Experts now and analysts proclaImIng VIce PresIdent Kamala HarrIs vIctorIous after thIs Weeks PresIdent Ial debate. However, some voters are tellIng a very dIfferent story. But most for the very same reason. Im HarrIs Faulkner and you are In the faulkner focus. You hear me say It all the tIme. The pollIng, all of that can tell one story, The One that matters comes from the voters. Many voters, IncludIng our very own voters voIces panel yesterday, say the VIce PresIdent was not convIncIng on theIr very top electIon Issue, the economy. WhIle InflatIon may be easIng but the prIces of thIngs are under deep pressure from years of hIgh InflatIon under bIdenharrIs. And It Is not helpIng amerIcans who are crushed beneath the weIght of all of that. The New York tImes put It thIs way. What they wanted to hear and dIdnt was the fIne prInt. ThIs Is what they heard on the economy from Kamala HarrIs. When It comes to the economy, do you belIeve amerIcans are better off than they were four years ago
and it took her a few seconds before she saw the time on the big screen. only the shock hit her and all of the surprise and all of the athletes crowded around her in the pool and they were celebrating together. in the women s100 metres freestyle, two lengths of the pool as fast as you can, it was the australian emma mcewen with the australian emma mcewen with the super fast time in that and an olympic record by her. emma mckeon. gold for australia and a great swim for her. a couple of other ones. in the men s 200 metres individual medley, you may know that because michael phelps has won every olympic gold medal in that since 2004, but we finally have a new champion. china s xian wang. and in the men s 200 metres backstroke, that went to the russian olympic committee swimmerjenny ryall. 50. the russian olympic committee swimmerjenny ryall. so, rowing comes to an
coverage from the alaska earthquake where a 7 magnitude quake rocked the statist largest city in anchorage. about 300,000 people live there. so far no reports of anybody killed or badly injuries. police say there s major infrastructure damage across the city, this is minnesota drive. we re told it s a major road in anchorage. you can see parts of it s collapsed this morning. cops say it s a similar story across much of the city. with roads and bridges closed and a lot of buildings and homes damaged. a look here inside television station ktva, the newsroom here. we haven t gotten a lot of reports. they had a bunch of awards on the wall. they re on the ground new. producers gave us a look around. a studio camera there. they were recording when the after shock hit. we were outside until it completely stopped. that s when
some pretty deep ties with the white house? and why is it that the company with deep ties to the white house, the company that just got a big contract for a drug that s not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up we re going to talk with a member of the company s board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the los angeles times but since then have learned a lot more. investigator drew griffin is keeping them honest. reporter: it s just another good business deal for billionaire investor and big-time democratic political supporter, ron perlman. this major political contributor to both parties but particular friend of the obama white house owns the controlling shares in a company called siga technologies, and siga this year won a sweet $432 million no-bid contract from the u.s. department of health and human services that even a democrat says is a little bit too sweet to ignore. h
the big contract for a drug that s not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up, we re going to talk with a member of the company s board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the los angeles times but since then, have learned a lot more. investigative correspondent drew griffin is keeping them honest. reporter: it s just another good business deal for billionaire investor and big-time democratic political supporter, ron perlman. this major political contributor to both parties but particular friend of the obama white house, owns the controlling shares in a company called siga technologies, and siga this year won a sweet $432 million no-bid contract from the u.s. department of health and human services that even a democrat says is a little bit too sweet to ignore. how did this become a no-bid contract? was it justified as a no-bid contract? overall, i think we need to begin askin