Accused of exploiting and abusing dozens of minor girls. He had been on suicide watch in a new york city jail. You will remember he was found unresponsive in his cell last month with marks on his neck. Initially investigators thought he had tried to take his own life. They were then looking into whether he was assaulted by another inmate or if he had even paid someone to beat him up. Epsteins attorneys had been fighting to get him out on bail, but a judge refused. Prosecutors argued the mega millionaires lifestyle and well it made him an extreme flight risk. This is a major development. This case just getting under way. Stephanie ramos, thanks so much. I want to bring in abcs tom yamos, anchor of world news tonight on the weekends who has been following this epstein saga since the beginning. Tom, what are you learning this morning . Reporter well, this is just a stunning turn of events. As stephanie had reported, there were thoughts he had tried to commit suicide earlier and some proof
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Are asked to mute when not speaking oerwaiting to present. The San Francisco hsa dos commission the San Francisco hsa Das Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. ask please take the roll. Please respond with present. Spears, absent. Lum, present. [roll call] thank you, we have quorum. Commissioners, the next item, 3 is communicationsmf we like
the victims attending a memorial for a top iranian general killed in a u.s. air strike four years ago. martha raddatz with late reporting, she s in the middle east. in the u.s. tonight, those bomb threats targeting multiple state capitals. authorities at this hour investigating who is behind the hoax. outside new york tonight, authorities on the scene, the religious leader shot and killed outside his mosque in newark. witnesses describing the suspect tonight. the passenger plane that collided with another plane while landing in tokyo, bursting into flames. tonight, we have learn what the pilots on that passenger jet had been told just before landing. matt gutman in tokyo. here at home, the crisis at the border. houfs speaker mike johnson and fl low republicans in eagle pass, texas. and tonight, president biden blaming republicans for holding up funding for border security. matt rivers from the border. just in tonight, former president trump asking the supreme court
Tonight here in studio zach, youve been following these ongoing negotiations. Yeah. And those negotiations come as israel had signaled those plans for more military strikes in Southern Gaza, the idf ordering some 100,000 palestinians in the region to evacuate. With the threat of a ramped up offensive by Israeli Forces in the Southern Gaza city of rafah, looming, palestinians once again packing up and fleeing god knows whether we will stay alive or die. Monday, hamas, accepting an egyptian qatari brokered cease fire proposal. But israel not ready to sign on, saying it failed to meet its, quote core demands. Middle east policy expert professor stephen zunes. Its clear that hamas is really interested in putting an end to the fighting. The question, of course, is will israel go along . The big Sticking Point has been that hamas has been pushing for a permanent cease fire in return for the hostages, whereas israel has only been wanting a temporary pause. The idf conducting, quote, targeted