Mayors in San Francisco. Thanks for spending your saturday with us. Im leland vittert. Im elizabeth prann. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington. A story of state rid played out this week but it was in an unprecedented turn of events the family of the nine victims in Charleston South Carolina spoke out telling the alleged murderer they are forgiving him. Theyre determined not to hate. Our friend of dylan ruth says he had been planning an attack and the church was not his original target. Killer himself faces nine charges of murder. One charge on a weapons charge. He is not posting bond for those nine charges. Of course he is going to remain in jail probably for the rest of his life. Moving forward in that bond appearance we heard from the cooler accused killer. What is your snaj. 21 years old. Are you employed . No. You are unemployed at this time . Yes, sir. Thank you. Meanwhile, just a couple of blocks away from emmanuel ame church there was a prayer vigil held last n
Marketed men beat him, yelled racist slurs at him, put a rope around his neck and splashed him with a chemical. Hes black, openly gay and a star on empire. Investigators say they couldnt find any video of an attack. But they released images of two persons of interest as they put it who were in the area around the at the time of the alleged assault. Last week Police Arrested two nigerian brothers. Investigators described them as suspects. But then released them after questioning. Whatever they told police raised new questions about smolletts story and investigators say they want to sit down with the actor again. Smollett has denied reports that he staged the attack and slammed people that dont believe him. Mike tobin reporting. Hes live in chicago where the investigation is taking place. Mike . Chicago police say they no longer consider smollett to be a victim of a hate crime. They want a followup interview with him. His team says not today. A short time ago, a statement was released fr
sure. the debt ceiling deadline is creeping closer every day. we have fox business network correspondent peter barnes has the argument over the spending limit. white house correspondent wendell goler starts us off with look at the job number and what they mean. reporter: president obama introduced four members of his economic team and brightened the disappointing jobs report taking the long view. bret the economy added 1.3 million jobs last year and each quarter was stronger than the priest quarter. the pace of hiring is picking up. it felt half a point last month but only because many people gave up looking for work. economists expected more than the gain of 103,000 jobs. mr. obama showcased the company that took advantage of 2009 tax breaks and increased sales enough to boost the staff by 50%. brit was telling me when the tax break got in place, the marketing arm got busier. that is what we intended. the new economic team includes gene sperling as head of the na
we have fox business network correspondent peter barnes has the argument over the spending limit. white house correspondent wendell goler starts us off with look at the job number and what they mean. reporter: president obama introduced four members of his economic team and brightened the disappointing jobs report taking the long view. bret the economy added 1.3 million jobs last year and each quarter was stronger than the priest quarter. the pace of hiring is picking up. it felt half a point last month but only because many people gave up looking for work. economists expected more than the gain of 103,000 jobs. mr. obama showcased the company that took advantage of 2009 tax breaks and increased sales enough to boost the staff by 50%. brit was telling me when the tax break got in place, the marketing arm got busier. that is what we intended. the new economic team includes gene sperling as head of the national economic counsel and he held the same job in the clinto
senate with a controversial recess appointment. as correspondent doug mcelway tells us, reaction differs sharply, depending on your political persuasion. reporter: the president s choice of six recess appointments immediate from half a world away made from half a world away in hawaii may made resolution of bipartisanship harder to keep. by far the controversial one is james cole to be second in command at the justice department. this is one of the worst appointments made by president obama. cole is unfit for the job. he was once representing saudi family that was accused of financing the terrorist activities of 9/11. the case was dismissed but cole s view were published in op-ed in 2002 where he said, our country has faced many devastating crime, drug rape and reign of organized crime, countless acts of rape and murder. acts of 9/11 were horrible, but those were those other things. and among those, debra burlingame, sister of the hijacked pilot and co-founder of kee