Hi, lets get this show on the road. Wow, thats loud. Okay. Here we go. All right. So welcome on behalf of our bipartisan and bicameral leadership to this briefing of the Helsinki Commission. Its mandated to monitor compliance with International Norms and standards in europe. This includes norms in the military affairs, economic and Environmental Affairs and human rights. I cover that second category. I do a lot of work on anticorruption economics and im so honored and pleased to have with us minister john pimrose, prime ministers anticorruption all the way from the european union. Even if we have other questions or concerns were ending sharp at 10 15. So just the briefest of opening remarks. Globalized corruption is one of the greatest threats facing the United States today. Authorize attorney klepto crats hide on our shores and allies providing protection for stolen assets and a vector of influence into our political system. Once established they set about hollowing out the rule of la
More about the family killed in that fiery crash in pleasanton. And dozens of firefighters working now to contain a massive fire at a commercial building in concord. We are live there with details. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thanks for joining us here on kron for news at noon. Im just and were going to start with that massive fire that burned a commercial building in concord nearby. Roads are closed is impacting the commute for drivers right now. Kron 4 s Charles Clifford is live in concord with details on this fire and the aftermath. Thanks for joining us. Well, good afternoon. Yeah, this was a very dramatic scene late last night. Look across the street there. You can see crews are in the process of cleaning up that building right over there. 3 stories pretty much a total loss of garage on the ground floor. Some retailers are also some Apartment Units on the top. There is completely destroyedm good news today. Nobody injured, but this is going to impact traff
Gop tax plan. We are only a day in and at least four republicans said they want to vote against the bill as it stands right now. Many prominent trade associations have already said they dont like what they are looking at. President trump headed to asia to meet with state leaders from china, south korea, japan and others. Lets get the latest on bloombergs Kevin Cirilli, our chief washington correspondent. Also joining us is marty shanker, chief content officer. Lets start with marty. The conversation is moving forward towards what happened in congress. People are vetoing this. What is it going to look like at the end . Marty in advance of the release of the bill we set it would be really hard to craft the bill. Now comes the harder part, selling it to legislators who interestsarticular and the provisions of the bill that affect their constituency. With midterms coming up, they have to be able to defend a yes vote, especially the republicans because they will try to do this without any d
Actually owning the animals in pahrump isnt against the law if you have a special permit. But the conditions they found some of these animals living in now has the folks in charge of taking care of the creatures facing animal cruelty charges. The exotic animals were loaded up into trailers today. It was a grueling process as you can imagine these animals arent able to be transferred easily. Theyre being taken to a usda the owners had the proper permits for the large cats. However Sheriff Deputies responded to the house this week after getting tipped off about a fennec fox and and candaian siberian lynx hybrids locked up in bedrooms where they were urinating and deficating on the walls and carpet. The fennec fox is illegal to have in nevada. Detectives couldnt quite believe what they saw when they entered the home. sgt. Michael eisenloffel Nye County Sheriff Office well its sort of disturbing. You know animals are living creatures and deserve to live in proper conditions and properly fe
Lovelyyo nice is all but assured a little cool as this morning but partly to mostly cloudy skiesor one chance of rain from one stay dry on thursday into the weekend looking spectacular. This is on the inbound before west 25th doing a numberhe all the lake and Clifton Akron police still dealing with this 76 eastbound the good news is 77 northbound before to 71 has been cleared away normal rushhour1 with the sun in the eyes as well with the jennings freeway and over towards i to 71 i 90 coming 77 northbound three minutes and eight minutesee before to 71 has been cleared away trying to clear away the accident. We began with breaking news. Thes Cleveland Teachers Union ad Cleveland Metropolitan School district have tentative agreement. It was reached around 5 00 oclock this morning. The union said the contract is good for u kids and fair for educators it is confident will be ratified f by huge sigh of relief. Another news . He was a lovely motherr devoted sister ad dedicated frontde respec