Of a new day if he wins. And also on the program for people are killed as gunmen opened fire in the austrian capital of vienna the government there is calling it a terrorist attack. The non pietists improve the sports news audience on football legend Diego Maradona has been admitted to hospital all those doctors says its not too late to cope with all of the details of this news though. Right now across the United States versus are going to the polls to decide if donald trump will get a 2nd president ial term or if joe biden will become president voting has been open for just a few hours now but already long lines have been forming already nearly 100000000 people have cast their ballots an early voting bracing breaking previous records now this hour 13 g. M. T. Polls have also opened and a number of states including iowa kansas and all important texas. Here is our team on the ground for the south gabriel is under as monitoring developments for us from new york kristen salumi is in phila
Good morning, everyone. Glad youre with is pup five things to know for this thursday august 17th. Devastating news again this morning out of hawaii. We have learned children are among the 111 victims killed in the wildfires and the police chief on maui said that number will go up. Only 38 of the area has been searched ed so far and more tha 1,000 people are missing this morning. And a Fulton County circled one day before primary voters head to the polls in more than a dozen states. New overnight a woman in texas has been charged for threatening the judge overseeing jack smiths federal election subversion case. Also this morning, more Young Americans are diagnosed with cancer. A new study says the rate is driven by women and 30 to 39yearolds. The coach for the womens soccer team is out after the devastating world cup. And you see balancing on the stones. Stunned onlookers watched. Eventually escorted away by a guard. Cnn this morning starts right now. You wouldnt you wouldnt do that . I
that the next press conference regarding the mass shooting in mass casualty event out in monterrey park, california, will take place 11 am eastern. msnbc will be covering it and i want to thank you for watching the katie phang show. we ll be back next weekend saturday and sunday and velshi starts right now. good morning, i m ali velshi. we are following breaking news right now out of california. law enforcement sources they re confirmed at least ten people are dead after a shooting in monterrey park just east of los angeles. ten others were injured and taken to an area hospital. it happened last night around 10:30 pm local time. li county sheriff s homicide captain andrew meyer described the scene at a press conference just a few hours ago. when officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals with location pouring out of location. screaming and the officers made entry to the location and located additional victims. the monterey park fire department responded
amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t
Create hes taking a lot of heat. This is an unquestioned big victory. This was a 2. 6 billion score. Take a look at this name. They first got into it in september of 2011. They built the stake over a course of a month or so with prices ranging at about 63 with the average price 55. After putting new direct orreor the board and being involved with that, they began selling stock 6 million shares in late 2013 at about 142 a share so theyre up about 90. Two more sales in the years that followed at a higher price range and then the 9. 8 million share yesterday. They made most of their profits, roughly 2 billion on the stocks performance but they also benefitted from a currency hedge. They will use the proceeds of the sale to make one or more new investments in the main Fund Although not necessarily through a special vehicle. The timing couldnt be better. The fund is down about 19 through july thanks in large part to the awful performance of val ent pharmaceuticals and then theres herbalife.