Spectrum, liz cheney on the right, joe biden, are warning on a near daily basis an increasingly dire terms that our very democracy is in trouble right now. I dont understand why one partys careen threatens to derail the entire american experiment, the entire republic. Can actually just look no further than what happened last night. Nikki haleys dorsment of donald trump is part of what has become a time honored tradition of Todays Republican Party in the trump era. Prominent republicans whose closely held private views about the expresident may not actually be that different from mine or that of any trump critic or any democrat. And taking all sorts of very public abuse and scorn from donald trump, including attacks on their spouses. Despite all that, despite everything he said about their families and everything they have said about him in return, they turn around and offer him their endorse the. Ted cruzs capitulation before the 2016 election after trump attacked his wife. Cruz said t
Announcer this is nightly Business Report with bouncing back . Consumers rebounded a bit in april. But retail itself remains a mess. What gives . Is the backbone of the american economy, better known as the american consumer, healthy or not . Taking the plunge. Home prices are not for the faint of heart right now. So what do you do if youre looking to buy your first home . Some of the best markets if youre looking to get in. And its the new retirement. Why senior women are making a strong push to be this generations golden girls. All that and more on nightly Business Report for this friday, may the 12th. Good evening, everybody, welcome. Im Bill Griffeth coming to you from the new york stock exchange. Tyler and sue have the night off tonight, so its just you and me, okay . Weve been telling you about the wreck that is retail, and theres another one today. First, there was a bit of a rebound by the consumer in april. Spending rose, albeit less than expected, but it rose nonetheless. Ste
We got a lot going on. Got a lot of trees down, roads washed out. I am definitely not going out in this one. Deadly storms slam the south. Violent storm system sweeping across southern u. S. More Severe Weather is possible this morning in alabama, georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Just hours before the new congress is sworn in House Republican voting to gut the independent office of congressional ethics. Paul ryan and Kevin Mccarthy opposed closing this office. Footage released of the suspect in istanbul attack. It was a nightmare. I have never seen it so crowded. Customs computer outage. Ac wasnt working. It was bad. Children died at their home in amarillo, texas. Baggage handler is okay after being locked in a small airliner. He was freed after a 90 minute flight. The bedding dresser falls on the toddler but his twin brother is there to save him. 6 million worth of jewelry swiped. A member of the audience tried to make off with the trophy. And all that matters. Everybody is talking
Without a woman. Women calling attention to womens issues including not working and buying from only women owned stores. There are rallies and marches planned for this day. Megan fitzgerald is at Freedom Plaza with one is just getting under way. Megan. Reporter guys, thats exactly right, this protest here is slowly starting to get participants here. You can see behind me not a big crowd at the moment but we are told that people are expected to gather here closer to 11 30. Thats when were told this protest is expected to start. They will then be marching to the white house. You can see a lot of signs and People Holding signs that say resist or stop the war on women, women rights are human rights. Youll recall this protest started by the organizers of the womens march on washington. Thats when over a Million People came out and demonstrated a day after the inauguration. They are asking women sol da solidarity. They are asking women to not shop. They are trying to demonstrate the Economic
From west to east, that will be about it. So right now seeing clouds, in old city, taking a break from showers, and it is 50 degrees, but 10mile per hour winds are gusting as high as 20 miles an hour, so thats really going to end up being the big thing today the winds. And we have 40s to the north every us, 30s in the mountains, and winds from 13, 16, 18, 26 miles an hour in atlantic city. Today we will eventually see sunshine, and it will take us to the lower 60s, but the wind will stick with us, and stick us, all afternoon, gusting as high as 40 miles an hour at times. Bob kelly, that will make for an adventure us drive over a bridge. We are already seeing the cameras starting to shake here this morning, live look, at an accident scene. This is the vine st. Expressway, as soon as you come off the schuylkill trying to get into downtown accident here, right lane, look at this fellow, got spun around, and this happened right around the same time we were getting that fine drizzle. So, th