Cutting back to a fiveday a week schedule will save 2 billion. The post office has been losing about 20 million a day, as e mail useage ramps up and mail volume plunges. Congress has required the post office to deliver six days a week, but the postmaster general believes there is a loophole in the law that will allow him to make the change. Darren gersh reports on the business fallout. Reporter first class mail is the Postal Services most profitable product. It is also a business that is disappearing at the rate of 5 a year. People pay their bills online. Its simple, its easy, its free. You cannot beat free. Reporter and the Postal Service is tired of trying to beat free. So it plans to eliminate saturday home mail delivery beginning on august 5. The move will cost 22,000 workers their jobs and may save 2 billion a year. But even that, will not be enough. More dramatic cuts will be needed. You cant support a system built for 200 or even 300 billion pieces, now we got 150 billion, which
Rest of my life. Im more than half the size i was, but im twice as sharp. More effective, because as i worked my body, i sharpened my mind. Selfcontrol is the key. Discipline must be your goal. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Tonight, two title fights, christie versus obama. And Hillary Clinton versus Elizabeth Warren. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Pt barnum, the guy who created the greatest show on earth, knew how to fill the tent. If you want a crowd, start a fight. He put his money where his mouth was. He had has men start brawling on
Street Corners, when the crowd gathered, theyd hand out flyers that the circus was coming to town. Meet Chris Christie, who knows how to start a fight, telling the president he doesnt know how his business. Itching to get into the center ripping, hes declared war on president obama. And the white houses dont panic approach to the handling the ebola crisis. The president meanwhile is t
Problems and with Mutual Respect and the upholding of the law for all, and respect for all lives. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Still out there. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews out in los angeles. The manhunt continues tonight for the two men believed to have carried out the deadly terror attack in paris. The men are brothers both in their early 30s, born in paris to algerian born parents. One of them was convicted in 2008 for recruiting muslims to fight in iraq. There are reports that one of the brothers got training from al qaeda in yemen in 2011. Earlier today, two masked gunmen robbed a gas station northeast of paris. Police are going door to door in nearby villages searching for them. Also this morning in what may have been a copycat attack, a Police Officer was shot and killed by an assailant wearing a bulletproof vest. There are 88,000 security people taking part in the manhunt and investigation. And frances interior minister
Million gone in a ball of fire. Take a look at this. Engines at 108 . Power nominate pal. That is an unmanned rocket exploding six seconds after liftoff in virginia. That rocket was supposed to go to the International Space station with thousands of pounds of supplies. Now an investigation is under way to figure out why this happened. Cnns tom foreman joins with us more. Good morning, tom. Reporter theres a lot of buzz about these refurbished russian rockets driving this. One of them failed during the test back in may so whether or not that has anything to do with this explosion, the Space Community is looking at them very closely today. We have liftoff. The first stage was seconds into a fourminute burn when the antares rocket stalled, fell backward and exploded. Ne nearly 250,000 pounds of thrust went high ware and people say the blast shook across the bay. Immediately from about five seconds in you just saw kind of a fireball. It wasnt you could tell immediately something was wrong.
Authorities say they have a strong case against eric frein. Saying the gun they found in his hideout, his stash, matches casings they found in other areas. The manhunt finally over. We have stated that early on, we would not rest until his capture was made. Tonight we have made the major step down the path to justice. After nearly seven weeks on the run, suspected cop killer eric matthew frein now in custody. Facing a murder charge. It is my intention to file notice to seek the Death Penalty for eric frein. Is 31yearold selftaught survivalist was caught hiding in an airport. A u. S. Marshalls special Operations Team clearing the area, spotted frein walking across an airstrip and surrounded him. According to Law Enforcement, frein caught by surprise, surrendered, hands up. He was apprehended unarmed. But had to guns and knives in a hideout. If he got out of those woods, we were very concerned that he would then kill other Law Enforcement. If not them. Civilians. The search for the nowca