If you oppose it, 202 7488001. You can weigh in on social media. You can also post a comment on facebook. Post has aington special section, 12 pages, where they get personal. They talk about the lives lost, many pictures of victims of Mass Shootings. Of deadly Mass Shootings in the u. S. Has accelerated. People represented here died between the sandy hook massacre in which 20 children and six adults were killed in 2012 and last weeks attack in dayton. They account for one third of those killed in Mass Shootings since 1966. Thatare making the point this is just between sandy hook and this past week. If you look further into this section, they break it down yearbyyear. They begin in 1966 with the university of texas tower shooting. They also put names to the pictures. They list the names of the People Killed since 1966. 54 years, 165 Mass Shootings, 1,196 victims. This is about 12 pages long. Congress iswhat going to be doing, support for gun control is rising, but there is a chance they
health leaders in the uk are warning that there will be a struggle to clear backlogs and improve emergency care unless industrial action by thousands of staff is brought to an end. hello and welcome. china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top d
That fly zone reportedly being set out because now that mr. Trumps president elect, he will be making visits backandforth between trump tower and the white house. A federal grand jury has indicted former u. S. Congressman aaron schock of illinois on 24 counts including wire fraud. 35yearold republican was under investigation after a spending scandal. Houseigned from the last year. A global news 24 hours a day powered by 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. This is bloomberg. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading. At life from bloomberg headquarters in new york. Im scarlet fu. It joe im joe weisenthal. Scarlet climbing to a new record, bonds are tumbling. Joe but the question is, what did you miss . Scarlet president obama and donald trump had their first meeting today. President obama says that if trump succeeds, the country succeeds. We will be speaking with the conical phillips chairman and ceo to ask how Trumps Energy plan will affect his industry. And is the r
Jonathan no time to enjoy that in the markets this morning because it is deep red across equity markets. Equity markets down in europe. 1. 36 on the ftse 100 with a miners leading losses. S p 500 futures negative. Switch of the board to japan. Dollaryen, down by. 9 . Three years and a day since the kuroda experiment began. Yields in germany. You have to go to two decimal places just to get one. To thesis points days where yields were around five basis points. Wti down to 35. 64. What is happening in the markets. Stephanie i want to give you a quick headline crossing twitter. Really getting big and the content game, far fiat beyond 140 characters. They will be streaming thursday night games. Is this the kind of business that yahoo wanted to be in . David facebook was in discussions with this and they decided not to do it. Stephanie yahoo wanted to be in this and but for is a meyer is using a different strategy, needs to up their game, and they are trying to do it on the field thursday n
The United States is home to 5 of the wor 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. Many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. Our streets are safer thanks to the Brave Police Officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. But over the last few decades weve also locked up more nonviolent offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before. Thats one of the real reasons our prison population is so high. In california, efforts to reform the criminal Justice System are already under way. One year ago, voters passed proposition 47. The landmark law reduces certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also gives felons convicted of those crimes an opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Is prop 47 working . Joining me to help answer that question are george gascon, San Francisco District Attorney. Brandon martin, Research Associate for Public Policy institute