University announced winners for the annual george polk awards in journalism. They talked about the challenges reporting during wartime domestically and internationally. This runs one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am john darnton the curator of the george polk awards and it is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor of the klein, li kimberly you president , for her unflagging support. I would like to thank my friend and colleague, ralph engleman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk, the cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Yeare now in our 71st having bestowed, as of today, 3125 prizes. Legacy,ng with polks our judges on a reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Dogged out those who are in their investigations, resourcefu
Been in the morning recently. Well check the temperatures and have your fiveday4cast. Joel. Were watching an accident southbound along wadsworth. Its shut it down at independence. Live pictures coming in from copter four. Two u. S. Service members dead, two others hurt after fighting the taliban in northern afghanistan. Nato made the announcement overnight. Leaders say the Service Members came under heavy fire during what they call a train, mission. This happened in the kunduz providence. Afghan police say 16 civilians also died. Here at home this is new for us, a state trooper survives a wild chase on i70, but things could have been a lot worse. Our jamie leary joins us live from the state Patrol Office in golden with the story. I understand it was a teenager behind the wheel. Reporter yeah, that much we do know. Were still waiting to learn was so desperate to avoid arrest that he intentionally slammed into a state patrollers car, using what police call an amateur pit maneuver. It sta
Records. More than a hundred women elected to the house for the first time in history. We didnt know what the results would be, but before the election we devoted a special panel, the firsttime women candidates to come on the beat. I should note three of the eventual winners on the Panel Discussed the importance of representation. Theres never been a native American Woman in congress. If youve always been represented in this country, you dont know what its like to not ever see yourself in any body of government. Im a working single mom of three young children. And its very much part of who i am. I think our democracy is only as rich and as vibrant as the voices that we hear in it. I was told youll never be seen as viable because you cant raise the money that it takes. Im proud to say that in both the primary and the general, ive raised more than any of the candidates on either side. That was candidate haines. Shes now congresswomanelect haines. Perfectly viable. What are the democrats
Including three who are now in congress, will be on the on the beat tonight. But begin with a bag of cash and a boxing glove and Campaign Finance violations all committed to allegedly help donald trump. This is quite a caper. And unlike the big stories these days, the core points are not disputed. Donald trumps guilty lawyer Michael Cohen opening up now about things he said he did for trump like spending money to try to rig polls online. Now the timing is key as im going to explain tonight. Because this could be the beginning of the process of Michael Cohen publicly coming clean for things he did for trump that we didnt know a whole lot about. And that were not necessarily charged in court. Or that still could be charged in court. Cohen prepping for the highstakes testimony to congress. Testimony that itself Top Democrats have cited as something that trump may be already trying to illegally interfere with with the public threats that appeared basically targeting Michael Cohens family.