Tossup. Welcome. Lawmakers program, you are watching the Atlanta Press club debate series. , this is the general Election Debate for candidates running for u. S. Senate to fill the seat currently held by david perdue. In order to ensure everyones safety, the candidates and panelists are participating from their homes. The Atlanta Press club get a special thank you to georgia public broadcasting for helping to organize the online debate. T meet the candidates. They are in alphabetical order, libertarian chain hazel, marine corps veteran and cohost and producer of the rebellion podcast which analyzes politics from a local to global level. Democrat john served as ceo of inside the eye. Media Production Company that investigates corruption, organized crime and war crimes for International News organizations. Republican david perdue has served in the u. S. Senate, since 2015 before been elected to the senate, he sat on the board of five major corporations and cofounder perdue partners, a Gl
Ford ranger that may be involved in the drug deal gone bad on february 2. The main suspect Mark Cappello was arrested in mobile, alabama on valentines day. He will eventually be extradited to Sonoma County to face charges. More than a dozen Bay Area Police agencies are hanging out the help wanted sign for the first time in years. The Contra Costa Times reports retirements, layoffs and other departures have cut the ranks by nearly 13 over the past five years. The 13 departments are looking to hire nearly 500 new officers this year to fill those gaps. Pg e has capped a broken gas line that cleared out a city block in San Franciscos Mission district. The utility says a contractor broke the pipe at 24th and bryant while working on a sewer project. It cracked at a t junction so repair crews had to pinch it off at three places before they could fix it. That took about two hours. A broken water main is being repaired in north beach. The 85yearold cast iron pipe burst near filbert and mason ov
Performance. That charge brought strong denials from armstrong at the time. Hes got no proof. Its his word versus ours. Reporter but in 2011, another teammate, tyler hamilon, told 60 minutes armstrong did used banned substances, including the blood doping agent e. P. O. He took what we call all took. Really no difference between Lance Armstrong and, say the majority of the team. There was e. P. O. , there was testosterone. And i did see a transfusion, a blood transfusion. Reporter last month armstrong admitted the doping in an interview with oprah winfrey. I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Reporter despite the admission, armstrongs lawyer says the lawsuit is without merit. In a statement, attorney Robert Luskin claimed the Postal Service actually profited from armstrongs victories. Reporter armstrong and his attorneys tried to keep the government out of the case by offering a multimillion Dollar Settlement but the Justice Department turned down that d
Reporter well scott, unsurprisingly the opposition has released a statement condemning todays bombing and saying that the assad regime was to blame for this attack. Of course, the Assad Government saying it was, in fact extremist elements within the opposition who were responsible. But the meetings that are going on here in cairo among the Syrian Opposition are essentially to determine the conditions for possible talks between the Syrian Opposition and the assad regime. Those talks would likely be brokered by the u. S. And also by russia. Pelley emphasis on possible talks. Clarissa, thank you very much. Clarissa has another story for us tonight about some of the people who are suffering the most. A few of the many rebel groups are connected to islamic radicals and christians who have lived in syria for more than 2,000 years are now fleeing right next door. Reporter this convent in the mountains of lebanon is a refuge for syrian christians who have been forced from their home and their
Life for a 2006 shooting he had nothing to do with. A team of volunteer lawyers worked for years to prove his innocence. God blessed me with the dream team angels that brought me this far. Without them, without the innocence project, i probably would still be stuck behind these walls for something i havent done. First thing ross plans to do as a free man, have dinner with his mother. She got to hug him in court today for the first time in years. Im 77 years old and i have never felt like this is my [ indiscernible ] god is so good, he awesome. The man investigators think was the actual shooter was already in jail for unrelated crimes. New at 5 00 a fourth person has been charged with the murder of a south bay millionaire. Katrina fitzwas arraigned today and prosecutors identify her as a prostitute to previously worked for ravi kumra. She and three others are accused of breaking into his monte sereno mansion last fall. A second prostitute is charged with accessory to murder. The san jos