Payments received immunity, and now congress may investigate why more people werent charged. All right, paula reid, thank you. A former friend of the president lost a round in court today. Jeffrey epstein wont get to stay in his multimilliondollar new york home as he awaits trial for sex trafficking and conspiracy. Mola lenghi on why the judge denied bail. Reporter calling him a threat to the public, judge Richard Berman ordered Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trafficking young girls, held in jail until trial. Berman said part of the reason he denied bail was the testimony of two women who said epstein abused them and said they would be afraid if he was released. One, courtney wild said epstein abused her in florida when she was 16 years old. If you are a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, then you know what i know. He will never stop sexually abusing children until he is in jail. Reporter prosecutors argue if granted bail, the 66yearold was a significant flight risk, pointing to what they fou
Sleeker than ever, but does it measure up early today starts right now good friday morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A dangerous heat wave is hovering over much of the country. Triple digit temperatures could turn deadly this weekend new york city has declared a heat emergency and canceled the triathlon. Some of the athletes and event staff will distribute water and gatorade around the city instead. And lyft is offering free and discounted rides to cooling centers in impacted cities including chicago. Thats where nbcs blayne alexander is following the story. Reporter the relentless heat wave is showing no mercy from new mexico to new hampshire, 200 Million People are under a heat alert through the weekend. In chicago, a. C. Repair crews are stretched to the max and downtown, steam rising from sky scrapers after a morning rainstorm. Here in chicago, its the tale of two extremes. Just six months ago this exact spot was frozen over now its on pace to hit near record highs in
Whats before us, we can put that to a vote. We can discuss that. But we make the rules, we set the policy. So i would pivot back to you, commissioner or trustee makras. Do you want to amend the language . From what i can hear, it sounds like its a tweak of a few words. I didnt do it from an editing point of view. I would just say, if we go forward with it, i would ask the executive director to bring back how we would implement it. Fair enough. I would like to know how it would be implemented. So would that be, for example, say the Governance Committee was to bring back a separate policy of what constitutes undue influence and to incorporate training so what im what im hearing is that theres a desire to have the executive director talk about or identify how implementation will work. The way that i perceive policies is that its this board that is selfgoverning, and you also govern one another, and to the extent that you are cofiduciaries, and so you are setting the rules that you are the
Building on fire . Not quite the right video there, but one man decided to scale down a 19 story building. We will show you that coming up. First, welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is early start. Im jessica dean in for christine romans. It is friday, july 19th. Im dave briggs. It will be 108 degrees tomorrow afternoon. We will get to the heat in a minute. Start with politics. Get ready for round two. The lineups are set for the cnn democratic primary debate. We will get the rematch we were waiting for, at least some were waiting for. Former Vice President joe biden and senator Kamala Harris together on the same stage again wednesday night, july 31st. In case youve forgotten the last time these two tangled. Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose bussing in america then . No. Do you agree . I did not oppose bussing in america. What i opposed was bussing ordered by the department of education. That dispute over race tightened the polls.
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