Fortt, seema mody joins us this morning at post 9. We begin the hour with some breaking news out of disney. The company saying the board of directors has extended bob igers contract as chairman and ceo to july 2nd of 2019. Orrin smith is the independent lead director. He says given bob igers outstanding leadership, his record of success in a changing media landscape, and his clear Strategic Vision for disneys future, it is obvious that the companies and its shareholders will be best served by his continued leadership. I think returning to Julia Boorstin on some of this as we make sense on what igers going to be around for a while, julia. Thats right. Theres been a lot of talk and speculation about who was going to replace bob iger when his contract expired at the end of june 2018. And so, the fact that this is being extended for a year is not a big surprise because there was no obvious successor for iger. There is also the fact that disney has done phenomenally well under his leadershi
Raw emotion on the campaign trail allegations against both president ial candidates. Donald trump now in full defense mode over allegations of sexual misconduct. Meanwhile. The clinton camp is dealing with a new round of hacked emails. 9news reporter vida urbonas is in the information center. With more. Vida. Donald trump is charging the new sexual allegations is dealing with new wikileaks of emails. On the campaign trail in florida yesterday. Donald trump flatly denied new charges that he groped, fondled and kissed women without their permission. Several women have told publications detailed stories about encounters with trump that ended with groping, kissing and other unwanted sexual advances. Meanwhile. The clinton camp is dealing with a new round of hacked emails purportedly from Campaign Chairman john podesta. And released by wikileaks. Possible conflict of interest. With the department of justice about lawsuits over clintons email issues. It is a war of words on all fronts. First
Newschannel eight today at 11 00. Plenty of sunshine out there and were free and clear. Weve had a few sprinkles on the east coast that we tracked with our radar here. They may drift inland through the course of the afternoon but most will miss out on the rain. Partly cloudy skies, temperatures are up to 80 degrees at this time, 79 in clearwater, degrees for zephyr hills. Moisture coming in off of the atlantic. With the dry air aloft, despite the moisture and increased humidity were expecting about a 10 shot at a shower and most the showers will have a hard time holding together. 85 is your average high and well just to 87 later on today. Its going to be a warmer than average day and a warmer than average weekend. Well take you through that a bit. Overnight, the man accused of running over a 17yearold leaving her to die is out on bond. We spoke with him as he walked out of jail. Investigators say he hit and killed ashley on hills on the road. We spoke with the man just hours ago. Repor
Out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. The hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. Japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the First Quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1. 7 . Much more than a 0. 2 increase forecasters had predicted. Take a look at whats happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. Down by 0. 25 . Take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48. 31. Brent crude is down six cents to 41. 42. Finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. Well debate this. The euro is at 1. 1266. The yen at 109. 41. Weve got top stories including political news, Bernie Sanders winning the oregon prime but nbc news is reporting that Hillary Clinton is the winner in kentucky. 99 tallied. Shes now within 100 of the delegates needed to clinch the democratic nomination. Goldman sachs downgraded its eq
Path. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Eric foner i am eric foner from the columbia university, moderating this second session on slavery and freedom. I want to begin by thanking the organizers of this excellent conference. We all know how much work went into, you know, putting this whole thing together. Thanks to those at the museum and the American Historical Association that have been so active in getting this conference organized. , i gave my last class at columbia university. I am now writing off riding off into the sunset. [applause] retirement. Of and so i ask if you will indulge me for just a minute as i reflect briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of African American history. Which is a little, it is sort of emblematic of the many things that have happened the last couple of generations. I grew up in a family in which africanAmerican History, although utterly ignored in the School Education that i got in grade school and high school, nonetheless, the black exp