I am not surprised. Bitcoin is a wild and crazy digital asset, but it is absolutely not money. Anyone putting real dough into this thing should tread very lightly. All those stories and much more coming up in the kudlow report, beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. This is the kudlow report. We are live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Lets start in with the markets. A lot of people worried how we would start off with the week following 500 points of near losses last week. Sheila is here with the details. Good evening, larry. We did have another down day in the markets, a carryover effect from last weeks selloff. Investors still concerned about the emerging markets we were just talking about and of course the fed and the tapering decision. Heres the things the decline wasnt as bad as you might have expected. Dow jones industrial average falling 41 points or just a third of a percent. S p 500 falling a half person today. Technology was the worstperforming group. Industr
Shorts and came out with nothing. Reporter there were no problems at the resort before sunday night. Melanie woodrow. They are caused by floridas geology. The state sits on land stone, a rock that easily disintegrates with water. And Derek Valcourt joins us with more on the decision in the case of porter. Reporter her attorneys argue argued that she was acting in selfdefense. At first carla porter blamed herself only in the death of her husband. Have you ever seen him before . No, no. Reporter porter initially lied to investigators but then later admitted of hiring this man and four of his family members to shoot own kill her husband. What happened to the girl . She was just being really mean in the last four days. Reporter porter told the judge she endured verbal abuse from her husband. And her attorneys said he planned the murder in her own defense. But prosecutorred blasted back that carla porter was lying about the a abuse. They said she has hat 31 2 years to come up with the worse
Legal problems may not be over. Heres mark strassman. Reporter attorney general eric holder addressed one of americas oldest africanamerican sororities. The Justice Department shares your concerns. I share your concerns. applause and as we first acknowledged last spring, we have opened an investigation into this matter. Reporter Trayvon Martins parents are expected to follow civil suit against zimmerman alleging wrongful death. He would have to testify. What was in George Zimmermans heart . We sat down this afternoon with angela corey, the special prosecutor. While the jury was allowed to consider manslaughter, cory has been criticized for focusing on a murder conviction for the entire trial. Did you overcharge when you were pushing for Second Degree murder . I dont think that we overcharged. He killed a young man because he thought he was a criminal. And he should be held accountable for what he did. You wanted accountability. A manslaughter conviction would have put zimmerman behind
Civil rights charges against zimmerman. Today the attorney general promised only to, quote, follow the facts and the law. This case first came to National Attention when the Sanford Florida Police declined to arrest zimmerman believing that the Neighborhood Watch volunteer shot martin in selfdefense. Protestors at that time accused the police and zimmerman of racial bias. Now even after the trial and the not guilty verdict, zimmermans legal problems may not be over. Heres mark strassman. Reporter attorney general eric holder addressed one of americas oldest africanamerican sororities. The Justice Department shares your concerns. I share your concerns. applause and as we first acknowledged last spring, we have opened an investigation into this matter. Reporter Trayvon Martins parents are expected to follow civil suit against zimmerman alleging wrongful death. He would have to testify. What was in George Zimmermans heart . We sat down this afternoon with angela corey, the special prosecu
Normal life . This is a special edition of good morning america, George Zimmerman, not guilty. And good morning, everybody, bianna is on assignment, she is in london, paula favor arise is here on a busy sunday morning. We have complete coverage of the not guilty verdict. Its consumed much of the country. Abc news is out in force covering all the angles of the breaking story. We are going to talk to jose baez. He is no stranger to high profile cases in florida, and defended Casey Anthony. Martins father said even though im brokenhearted, my faith is unshattered. They are leaning on their faith. We will be hearing from their attorney. Matt guttman is in florida, good morning to you. Good morning. This case didnt start as front page news, it was a routine homicide that triggered a National Debate about race. As they filed back into the courtroom, exhausted after 16 hours of deliberations, it wasnt about race, it was about the law, the state didnt provide enough evidence to convict him of