in just about an hour we will have our hands full at that time but lets get straight to our big story. The strength in the market today from the Big Industrial companies cat and 3m getting that boost on earnings driving the dow higher ge and ibm trading lower, bob pisani give us some more. Well, heres whats going on. Theres a very unusual divergence between the dow and the s p. Its happened a lot this year, actually 70 points or so. And the reason that is is the dow is price weighted and when you get certain big name stocks, big price stocks moving, that moves the dow. This is the really eye opener of the day. 3m now, they had good numbers and they raised their guidance for the year about 1 , which is good generally you get a little pop on that. But folks, not 7 . Look at that thats 15 you know what that means for the dow . Thats 105 points for the Dow Jones Industrial average 105 points due to
Broom, wusa9. Maryland governor larry hogan said the audit findings are extremely troubling and a betrayal of the community trust. He was stripped of his uniform. But Bowe Bergdahl is leaving fort bragg a free man. A military judge ruled the former Army Sergeant will not go to prison for leaving his afghanistan post and endangering those who searched for him. The judge ordered him to forfeit 1,000 of his monthly salary for ten months and dishonorably discharged him from the army. President trump tweeted the decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our country and our military. President trumps inside principled effort to stoke a lynch mob atmosphere while seeking our Nations Highest Office cast a dark cloud over the case. The 31yearold idaho native disappeared from his post in afghanistan in 2009 captured by the taliban. And bergdahl was tortured and held for five years until president obama negotiated a prisoner swap. Military prosecutors were seeking 14 years
Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. Black lives matter black lives matter marchers here in the bay area tonight say theyre using love to try to neutralize the hate exemplified by protesters in charlottesville, virginia. Several cities in the bay area took part in a nationwide show of solidarity tonight for the victims caught in the charlottesville chaos. This comes as we learn new information about the driver who is now charged with murder. Abc news report Elizabeth Herr is in charlottesville with the new details. Reporter from charlottesville to our Nations Capital and cities across the country, a rally for unity and prayers for the victims. And this is new video of 20yearold james fields jr. Seen with a known white supremacist group, then hours later fields allegedly carrying out his attack and arrested for murder. His former teacher now saying fields even made pronazi comments in high school. He felt that the views that adolf hitler espoused were correct. Reporter toni
But he was injured in his last career race. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 14th. From abc news, this is world news now. We do say good morning to everybody. We are going to start in charlottesville where that city reeling from the weekends violence. They are hoping for a return to normalcy. Hundreds returned to the park on sunday Holding Signs that said never again and love will always trump hate. And they say the man who plowed his car into them idolized adolf hitler. You see his arrest right there. Abcs Elizabeth Hur is in charlottesville with the latest. Reporter at the scene of terror and chaos in the streets of charlottesville that ended in death and devastation. The city is now sharing messages of unity and condolences for the victims. I want the country to know that the city of charlottesville is a place of extreme compassion. Reporter the suspected driver, 20yearold james alex fields from ohio now sits in jail, charged with murder, meanwhile, the man w