jerry springer is the king of tabloid trash talking television in the united states. his show specialises in dysfunctional relationships and sex. his guests curse. they throw chairs. sometimes they fight. critics call it cynical and manipulative tv, but it s made him famous and rich. so, does he care? jerry springer, welcome to hardtalk. it s nice to be here. thanks for having me. it is pretty incredible. your show, from small beginnings in cincinnati more than 20 years ago, has made you famous around the world, and it is still going across america and internationally. how come? probably because it has a niche. when it first came on, we had never, at least in the states, i can only speak about what goes on in the states, we had never seen people that are on my show on television before. american television was primarily upper middle class white. all the sitcoms, whether it was friends or seinfeld or whatever, always well scrubbed people speaking the queen s english and all of
right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
illegally. he was here in my county. five people died in my county, and that s where my heart is, in my heart is. we protect our people to the best of our ability. a texas sheriff reacting to the latest deadly mass shooting in america. this time it s five people shot in their home by their neighbor. we ll have the latest on the manhunt for the gunman. plus, former president donald trump is making headlines for hugging a woman who served time in prison for taking part in the capitol insurrection and who has also called for the execution of members of congress. and we ll have an update on the efforts to evacuate americans out of sudan, now more than two weeks since the deadly violence broke out in that country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin with breaking news. another american bank has failed. just this morning, financial regulators in california seize
welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojeddah in saudi arabia. 0ur correspondent andrew harding reports. 0n sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim their own. several british families were on
we moved out of the city so our little sophie could appreciate nature. but then he got us t-mobile home internet. i was just trying to improve our signal, so some of the trees had to go. i might ve taken it a step too far. (chainsaw revs) (tree crashes) (chainsaw continues) (daughter screams) let s pretend for a second that you didn t let down your entire family. what would that reality look like? well i guess i would ve gotten us xfinity. and we d have a better view. do you need mulch? what, we have a ton of mulch. jpmorgan chase swoops in to buy failed first republic bank and likely preventing a wider banking crisis by doing so, and thus avoiding second largest bank failure in history and what it means for your money is next. police and protesters are clashing on the streets of paris and tear gas filling the air in the largest may day protest france has ever seen. we go live to france. and in texas, law officers are searching for this man accused of killing five people