Im in for ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Well begin with the verdict in the kate steinle murder trial. The defendant was found not guilty of first degree murder, not guilty of Second Degree murder or manslaughter. Guilty of only one charge, possession of a firearm. President trump sent out a tweet saying, a disgraceful verdict in that kate steinle case. No wonder the people of our country are so angry with illegal immigration. We have Team Coverage in and outside the courthouses. Well begin with abc 7 News Reporter leean melendez who covered the trial from the beginning. Reporter yes, and i can tell you everyone in the courtroom was really surprised and we were left with a lot of questions. For example, how do you find a person not guilty of murder yet guilty of possessing a firearm . Now, that was a question that i asked the public defender, and here is what jeff adachi told me. The crime of possession of a gun only requires that the person knowingly possess a firearm. Thats the only requi
Definitely a traumatic injury. Rescue teams say a 40year old homeless man was on foot at Guadalupe Reservoir and slipped and fell sometime before midnight last night. They say he fell some 10 feet and broke his leg. If you look carefully you can see blood on his pant leg. That man had the wherewithal to use a light to try to flag down a passing vehicle. He did not have a mobile phone and was stranded on the far side of the reservoir. Firefighters estimate he was about 150 yards away from ricks road when he used hicks road when he used that light to gather the attention of a carload of students who were driving by. They were home for the holiday when they saw the man in need. Driving down hicks road and then we see a light flashing from over there and so we agreed to pull over and then we get out of the car and we hear a guy moaning like hes in pain and we yelled back and forth asking what happened. And i guess he fell down the hill somehow and broke his knee. Reporter firefighters agai
A few days ago it was the nasdaq at 7,000 overnight in asia, the nikkei, if you think these numbers have been good here, up by more than 3 . It had been closed for a bank holiday over the last two days so it had some catching up to do right now you can see the hang seng closed up by a half percentage point as did the shanghai if you look at whats been the early trade in some of those european markets that we watch closely, up across the board gains of almost a percent for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Ftse hanging in there. Still in the green with italy and spain, each up by 1 and look at crude oil prices yesterday a rally in crude oil, up by 2. 1 this morning additional gains of 11cents. 61. 74 a barrel for wti big corporate stories of the morning. Tesla is still struggling with production the carmaker releasing Fourth Quarter delivery numbers that fell short of expectations again, pushing back production targets for the model 3. Tesla delivered 1550 units of the highly an
Beijing may finally be winning its war on smog. Plenty more on those stories over the next couple of hours. Calendar today is trade numbers out of china for the month of december appeared rounding out has been a year of significant recovery when it comes to chinese exports in particular. 5643. After the declines over the past couple of years we do see two years of decline followed by that recovery. We are looking at december, a 10 year on year rise when it comes to exports coming in dollar terms. Thats a little moderation from novembers 12. 3 rise. Imports looking to pick up significantly. The brighter spots in that. Continuing to paint a picture of synchronized global recovery. Such a stronghad base to come off of in 2017 we might be struggling to hit doubledigit numbers in 2018 for exports. Certainly there is also the cloud of trade tensions between the u. S. And china lurking ever in the background. We are 30 minutes away from the opening china and hong kong. Sophie, we were thinkin
, gainingets of today for the first thing and three, on track for the second weekly gain, best run since early november. 136, highest level since june of 2016. Day after the breakfast best run since december. Sterling falling the first three day of this week followed by continued signs of division over brexit, disappoint economic dating and the forecast 135. Rcb markets the most bearish, forecasting 1. 20. Vote, junethe brexit 23 of 2016, sterling finished the day at 1. 4877 and the next day at 136. 79. We are at 136. 87. Lets talk about gold. Longest run of gains and more than a decade, will jan benefiting from the weaker dollar attention to north korea and the middle east with gold futures headed for the fifth consecutive weekly gain and the longest rally permit twice 16, gold is at the highest level since september of last year and lets talk about russia investors had have been piling 122 million into the russia over the last five trading sessions, the longest stretch of inflows sin