Attorney general, rachel brand, also testified as part of her confirmation process. Good morning, everybody. Im pleased to hold this nomination hearing for two very outstanding nominees, rod ros rosenstein and rachel brand. Theyve been nominated for two very important senior positions in the department of justice. Deputy attorney general and associate attorney general. The Deputy Attorney general, who is the second in command at the department oversees the daytoday operations. The associate attorney general oversees the civil litigation departments. Its critical we fill these two important positions so the department can operate at full capacity. We couldnt have two better nominees for this position. They share a lot in common. They both are dedicated Civil Servants. Theyve both been confirmed by the senate before. In miss brands case, twice. They both served in confirmed positions during president obamas administration. Theyre both talented and fairminded lawyers, dedicated to the ful
Id rather not comment on anything at this moment until we know more about whats going on ourselves. A search of the officers phone resulted in the remaining charges evidence hed offered or paid two men for sex and sexually assaulted and photographed an unconscious man as well. The chief just briefed reporters and called these allegations more than a little distressing. This extraordinarily disappointing. These are grave charges. These are charges that go to the our oath to protect and serve. They cast a pall of us because thats over all of us because we recognize many people will actions of conduct of the many by the excesses of one individual. So certainly this is more than a little distressing but the , members of this Police Department take their oath seriously. We investigated this case thoroughly. And have participated in the drawing up of serious criminal charges. The officer remains in custody tonight. If convicted on all charges, he faces more than 80 years in prison. Toya than
Police say the uber driver survived. He is in the hospital. The two people in the lexus, including the hit and run driver, ran off. To give you a better idea of where this is, the cars crashed almost right under an elevated section of i94 that separates the the third ward from downtown. We dont know if there are any surveillance cameras in this area that might give more details to police. Police say theyre still working to identify the hit and run adrienne a lot of questions still. Thank you, terry. The red cross is helping six families tonight after their apartment complex caught fire. Crews arrived at cameron Heights Apartments in Menomonee Falls just after 10 00 this morning. Thats south of county line road. No one was hurt. We talked to a couple who lives in the building. Happy to be out safe. Glad everyone without safe. The good lord watched over all us, and my cat. Adrienne thats right, the family cat, named miller 64, is ok too. Investigators dont know what caused the fire. Shel
, are confident their vote will be counted. Hundreds at the milwaukee Municipal Building registering and voting early. The Wisconsin Attorney general is dispatching Election Integrity teams throughout the state tuesday. But most voters we talked to, like rhonda zerfluh, casting a ballot for the first time, arent overly concerned. I dont want to believe that we live in a country that just doesnt care about everyones vote school poll showed only 68 of registered voters were somewhat to very confident the votes for president will be accurate cound. Are you concerned about that . A little bit, but i think it will be ok. I think they will watch it enough to make sure nobody is olinaround, i hope so anyway in greenfield, early votg chance for staff to regroup before tuesday. We test our machines ahead of time. How confident are you your vote will be counted . I am very confident. I have no concerns. You do have to be registered ahead of time, but you can vote here until 5 00 tomorrow in the
Trees toppled, heavy rains close roads and tonight, hundreds of homes are still in the dark because of a storm system that worked its way along the entire east coast. Good evening, im maurice dubois. Cbs2 news Valerie Castro has more on the damage after the storm, live in yonkers where roads just reopened. Valerie . Reporter southbound lanes of the bronx River Parkway are now open, but stretches of the parkway were closed for hours today, so crews could deal with flooded streets and in fact, northbound portions are still shut down, just north of the springbrook parkway, the messageboard alerting drivers to the issues that lay ahead, the weather caused all kinds of problems around the tristate area. The tree basically on top of our house. Came home to this in englewood, new jersey and realized he had a big problem to deal with. Branches and debris all over the place. Thankfully no one was inside when it happened. Reporter his ninemonthold sons room was left a mess. Its messed up, the ce