President trump taking the opportunity to talk about the markets performance under his administration. Our stock market reached an alltime high today. Nobody talks by the. They dont talk about it. Liz joining me now, a guest at todays white house event, pretzel maker and tropical smoothie maker. Julie, what was it like to meet the president today . It was exciting. It was one of the highlights of high life, a very positive meeting. Cheryl what did he say in terms of make your business grow . He talked about tax reform. The more money we can keep in our pockets the faster we can expand our businesses and pay our employees. Cheryl sean, did you have a chance to talk with him about healthcare . Did that topic come up . We didnt talk about the Affordable Care act. But the first thing the administration has done is cut back on relations. The Labor Relations board is trying to pit us together with franchise organizations. But we are not. We are Small Businesses in local community. We are ind
Invested in hunting park reduced crime. This is not just feel good stuff, this is real stuff in the community that gives people the opportunity to recreate children in a positive way and keep them away from trouble. Reporter sharrie this town meeting is set to begin at 6 30 here at Vare Rec Center in grays ferry. Vernon odom reporting live from grays ferry. Vernon thank you. Weve got breaking news route now. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has identified the first case of zika virus in a city resident. Ali gorman is live following this story. She joins us live from the big board with the details. Reporter sharrie it was expected that we would see more travel related cases of zikn united states. In this case it is woman over 60 years old who recently traveled to the caribbean. Now, 80 percent of cases of the mosquito borne illness come with no symptoms or mild symptoms. This local case seems to follow that. Were told the woman was not hospitalized and is recovering without
Infrastructure fixes, but critics say it falls shorts of what is needed for the 21st century we begin with a planned increase in the u. S. Militarys rens in iraq and syria. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says more special Operations Forces will join the battle against i. S. I. L. The Expedition Force will take on a series of Missions Including freeing hostages. As Jamie Mcintyre reports from the pentagon. They attempt to capture i. S. I. L. Leaders. The u. S. Has more than 2500 troops, including commandos that carried out raids in iraq and syria. Back in october. After the u. S. Forces assisted kurdish troops, it was promised there would be more raids. We are at war. In more than three hours of testimony before the House Armed Services committee. The defense secretary and his top military advisor placed scent call questions you indicated that its war. Are we winning, mr secretary . We will win. Are we winning now . We are going to win. Have we currently contained i. S. I. L. We have not
Outlining the problem, from january, the shooting victims in the windy city, and a year later, there have been 2,324 shooting victims. The reverend, Jesse Jackson among others demanding that the police chief be fired. Its four times higher than the national average. The black friday protests led by reverend jackson put a lot of pressure to do something. And the city council said this they too thought that the Police Superintendent should go. A short im ago, immanuel said that its under investigation. Was this handled approximately . I want to be clear that the u. S. Attorneys office, as you know, the city has handed every piece of evidence over to the u. S. Attorneys office here in chicago. And the fbi within weeks of the incident. This includes evidence related to the shooting itself, but also related to the Police Departments response. They will address these questions when the investigation is complete. Went to take you back to the videotape that seems to have been a catalyst or the
Zero. The video was released yesterday. The naumann and dies the indictment announced just before. Really 1000 black lives matter protesters took to the streets last night after alleged white shot five. S black lives matter exists to fight dangerous antiblack rhetoric and criminalization of black people. Because of that, we are recommitting our occupation of the fourth precinct until we get justice. Amy police have now arrested three people in connection with the mass shooting, which took place at a protest against the Police Killing of unarmed jamar clark. Can we will go to minneapolis to speak with an eyewitness of the shooting of the protesters and with minneapolis Congressmember Keith Ellison, who is calling for the release of the video of the shooting of clark. During a police raid last an officer dressed in fatigues wednesday, and carrying what appeared to be a gaslaunching gun pointed his weapon at congressman ellisons own son, jeremiah. Then am a showdown on the syrian border.