Plus another white house shakeup. The president ousts his acting chief of staff and appoints another. Search for answers, the mother accused of escaping to hawaii as the nation searched for her two missing children faces a judge back in idaho. Well have the latest on the case. And driving dangerously. With an increasingly older population around the world, an epidemic of Car Accidents is popping up. Well go to japan to see the interesting tactics that the country is using to combat the problem. First, we begin this morning with a look at the days eyeopener. Your world in 90 seconds. Risk is changing by the hour. Any time youre in the public space, you have to know you may be at risk. Coronavirus cases spread in the u. S. We know its still spreading. If we cant figure out where the cases are coming from, we cant isolate and stop that spread. You have to be calm. It will go away. President trump signed off on 8. 3 billion in emergency spending. I like this stuff. I really get it. Maybe i
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by xq institute. Bnsf railway. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff tonight at the white house, President Donald Trump named neil gorsuch as his nominee to the United States Supreme Court. Here is a bit of what mr. Trump and judge gorsuch had to say in the east room of the white house. Judge gorsuch was born and raised in colorado, and was taught the value of independence, hard work and public service. While in law school, he demonstrated a commitment to helping the less fortunate. He worked in both harvard prison, Legal Assistance projects and the harvard defenders program. Brilliance being assured, i studied every aspect of his life. He couldve have any job, at any law firm, for any
Reporter a short time ago. Well tell you what he has to say about all of this at 6 00. We look forward to it. A south bay city has come up with a new plan for halting a very big problem, copper theft which is now a multimillion dollar issue statewide. In gilroy, Christmas Tree park, the home of the gilroy garlic festival, is one of many parks damaged by thieves over the past two years. As Marianne Favro explains city leaders are ready to spend big to stop it from happening again. Reporter this is Christmas Hill park where the gilroy garlic festival is held every year. Recently thieves stole copper wire from this box. That costs the city 145,000. Now gilroy plans to hire security guards to prevent that from happening again. In november, baseball season here at Christmas Hill park in gilroy had to be put on hold for two weeks because there were no lights. After the park was hit by copper thieves. Those thieves didnt just target this park but several others as well. By the time the wires
Series of claims they initially made with the firing, has now begun to unravel. President trump sat down with my colleague, the anchor of the nbc nightly news for a dramatic interview amid this escalating controversy. We have some brand new survey monkey online polling out right now this very issue. Sort of snap shot overnight numbers. Well get to them in a moment. Well begin with the highlights of this lester holt interview with the president which began with mr. Trump unloading on now former fbi director james comey. Look, he is a showboat, a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the fbi a year ago. It was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago. It hasnt recovered from that. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein duffle and for a recommendation . What i did was i was going to fire comey. My decision. You had made the decision before the recommendation. I was going to fire comey. Theres
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