The president ial campaign of 2016 as we approach the election, Many Americans say that the political outsiders like trump and carson over the career politicians. A year that americans are so fed up his politics as usual that many now favor unusual politicians. They keep reelecting incumbents over and over. It is really a bizarre moment. Based on a study, independent of the people of the bottom 90 have no impact on the actual congress. The opinions of the economic elite however, are reflected in the action of congress. What looks like responsiveness to the public overall, is really responsiveness to the economic elite. You see the middle class and the poor have virtually no influence over government policy outcome. While the Study Suggests the government does not reflect the people, it can also suggest that congress is susceptible to corruption. But not necessarily corruption by the traditional definition. It is not the petty corruption of trying to earn a few bucks on the side. The co
Trump in his race for the white house. This is risk reward. Im deirdre bolton. Of the five key primaries on tuesday, two big prizes, ohio and florida. Here is the count. Trump 459. Cruz 360. 1237 is the number to win the gop nomination. Without question, without dispute. Blake burman is with me now. Blake, what are your sources telling you about dr. Ben carsons endorsement for donald trump . Do they see it as a gamechanger . Reporter deirdre, this is unlikely to be a gamechanger. If we looked at this political season so far and what endorsements have meant, there is debate really on both sides just how much they actually impact or sway voters. Take donald trump for one example. Most highprofile endorsement before dr. Ben carson today was governor sarah palin. She was unveiled right before iowa with. Trump ended up losing iowa and lost alaska caucuses which is palins home state. Might this give him some sort of a boost . Sure. It can certainly help donald trump. But a gamechanger, that
And Peyton Manning makes it official today. Hes retiring after 18 seasons in the nfl. Manning leaves the game as the leagues alltime passing leader and the only quarterback to win super bowls with two different teams. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 7th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good monday morning, everybody. Were going to get started this half hour, of course, with the remembrances for nancy reagan. She goes down in history as her husbands most loyal friend and closest adviser. Their daughter patti davis says her mother died peacefully in her sleep at home. By all accounts the relationship she had with the man she called ronnie was extraordinary. Abcs david muir looks back at her life. Reporter above all theirs was a love story. Ronnie and nancy in the final words of his last big speech, he called on her. Before i go, i would like to ask the person who has made my lifes journey so meaningful, someone i have been so very proud of over th
Medics having trouble carrying off an injured player. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Well start with the breaking news, a commuter train derailing in Northern California, part of it landing in a fastmoving creek. Dramatic new video coming in overnight. That train careening into the water after going off the rails in bad weather. Rescue crews quickly jumped into action. Smashing a window, a firefighter frantically searching for passengers. The a. C. E. Train was carrying them from san jose to stockton in Alameda County. It went off the track and stopped right at the edge which was a blessing. Reporter new video showing the partially submerged car laying on its side water rushing around it. The train flipped and started seeing water coming in the bottom of the train and rising fast and we all realized we were fine except for one lady, she was pinned at the top end of the first train. Reporter officials calling it a miracle that everyone survived and passengers still in disbelief that th
Just a few. Rain is headed for the for the by is pay extra careful to the roads, we will get a view of what it looks like from abc7 news Amy Hollyfield. How does it look, amy . Good morning, matt, we have rain in met plume. That is where it saturdays started south of petaluma we get the wet weather. The windshield wipers are getting the first work out. It is more than drops were it is more than a diesel. It is a nice rain. Not sheets of rain but going to be a wet commute up here in the north by. We are headed north on highway 101 and you will want to give yourself extra time and make sure you also grab the rain gather. The tort bay is expected to get the most rain did you the storms. We will spend the money here looking at things and checking it out so stay with us. From highway 101. The army corps of engineers is releasing water from the lake with the Russian River expected foe rise quickly the next two days at 14 yesterday. It could be just shy of glad stage by saturday morning. The