Woodruff and, bringing poetry to chicagos schools. How the nations first Mexican American poet laureate is urging students to find their voice through verse. The poetry is there, rumbling in what they see day to day. We want to bring all that out. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the Trump White House has spent this day fending off questions about ties to russia, relations with germany, and staff shakeups. All of this, as the president tries to move ahead amid the turmoil. John yang has our report. Reporter it was the first oncamera White House Briefing in more than two weeks, but topic a was still the russian connection. Press Secretary Sean Spicer brushed aside reports that president ial
Woodruff and, bringing poetry to chicagos schools. How the nations first Mexican American poet laureate is urging students to find their voice through verse. The poetry is there, rumbling in what they see day to day. We want to bring all that out. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the Trump White House has spent this day fending off questions about ties to russia, relations with germany, and staff shakeups. All of this, as the president tries to move ahead amid the turmoil. John yang has our report. Reporter it was the first oncamera White House Briefing in more than two weeks, but topic a was still the russian connection. Press Secretary Sean Spicer brushed aside reports that president ial
Very heavy snow amounts, very strong, heavy downpours of snow at times in this. Back to our west, some breaks of sunshine for the afternoon that is coming and were going to be looking at those temperatures hanging around, 37 degrees, but itll feel like the 20s. Well talk more about the weekend coming up next in your accuweather forecast. Looking a lot better. Shirleen okay, thank you, bill. We are following a developing story in brooklyn where a serial killer was just sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for the shooting deaths of three brooklyn shopkeepers. And there were some fireworks inside the courtroom. Eyewitness News Reporter stacy seager is live in downtown this. Reporter reporter well, shirleen, it was really a bizarre sentencing. Were talking about a serial killer known as the son of sal, rambling and rambling for at least 25 minutes minutes during brooklyn. In the end the judge had the final say. Now, take a look at this defendant. He was convicted of killing three brook
They plan to be doing it all throughout the month and in many different transit hubs. Of course, well keep you updated on this. Thank you, shirley, a lot of attentions lately on slashings and stabbings in new york city. Heres the numbers. There have been 672 slashings or stabbings so far this year reported compared to 550 at this time last year and that is a 22 increase. L man trying to earn money picking up the man trying to earn money picking up fares is fighting for his life tonight. He dropped four passengers off at a club in astoria. The group entered the club, got into a dispute and ran back out to castillos suv and someone began shooting. Police say he does not have a livery license. Case. Was shot and i think thats the real deal. Licensed or not, whoever was in the pickup would have received the shot. He remains in critical condition. Doctors removed the bullet. The passengers were not hurt. The gunman is still on the loose. O. J. Simpson back in the news decades after being ac
Report. Jim miklaszewski, appreciate it. Joining me on the phone from kabul is New York Times reporter matthew rosenberg. Joining me here in the studio is nbc analyst journal jack jacobs. Matthew, do we know at this point whether or not this truly was an afghan soldier or someone who had stole an uniform . We have no reason to believe he was anything but an afghan soldier. This is not the first time this has happened. Its happened dozens of times. The widespread belief among afghan officials and coalition officials and american officials is that in almost the propond rans of cases, these are afghans who have grown disgruntled, alienated, and frustrated at the foreign presence in their country and have turned their guns on their foreign counterparts. Some of them have reached out to the taliban before doing so and said, sure, you know, you can come join us after you do it, those who escape. But in very rare cases has it been a taliban plant or a guy who wandered in. Its hard to imagine