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Fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. Last october brown scored a 156 Million Contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of 5. 10 each. She subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate caterer in atlanta with 11 employees. Did you really think that 11 people were going to do millions of meals . She told me she was experienced with this work and as time got on as time went on that she would be able to hire additional people to scale up. Reporter only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. Fema terminated her contract due to late delivery. Fema should have understood reporter fema picked brown after vetting her, even though she had no experience working largescale disasters. Brown has had five previous government contracts terminated for not delivering required food and her inability to ship products. Ive had challenges in that area, particularly because im so y ....
Have known more and he could have known more much sooner. Jeff . Major garrett at the white house. Thank you. Growing up, a lot of people judged me because of the way i look. I thought all asians were good at math. You all look the same to me. No, where are you really from . 9 11 was your fault. How do you see out of such small eyes . Go back to your country. I guess i wish that people knew. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. The flu is widespread in every state but hawaii and oregon. We have been highlighting places where the virus is hitting hardest. In arkansas 125 people have died this season. That is more than six times the toll last year at this time. Omar villafranca is in little rock. Can we lift up . Reporter 3yearold gibson heath has spent the last 12 days at arkansas Childrens Hospital fighting the flu. Because of his chronic lung dise ....
Your morning cup of coffee should be served with a cancer warning. Well take a look at the Science Behind the claims. And learn how starbucks is fighting back. And only on cbs this morning, parents of several Young Athletes abused by larry nassar come together to tell us how safeguards failed to stop the sexual predator. How do you guard from a doctor . Theres so much more to this that needs to be found out. Larry going away was just kind of like the first chapter in the book. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. North korea showing off their military prowess the day before the opening ceremonies. North korea stages a show of force. Vice president mike pence has arrived in south korea. Our resolve to stand with you, unshakable. A new scandal rocking the white house. Staff secretary rob porter has resigned amid allegations of do ....
The knee. Yeah. Reporter and youre running marathons. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. We begin tonight with a correction. That is whats happening in the markets. The dow plunged more than 1,000 points today, or 4. 15 . That puts its dow 10 below the high it hit last month. That is the textbook definition of a correction. Most of the drop came just since friday, nearly 9 . So what is behind this selloff . Here is cbs News Business analyst jill schlesinger. Reporter the last half hour of trading today was brutal. A more than 430point plunge, capping off a terrible day on wall street. It all started last friday, when investors worried that news of higher wages would trigger inflation and prompt the Federal Reserve to increase shortterm Interest Rates faster than expected. Higher rates could l ....