This is bbc world news america. Funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation. Newmans own foundation, giving all profits from newmans own to charity and pursuing the common good. Kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And aruba tourism authority. Planning a vacation escape thats relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. You can find it here, in aruba. Families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm, sunny days, cooling trade winds, and the crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. Knows. W bbc world tim reporting from washington. I am tim willcox. First, he sacked him. Now, President Trump issues a warning to the former fbi director. Days after james comey was dismissed, the firestorm continues to grow. Global cyber attack hits multiple countries. British hospital
Good evening, everybody. Please find your seats. Good evening. Thanks for setting up this wonderful event. Mr. Robinson, members of the board, alumni in attendance, students, and ladies and gentlemen. For me, it is a pleasure and an honor to be able to open this event today. I am pleased to see so many faces. Some fairly young faces. And i am particularly pleased knowing the students today do not necessarily cherish things that happened 30 years ago. Be it jon bon jovi or George Michael or dirty dancing, there have been cooler periods in history than the 1980s. That is what my children keep reminding me. This is, however, different. With president reagans speech [speaking german] from president kennedys visit, might be better known in germany and the u. S. Foreign policy nerds know that there is nothing like president reagans addressing withtarygeneral gorbachev his call to tear down this wall. Interestingly, the speech received very little coverage at the time. However, the chancellor
Percentage point the shanghai up by 0. 4 . In europe in the early trading, you will see green arrows across most of the major indices. The dax is up by a half percentage point, the cac in france up by a quarter percentage point crude oil prices which were up sharply yesterday, are down by two cents. Wti about 47. A couple big stories were watching this morning. Shares of tmobile are moving higher the Company Reported earnings of 67 Cents Per Share beating estimates of 29 cents. Revenue Beat Estimates tmobile added 1. 9 million new cust nomers in the quarter. Facebook confirming its working on a subscription feature to let publishers charge for stories on the social media site this could take pressure off of them in terms of the battle with the news industry. The pay wall will be available through instant articles starting in october. It would likely kick in after a user reads ten articles in a month. Facebook shares up 15 . On the wall street agenda another flood of Earnings Report abb
Struggling Department Store and its competitors. And is trading and business about to come to a grinding halt o. J. Simpsons parole hearing is set to start will the world are watching just like they did when the verdict in his murder trial came down . Power lunch starts right now six months. Feels like yesterday welcome to power lunch. Stocks carving out small gains s p and nasdaq and russell 2000 setting intraday highs even though the moves are small nasdaq trying for a tenth straight day of gains. Well explain home depot coming up. Plus, a ton of big names hitting new alltime highs amazon over and over again, there they are carnival, priceline, Royal Caribbean among them melissa . Here is what is happening at this hour. The Justice Department is dropping a penalty against Harley Davidson for not selling illegal aftermarket devices that causes vehicles to emit too much pollution different story for exxon. They are charged with violating charges against russia while Rex Tillerson was t
Battling the blaze and the new excessive heat warnings in the east. And decision day. O. J. Simpson hours away from learning his fate. Will the former football star soon walk free after nine years behind bars . Ron goldmans father fred and sister kim are here live in an abc news exclusive. And we do say good morning, america. A lot of news to get to this thursday morning and so many well wishes going out to john mccain and we add ours. Yeah, what a giant john mccain has been. The man at the center of American Life for more than 50 years, prisoner of war in vietnam, republican candidate for president , elder statesman of senate. He had been experiencing double vision. Difficult moments he had at the James Comey Hearing but they and thats when they bove his discovered the brain tumor. Overnight his wife, cindy mccain, posting this photo thanking people for their thoughts saying he is the toughest person i know. He is my hero. I love him with all my heart. Our Congressional Correspondent