Like you said, just creepy. D. C. Mayor vince gray tying up a few loose ends before he leaves office on friday. Today he signed a few bills into law, one of them approving funding for a soccer stadium to be built at Buzzard Point in southwest. I know the purpose of this transaction is to keep our soccer team here in the District Of Columbia and create a new venue for them to play. Lets be mindful that it also will create a tremendous catalyst for Economic Development in an area that tremendously blighted. He signed a bill that establishes a memorial for a victims of the metro crash in 2009. Hundreds of officers paid their final respects to corporal jumedical clagget. He was killed when his cruiser went off the road and struck a tree. Stephanie ramirez was there for the solemn sendoff. Reporter the last this corp corporal jumedical clagget did was surprise people with breakfast, acts of kindness. Thats how family and friends tell us how the corporal lived, helping out the homeless. Even
Were thrown at them, gunshots were fired. The New York Times is reporting a private autopsy shows Michael Brown was shot at least six times. Kurdish forces have taken over the eastern side of the mosul dam. This as the u. S. Continues air strikes against isis. Do you think we are in greater danger now than before 9 11 . I do. The threat matrix is wide. Governor rick perry isnt backing down from the actions he took that ended in felony charges is. I would make exactly the same decision. Julian assange, the wikileaks a fast moving brush fire in the Southern California mountains. It was raging quick. We went from 10 to 20 to a Hundred Acres within ten minutes. Pope francis ended his visit to south korea. He challenged the north and south to find a way to forge peace. The ntsb is looking at a fatal Train Derailment near memphis. All that wow. Camera man of the day award. Keeps his shot the whole time. Look at that. An Alabama Family snagging a 1,000 pound reptile. Thats a big boy. And all
We will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. Then to narcoland. Now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever befo
We will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. Then to narcoland. Now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever befo
Last night we told you the widely held dow component was close to a deal to sell its real estate portfolio. What we didnt know is that that was just the beginning. The company is planning to essentially shed its entire finance unit. The first move is a 26. 5 billion sale of most of its real estate and mortgage portfolio to blackstone and wells fargo. But ge is not stopping there. The company will dramatically slim down ge capital over the next few years and buy back 50 billion worth of stock. That buyback ties apple for the biggest single buyback ever. Wall street loved the moves and sent shares higher by about 11 on the day. Mary thompson has our look at the deal and the new ge. Reporter in its most aggressive move in 14 years of ceo, jeff plans to slash the ge finance unit. Once a strength for ge seen as a drag now. We felt from an investors standpoint this was the right time. Reporter right time because low rates mean yield hungry buyers pay for these assets and selling them mean ge