Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. As about 5,000 delegates are descending on philadelphia for the Democratic National convention that starts tomorrow, the party is experiencing a change in leadership. Florida congresswoman Debbie Wassermanschultz the chair of the Democratic National committee quit her post today following the leak of embarrassing emails. Wassermanschultz who just yesterday introa geus Hillary Clinton an tim kaine at the party, had succeeded kaine as the party chair five years ago. Her resignation came two days after wikileaks released 19,000 emails some suggests officials worked to undermine the campaign of vermo
One of thet disrupters. Yahoo has agreed to sell its core business to verizon for nearly 5 billion. For yahoo , it not only ends a drawn out auction process, but caps ceo Marissa Mayers four year turn around effort. For verizon, it extending the companys digital reach to make it a bigger rival to google and facebook. Shares of both verizon and yahoo find the day lower. Julia has more on the deal and whats likely to happen next. Telecom giant, verizoa a hoo. Verizon hoping to combine data from sma aol and yahoo s ad statements to create an ad giant to rival google and b facebook. Theyve modernized the product line and weve gone mobile. Weve invented new forms of advertising. Weve driven towards the prog m guying, the buying push we see happening from advertisers and our user base has grown by. Verizon with its aol acquisition a owned coy tools and bring data about them, which enables more accurate targeting of a broader audience. Flat form. Yahoo , which is a content platform and verizo
West of the city, get out toward Delaware County, Chester County, northern delaware, around newark and wilmington seeing some steady showers again developing right now, a little bit dryer now in parts of the sent Central New Jersey toward shore points, dover looks to be in good shape but you can still see light rain all across the region. So anytime today you could run into a scattered shower, some good rain though yesterday, picked up 2 inches of rain in philadelphia, 1. 66 in wilmington, dover delaware over threequarters of an inch of rain but then lesser amounts north and west that is expect. Up toward Lehigh Valley we have a quarter inch but we may add a little bit today, to those numbers. Mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers, overall rainfall amounts, pretty much a tenth of an inch or less, temperatures in the 50s, to 60s say, and it is possible maybe a few areas seeing a brief peak of some sunshine with you dont second to see a whole lot. Mid 50s right now, 49 in mount pocon
And a cambridge ruck woshgs seriously hurt after falling 12 feet. It took about an hour for rescue crews to pull the worker out. The 30yearold worker was taken to mass general for treatment. The victim of a Sexual Assault at a prestigious prep school now stepping out of the shadows. They no longer wants to hide. She hopes by going public she will become a voice for victims. Brianna pitts has more. Reporter she was 15 years old at the time of the inciden she says shes not afraid or ashamed of what happened. She wants other victims to know its okay to come forward. They said that they didnt believe that he did it knowingly. And that frustrated me a lot because he definitely did do it knowingly. And the fact that he was still able to pull the wool over a group of peoples eyes bothered me a lot. Reporter breaking her silence this morning in an nbc. Route revealing she was a New Hampshire prep School Student sexually assaulted. La brie was accounted on three counts of felony Sexual Assault
Unconscious person pronounced dead shortly after. Neighborssay they believe the young girl was 4 to 5 years old and police are focusing their attention a van in a nearby apartment. Its still early in the investigation and we are working to confirm the identity of the victim and the circumstances. Renee and lena . Mikaya thmo a woman died after she was struck by a passenger train in cary. 156 people were on board the train, and none of them were hurt. Its expected that she stepped in front of the train deliberately to take her own life but investigations are still underway. Lawyers filed one last set of arguments over the voter id law with the Supreme Court. Rules different from what was used during the primary would confuse voters. Its not clear when the Supreme Court would rule. A task force looking at reducing opioid overdoses will meet today. They are coming up with ways to promote treatment and recovery. The News Conference is at 4 30 in front of city hall. The governor will be on