Expected the Des Moines Police to find that one of their own did anything wrong. Therefore the opinion of the Des Moines Police department on the matter is not a surprise to us. Only by verdict of a jury of the officers peers will justice truly be had. Eric the attorney for bolingers family tells us they are considering a lawsuit. We are expected to hear more from the Des Moines Police chief dana wingert today on why they decided to clear officer vanessa miller. Elizabeth after six hours of deliberating monday jurors left the polk county courthouse with noerdict in the pete polson trial. Hes accused of going on a shooting rampage in Pleasant Hill last november injuring two people. Kccis kim st. Onge reports. Kim pete polson testified that he was high on methamphetamine on november 17, 2014, and doesnt remember shooting at three people in Pleasant Hill. His Attorney Says the drug intoxication created a mental disability which made it impossible to form the intent to kill. The prosecutio
The first march on washington was planned during the Second World War. It was called off at the last minute. So the organizers of the 1963 march had it in mind during that entire period they would need to revive this idea of the march and they talked about it pretty constantly for that period and then starting in 1962 they thought that for a number of reasons this was the time to actually put it on. It was a march that was very long in the planning and well thought out and finally carried forward. Why was that first march canceled . What was the focus of the first march . It is important to understanding the march that happened to know what that was about. This is a time when roosevelt called to be the arsenal of democracy and support it by building airplanes, tanks, weapons to support the allies in europe and asia. This is the Central Point to a whole array of injustice that africanamericans were facing from being shut out of the armed forces when they could be in the armed forces. Th
Caller im with the people that think we should not be involved in another war in the middle east. Troops for us to send in when we have the iraqis saying that unless we send our people in to die for them, they are going to put their weapons down and not fight. We do not belong being the police of the world. If these people dont want to stand up and protect their own selves in that area of the world, we should not be doing it for them. Host thanks for the call. Harold from illinois. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think we should reinstitute the draft. Thatd it very strange people like romney had all of those young men and women in his family, and not a single one of them has served in uniform. Why is it always the poorest people in this country to have less to gain are always one to sacrifice . Why were they watching those tanks move in on that city, and they were dropping extensive ordinance on jeeps . It doesnt make sense. Something is wrong. Host thanks for the call. Laverne jo
Get ready for a budget on capitol hill. Varney and company is about to begin. Lets check the big board, triple digit rally underway, beating the dow right now, caterpillar, chevron exxon mobile verizon, it was up 200 earlier, up 136. Energy stocks rising along with oil prices. Here are the drillers, trans ocean, diamond off shore, oil adding to the genes we have been seen, we had gains yesterday, the price of oil is going where is it . 1. 56. Jumping 51. 13. Gas prices fairly steady at 2. 06, up a penny from where we were yesterday. Ten year treasury bouncing back of a little bit treasury yield extremely low, 1. 7 . If this is breaking in the last hour, the Justice Department reaching and your 1 billion settlement, standard and poors of the Mortgage Rate in this mess. Number one former treasury secretary Timothy Geithner nehr said about the s p downgrading u. S. Death, voting the former treasury secretary, he said the snbs conduct will be looked at very carefully. Such behavior will no
Caltrain has two trains that will pick up bart passengers in milbrae. Those folks will were helped out. Other folks my have to use another form of mass transit or casual car pool or drive your own car. 580 westbound from tracy to dublin is 38 minutes and highway 4 westbound antioch to concord is 4 minutes and 101 southbound from san rafael to San Francisco is 17 minutes and with the wind we have a lot of debris causing slow downs. So far, we have not been hearing of any major accidents so we will hope it stays that way and we start the weekend off on a good foot. Live doppler 7 hd shows radar satellite returns and we do not see any radar runs because it is looking dry. We did have rain early this week which we desperately needed and now everything is cleared with dry cdionons. With that we have plenty of wind and to the bay bridge it is bouncing upanddown and that is because we have some of our highest winds in the east bay. Proceed with caution. Our gusts now are 29 Miles Per Hour in