Translator our team has requested an arrest warrant against jaeyong, Vice President of samsung electronics. The charges include bribery and embezzlement. The prosecutors put the vice chairman through 22 grueling hours of questioning last week. They accused samsung offering bribes of more than 32 million to two foundations. The foundations are under a long time friend of the president who expected of exerting inappropriate influence on her. The prosecutors say they can prove she shared some of the money with the president. Investigators alleged that in return for the payment it is president ial office supported a merger between Samsung Group companies. In a hearing before lawmakers last month the vice chairman denied his company gave money to her and her family in return for favors. Tokyo and washington are making moves they hope will defer crimes by u. S. Base workers in japan. Theyve signed a pact limiting the scope of protection afforded to civilians in japan. The agreement follows t
Were just getting right now. 270 southbound after shady grove road. In the main lanes we have a new crash with two lanes blocked. Westbound university boulevard left lane gets by that water main break and beltway looking pretty good. Back here with more on that crash on 270. 501 now. Were watch Dg Investments out of houston where both former president george h. W. Bush and his wife, barbara are in the hospital. Hes in stable condition and resting comfortably. The 92yearold went into the icu yesterday for a problem stemming from pneumonia. Barbara bush is also in the hospital. She hasnt been feeling well and was admitted as a precaution. There is no time table on their release. We are away from the inauguration of donald trump. Preparations are underway for todays preinauguration event. This is set up for make America Great again celebration. Live for us on Freedom Plaza with more on whats on tap for the day. Justin. Reporter good morning. Mr. Trump was in town for a few stops and back
This is a multilevel restaurant. So whatever it is has caught this mass rv response. For that first four traffic, melissa mollet. This is a real mess for a lot of people. Were talking about the complete ploesher. That is sut unand ti a lot of apparatus, a lot of firefighters. Somewhere in the area of 75 firefighters out there on the scene. You can see once my map turns purple, that is a major issue because it means we have nothing coming through the area at this point this morning. Were going to talk a lot more about this throughout the morning. Right now in us whats happening from above. Good morning. This was easy to spot. Because of all these flashing lights. Just a hiej response here. Friar avenue and piney branch road. You can see the smoke still pouring out of the building and the massive response with just firefighters all around. So again this is a big situation for a lot of thoems. If youre headed to the Silver Springs area, you really are going to have a bit of an issue. We s
Insided with a diplomatic flap in mexico. One day after trump signed an order to start the border wall project, president Enrique Pena Nieto said mexico wont pay for the wall and canceled his trip to washington to meet with trump. Trump told the leaders in washington that the decision was mutual. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel the planned meeting scheduled next week. Unless mexico treats the United States fairly with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless, and i want to go a different route. Then came word that the white house was proposing a 20 tax on imports from mexico to generate enough money to build the wall. Mexico and the u. S. Conduct 1. 6 billion a day in cross border trade. Critics point out that the huge tax would be passed on to american consumers. The white house is backing off on the tariff saying its one of a buffet of options. Amid all of the action on the wall and trump planning to hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents, this man, the chief of t
Insided with a diplomatic flap in mexico. One day after trump signed an order to start the border wall project, president Enrique Pena Nieto said mexico wont pay for the wall and canceled his trip to washington to meet with trump. Trump told the leaders in washington that the decision was mutual. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel the planned meeting scheduled next week. Unless mexico treats the United States fairly with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless, and i want to go a different route. Then came word that the white house was proposing a 20 tax on imports from mexico to generate enough money to build the wall. Mexico and the u. S. Conduct 1. 6 billion a day in cross border trade. Critics point out that the huge tax would be passed on to american consumers. The white house is backing off on the tariff saying its one of a buffet of options. Amid all of the action on the wall and trump planning to hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents, this man, the chief of t