Sentencing. The former stanford swimmer given six months for a Sexual Assault on the stanford campus express remorse for what happened the night of that attack. Thats what he said in a statement to a judge which the guardian obtained. I want to read you a section of that letter. It reads in part, i would give anything to change what happened that night. I can never forgive myself for imposing trauma and pain. It debilitates me to think my actions have caused her, referring to the victim, emotional and physical stress that is completely unwarranted and unfair. Ive been shattered by the Party Culture and risktaking behavior that i recently experienced in my four months at school. Hes referring to stanford. Anger over that light sentence, the sixmonth jail sentence given to brock turner continues to grow tonight. A series of online petitions have been launched in hopes of recalling the judge who issued the sentence, one that has more than 750,000 signatures. Nbc bay areas robert handa has
Us im Kirsten Joyce. brian loftus and im brian loftus. This morning a man is in jail after he was arrested for being connected to a prostitution ring. Last night metro Police Arrested 63 year old david coil for luring underage teens to become prostitutes. Metro says that he recruited them with posts on craigslist. Esther brown who founded the embracing project. And has helped hundreds of girls break away from the shackles of human sex trafficking says that this form of recruitment is pretty typical. esther brown founder, the embracing pr violent and put alot of fear in the kids. Also sometimes if the kid doesnt have a support system its very diffcuult for them because they feel they cant get out. brian Loftus Police say there could still be more victims coil harmed that havent come forward. Coil is scheduled for his First Court Appearance later this week. Metro is asking parents to talk with their children who may have had contact with coil. And urge people to tip them off using Crime
Freeze. Our road map begins with global volatility continuing. Jim mcgoggin. And apollo and adt are in a deal. And the death of Supreme Court justice ascalia has creatd a firestorm. First up, stock futures jumping sharply. Saudi arabia, russia, qatar and venezuela agreeing to freeze output at january levels provide that other major exporters follow suit. Crude prices rose off their highs of the morning. Some analysts expected an agreement to cut production. Thats not exactly what were talking about now iran on the tape is saying, maybe, we still want our piece. Thats going to be the question, iran and iraq as well who is also ramping up production to get money, its an expensive fight it has on its hands with isis. Thats the big caveat that Oil Producers will agree. Before this announcement, brent crude was up as much as 5 . Its still higher. The bulls would say, at least were getting diplomacy. This is the first coordinated move that the major producers are doing since the pain began,
Muted action and stocks are on track for the third positive week. First time since the fall. First up this morning in about half an hour, former gop president ial nominee mitt romney will give a speech urging voters to reject donald trump. Excerpts are leaking and he says trump is a phony, a fraud, hes playing the American Public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the white house and all we get is a lousy hat. You were early and going to iowa and reminding people that he had staying power. This was awhile ago. Very compelling. Thats been proven true. Does this matter . This whole thing matters. If this didnt have such an impact on the future of the country and the world it would be the most entertaining reality show in history. Its unbelievable whats happening to the r Republican Party. They have only themselves to blame by saying no to everything for years. We live in democracy you dont get everything you want and if you say no to everything you dont get anything you want so people a
2. 5 . The dax in germany up by 2. 25 . In italy, stocks are up by 3 . Oil prices hit their highest levels since november yesterday. You do see a little bit of a retreat this morning after comments from an official in saudi arabia. Right now you see that wti is down by 64 cents. Still well above 40 at 41. 53. Just days ahead of a meeting of key oil producers, saudi arabias oil minister has reportedly ruled out an output cut. Of course, yesterday the huge rally was sparked by a Russian News Agency report that russia and saudi arabia had agreed to cuts. Still, you have a lot of things coming in. The expectation that low prices are really starting to cut in places like latin america and here in the united states. Lets get you caught up on some of the big stories happening today. Bank earnings likely to set the tone for trading today. Jpmorgan is the big one. Its happening at 6 45 a. M. Eastern time. Well bring you that news when it happens. Analysts expecting earnings of 1. 26 per share o