The most extreme manager was sentenced to seven years in federal prison today for his role in the emissions scandal. Oliver schmidt pled guilty to fraud. Led the office in michigan and covered up the scheme to cheat on diesel emissions test. One day after john conyers stepped down. Pressure building on minnesota senator, al franken to do the same. Same reason. Accusations of sexual misconduct. More than half of frankens fellow democrats in the senate want him out. Here is chief congressional correspondent, nancy cordes. Enough is enough. Reporter female senators led the way today lowering the boom on their friend and colleague. Probably in the best interest of a lot of people he resigns. Final straw a report this morning in politico, former democratic staffer said franken tried to forcibly kiss her after a taping of his radio show in 2006. Insisting its my right as an entertainer. Mashed his lips against my face. Leeann tweeden made an accusation, producing this photo of franken ape en
Wildfires burned out of control in Southern California, one in the heart of los angeles. There is no relief in sight. Conditions today are expected to be extreme. One fire official said gusting 80mileperhour winds could create unprecedent fire danger. About 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and for the First Time Ever a purple forecast has been issued for a wind index. That is the most severe warning. Kenneth craig is there where the most destructive fire is. Good morning, kenneth. Reporter good morning. take a look behind me. You can see what firefighters are dealing with. This fire has doubled in size from yesterday forces more people out of their homes. As thousands continue to evacuate, thousands of miles of fire, this man was trying to save a bunny from flames alongside the highway. After two days of massive wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres, res denltds have been told to embrace for the worse. Its going t
Note those win bars moving in straight out of the west in most case is here, so it is not necessarily the coldest wind but enough to notice it. It is enough to knock back for a wind chill value by handful of degrees. Despite these typical looking daytime highs you have to account for that brisk wind throughout the day in the sunshine, however throughout the day and we will keep that trend at least in the first part but there is a new storm system brewing far to the south and west but that will bring in potential for snow for some, looking ahead to the weekend. In the meantime chill continues to get reenforced, we will let you know, which day we wont break out of the 30s. I know. Katie, thank you very much. So we have live chopper three over an overturned box truck one person here has been transferred to the hospital, yikes, just take a look, ramp from woodhaven road on to i95 south. That ramp is closed to access i95 they have to use academy road. Then we have another accident, involvin
And the professor were physically attacked following the event. Ost professor Allison Stanger what is the famous middlebury protest . The story has been told many times. A Student Group, the aei club is aed Charles Murray, who rather controversial figure, libertarian scholar. Because the newly he was controversial, he invited me to ask in the first three or four questions. It went from there. In march. Ck the event was on march 2 and there was a run up to the event where tensions rose and rose to the point where they were whipped into a frenzy so that some student organizers shut down the speech that was successful. We had an alternative plan, we went to a remote location. In enraged some of the protesters further and that is rate got the incident where i was injured outside the lecture hall. Host Middlebury College is where . Allison Middlebury College is in the greenmount server mod, champlain valley. In some sense you can in part explain the reaction because it is a bubble within a
Become a reality and people are worried Palestinian Refugees are poor as you can see they live in socalled camps but these camps are neighborhoods and theres really no infrastructure and palestinians are denied basic rights theyre barred from working in many professions so lebanon really is not a country that has welcomed them and that has provided them with the services that they need that is why the refugees rely on Vital Services this is just one of many Health Clinics in the camp and theyre well also run schools they provide relief they provide shelter to the refugees that is why many of them will tell you under what is our lifeline and already the organization was underfunded it had to scrap a number of Services Already they used to have restaurants that provide hot meals that doesnt exist any longer and now with the new cuts theyre expected to decrease the amount of services they provide to the refugees Living Conditions are so bad that more than half of the palestinians register