Welcome to fbn am im laurenen lauren. Good morning everybody im cheryl casone. Lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning the nasdaq closed at a record high yesterday the dow and s p 500 back in the green today dow up futures high per by 76 points. Nasdaq and s p futures higher as well and nasdaq by about 30 and a half taking a look at asia right now again as corona virus fierces way on markets we have red excuse me l green arrows at least in japan for hang seng and south korea and shanghai composite down of a quarter of a percent. Green on screen is europe gaining half a of one percent and london gaining three quarts of one percent. Cheryl our top story this morning it is a city showdown tonight 6, 0 contenders take debate stage in las vegas. The democrats expected to take aim at Mike Bloomberg who qualified at the very last minute. Lauren can he keep his poker face live with highlight it is from campaign trail. Griff,ing good morning. Good morning, lauren, and cheryl,
Monroe local, Taylor Grossman, just returned from the IBTF World Championship in Liverpool, England where she and her team, Forte, placed fifth in the world.
colleen, to you, then, what are you hoping to get out of this civil lawsuit and do you want this to go beyond simple restitution here? are you hoping that this will turn into a criminal case? yes, i am. i am hoping and robert hoped also to stop this person from injuring any other children. i know in looking at part of this deposition that there is this medical abstract deposition and there is this carcinoma, he died of skin cancer spreading to his stomach. if you re seeking a murder charge how then do you link his skin cancer to the burns he received back in 1998, from the gasoline attack? his skin cancer was specific to burn scars. he had something called a marginal ulcer and it s found in people whose skin have been
his mother s lawyer hope that will change. i want to bring in his mother, colleen, in st. louis, and her attorney in san antonio. colleen, my condolences to you. your son s death was very recent. this is the first time that you have heard that part of your son s deposition describing this alleged sex abuse. listening to it as a mother, how did the words sit with you? it s what kind of child is robert? i know he was a very good kid? he was a very good kid. he was happy go lucky. he was very considerate towards people. he loved animals, just like everybody else s child, i suppose. we re looking at some of these pictures and we re going to click through some of these