A hospital here in berlin when of only is currently being treated ok so this poison this is novacek tell us about it and it did weve heard its name before in the last year arson. We certainly have the nobody is a soviet era. Chemical and what drove the nerve agents and as you say we have heard. Just in the past couple of years this is exactly the nerve agents and all the chalk that was used against the former russian spy says your script and his daughter in the u. K. Back in 28. Now so we have a poison and i we know its our military grade poison germany says its germany talking about demanding urgent clarification from russia over there so what is the kremlin saying. Well the kremlin so far has said that it hasnt been informed of these latest test results and hasnt been informed of a confirmed poising with the novacek nerve agents against novelli but as we were hoping to hear from the German Foreign minister he just said in the last hour that the the Russian Ambassador to germany was i
To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
State of emergency in florida, georgia, in south carolina. Matthew has already flattened buildings in haiti, cuba, and the bahamas. The reported death toll in haiti season 283 tonight. The Florida Governor calls the storm a monster. The National Hurricane center says matthew is extremely dangerous. Good evening. I am frank summerville. Im julie haener. We have a Live Team Coverage beginning with bill martin. A major hurricane, frank and julie, this hurricane moving up the Central Eastern part of florida. The eye if you have noticed it has already gotten larger, kind of an indication that the winds a dying down a bit. Dont be fooled by that. The big story, if the eye is bigger, youre going to see a larger storm surge. Thats the bigger concern for these areas along the southeast coast. Wind gusts back when gus up to 60 miles an hour. The system is still offshore. There is the hurricanes thats right now, 130 miles an hour wins, traveling west at 13. It will remain a category three through
Critical condition. Mccloud was not hurt in the crash. He was arrested for d i with serious Bodily Injury and a charges were up grated when sine died he expected to be back in court this afternoon on this new charge. 24is mcclouds second dui. Later today woman killed during a police exercise will be laid to rest. 73yearold Mary Knowlton was killed a week ago she was shot down a shoot dont shoot role playing scenario today gorda Police Department citizen academy. The officer is on leave. The but First United Methodist Church in punta gorda is holding a Public Memorial Service for her 2 oclock this afternoon. Knowlton worked punta gorda library, and is accepting donations has her memory. Some students excited for a new day of school in davenport ended up discounted as ken suarez reports they showed up only to yet. Reporter you know everybody is talking about citrus ridge, what cool place it is, you know its the only school in polk county that bases its curriculum on civics. Probably only
Preparing capabilities for terrorism, operational coordination, Situational Awareness we would consider that an allowable expense. Are you aware of local Police Department that is purchasing an mrap with their own funds . Im not and nt i couldnt answer that question. The local Police Department buys it. I was around here but according to my briefing here, the First Program was authorized in the Defense Authorization bill. Primarily about the drug wars. Is that correct . Thats correct. What were local Police Departments missing that they needed to be funded or given from the Defense Department to combat the war on drugs. Let me be clear. We do this because were asked to do this. I understand. What what equipment were Police Departments were outgunned by drug gangs so they were looking for protection and fire power. This was expanded in 1997. My note says based on lobbying from Police Organizations. I cant answer why the authorization was expanded. At the time it was for counterterrorism