North Korean Leader. In south korea. Launches a major operation in the Sinai Peninsula and in hospitals on alert for casualties and massacred two journalists and jailed after uncovering what the government did not want the world to see. The u. S. Congress had approved a spending bill ending the Government Shutdown the house of representatives passed a new federal budget which must now be signed by president to the. Earlier the senate missed a deadline to pass the legislation which resulted in the second shutdown in just three weeks was blocked by a senator from Republican Party who opposed the budget deficit so lets get more on this now were joined by white house correspondent. She is live for us and washington d. C. So it has not been easy but the legislation has been passed one of both sides getting. Both sides are getting a lot of money thats what both sides are getting and thats where the contrary controversy was and thats why this Government Shutdown occurred because there was one
Reporter though there is still plenty of evidence of the parade left behind. The cleaning operation continues, we are detailing around the eakins oval area where there was a large majority of the crowd. Reporter friday afternoon mayor and city officials gave details of the event there were two total arrests one for assaulting a police officer. No real injuries to speak of. Reporter two people were stabbed one near art museum both are expect to be okay. There were five citations for disorderly conduct. To be able to have that type of an event with those numbers and to have as the mayor said, some small hiccups , you know, it is remarkable in myes nation. Reporter so what were the numbers . One crowd safety estimates 700,000 people attended, the head of the Cities Office of Emergency Management though believes, it is much higher. Based on our experience with other large events on the parkway, we feel that it was well above 700, certainly below some of the higher numbers we have seen circ
Handled better. Yesterday you echoed that the situation could have been handled better. Today the chief of staff said it was all done right. You can explain does the white house think the rob porter situation could have been handled differently or all done right . As i said yesterday, we come here and do the very best we can, and every day we can do better than the day before, and were going to continue to strive for that, were humans making us imperfect people so every day i think we can learn from the day before and striving to do better. Thats our goal certainly within our team and try to do everything we can to help serve the American People to the best of our ability. Reporter was it appropriate for hope hicks to be involved in drafting the statements given her relationship with mr. Porter . She was not part of a lot of the conversations that took place. I dont recall you being in the room to be able to say specifically what comment she made or didnt make. Shes the White House Com
On amazon in the Online Shopping wars. Aflac. And well show you the tv commercial starring Melania Trump and a duck. A good thursday morning. We begin with the showdown over a classified congressional memo pitting the president against the man he chose to lead the fbi. The white house could release that memo to the public as early as today despite what the fbi is calling grave concerns, and now a top democrat is accusing republicans of secretly changing the document before sending it to the president. Abcs Serena Marshall has been busy in the overnight hours following the developments. Good morning to you, serena. Reporter kendis, diane, good morning to you. And its a question of accuracy, National Security and transparency. And now that new claim that the memo the white house was sent is actually different than the one the house voted to release. As the white house decides if they will release the controversial gop secret memo, overnight the leading democrat on the House Intelligence
The Fremont Police department with how this sophisticated operation worked. Reporter they were definitely sophisticated. Their alleged crime activity spanned all the way to asia and more than 2,000 stolen goods recovered. It was sophisticated. It was organized. We estimate the loss to be around 2 million. Theyre described as a multimillion Dollar International burglary ring whose criminal activity spanned every bay area county with a final destination of vietnam. We had street level people actually breaking into vehicles. The groups demise began late last year after a dramatic spike into car break ins. It led them to several suspects at a Storage Facility filled with an estimated 1 million worth of stolen electronics. Thats what kicked off the investigation. Police uncovered what they now believed to be an international scheme. They would break into cars, steal Electronic Devices then sell them to a middle man between thieves. They would them then sell the stolen goods to people who wo