They call it deliberate. White suved with a speeding into a crowd outside a busy melbourne Shopping Center. People were sprawled out on the road. 14 were hurt, several in serious serious condition. There were some explosions. Facebook twitter and say a Shopping Center not far from that one in melbourne was evacuated after a series of detonations. They may have been makeshift bottle bombs. They tell local media there is no connection to that crashed in melbourne, and the all clear was given for people to return to the mall. Larry following breaking news where the race is on to save more than 200 people from a sinking ferry. The weather was fine when i left port but about two hours in, t passengers ran to one side. There isnd a time breaking news, you can be the first to know about it. Ownload our abcs seven news at today is the first day of winter. Larry we are not making the call just yet. Not as bad as it could be. Veronica it will not be windy today, but we will see our lowest high t
Well have all your sports including day two of the championship. We have big names washed away at st. Andrews. Hello, thank you for joining us. Germans lawmakers have given the go ahead to discuss a third bail out with greece despite the warning from its parliament. The german chancellor successfully argued that the alternative of an agreement is chaos with greeces exit from the euro. Al jazeera dominic kane has been following events in berlin. Less than a week after the marathon talks that paved the way for a third greek bail out ordinary narrowly the huge majority means legislation is easily passed but not this time. Friday was Angela Merkels 6 birthday, but publicly her thoughts were on the present and the potential for a rebellion of her own supporters. She sawed to soothe the fears of those who did not want more money to go to greece. I never had many doubts or worries that this path will be successful and that greece will have the strength to pursue this part. But one thing is my
Lets take a quick look at the markets after a long weekend not after a long weekend. A week. Nasdaq up 25 points and the s p up. A longer weekend than usual. It was longer for me because i wasnt here friday. Here are the big stories. Greek banks reopening three weeks after they close. Capital controls remain in place including limits on withdrawals and no word yet on when the stock market might reopen. Although some are trying to play this with the etf and trades here. Increases in value and a tax agreed to on the new bailout terms have now taken effect on things like coffee and tea. Well hear more from Michelle Carusocabrera pulling double duty. Lets take a look at asia. It was another volatile session. The shanghai stocks closing higher. But closed up just shy of 1 . There have been a media report earlier in the session suggesting the government was studying how to end its bailout. Well continue to watch the ongoing volatility in china. Every day there seems to be a new story there.
Robert muellers investigation into potential coordination between russia and the trump campaign. President trump responded to the news on Paul Manafort by tweeting sorry but this is years ago before manafort was part of my campaign. Why are not hillary and the democrats the focus . We are joined by the uc hastings professor of law. In the indictment manafort says they generated tens of Million Dollars laundered in but no mention of the president in this. There is no mention of election meddling. How big of a deal is this when it comes to the Trump Administration . This is a huge deal. The charges are incredibly serious and the penalties that they are facing could amount to many years in prison. In addition to tens of millions of dollars of forfeiture. Basically the lavish lifestyle might go away. These are huge incentives to get these folks to plead guilty. This might be going after a big fish to get many more under him . Or many above him. Manafort was an intimate partner of trump and
Claims this morning that the russians have damaging information on mr. Trump and that his lawyer met with russian officials and said Cash Payments to them. The lawyer says totally untrue. Trump angrily calls it a political witch hunt and fake news. The russians say they have no compromising material, but its all over the media. It will come up at the tillerson hearing and it wil be center stage at the News Conference. So, here is the state of political play. The left continues its full court press to discredit and undermine the trump presidency. They are in attack mode. You will see how trump responds. Varney company is about to begin. Exxonmobil chief Rex Tillersons confirmation is about to be gavelled to order. Youll expect questions, hostile questions from democrats on russia and Climate Change. We have liz peek. Judge andrew napolitano, spokesman rick grinell, Ashley Webster and liz macdonald. Well quote him on a couple tweets. Russia said the unverified report by political opponen