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Coming up. The path to the white house in 2016. It apparently includes comments on president obamas religious faith from some potential gop candidates. Hey, there, everyone. Its high noon in the east. 9 00 a. M. Right here in the west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt from los angeles. We begin with developing news. A somaliabased terror group is issuing new calls today for terror attacks on western malls. The Group Al Shabaab released a new video overnight calling for westgatestyle attacks on Shopping Centers across the world, including the mall of america in minnesota. Now, it is the same group that claimed responsibility for the attack on a mall in nairobi, kenya, back in 2013. Already, the mall of america says they are taking the threat seriously and will have enhanced security. The department of Homeland Securi ....
Congress. Heading home, senator Bernie Sanders expected on the plane any moment now, his way back to vermont to continue recovering from whats being told what was indeed a heart attack. Questions remain over his health with only 10 days to go before the next president ial debate. Well bring you the latest in a live report. The new movie joker is nothing to laugh about. The thriller drawing big crowds in the opening weekend. This weekend. And movie theatres and Law Enforcement officials across the country are on high alert. Well tell you why. Lets get started. With this intriguing new headline, the possibility of a Second Intelligence official on the verge of filing a whistleblower complaint. New york times reports that has been interviewed as part of the corroboration of the first claims part of ukraines president. ....
Dominick, thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. always. have a great weekend. while those negotiations continues, the writer s guild of america is already on strike. its 11,000 members have been on the picket lines for the past two months. as that strike wears on, many other businesses are being forced to lay off their workers. cnn s natasha chen has more on the devastating ripple effect. yolanda garcia, a janitor, was laid off from paramount studios, shortly after the writer s strike began. fewer productions means less to clean. nearly two months later, she s collecting plastic bottles for cash. she s buying cheaper groceries and says she ll soon lose health insurance and worries about buying her diabetes medication. and now sag-aftra has announced an extension of talks over its deal with studios. while it s 180,000 members have already overwhelmingly authorized a strike. these actors could add to more ....
Two months into a crippling writer s strike, hollywood could soon see more picket lines. for now, the s.a.g. aag-aftra u which represents about 160 actors is hitting the pause button on a work stoppage. a contract between actors and studios had been set to expire at midnight on friday. but the union has agreed to push that back until the expiration now on july 12th, as negotiations continue. joining us with more, dominick patton, senior editor at deadline. hi, dominick. the actor s union, they have not been on strike against television shows and movie production since 1980. i mean, clearly, there has been a sea of changes in the industry since then. in some ways, is this clash inevitable, given all the changes that we ve seen? i think so. ....
Might trigger some violence as well at theaters. i don t think so. i think the rollout is one that was masterful, which is why you re about to see it break an october record and be the biggest opening of robert de niro s premier. it won the golden lion, it was shown at the toronto film festiv festival. thesk like an army moving up to the gates of box office openings c with this. the massive opening that might be over $200 million, this is iconic, this is batman cannon. we re looking at 80-year-old characters. are they highly effective? of course. look at some of these movies, but this one might be pulling some triggers that we don t want to see if you know what i mean. exactly. we ll leave it there, dominick patton, from deadline hollywood. i hope it doesn t become ....