Have a good show. Thank you, nicole. Welcome, everyone, to a twohour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. Im ari melber, we have our Special Coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutors star witness taking the stand. You may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. The former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. And recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against Defendant Trump. Big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. The star witness takes the stand against donald j. Trump. Form fixer Michael Cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. Cohen on the stand. An extraordinary showdown today in court. The man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying. The expresident coming
Woodhaven, 3 miles, and then academy torresdale six and a quarter miles it, tells you precisely where we are, and what the sign was. Was it an old sign coming down , new sign going up . Who knows. But it did not go according to plan. The reason this will be held up for awhile is that will just cut this in pieces and leave it around and then maybe come back tomorrow night and fix it. Theyve got a parade of flatbed trucks, maybe six or seven, i counted, theyve got two cranes in here, theyve got bucket truck they brought in, or a guy is attaching steel cables, so theyre really improvising here, bob kelly, and again, we came up here to do a hitandrun last night on route 13, where a guy was struck on his bicycle, and hit by a mercedes. You just see cars flying past me. So if people are frustrated because theyre running late now with 95 being detoured, folks, be extra careful, if you commute walking along the shoulder, walking along the sidewalk, because people are driving, like madmen, like
Go, go go big or go home go, go welcome to power lunch. As melissa mentioned a major average is bouncing back a bit from yesterdays big selloff as we take a look at the dow right now, we are higher by about 40 poin points s p 500 up by 60. Walmart is up over 2 on the back of their Earnings Report out before the bell. Meanwhile, cisco down sharply. The Company Giving i a weak outlook for the Current Quarter and announcing 1,100 new job cuts. Shares of Athena Health up 20 . Disclosing a big stake in the company and saying its shares are, quote, significantly under belly. Tyler . Thank you very much, courtney. Welcome, everybody. We begin with breaking news. Sue herrera as your news desk, sue . Right now we know one person has died, 12 others are injured after a car slammed into a crowd of people in times square. It was the height of the midday lunch hour. At this point, it is not believed that this deadly crash has any link whatsoever to terrorism. Officials with Homeland Security tellin
Stuck in a sinkhole on a rural county road in santa cruz. Skyland road suddenly collapsed late tuesday night. You see that blue van ended up inside that gaping hole, wedged at both ends. The driver wasnt hurt. With another storm today, people who live in this area are concerned about getting around. Its going to be a while before we get to use this road to go to town. So hopefully the other only road out of here stays open. So, crews say theyre not going to take that van out until they can stabilize the area around it. Caltrans now saying highway 17 will not fully reopen through Scotts Valley until monday at the earliest. Crews are working to clear a giant mudslide. There is one lane open in each direction. Youre looking at video of crews working through the night, clearing mud and debris from the northbound lanes and tuesdays slide hit in the exact same place where one of our morning photographers was hit by a land slide last month. He is still covering from that accident and talking
Economist john silvia will be joining us to kick things off. First, lets get to the guys in new york. Joe, my heart is breaking. I was traveling yesterday and out last night. I missed all of the masters disaster, been reading about it this morning, checking this stuff out. 11 inches . Missing . Ernie ells. Becky, im telling you yes, not you. Right. I read what he said this morning, and my heart really went out to him. After being so great you know what he said . He said, i got up to that first three footer for bogey. Number one is a really hard hole, and all the greens are really hard. Theyre so fast. The holes are cut so sharp. Theyre very scary. What he said really got to me. He said, i couldnt pull the putter back. I know that feeling so well. Its because hes still got the right hand low. I can tell you that ernie is going to be i dont think hes clawing yet, but i cant say for sure. But hes going to have to do something called the claw. Thats the only way. Also, what i found did you