tee tad cummins is a popular teacher at the high school. >> everyone liked him. he was everyone's friend, mentor, helped so many people through some things. >> reporter: then 15-year-old elizabeth thomas is just making the transition from home school to public school. she says cummins at the time 50 and married with two daughters, takes her under his wing. >> he gave me a bible. it was just something from him. >> reporter: that kindness, even extending outside the classroom. taking elizabeth to church on sundays with his wife. did you ever think anything of their interactions together? >> it was like a father-daughter relationship, the way i saw it, too. is the way he would explain it. i caught her with our daughter sometimes. >> reporter: elizabeth's family attorney thinks he recognized she was a vulnerable target. >> he was specifically grooming this child for a very specific purpose, and that was a relationship. he chose a girl who was having issues because she came to him for counseling. >> reporter: cummins posting you're all my heart talks about. it was lov

, cummins sentenced to 20 years behind bars. in court thomas sitting feet from her former teacher breaking down in tears, her statement read in court. "you preyed upon a vulnerable girl and robbed her childhood. for the last two years i've been picking myself up piece by piece proving to myself that i am much, much stronger than you convinced me i was. elizabeth sitting down with me. >> i blame myself a lot but now i know that he is at fault. he himself made him do it. other people don't choose your actions, you do. >> reporter: in court wednesday, elizabeth calling his actions unspeakable, saying, your choices destroyed not just my family but also yours. the former teacher emotional, apologizing to his family and to thomas who blasted cummins saying, you act like you care now and that you're full of all this regret but where was any of that before? the two met when thomas was a student in cummins' health class. he seemed like a mentor at first, but thomas says the relationship soon became more sinister. >> it was fourth period.

>> reporter: first, elijah cummins explaining this decision. he said this is part of their efforts to oversee the trump administration. he said they're trying to restore accountability and transparency when it comes to looking into the executive branch. they're also announcing other hearings involving prescription drugs. he said that about the cohen hearing, he said i thank michael cohen for agreeing to testify voluntarily. i want to make clear we have no interest in inappropriately interfering with any ongoing criminal investigations and to that end, we are in the process of consulting with special counsel mueller's office so the committee will announce additional information in the coming weeks. they have some issues they want to try to resolve to not step on the mueller investigation any which way. there have been several committees that have wanted to interview michael cohen, senate intelligence committee, the chairman of that committee just told me yesterday they have been waiting to hear back from cohen for months waiting for him to come

cummins pled guilty and apologized to thomas and his own family in court. a statement from thomas read in court called him disgusting. >>> singer r. kelly is no longer just facing accusations of sexual misconduct, his former manager has reportedly turned g terroristic threats against the family of one of kelly's girlfriends.jocelyn savage's fa she's being held captive by kelly but savage denies that. in the meantime, building inspecters in chicago say they found code violations at kelly's studio including evidence that it was being used as a residence. kelly's attorney denies anyone was living in that studio. >>> sears is still alive at least for now. ceo edward lampert reportedly sweetened his offer to hold off creditors. he plans to keep 400 stores open with most of the 50,000 workers. lampert also wants to hold on to the kenmore and diehard brands. analysts fear sears is still losing money and may not be big enough to fight amazon and walmart. >>> so bill gates can afford to eat at the finest restaurants. he can also afford to hire someone to pick up tak

the tourists batted first after winning the toss, and were bowled out for 144, with pat cummins takingrs from now on 72 for 2 in reply with marcus harris 40 not out. intriguing test matches to keep dell might look forward to. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, will perry, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. —— intriguing test matches to look forward to. hello there. today's the day that our weather is going to turn significantly milder. if we look at the kind of temperatures we had thursday afternoon, low single figures fairly widely, but this afternoon, we will see temperatures pushing up into double figures. for some, it will be a jump in temperatures of around 10 celsius, perhaps even a little bit more than that in one or two places. and the only thing that has the power to lift temperatures so quickly so far at this time of year is a warm front. and there it is, pushing its way eastwards. now, along with the warmer air that will be coming with that warm front, we will see extensive cloud. quite low cloud with some mi

resigned in protest at a deal and being a long running dispute with macedonia over its name panos cummin else whose independent greeks party props up the government of prime minister alexis tsipras has long opposed the accord with neighboring macedonia which was signed by both governments last year. washington's ambassador to berlin has issued a stark warning to german companies over a controversial pipeline that was supplying russian gas to germany while bypassing eastern european countries richard grinnell reportedly wrote to several companies involved in the construction of the nord stream to pipeline reminding them that he was sanctioned on the russian energy sector grinnell also criticize the project on social media the u.s. has long opposed the project saying it undermines european security. all right let's get some more on all this and for that i'm joined by mark saunders from our news desk hello to you so exactly who did the u.s. ambassador write to and what was the content of his letters so u.s. ambassador. wrote to several businesses which were involved in the construction of t

with countries like france and germany and spain and italy are not places where people like dominick cummins can. and consensus can wait but not people who try to take you back you know a hundred is to an idea that they have or that they've read the know history books in their particular schools that they went about the greatness they think should come back and give us an adoring thank you thank you but after the break we told class war and ziggy stardust that spider from oz what he wouldn't see in the month david bowie would have turned seventy two. to have going underground. seemed wrong. just don't all. get to shape out. and in gains from. the trail. one song find themselves worlds apart. she still the common ground. zero officer. told you to get up off the ground serve began to get him down. and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man mislead essentially the officer. john. twisted away from the officer of the joy out of his group. they obviously did they kind of lunge for the web in one smith's and they would have been done she swung at the observations didn't hit him i never saw a

joan cummins reports. it was a university student newspaper that first published detail of a group chatls spoke anonymously to radio. students. today one of the girls spoke anonymously to radiom students. today one of the girls spoke anonymously to radio. it was sexually explicit. we were com pletely sexually explicit. we were completely degraded and dehumanised with so many intimate details about the girls as well. it was so far beyond just locker room talk. the post was revealed in 2018 and police decided no action would follow. at the university imposed sanctions. 0ne the university imposed sanctions. one student was expelled for life and two others for ten years. they have appeared and they have had the sanction reduced to a year. it shocked the student community. stu d e nts shocked the student community. students are questioning how you can reduce the sentence by that much and what are the grounds and what was said in the first place to have banned them 1a years. said in the first place to have banned them 14 years. many students we re banned them 14 years. many students were relu

s of mr cummins party are willing to support miss that super us as well so all calculations are that mr schippers is likely to survive confidence vote even by one sleeve involved in the parliament but my projection is that he will not be able to call clude his tenure in the office until late september and early elections are very likely now for end of may. all right we're going to have to leave it there good to get your thoughts on this a yanis could sue me to say joining us there from athens thanks so much of a little over me now the floods in south america become widespread in the press has rob to tell us about is they have a home to show you wonderful video of carriers swimming through it for him got it it's never less it is the case nor has not been seen as we mentioned yesterday in a good part of sudden. southeastern brazil and it's been raining or not the last two weeks as more rain to come in this forecast and they may well as for down to one is areas so you know people affected as well as a large farming area it does look as a dry spell in the finals argentina coming up it's

currently, cummins has completed six expenditure audits. we have one that will be issued in the next couple of weeks on your behalf. we are doing two construction closeouts audits. one of which we have completed and one that we are currently doing at p.n.c. we have a large audit at m.t.a. on their capital program delivery model. also under our citywide compliance audit program, basically, those auditses are really to ensure that we have appropriate city internal controls throughout our city on areas such as our financial related area, cash, inventory, different eligibility programs, payroll so forth and on. as it relates to our performance audit, we're looking at efficiency effectiveness and economy. those are the three es for government audits that we're responsible to do according to our government accountability office at the federal level. currently in that area, we're looking at the department of police accountability and san francisco police department use of force data collection practices, mayor office of housing below market rate i

with me now is gloria borger and elijah cummins. gloria, is this a total trump cave? >> well, yes, when you think about this could have been done weeks ago, that the democrats have been talking about reopening the government and let's have a discussion about some kind of immigration reform. the president said no, no, no, i need money for the wall. he didn't get money for the wall today. what was striking to me was that the president somehow today and my notes are not verbatim, but he did say that the democrats have finally acknowledged that having barriers, walls, fences are some kind of an important part of the solution. i haven't heard that from democrats. they have in the past voted for certain kinds of barriers as we know, but that's not apart of this new discussion, so i don't know where he's getting that from and also, he hung out this notion that on hanging this emergency authority over your head which you were discussing in the last segment is very questionable legally and that's an issue for conservatives as well because a lot of conservatives think it's an a

call it same with caterpillar, a few big global machinery stocks in this space being caterpillar, cummins, for example, and oshkosh specialty vehicles a big debate of whether we go to zero or negative earnings growth first quarter expectations just above 2% right now and if that goes to zero, folks, you'll hear a lot of people squawking. back to you. >> bob pisani. let's get to caterpillar shares tumbling on the weak earninear earnings and guidance. machinery and multi-industry analyst at j.p. morgan ann, welcome do you have a buy on this company? >> i do, actually. i did lower my price target today to $172 and that was a multiple lower 14 month on next year's earnings estimate as opposed to 15 month we have prior which would represent mid cycle. after today, we have to recognize that maybe 2019 is post-mid cycle, though, we still do not believe 19 is the peak where caterpillar is currently trading. >> you not only took down your numbers to basically match what the company is now saying but took down even, you know, the valuation that should be trading at is that just because you think it

committees that i have the honor of serving on both respectively with chairwoman maxine waters and elijah cumminsht, in particular. the republicans gave this administration a free pass and those days are over, so we will be pursuing answers for the american people. they deserve to know the truth and i'll be doing that in both capacities both with financial services and with the oversight committee. >> on that capacity, i want to ask you about the government shutdown tonight. nancy pelosi saying stay tuned. you today tweeted out this video, you went to the senate to demand that they vote to end it, obviously the senate bills both failed today. it all comes down to the wall. today the president said he has other ways, other ways to get that wall and he kept using the word alternatives. i wanted to play it for you. >> i have other alternatives if i have to. and i'll use those alternatives if i have to. we want to go through the system. we have to have a wall in this country. we have a lot of alternatives but we need border security. >> so he kept saying alternatives, alternatives, alternatives repea

things come out but one of the impacts of having the democrats in control as you just said is elijah cummins investigations on this, probably having a whole string of witnesses. so we will find out more about the circumstances that led to the rejection and the overruling of the career professionals who make these recommendations. >> he's releasing a statement saying the system is supposed to be a nonpartisan determination of an individual's fitness to hold a clearance,not an ad hoc approach that overrules career experts to give the president's family members access to our nation's most sensitive secrets. you set a sense that the subpoenas are on the way, jay. >> this is all really the work of one man, carl kline who is appointed in may 2007 and he's been the pentagon official for a few decades really since the reagan era, but he's now let through not just kushner's clearance but 30 clearances that were otherwise rejected by these white house officials. this has been a pervasive problem in this particular white house. to give you an indication of how unusual this is, it's only happening onced

i'm very sure that our elijah cummins is going to make sure that he answers all the relevant, important questions. what i want to know is since michael cohen was up front and personal and close to donald trump, just a straight up simple question, did members of the trump campaign collude with the kremlin and did donald trump know about it? >> uh-hum. if that happens, february 7th, until then congressman ted lieu, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up next, state of the union plan b. a day after speaker nancy pelosi called for it to be rescheduled, we're now learning about the alternative white house plans currently in the works. we have those details. also school lunches scaled back. food safety inspections delayed. marriage licenses put on hold. some of the real world consequences of this government shutdown including my next guest who says her coast guard family is hurting. >>> he joins me to explain why the turkish government wants him arrested and extradited. do not miss that. i'm brooke baldwin. and the golden retriever er are very different. they eat, digest, and process

that is the 6.7 cummins diesel noter to meant for hauling big things.how with the suv. it is packed with technology. this is for you, brian. the lexus rcf. this is the track car. zero to 60 in subfour section. carbon fiber, titanium exhaust. i will close it out with 700-horsepower in the mustang shelby gt 500. i am breaking this to you before the embargo lifts in five minutes. this thing is awesome. the design of this mustang is in incredible. 700-horsepower. zero to 60 in three section. a lot of cool cars here. brian: i can wait three seconds. steve: congratulations to genesis, ram, hyundai for vehicles of the year. ainsley: thank you, mike. you know them well. 56 minutes after the top of the hour. more "fox & friends." you both comfortab le. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. to help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the patience of a saint. sleep number is ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with mattresses by j. d. power. and now, save up to $500 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. only for a limited time