Right now on the afternoon edition, Republican House speaker Kevin Mccarthy calling for formal impeachment investigation in a president biden. Good afternoon. I am ryan yamamoto. We begin with that announcement happening out of washington, dc. This is as republicans threaten to file a motion to vacant the speakers chair if mccarthy didnt agree to the impeachment inquiry. Republicans say it was a scheme to cash in millions and accuse research al treatment to the president s son. This logical next step will give the committees full power to gather all the facts and answers for american public. I implore House Republican leadership to reject all or nothing tactics, reject unrealistic expectations, refuse to cave to the demands we are hearing from 30 or so members way out on the fringe. Republicans appear ready to begin the process. Lawmakers have a more pressing issue to deal with, congress has until the end of this month to pass a spending bill or the government will shut down. Clean up
Dead. This wasnt just an act of violence against a student. It was an act of violence against a whole community. Reporter police say the tenth grader was gunned down after an argument while he walked to school just before 8 00 this morning. It was like my heart was in my stomach. Reporter the teenager collapsed here in this area near 11th and parker streets. I walked over there, looked at the body. Walked around him. And just laying there. He was dead. Reporter within the next 4. 5 hours you dont think about waking up in the morning and coming to a crime scene. Reporter three more shootings, all within close proximity to chester high school, keeping it on lockdown. Police provided extra security during dismissal. Come to get me children out of harms way. Reporter and increase in gun violence. Renewed calls for the publics health. We cant arrest our way out of it. Arrested more than 2,000 people last year. Reporter because of the uptick in gun violence, the District Attorneys Office lau
Brent a decline of 49 cents. Couple big corporate stories to tell you about. The biggest one, its final. Its here. Verizon set to announce an agreement today to buy yahoo for 5 billion. Sources telling us that yahoo will no longer an operating company after this. It will become a Holding Company for stakes . Alibaba and yahoo japan. Has a small platen portfolio to sell. Marissa mayer not expected to stay on after the deal is completed. Her severance, expected to be 57 million. Well have a lot more on the story in a couple of minutes. Other news as well. Tesla and solar city, theyre reportedly closer to a merger. No brainer. Thats a new one. One brain. Elon musk the largest share hoeflder in both companies. In the final stages of carrying out Due Diligence on both companies. The companies are carrying out due dial generals the right brain talking to the left . Elon did an interview this morning. Did you see this . Its a good piece. We dont get that paper. Its called the new york times.
The markets relatively flat, the lie, a lot of news today whether its politics, earnings, Central Banks and apple a strong gain for apple shares profited estimates and company says that iphone and ipad shipments were better than expected. Josh lipton talked to tim cook and joins us with more this morning. I feel fantastic about how the iphone did. Thats what ceo tim cook told me about the products performance in q3. Investors also seem encouraged breathing a sigh of relief this morning and thats in part because the pressure on the iphone isnt getting worse. In q3 units were down 15 . Its about the same as q2 and now looking ahead theyll be down 8 in q4 and the se is attracting a whole new group of apple fans. One point of concern in the quarter, Greater China down 33 . Cook acknowledging near term concerns there including economic weakness but on the call he sounded bullish about the longterm. We opened our 41st Greater China retail store during the quarter and also made a 1 billion in
Chairman mcdaniel okay this time i will be really short introducing our next speaker. David nicholson, for those of you who dont know him, please go and introduce yourself to david. David is such a great leader in our state. He is so involved in many philanthropic charities throughout the state. He does so much to help elect republicans. He is a kind of behind the scenes guy. Always one of those people you can pick up the phone and call, say, hey, can you help me with this . What is his number . I will give you his number in a minute. Except for jeff. Jeff isnt allowed to have his [laughter] number. He has been a real friend to me since ive been chair. I just so appreciate his leadership in michigan. He also serves for our party on the wayne state board of governors. Were very happy to have republicans on any education board. Lets clap for that. [applause] and with that being said i would like to introduce david nicholson. [applause] david ronna that was incredibly nice. The truth is i