Sanctions on north korea. A momentous day for fifa as they talk about the corruption scandal. Irans president rouhani voted in the countrys first election since International Sanctions were lifted and a strong turn out by voters and earlier iran leader likewise cast his ballot and people are voting in two polls today, one for parliament and another for the assembly of expects and the body gets to choose the countrys next leader and the Iranian Parliament is dominated by conservatives but that could change because of president rouhanis success with a nuclear deal and hopefuls ban from running and 12000 people wanted to stand for the 290 Seat Parliament and only 5,000 candidates were given the go ahead now and Andrew Simmons is live from tehran and the room behind you andrew looks as busy as it did an hour ago and people are heeding the call for a strong turnout. It would appear so sammy, this is really quite a chaotic situation here and the vote is streaming in when the polls opened and
Voter will be voting for the parliament that will be choosing the Supreme Leader. And Andrew Simmons has more from tehran in tonights segme segment. Reporter iran is used to elections but this is billed as a poll that will take the Islamic Revolution into a new era. One that could be more moderate. Back in 1979 she was the voice of resistence. Aged 19, spokeswoman for iranian students who held 52 american hostages for 444 days in the u. S. Embassy crisis. Shes now serving a third term as Vice President this time under hasan are a had hassan rouhani, and she believes the conservatives will be overturned. I believe that the people will change the course of events. If people had not voted for rouhani, come to the polls two and a half years ago, we would have not been successful in the nuclear deal and lifting the sanctions. Reporter but there are powerful institutes who are against her. Theyve cut the number of standings for parliamentary elections by half. It has had an effect on the ass
Babies in washington state. Apple is officially fighting back, the tech giant went to court to fight the request to hack into a phone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters. Jacob ward is in san francisco, and it seems that the stakes are high for all involved and for the country. Reporter thats right, richelle. Absolutely. This is not just a case of being a war of words, but truly, a war in the courtroom. Apple finally filing a motion that makes the argument because no one has ever been asked to do this before, their Constitutional Rights as a company have been violated. In a motion filed a day ahead of the deadline, apple magistrates are asking to reverse the order of the order to hack into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. They are being asked to build something new, a government ao as much, as well as a forensic facility that could be used to unlock phones in hundreds of other cases. Apple executives told reporters that the order violates the companys r
This Morning Police in kansas investigating the motive between a deadly shooting at a manufacturing plant and gunman armed with assault style weapon shot and killed three people and injured 14 others before he was killed by police. Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im del walters. And this is 35 miles north of wichita and focused on the plant where the suspect worked and John Henry Smith has details. Reporter says say it was Late Afternoon when 38yearold ford began shooting drivers from his car leaving two people wounded then they say the painter at excel industries headed to his job. 150 employees were on duty at the lawnmower plant. The gun was strapped to him. He was ready to go. Reporter once he got into excel industries he shot a person in the parking lot and he entered into the building itself. We heard a pop pop and thought it was just meting falling on the ground and then the doors opened, people started screaming coming out saying to go to the front. Reporter
Shares are falling on that news. Speaking about falling, we are one hour away from the close of trade. Stocks are heading for a second straight day of losses. Lets head straight to the markets desk. Julie that today decline is that twoday decline is the worst we have seen since february. It seems as though it is really on Global Growth concerns coming back to the fore. We had mixed Economic Data in the u. S. Today from the adp jobs report coming in a little below estimates. The Services Industry report beating estimates. Factory orders, as well. A little bit of a mixed picture. Friday is the monthly jobs report. Whats also interesting here is that weve seen a failure yet again of the s p 500 to rally back to its record levels. It is now only up about 2 10 of 1 on the year. Weve had these couple of attempts here. The most recent was about a month ago. It did not get quite as close as it has on other attempts and, since then, has been falling back. In todays session, in terms of whats mo