Tower around 6 30. Nick smith is on campus now with the very latest for us. Nick . Reporter this is still a developing situation. In fact in a few seconds we hear the loud speaker behind me. That is Campus Police letting students know that the campus is indeed closed. If you look over my shoulder you see that theres a car blocking the gates. Only essential personnel are allowed on campu campus. Uc officials now investigating if today explosion is related to copper theft. This is what we know. About 4 30 this afternoon there was a power outage on campus. 2 hours later maintenance wor workers were rae storing the power to the campus, there was an explosion. Now that explosion caused massive power outage across campus. There were minor injuries. One person required medical attention and was transported to an area hospital. Right now there are 20 people trapped in elevators all of them have been located and crews are working to 43 them just moments ago i received an update from campus offi
Spirited discussion about the themes here. That ford on bloomberg surveillance, Arnie Sorenson from Marriott International has a global feel for the ebb and flow of American Global business. Ken rogoff joins us in a bit, a lot to talk about. Whereeems to be a davos the business crew, the corporate crew is taking over the meeting. Corporations are everywhere. Hans nichols was showing the helicopters with london tv, they are out. Joining youe shortly. We need to get to Michael Mckee with our morning brief. You are going to play weatherman. So coldannot avoid it, and so much snow on the east coast. Over in england, bank of england has released minutes showing that members saw no need to raise rates soon, u. K. Unemployment is supposed to be the trigger at a threshold of 7 , they are supposed to consider raising rates. Like 6. 5 in the u. S. The u. K. Reported unemployment is at 7. 1 , going to raise the question of what they do sooner rather than later. In tokyo, no change in bank of japa
Well, i was the president s chief domestic adviser, but it was my recommendation that created the u. S. Holocaust memorial museum, the excision that led to that. I the commission that led to that. But during the clinton administration, i was ambassador to the european union, and i did as undersecretary all the holocaust negotiations. I negotiated 8 billion of compensation from the swiss, the germans, the austrians for slave labor, forced labor, looted art insurance, property restitution and the like. And here im really trying to look at this from the perspective of someone whos been a senior Government Official but also a leader in the jewish community. And thats why this book has been endorsed by both president perez and president clinton. Stuart eizenstat, the future of the jews. This is booktv on cspan2. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our prime time lineup for tonight. Beginning at 7 p. M. Eastern time, nobel prizewinning author talks about the history of africa and the chal
Entry and were told hell be arraigned in federal court. Hes being held because the judge said he pose as flight risk and is a danger to the community. According to the sworn statement by the arresting officer, were learning more details about what went down last night at 11 38 p. M. When the secret Service Officer confronted the suspect. He said that tran was walking from the east side of the south grounds of the white house complex, he was walking close to an exterior wall of the mansion and was approaching the south portico. That is the door from the opposite side of the white house, the one that faces the washington monument. He was wearing a hooded jacket or sweater and was carrying a backpack. When he saw the secret Service Officer, he altered his course and began heading toward the south lawn of the white house. It appeared he scaled at least two barricades, one near the Treasury Department right behind me and then a road. As weve been reporting, tran told the arresting officer t
Being the u. S. Attorney in Southern District of new york would forever be the greatest honor of my life. Not because it came with zero warning but because back in november, President Trump actually asked bharara to stay on. Mf in fact, listen to what bharara told reporters after that meeting. President elect asked, presumably because hes a normer and aware of the great work that our office does asked to discuss whether or not id be prepared to stay on as the United States attorney to do the work as we have done it independently without fear for the last 7 years. We had a good meeting. I say i would absolutely consider taiing ostaying on and. I soak poke to senator sessionse nominee for the attorney general. He also asked i stayed on. We also have more breaking news for the first time, were now hearing President Trumps reaction to this stunning White House Security breach. We have bizarre now details on the fence jumper, the intruder at the white house. Lets begin with the firing of Pr