T was on a trainin now at noon. Were following breaking news. A military spy plane has crashed in northern california. The plane was a u2 on a Training Mission and crashed right after taking off from Beale Air Force base. Two pilots were on board. Both parachuted out of the plane before impact. The plane went down in the Sutter Buttes mountains about 55 miles north of sacramento. And you can see the crash started a small grass fire there. We are going to have more information on this story coming up. But first, right now, terror suspect Ahmed Khan Rahami is in custody facing five counts of attempted murder of police officers. Good afternoon, it is tuesday, september 20. Im michelle griego. Kenny is out on assignment. Right now, prosecutors are weighing additional charges over the bombings in new york and new jersey as they learn more about the suspect and what might have motivated him. Brook silvabraga joins us live from elizabeth, new jersey, where rahami lives. Reporter good afternoo
President obamas new round of sanctions, warning that measures would back fire and bring u. S. Russian relation toes a dead end, causing serious damage. As for the russian market reactions, take a look. Stocks in moscow were down sharply in early trading. You can see theyre down by 4. 3 . Later in the show, senator bob corker will be joining us. He is a member of the Foreign Relations committee. Hes been calling for tougher sanctions on russia. Well have more of that coming up. Right now, lets get over to andrew with more of todays corporate stories. Good morning, becky. Ge, former parent of this network, reportedly seeking buyers for appliance unit. It tried to do this back in 2008. It scrapped those plans, though, given the financial environment at the time. Ges Ceo Jeff Immelt promised investors to divert interests that arent seen as core. The company is set to post quart ily results before the bell toll. Well bring thou to you. If you have a dishwasher or a washing machine or you k
Florida. Were a border state, so im going to ask about immigration. I know that Washington State and florida have several things in common in terms of being border states [laughter] and i have been to canada, and i do love it up there. I wish i was back there. But florida is different in that we have a large immigration problem here that has now gone to another level. The representative bilirakis has decided to look the other way here in Newport Ritchie when weve had New Buildings built to house some of the immigrants that came here who were underage immigrants on the trains that obama let come here. And theyre now expanding their facilities here. And i just, i look at the situation, and i think my husbands been out of work for a year, and he was a plumbing mechanic for 30 years, and finding a job here is going to be much more difficult now that the president has decided to do this. Host okay. All right, ann, well leave it there and have the congressman weigh in. Guest well, a lot of a
Benefit of a clean energy economy. It is time to wake up. I yield the floor to my friend, the distinguished senator from louisiana. The presiding officer the senator from louisiana. Ms. Landrieu thank you, senator. Im so happy to follow him on the floor today and some to see him again. Weve worked together on so many important issues, mr. President , wonderful to see you and to be back on the floor. I come today for a very special reason. I am so proud to present to the senate a package of lands bills that have been included in the Defense Authorization act. And whats significant about this particular package is its quite large and its the first package in almost six years, in almost three congresses which is quite an accomplishment for our committee. And i am so proud of the staff of our committee, energy and Natural Resources. I made this a priority when i took over as chair nine months ago. It was a long shot to see if we could put any package at all together. It had eluded us for s
Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyone accuses me of saying this i will deny it. Let me ask you this general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of the a10 are the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems yes or no . No maam, not at all and there is an investigation currently ongoing with the incident. When i read the newspaper article i contacted the general officer invo