Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Ditional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. This is pbs newshour weekend. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. The inauguration of donald trump as the nations 45th president is five days away. Today in washington, there was a dress rehearsal for the ceremony marking the transition of power from democrat barack obama to his republican successor. But at least 19 democratic members of the house of representatives say they wont attend, including georgia congressman john lewis, the civil rights icon who has served in congress for 30 years. Lewis said in an interview broadcast today he considers mr. Trumps presidency illegitimate, because of
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Egyptian and russian Officials Say there are no survivors among the 224 people aboard a Russian Airliner that crashed today in egypt. The crash happened in egypts sinai peninsula. The chartered airbus a321 had disappeared from radar 23 minutes after taking off from the red sea resort town of sharm elsheikh. All but three of the 217 passengers were russian; so was the sevenmember crew. The plane belonged to the Russian Airline metrojet and was headed for st. Petersburg, where relatives and friends of the passengers waited at the airport. Teams at
Supporting innovation and enabling urban progress. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening thanks for joining us. World leaders are descending on paris for the twoweek United Nations Climate Change conference that starts tomorrow. France will host more than 190 delegations and 140 heads of state, including president barack obama, who left today. The white house said today the u. S. And 18 other countries financing 80 of the worlds Clean Energy Research and development, will announce tomorrow they will double those investments over the next five years. Leaders are gathering in the h
This morning in court, Alex Tichelman stole a glance at her very concerned parents and sister seated in the front row, before her public defender announced that she would plead not guilty to the manslaughter, drugs, and destruction of evidence charges surrounding the death of former google exec, forrest hayes. Is there anything that you would like to say in regards to the case . Anything her family had no comment as they left the courtroom. But one of tichelmans attorneys defended his 26yearold client, saying that she has been demonized by the press and law enforcement. Shes like a wounded bird. You know . Shes not as demonized and bad as the media has made her out to be. Shes a sensitive kid with an addiction problem to heroin. Reporter the defense admits tichelman had an ongoing payforsex relationship with hayes and they did mix sex with drugs when they met on hayes yacht last november. But police say the boats surveillance camera shows tichelman injecting hayes with a lethal dose of
Nigeria. All of this really having an impact on the markets. The Global Markets tumbling after the president s address last night. The futures at one point down by about 100 points. We have seen some improvement, that there are still some pretty sizable declines this morning. Youll see those dow futures down by about 47 points below fair value. The s p futures off by seven points. This is coming after the markets closed lower yesterday. The dow closing at its lowest level since april. The s p 500 closing at its lowest level since may. So again, pressure this morning. This looks like a third week in a row of losses for the markets here. Also in europe, if you want to see how things are reacting, you can see the dax down by another almost. 9 of a percent. The ftse in london off by. 7 of a percent. And in italy, thats the only ed a vancor that were looking at. In asia, the nikkei suffering its worst deline in five months. A decline of about 3 . Shanghai and hang seng saw much more modest