Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
Along with statements from other witnesses and the victim himself, that contradict initial allegations that the officer violently tackled gurin, and slammed his head against the ground. The victim and all the witnesses clearly state that he tripped on his own and fell. Civilian witnesses also consistently stated that the officer did not slam his head. The officer in question should have called a supervisor after the incident, but otherwise, acted appropriately. The incident mostly a misunderstanding. Jc we are learning more tonight about the suspect in the new york and new jersey bombings. Ben investigators now focusing on a journal he kept. And his father spoke with reporters today. Newscenter 5s Shaun Chaiyabhat joins us with the new details, shaun . Shaun his own father feared he was a terrorist. To find out if acted alone. Accused of bombings in new york and new jersey the lone suspect arrested after a shootout with police is not cooperating. But investigators hope ahmad rahamis jo
Onus lets check in breaking news. Composite. Eurozone pmi comes in 51. 3. Mark the compass i compass it is the manufacturing report. The services has just crossed. This is the final rating for the month of august. 54. 4. The survey estimate was 54. 3. The prior reading was 54. 3. Services has come above the previous estimate. As a result, the composite has come in ahead of estimates as well as 54. 3. So, it is a good piece of data for mario draghi to get his head round as the ecb meets today to discuss policy. Later, to discuss his plans for q. E. Investors will want reasserts reassurance the ecb is willing to expand the q. E. Program, the deflationary forces. Lets see if there is any Market Reaction to that move in the eurozone pmi which is above 50, which shows expansion. The economy is moving in the right direction. Earlier this week, we had unemployment fall to the lowest level in three months. Bank lending is expanding since the ecb started q. E. In march. This is the intraday eur
Thursday morning. Today toal bank meets discuss policy. Expectations are that it will update the forecast for inflation, and giveve investors clues as to whether it will change easing program. Investors will be listening closely to any comments from mario about the slowdown in china. Hans nichols joins us now from berlin. The morning to you. What are we listening for . Hans if mario starts off his press conference in mandarin, you know it is a bad sign. But what were really looking for are two things. What do they do . Expectations, if they do change, what sort of pants will there be for what they may do . They could maybe talk about hinting clues, extending it beyond september 2016. When you look at expectations, the big question is how are they going to factor in the lower price of oil. When we saw they did in june, when they had expectations for 0. 3 . Look at a price in june, the price of oil they were thinking of about 63 a barrel. They hit all the way down to 43 a barrel last mon
More own a gun. Was it could . To like this . That is our show tonight. [applause] and now john stossel. John food can kill. People will eat the wrong stuff may get sick. Its while most everyone says we need government to set some limits. Make sure there is not bacteria in your food or dangerous chemicals. To make sure Food Companies tell you what is in their food and how fattening it is. State legislator felix ortiz has done that in new york city. He got trans fat man, calorie counts posted at mcdonalds and othe fastfood places. Now he wants a ban on adding too much salt. So you think he saved lives . Absolutely. John okay. A farmer. He grows vegetables dollar raises cows, chickens, and pigs. I assume you want the people who buy your beef and pork to be safe. So dont we owe him a vote of thanks for saving this . No. I would say youre killing me out here. Trying to get my stuff to market. This plethora of government regulations, you know, is killing our farm and our ability to come to