State anymore. Reporter one day after the feds charged state senator leland yee with a flurry of felonies, kpix 5 has learned he is fighting to keep his job resisting calls for his resignation. According to a capital source familiar with the discussions, yee has told Senate Leaders he would like to take a leave of absence but he is not formally requesting paid leave. A spokesman for Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg said he couldnt confirm those conversations but said senator steinberg did repeat the two choices he gave yee that he should resign or he will be removed by his fellow senators in a vote. Leave. Dont burden your colleagues and this Great Institution with your troubles. Leave. Reporter meanwhile, yee is no longer a candidate for state office. His attorney read aloud a letter the senator wrote to the secretary of state. Dear deborah, i hereby withdraw my candidacy for election of secretary of state effective immediately. Clearly what we learned yesterday was amazingl
Well tell you how much you should be saving now to make sure you do not out live your money. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, august the 27th. Good evening everyone. Im susie gharib here with my colleague bill griffith. Investors here in u. S. And around the world dumped stocks worried about the possibility of the u. S. And allies might take military action against syria over its use of chemical weapons, so investors moved money to safe havens like gold, oil and treasuries. Here is a run down of the numbers by the closing bell. The major stock averages fell 1 to 2 and the dow tumbled 170 points and the nasdaq lost almost 80 and the s p down 26 points. Prices on u. S. Treasuries rose with the yield on the tenyear to 2. 72 . While mean, gold jumped sharply up 27 to 1,420 an ounce. Oil also surged. Crude gained almost 4 to 109 a barrel, the second biggest gain of the year. Well, the rising tensions between the u. S. And syria, which has already rattled markets
Well tell you how much you should be saving now to make sure you do not out live your money. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, august the 27th. Good evening everyone. Im susie gharib here with my colleague bill griffith. Investors here in u. S. And around the world dumped stocks worried about the possibility of the u. S. And allies might take military action against syria over its use of chemical weapons, so investors moved money to safe havens like gold, oil and treasuries. Here is a run down of the numbers by the closing bell. The major stock averages fell 1 to 2 and the dow tumbled 170 points and the nasdaq lost almost 80 and the s p down 26 points. Prices on u. S. Treasuries rose with the yield on the tenyear to 2. 72 . While mean, gold jumped sharply up 27 to 1,420 an ounce. Oil also surged. Crude gained almost 4 to 109 a barrel, the second biggest gain of the year. Well, the rising tensions between the u. S. And syria, which has already rattled markets
Whole story here of whats left behind, this twisted mass of metal, glass, luggage. 243 people on board. Some just tossed around. You heard one woman was found hanging upside down. Others were crushed as the carriages tipped over. One passenger says he watched as women were launched into luggage racks. Another sat helpless as people were crushed under a row of seats. Most of the passengers were rushed to hospitals, some are still unaccounted for. We heard the mayor saying that the search operation there on site continues. We also know the number of those who lost their lives is now at seven. Cell phone video showing what it took to escape that mangled train. Watch. Here hold on. Hold on. Go go go. Should i just get out . Hold on. Help me. So many people jumped into action if they could, helping others. Prying open these doors. Others crawled through all this jagged metal. Come on man. I got you, okay . Keep crawling okay . Where am i crawling to . Crawl forward, sir. Keep crawling. We j
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, barack husseen obama do solemn any swear. That i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. The office of the president of the United States. And will to the best of my ability, preserve , protext and defend. Preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. So help me god. Congratulations, mr. President. [ applause ] dana good evening. Thank you for joining us on this special day. Hours ago on the steps of u. S. Capitol, president obama took the oath of office for the second time as his wife michelle and his lovely daughters looked on. A beautiful brisk day in the nations capitol and hundreds of thousands were there to watch the historic moment, which happened to fall on the day we remember, Martin Luther king junior. Here is part of his speech. What binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith, or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptionalb