Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is 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 in Lincoln Center in new york, john larson. Larson good evening, and thanks for joining us. Im john larson in for Hari Sreenivasan. French officials have confirmed the identity of the wouldbe mass shooter who terrorized a passenger train in europe on friday night and say he is an islamic extremist. The Officials Say Ayoub El Khazzani is a 26yearold from morocco who lived in spain until last year, and reuters reports he traveled to wartorn syria. Elkazzani was convicted of drug dealing in spain. Tonight, he remains in French Police custody. French Officials Say el khazzani, armed with an ak47 and a luger pistol, boarded an amsterdamtoparis train in brus
Drain your swamp over producer harvey Sexual Harassment scandal. Many saying he is not the only one. And nfl owner pushing back on their players flag protest. And now ceo based in puerto rico, saying youve got to drain yourself of incompetence and corruption. Thats what he calls it. Weve got all of those stories for you tonight. Welcome to risk and reward. Im elizabeth macdonald. Now first to your moan. The stock market rally still hanging in tight. Powering ahead. It is the strongest market in decades. The dow ending mixed today. But heres whats going on. Investors are enthusiastic as President Trump cuts back on regulatory state. That grew to massive proportions. More than 5 trillion in stock market values added to your 401 k s and stock since President Trump was elected. And today, the regulatory roll back, the draining of the swamp begins. Epa all right. Scott pruitt announcing that the Trump Administration will get rid of a big obama Regulatory Program to curve emissions from coal
Quit. A industrial spoken of 30 points. Nasdaq up 11 points. Major indices look like this. The ft 100 up a fraction but the cac and dax and germany down a fraction. Asia overnight markets higher across the board. Nikkei average in japan as well as the hang seng in hong kong that two thirds of 1 . Kospi up one and two thirds of a percent. New details in a deadly Las Vegas Massacre. Mandalay bay Security Guard was shot six minutes before the gunman began his rampage. Have a new Development Changes the timeline for investigators and what that means now in the investigation. North korea threat on the rise. Secretary of defense jim mattis joined the u. S. Army to stand ready. The latest on the escalating tensions. Many in hollywood remained silent over Sexual Harassment allegations against harvey one team. One major name for the fashion world coming to his defense. By donna karan is speaking out on behalf of the embattled. Jemele hill and how it landed her in hot water. Jedis rejoice. Hes a
Market is back up to momentum today with dow industrials set to up 13 points, nasdaq, s p up a fraction. Ftse is down a quarter of a percent. But the cac quarante in paris and dax index in germany are up. In asia markets closed mostly higher. Nikkei average in japan best performer up about 1 . Breaking news right now, new Orleans Police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. Shooting took place during routine patrol, we have the very latest developments out of new orleans earlier today. The devastation in california meanwhile spreading, the death toll from mass i have wild fires now rising to at least 31 making this the deadliest week of wild fires in the states history. Hollywood Sexual Harassment scandal expanding, head of Amazon Studios facing accusations and actress slamming at jeff bezos over twitter. Plus new questions over Harvey Weinstein, report saying that his contract essentially allowed for Sexual Harassment, the explosive details ahead. All the stories coming up this
For the first Big International environmental meeting since donald trump pledged to pull the us out of the paris climate agreement. Projections for 2017 suggest levels of Carbon Dioxide will actually rise for the first time in four years, with the big global economies having a major impact. The main cause for the rise in co2 emissions is the increased use of coal in china as its economy grows. In the us increased use of renewables means emissions are on the way down but not as quickly as hoped. Europe is also seeing a reduction in Carbon Dioxide but again only by around 0. 2 . In bonn, patricia espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, expanded on chinas role. China is one of the most important partners in this process and the world really recognises the role that china is playing in finding Innovative Solution to the problem. China itself is facing problems common to so china itself is facing problems common to so many china itself is