berlin. tonight, the people from yemen bracing for more war. thousands of civilians in the keyboard worry as government forces backed by saudi warplanes advance on the river felt -- rebel held city. it turns to make a terrible situation worse. millions at risk of starvation. also coming up, another day, another mass shooting in america. 12 people were killed when the gunmen opened fire in a crowded

california bar. among the dead, a deputy sure who went inside to save lives. animated aiming for europe's top job is the front runner in the race to succeed mr. europe, jean-claude juncker, as european commission president. so is he, and what can change if he becomes president? also coming up, honoring those who risked everything to help others. nearly 80 years after an infamous nazi program against jews, a holocaust survivor returns to berlin to pay tribute to the people who saved his life. ♪ >> i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. we begin tonight in yemen, where pro-government forces backed by

saudi warplanes are closing in on the port city. a military official says the u.s. back saudi led coalition has launched airstrikes and a ground assault on rebel held positions in the city. the u.n. says the port city is vital to keep aid floating into the country. today, the world program plans to double its food assistance to overcome what it could fear -- what it figures could be mass starvation. the fighting shows no sign of abating. >> on the outskirts, yemeni fighters fire to houthi rebel positions. they make up some of the forces loyal to the exiled. they are backed by the u.s. led, saudi backed coalition. they look to recapture the city which has been in rebel hands

for four years. houthi fighters, who are backed by iran, have not been making it easy for them. burning tires, even explolosive, haveeeeen left behind. but t it is h hardly a matctch e coalitition's a airstrikes and ground assaults. over the last few days, dozozens of rebels and seveveral pro-vevernment soldiers hahave been killed in fighting around the town, according to local doctors. the saudi backed forces are already claiming victory. >> the buildings have been cleared, and the enemy fled. now we are advancing into the depths. they will give us the city peacefully or we will take it by force. we will take it. >> but they are still facing

resistance from locals. >> we are steadfast and will not move. enough with the enemy strikes. because they are striking us on the outskirts of the city. we are staying in the city. god is with us and with every muslim. >> life around the market appears to continue as normal. but while fighting is expected and that means the lives of the 600,00000 people who l live here an ever present danger. brent: for more on the situation now, i'm joined by zara, a spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross in beirut. good to have you on the program. today, the red cross and we are running out of words to describe how wretched the situation is.

how dangerous is it tonight for civilians in the town? >> thahank you for h having me. the bowels at the moment are becoming even more and more fierce as we speak. the clashes are ongoing and people on the ground are still hearing the sounds of explosions , gunshots, stripepes, and of course, the fear is rising for the hundreds o of thousands of peoplele that are stuck and trapped in the city not knowing what to do. they are scared of running a awy because of the intense fighting. while many of them have left and are taking shelters in pububc places sucuch as schoolsls and mosques and so on. in a addition, just in the pastt few days and today especially, there are important civilian infrastructures that have been hit or miss used as for military

purposes. and that endangers the civilians even more. medical facilities have ststoppd working. some of are partiaially wororki. the biggest hospital in the city is now cononsidered on the fronontline. there is an inflflux of wounded. there are missions insidedehe hospspital itself. the situation is reaeally difficulult and intensifying. brent: if i could just ask you, what is the red cross able to do on the ground right now for civililians? >> inside we c continue to suppt the hospital near the front line. we are also supporting the water authority to keep the services running. we are supportrting the peoplplo have fleled from thehe city y te outskirtrts.

i do some of installation, we had 40,000 people with food and other supplies. we are doing our best inside the city and in the surrounding areas to support the medicalal facilities that are also receiving an influx of wounded of the borders -- wounded outside of the borders. brent: it is a humanitarian disaster, a crisis. what is the biggest hurdle? can we talk about saudi arabia, authorities in yemen? who is standing in the we the most for your attemptsts to get aid to p people? >> thehe responsibilility fallsn all the people who are invnvved in this war and the coconflict n yememen. the e peoplele in yemen, resilie has reached its limimit so we cl on all partieses to respect cicivilians, protect the civilin infrastructure a as much as possible..

right now, the battles are fiercece. many thihings are happenining. medical l and medicics should be able to do their job and people should go to safetety what's needed. -- once needed. brent: joining us tonight from beirut, giving us an updatate on the sisituation in yemen. thank you. to the united states now and another mass shooting. this time at a packed country music bar in california. police say a 28-year-old former marine armed with a gun shot dead a security guard at the entrance before unloading his weapon into the crowd of line dancers. at least 11 people, including a sheriff's deputy, died. the gunmen was also killed. police have now identified him as ian david long. >> young people helping their injured friends and fleeing for

their lives. officers were called to a bar hosting a country music night for around 200 college students. a gunman had opened fire. the sound of shots caught on tape outside. >> i saw a gentleman walk in in a black outfit. a quick disguise. glasses, black shirt. just pull out a gun and started shooting. >> they are at the bar having fun, dancing and all of a sudden, you hear the bank, bang of the gunshots and it started going crazy. >> authorities are investigating the scene to identify the dozens of victims. theyey found the suspect deaead. they are also searching his home and social media for clues on a motive. among the dead, a sheriff's deputy who tried to intervene. >> the sergeant passed away at

the hospital. about one hour ago. it is a horrific scene in there. there is blood everywhere. >> in the aftermath of the attack, people are grappling with the pain of their community being targeted in what has become an all-too-familiar story. brent: we want to go now to jason. he is covering the story for us and joins us now from los angeles. good evening to you. one more have you learned about whatat happened in thousand oak? >> n not much mo d details h hag releaseded about exactlyly what happened inside the bar. we know, like yoyou mentioned befofore, thehe gunmen n pulledo the bar.. he was actually driving his mother's car to the bar. shot and killed the doorman before entering, and then randomly selecting his targets. apparently, he used a 45 caliber pistol, a glock 2 21.

the gun is legal here in calilifornia,, butut he had an extended magazazine so he canan carry more ammunition. those are not legal here in california. right now, we have just finished up a motorcade for the officer that was killed in the line of duty when he tried to stop the gunmen from killing more people. the coroner's office. now we have family members, about 50 to 60 family members, at a reunification center waiting to hear if the loved one are still in the bar because nobody seven released, or if they were part of the two dozen number wounded. brent: there have been conflicting reports that the government was a former navy veteran or a former marine. can yoyou confirm what he was?? > he e was a marine. he wasas a machine gunner in the marines. reports are to me thatt he went overseas at least once to

afghanistan. brent: are there any indications, any clues as to what couould have been his moti? >> not at the m moment. right now, the fbi is on scene. they are active figure it out like eveveryone else. ventura county is now leading the investigation because the fbi has not found any terror threat as of yet. they are trackingg down his social media and looking through anany technology they can. we actuaually watched them bring in thehese giant kits into where he lives. inside, there are these computers.s. anything they can use technology to track down. they are looking for digital footprints at the moment. brent: a tragic story y that we report much too often. jason on the story for uss totonight reporting from los angeles. thank you. >> thank you. brent: we reported last night on

u.s. president trump's latest tirade against the media. today, in an unprecedented move, trump revoked the first test of cnn's jim acosta. all this after the reporter tried to ask trump a question during a news conference. >> in the midterms -- >> here we go. >> this caravan -- >> this unit exchanged caused a seasoned journalist access to the west wing. a white house intern trying to grab the microphone from cnn's jim acosta. he had challenged president trump about his rhetoric to migrants and then turned his attention to the investigation into russian election meddling. trump blast out at jim acosta. >> are you worried about indictments? >> cnn should be assumed of itself having you working for them. you are a rude, terrible person. you should not be working for cnn. go ahead. >> thehe white house that accusd

jim acosta of placing his hands on the aide and suspended his press pass. >> that is enough. that is enough. >> part of me. >> cnn says their reporters being punished for challenging the president. the news network has called the move a threat to democracy. there were other moments of tension between the president and journalists. >> i'm not a big fan of yours either. >> i understand. >> just sit down, please. >> the standout marks an escalation of hostilities between the trump administration and the media. >> you are the enemy of the people. go ahead. >> over the course of the last several days of the campaign, sir. >> such a hostile media. so sad. you ask me. no. you rudely interrupted him. you rudely interrupted him. brent: earlier, we spoke to

scott griffin, deputy director of the international press institute in vienna, and we asked him what makes this incident stand out in president trump's ongoing batt w with the press. >> on n presidentt trump's agesession, agaggressive rhetotc to the press is noththing nenew. however, the d decision to expxl essentialllly journrnalist from the white house for asking aggressisive questions essentiay is quitete an escalation. i want to point out something that one of the e most disturbig aspectct of this incncident is t beautiful to itself bubut the wy in whihich the whitete house has tried to distotort the incidenty releasing a videoeo that was appaparently doctored by the conspira sitee info wars and ususe that to attack jimm acos's crededibility by accccusing himf grababbing inanappropriately t s younung female interern who was tried to take aa microphone. this is really actually one of the most disturbing aspect of the incident, i would say. brent: that was stuck in, deputy

director of the international press institute in vienna seeking with us earlier. all right. let's switch gears now. helena is here with business news. no surprises coming from the fed. helena: no surprises. the key lending rate has been cap radware it is and we will be hopefully speaking about that shortly. or not. we will be talking about that a little later permit sorry about that. brent: it is friday. helena: close to friday. we will be talking about the german industrial powerhouse of a company. it has told dw the germany industrial company is one of the companies that without a saudi investment. joe kaiser said business as usual was no longer possible with the kingdom in the wake of the killing. >> the fact is that we did not

sign a significant deal, which was worth north of $20 billion. that is true, but obviously, things go as they go. as always, make it clear, a competent partner of the kingdom of saudi arabia. we have more than 30 million mostly young people in the kingdom. there has been a lot of reforms, which have been initiated. so we need to look at all factors. the things in the kingdom, it is a very promising ambition and strategic concept going forward. so there is a lot of good things but there have been dark things. the way we have seen and heard about what happened in turkey is just not something we just move on to business. there has to be transparency.

there has to be justice. this is what the kingdom has promised to do. and we will see how it goes. helena: joe there, the ceo of the men's -- ziemens. also finding the outpost in its fourth-quarter earnings on friday. not surprisingly, the past quarter has proved a mixed. >> it is no longer profiting from its power play division, which has started to lose money. thousands of jobs have been slashed as the company's power and guest division is restructured. siemens announced profits for the last quarter slumped 46%. of the power and gas market is very challenging. there are structural overcapacity's and aggressive competition, which creates a lot of pricingng pressure, e especiy fofor the big gagas turbines..

other r divisions performed much better. at around 83 billionon euros, sales this fiscal year were slightly up on last year. net profit also increased despite the crisis in the power and gas unit. siemens says it expects the upward trend to continue. helena: we can now bring you the latest from the u.s. federal reserve, which has kept the benchmark lending rate unchanged on thursday. the move highlighting the continued strong performance of the u.s. economy, but also pointing to a slowdown in business investment. that is according to the latest statement out from the fed. it also noted that solid job gains, falling unemployment, and growing household spending, but they also signal there may be a further rate rise before the end of the year. german carmakers have agreed to spend up to 3000 euros on measures of their own choosing to get older, dirtier diesel cars o off the road.

that is according to the german transport minister. the 3000 figure is excited to cover hardware retrofits, which they say they are willing to carry out. rival bmw says it will not be retrofit. it will offer instead of to 3000 euros on trade in incentives. the news comes a week after vw customers filed a class often lawsuit, seeking full value for their diesels. cannabis stocks in the u.s. surged on the news that attorney general jeff sessions has stepped down. he was a major foe of marijuana legalization and rolled legalization allowing states to determine cannabis policy.cannabis companies got a next to boost as the state of michigan voted to legalize the recreational use ofof cannabis, which was on the state's midterm ballot. >> here in michigan, it has been illegal to buy marijuana for

medical purposes since 2008 as a painkiller for example. but only for seriously and terminally ill patients, so it is not a big market. but that is about to change. on tuesday, people voted that every adult 21 or over can buy and use marijuana for recreational use. this store in detroit was well prepared for the dayay with plpy of bongsgs on offer. michigan is the first state in the midwest to legalize recreational marijuana. including litigant, people can buy the drug in 10 states and the district of columbia. marijuana was banned 80 years ago when the federal government. overturning prohibition is a hot button topic across the entire country. >> i'm excited that people e ll have the opportunity to see a regulated market and all the opportunities that come with that industry. now it is a legitimate industry. >> an industry will to serve millions of potential new customers in michigan. cannabis stocks rallied after the vote and the news that

attorney general jeff sessions resigned. cannabis for twos are desperate cannabis producer -- a cannabis producer's stock went up. helena: back over now to brent. brent: let's talk some politics now. talking about the german politician who has sites set on the european union's highest office. today, the man you see behind me launched his run for the job of european commission president. he is now the front runner to take over from jean-claude juncker. >> a german hitting up the european commission. that prospect came is still closer to reality this afternoon. manfred weber will be the lead candidate for the conservatives in next year's euro elections. the conservative veteran won a decisive victory over his finni

sh rival. when you are elected with nearly 80% of the vote, it puts you in a strong position to take on the responsibility. i want to meet people and offer, that we have a clear idea where we want toto lead europe. has platform is a conservative one, playing of the importance of homeland and his christian roots. he had been criticized for preaching european values while not calling for the stridently anti-eu hungarian premier viktor orban to be thrown out of the party. that no longer seems to be the issue. >> manfred weber has made a brilliant speech, bridging the need for a sense of national identity and the white european -- wider european project. >> but he has not convinced everyone. he will lead a positive results next year and the support of national governments to make the jump from being nominated to landing the top job at the eu in brussels. brent: what would you do if

fascists took power? how much would you risk to help someone else? these questions make the difference between life and death for many people during germany's third reich. we met a man today whose life depended on the courage of another. >> walter frankenstein is a fighter. the 94-year-old travels to berlin several times a year from his care home in stockholm. he never wanted to return to germany. it was here that he was enlisted into force labor because of his jewish heritage. and it was here that he and his young family survived the holocaust. >> this is what i had to wear. and this is what i was later given to where -- wear. the medal is for my work with young people to do my bit to ensure democracy in germany is maintained. >> he is proud of his order of

merit medal. but he has long focused on honoring the memory of those who risked their lives to protect him and other jews in nazi berlin. >> i owed them the lives of my entire family. if it were not for them, we would not have survived. >> hans, a famous actor, was one of those who risked everything to help walter and his cousin. on screen, he often through the ladies man.but during the holocaust, he took on a different role . in the early 1940's, he worked with a lawyer to hide civil jews . they risked their lives providing places to stay and fake passports. the holocaust remembrance center has no honor them posthumously as righteous among the nations.

>> dear walter, ever since i have known you, and it has been a number of years now, you have told me he should be honored. thank you. without you, we would probably not be here. >> is real'ands -- israel's ambassador to germany presented the metals. for those that were honored, it was a most overwhelming -- almost overwhelming. >> i am only here because i happened to be related to hans, but i'm grateful to have this great person as part of my family history. >> only a few of the estimated 7000 jews who hit in berlin survived the nazi era. walter frankenstein is the only one thought to have mated with his whole family. >> hans immediately plucked up his courage and helped us from the start.

with clothes, food, and somewhere to stay. there were four pillars on which survival is built. infusions, no fear, good friends, and great luck. >> he says now the fight is to defend democracy against populism. he wants to take an active part in german politics by applying for a german passport so he can vote here. brent: after a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. stick around for that. ♪

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