And businesses, it is blamed for 16 deaths in puerto rico. Killedt 22 people were and Dozens Injured after a stampede on a crowded pedestrian railwayonnecting to stations in mumbai. Police are investigating what caused the stampede which led some commuters to leap over the railing. Others were crushed or phil and were trampled. European commissioner john klug junker saidde [inaudible] global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julie live from bloomberg headquarters in new york. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading. Is what youstion miss . Breaking news moments ago. President trump says he will in twofed chair decision to three weeks this after reports he met with Jerome Powell and kevin marsh. The rest of europe will be watching how he independent vote shakes out. The world could have a new fed chair nominee in two to three President Trump has been interviewing candidates inclu
White house. Good evening. Great evening to you. If the white house striking a major deal here to release Chelsea Manning after more than six years behind bars. Expected to be released on may may 17th, 2017. Dramatic reduction of the 35 year prison sentence. Part of a big day here at the white house as the president announces a number of commutations. Let me tell you about Chelsea Manning. Formerly bradley manning, accused of a major leak, a 2010 leak to wikileaks that revealed American Military and diplomatic activities across the world. Manning spending less than seven years behind bars, down from 35. Not on the list of commutations and pardons today, infamous nsa leak or edward snowden. Snowden has been holed up in russia. He has tweeted his support for manning, writing mr. President , if you grant only one active, c. Please free Chelsea Manning. You alone can save her life. Its ironic that five days ago wikileaks tweeted that if manning were granted clemency, Julian Assange would a
Youth Football Players team up to save lives. And a bittersweet moment as brothers of a fallen hero celebrate the birth of the daughter he never saw. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. Good evening, were going to begin tonight in hawaii with new evacuation orders in what appears to be the most urgent situation since the volcano emergency began four weeks ago. The images tonight are breathtaking, the danger explosive. 1600degree lava is blasting more than 25 stories high, flowing rapidly downhill, cutting off escape routes, potentially leaving hundreds with no way out. Carter evans is there. Reporter jeff, just look at this. This is the most active eruption behind me right now. Weve been watching it go like this for days. At times it was blasting lava up to 250 feet into the air. And today, authorities are issuing a new evacuation warning for this area, telling people to get out now. The massive amount of lava in Leilani Estates is spreading f
Appoint a Second Special counsel to investigate the fbi. He revealed he asked a federal prosecutor, john hubbard, to look into the agencys alleged abuse of power. Republicans are welcoming that news while democrats call it a distraction. There were people at the top involved in the investigation who obviously had political points of view they were not shy about expressing. And, frankly, acting upon it seems. So having this prosecutor take a fresh look at everything that we know and could know is a very positive development. I respect the attorney generals decision. I actually dont think there needs to be an investigation. There has not been a showing of wrongdoing. So, i think this, you know, minimal investigation hes doing is an effort to sing for his super to appease donald trump. Hmm. Fred mccall away has more on this. Appears to be not appointing a special prosecutor but not rejecting the idea either. Instead hes appointing a respected government lawyer, outside of the washington b
This is the first time for quite a while i have been this happy. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. Were going to begin tonight with a summit declared dead eight days ago, now officially brought back to life. The president announced this afternoon he will be in singapore on june 12 for an historic meeting with north koreas kim jongun. The president called it a getting to know you meeting plus. The plus is what the world is waiting on, 11 days from now. The announcement came after the president met with a north korean envoy from pyongyang today. Paula reid is at the white house tonight. Well be meeting on june 12 in singapore. Reporter President Trump emerged from the oval office after meeting for more than an hour with north Korean Leader kim jonguns top lieutenant. And i told him today, take your time. We can go fast, we can go slowly. Reporter just last week, mr. Trump had canceled the summit after a north korean official