you're looking at live pictures there coming to us from lansing. for days now, we have seen his victims come forward, one after another to confront that nassa did many years ago in some cases. we'll take you in the courtroom when nassar is sentenced by the judge. jean casarez joins us now. bring us up to speed, this is a momentous day in what has been a sexual abuse epidemic lasting rorter:hat's right. we're at the moment now the cour has broken but the next step will be the actual sentencing of larry nassar. olympic doctor here at msu state university for the athletic department, women's division. 156 victims of sexual assault have stepped up to the podium and that courtroom in the last week and have given their stories of exactly what happened to them of the sexual assault at the hands of larry that is sar. we also heard a timeline from these victims that in 1997, one of them went to the gymnastics coach at msu and said, i've been sexually assaulted by larry nassar and she says nothing was done. another victim said i wasn't born until 1997. it di

mecca winning national championships with acclaimed football and basketball programs but the east lansinged school also has a reputation it as a premier zichb nation for elite gymnasts around the country. >> it's known to be a power house place. >> in 1997, 16-year-old was under kathy clagis, it was a dream come true. that was until dr. larry nassar got his hands on her. she says she reported the abuse to the coach kathy clagis. >> she picked up paper and said i can file this but there's going to be very serious consequences for both you and dr. nassar. >> what's thsupposed to mean? was that a threat? >> i perceived it as i would be embarrassed and the shame of that type of accusation. and you know she didn't even tell my parents. the person she did tell was larry nassar. >> when you saw larry next what happen snd. >> i remember he came in the office, closed the door, sat on his chair and he reassured me it was a medical treatment, that it was to help me. and i said i am so sorry. it was a big misunderstanding and it's all my fault. >> you apologized? >> uh-huh. i hopped back on the table

you're looking at live pictures there coming to us from lansing.s come forward, one after

we have reports this morning from lansing, michigan, switzerland, syria and south korea.ords. i just signed your death warrant rang out across the country. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is 32 minutes past the hour. busy morning. the president is eager to swear to tell the truth and talk to russia special counsel robert mueller. he made that statement as he dropped by john kelly's office when his staff was meeting with reporters. listen. >> i'm looking forward to it. >> you have a date set? >> there's been no collusion whatsoev whatsoever. there's no obstruction whatsoever. i'm looking forward to it. i would like to do it as soon as possible. good luck, everybody. here's the story. >> do you have a date? >> i don't know. i guess they're talking about two or three weeks. i would love to do it. i have to say subject to my lawyers and all of that. >> the story following the president to switzerland. marine one landed in davos for the economic forum. we have cnn's jeff zeleny live with more. >> reporter: good morning, dave

. >> the very latest from lansing. >> had somebody listened to you, these women wouldn't have been abused. >> how did this go unchecked? >> when girls came forward and told an adult, the adults didn't listen. >> was there a code of silence just to keep the medals coming? >> all these people knew what he was doing? >> yes. >> tonight, we're taking you inside the closed off elite world of women's gymnastics. >> the parents are not allowed in the gym. that was the rule. >> the warning signs to protect your daughters from abuse, and those brave women who broke their silence. >> well, larry, i'm here. not to tell someone, but to tell everyone. >> this is "20/20." >> when i was little, i always wanted to be in the olympics. >> i wanted to be a collegiate athlete. >> to become a sports medicine doctor. >> my dreams were definitely derailed after seeing him. >> i feel like part of me has been robbed. >> reporter: this week in lansing michigan, 19 young pill, boarding a bus for the 20-mile journey from a courthouse to a community college. where our "20/20" crew and cameras awaited them. >> jennife

abc's linsey davis, leading us off from lansing, michigan, tonight. >> reporter: in the moments just before he learned his sentence, larry nassar, somber and sullen, turned to speak directly to his victims. >> your words these past several days, your words, your words, have had a significant emotional effect on myself and have shaken me to my core. i also recognize that what i am feeling pales in comparison to the pain, trauma and emotional destruction that all of you are feeling. >> reporter: the judge then read portions of that same letter nassar wrote to the court earlier, where he argued he didn't have the mental ability to bear hearing from so many victims. victims he says were after media attention and money. >> i was a good doctor because my treatments worked. >> reporter: his accusers say it was sexual abuse under the guise of medical treatment. his letter sparking outrage in the courtroom as the judge read from it. >> hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. >> reporter: even after more than a week of heart-wrenching testimony from 156 women and girls, nassar still wouldn't s

she is in lansing, michigan. >> reporter: christine and dave, we got the final numbers at the sentencing hearing. 156 young women stepped up to the podium to give victim impact statements saying they, too, were sexual assault victims of larry nassar and the assistant attorney generjegeneral has tol over 200 young women were sexually assaulted by him. this was a respected olympic doctor. students at michigan state university and athletes went to him to get an appointment with him. he would position towels so parents could not see what he was doing. at the olympic level, parents could not be in the hotel room. the last person to give an impact statement was rachel hollender. she was the first woman to go public in 2016 with the indy star. listen to her in court. >> i thought daily about the women and girls walking in his office and i wondered if it would ever end. i became a mother three times over and the fear that hung over each birth knowing i would be vulnerable in the medical setting cast a shadow over an occasion of joy. i held my firstborn and my two daughters. each time i did, larr

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. >> jon: lansing, michigan in the courtroom right now dr.asser the former usa team gymnastics doctor about to be sentenced for molesting the young athletes who were in his care under the guise of medical treatment. he pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal misconduct, could get anywhere from 25 to 40 years in prison. there you see the doctor with his head hanging down. his accusers have brought heart rending stories to the court about what he did to them under the guise of medical treatment. just awful stuff. larry nasser will hear his sentence from the judge and let you know exactly what he gets when the sentence is handed down. >> melissa: at least three people killed in an attack today in eastern afghanistan after gunmen stormed a children's charity and isis has claimed responsibility for this attack. david lee miller is live from our middle east bureau with more. >> melissa, the attack at the save the children's office in the city of jalalabad began with a car bombing. then the attackers stormed the building. according to one report

so they were coming in from the army bases in lansing and you name it. you know, 100-mile radius around the city coming in. and this was my first experience of what it's like to live in a city or a country where martial law takes over. it is absolutely -- >> janet, thank you for the call. and thank you for the perspective. steven henderson, she's referring to governor romney's decision about the national guard, put that in context for us. >> so the dpd is overmatched almost immediately because of this incident. there's debate in lancing about what to do. romney does eventually say, we've got to bring in the national guard. that actually makes things much worse. the national guard troops they bring are not remotely prepared for what they are encountering in detroit. and most of them are not experienced in any sort of urban area at all. and there's lots of stories of the kind of racial tension that they heightened with their behavior. once the federal troops arrive, which is later, that actually has a better i think effect than the guard did. the guard i t

she joins us from lansing, michigan, with more. handing down what she says is effectively and is a death sentence for larry nassar. >> reporter: that's right. and now in the last 24 hours, so much has happened. just one thing after the other. and what we're really waiting for at this point is will the michigan attorney general's office announce officially that they are launching an independent investigation, which could be criminal in nature? that will be the next thing to happen if it does. but what we know at this point is the u.s. olympic committee has launched an independent investigation. in an open letter to olympic athletes and others they said that they are going to a third party to have an investigation to try to understand how this could have gone on for so long and why it never came to the surface. they want to know who knew what and when. they're going to launch that immediately. they are also strongly considering decertifying the usa gymnastics, which is the governing body that they have for usa and the olympic athlete

. >> reporter: this week in lansing michigan, 19 young pill, boarding a bus for the 20-mile journey from a courthouse to a community college. where our "20/20" crew and cameras awaited them. >> jennifer, and morgan. >> reporter: but that's nothing compared to the journey they have been on for years, coming to terms with the abuse they say they endured. >> hello, ladies. >> reporter: they have come here to tell you their story. a story they say they couldn't tell for so long. >> i have to say as i sit here and look at the dpraup group of you, it's unbelievable to me that every single one of you was a victim to larry nassar and you're just a drop in the bucket. >> yes. >> for so many years you might have thought you were the only one. look next to you. you weren't. >> it's overwhelming. it's -- it didn't have to be this way. >> it is both incredibly comforting but also incredibly horrifying how many there are. >> reporter: their tormentor? larry nassar. >> hopefully this will be an educational experience. >> reporter: the once revered former team doctor for american gymnastics. a man from

since the first report by the indy star in september of 2016. >> brangham: matt mencarini of the lansinge journal. thank you very much our time. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: the departure of f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe opens up yet another high-level government post under president trump. in his case, it's being filled by the #3 ranking person at the f.b. but as our own lisa desjardins reports, there are still qui few other posts in the president's administration, that remain emp, one year in. >> desjardins: let's start big: the fedel government now has close to two million civilian workers nationwide. now let's focus. on the biggest bosses. there area few hundred key positions appointed by the president and approved by the senate. these arethe people who run our government day to day. and one year into the trump esidency, many of those posts are still empty. let's take 630 key jobs, all of them filled by presidentialo nomina and tracked by the partnership for public service. of those 630 top jobs, about 240 of them, right now, have no nominee. another 140 or so jobs ha

"bbc news," lansing, michigan. >> stay with us here on "bbc news"."ll to come, hopes and fears, pope francis speaks about the future for the people of peru. 1kwrrks >> demonstrators waiting for mike gating and his rebel cricket team were set upon by police dogs and attacked with tear gas. >> they called him the butcher of lyon. he's being held on a fraud charge in bolivia but the west germans want to put him on trial for crimes committed in france. there he was clause barbie. >> bathers came to this spot, a tide of humidity, believed by officials to have broken all records. ♪ >> welcome back. you're watching "bbc news"." the latest headlines. donald trump says he's making progress in avoiding a shutdown of the u.s. federal government after meeting senior democrats at the white house. and turkey's intensifying its shelling of a curledish militia in northern syria ahead of a threatened ground offensive. pope francis has visitted a remote rain forest region in peru to send a stark warning. the upon tip says the area and its indigenous communities are bei

. >> if we had learned anything from the nassar sentencing ins lansing it is too many voices of too manyad been unheard for too long. >> reporter: nassar former michigan state employee and gymnastics doctor for the u.s. olympic team was sentenced to 175 years in prison. 150 women came forward clipping they were abused by nassar. >> you stole my life larry nassar. and i am now taking it back. you were never a real doctor. you did not heal me. you only hurt me. >> former prosecutor william forsythe will now lead the investigation. >> how was he allowed to engage in this behavior for almost 20 years? how could he victimize so many innocent young girls and young women for that long a period of time and no one caught him and stopped him? >> reporter: the investigation coming a day after michigan state's athletic director announced his retirement and days after his president resigned. >>> will carr, fox news. >>> u.s. senator bob menendez set to be retried on bribe row and fraud counts. what will be the difference this time around? for starters there will be fewer charges after a judge last we

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this is the upcoming schedule, the big one in east lansing five days from now. >> clark: you look at maryland, 18 that could be fighting for an upper division finish as well. purdue has played consistently better recently than any other team in the big ten. michigan state has dropped a fair one 12 ohio state, and yesterday, indiana, because the big ten is not as strong as it has been in the past, skelly with a tough foul there. but because the big ten is not as tough as it has been in the past in terms of quality teams or at least highly ranked teams, you will not have as many significant opportunities to accumulate resume building wins. i mean, every win is important, but obviously there are some that carry more weight. so you just do not have the volume of those kinds of chance chances. not in the league this year as compared to other years. >> spero: first free throw from devonte green is good. we know what archie miller bought at day 106 years there. another college festival town, 8-10, regular-season champs the last two years. a memorable run to the elite 8 in 2014. >> clark: ba

the bbc's rajini vaidyanathan is in lansing, michigan, and joined us a short time ago. what exactly is u.s. gymnastics saying about the resignation of these officials who have been widely criticized for months? rajini: well, there is no mention of this ongoing case. they say this is just part of a change at the top. but of course it is connected to what has been going on in the courtroom at the end of the corridor from where i am standing. i've been speaking to a lot of the young women who have been sharing their stories in the past week, and all of them of course want to make sure that larry nassar, the man they say sexually abused them when they were much younger, is given justice. they want to make sure he spends life behind bars. but the other thing they want to make sure is that usa gymnastics is held accountable, because they believe there was in many senses a sense of enabling -- a culture of enabling is a phrase that one woman used, where usa gymnastics was given many complaints about larry nassar's behavior. he was the team doctor for the u.s. gymnastics team a

indication that that's likely to occur could still to mount many thanks dave mech respond in east lansing michigan on saturday as it will have a one hour special beginning it seventeen hours g.m.t. looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what to expect from his second here police in the u.s. of just a couple with torture thirteen stuffing children were rescued from the family hope some of them chained to the beds one of the children managed to escape and a look police in california as it was many on a hundred ports. a family photo appearing to show david and louise typin surrounded by their thirteen children those children ranging in age from two to twenty nine and now being treated in hospital police say they found them locked up in their home starving and in filthy conditions medical staff treating them spoke of the shock at what they in counted in the time we live and it's unfortunate to see that it's actually heartbreaking for the staff and. you just it's unbelievable what you see. police were called to this family home in paris east of los angeles on sunday they say a

it has been another very emotional day of testimony here at the court in lansing, michigan, as the survivorshave been speaking out as part of this sentencing hearing. i spent some time in the court earlier today. one thing i was struck i was the sense of collective empowerment that these young women now have, as they all come together and share their stories. the court was filled with some of these women who have now obviously grown up, they were supported by their husbands and their parents, as they all share their stories. some anonymously. i was speaking to some of the survivors as well outside the courtroom, and there seems to be a common thread. these were all very young women, gymnasts, who trusted larry nassar as a doctor. but when they went into that medical treatment room, he violated their innocence. for these women this hearing is very important. it's giving them a chance to have their voice and for action to finally be taken. president trump's former strategist steve bannon won't appear before a grand jury in the russia election investigation. us media are reporting that mr banno

the judge in lansing, michigan, told larry nassar, "it is my honor and privilege to sentence you."ith, that the 54-year-old former doctor was ordered to serve as much as 175 years in prison for abusing young female athletes. following days of searing testimony, the judge told nassar he doesn't deserve to walk outside a prison ever again. here's dr. jon lapook. >> i've just signed your death warrant. >> reporter: after 156 victims had addressed their abuser, judge rosemarie aquilana got her turn. >> your decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative. >> reporter: before aquilana imposed the sentence, larry nassar addressed her and his victims. >> there are no words for the depth and breadth of how sorry i am for what has occurred. >> reporter: judge aquilana did not buy nassar's apology, k.ading outloud parts of the letter he had written to her last week. >> "what i did in the state cases was medical, not sexual. the media convinced them that everything i did was wrong and bad. they feel i broke their trust. hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." >> reporter: judge tol

rajini vaidynathan, bbc news, lansing, michigan.ent trump in switzerland next week. both leaders are attending the world economic forum in davos. last week, mr trump announced that he would not be coming to the uk next month to open the new american embassy in south london. the prime minister of new zealand, jacinda ardern, has announced that she is pregnant. ms ardern said she and her partner were expecting their child injune, after which she planned to take a six—week break. she is now set to be the second elected world leader to give birth while in office, and the first to do so in almost 30 years. i'm not the first woman to work and have a baby. i know these are special circumstances but there'll be many women who will have done this well before i have. i acknowledge those women. i'm about to sympathise with them a lot, as i sympathise with all women who've suffered morning sickness. from hollyoaks to hollywood. that could become a reality for two former stars of the channel 4 soap opera. next week rachel shenton and chris overt

it's been another very emotional day of testimony in lansing, michigan, as survivors of larry nasser‘ i spent some time in court earlier today. one thing i was struck by was the sense of collective empowerment that these young women now have as they come together and share their stories. the court was filled with some of these women who have now grown up some of these women who have now grown up and supported by their husbands and parents as they all share their stories, some anonymously. we were speaking to some of the survivors is well outside the courtroom on one thing, there seems to be a common thread, these were all very young women, gymnasts, who trusted larry nassar asa gymnasts, who trusted larry nassar as a doctor but when they went into medical treatment room, he violated their innocence server these women, this hearing is very important, giving them a chance to have their voice and for action to finally be taken. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: president trump's former strategist steve bannon strikes a deal over the russian election inve

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rajini vaidynathan, bbc news, lansing, michigan. you are watching bbc news.ald trump says he is making progress in avoiding a shutdown of the us federal government, after meeting senior democrats at the white house. let's stay with that story now. i have been speaking to quentin kidd, who is a professor in political science and director of the wason centre for public policy at christopher newport university, in virginia. he says these negotiations are more complicated this time around. pa rt part of the problem here is that you have got three parties negotiating with each other. normally you have the republicans and the democrats negotiating, but now you have the republicans and the democrats and president donald trump negotiating, and they are not always on the same pagers. and that is part of the problem here, and so you saw chuck schumer go directly to donald trump to negotiate today, bypassing republicans in the senate. and that says a lot about the dynamics of politics in washington at the moment. now, the crux is, the breaking point is daca, the dreamer

rajini vaidynathan, bbc news, lansing, michigan. from hollyoaks to hollywood.opera. next week rachel shenton and chris 0verton find out if their 20—minute drama, the silent child, has been nominated at the oscars. actress rachel shenton wrote the film to highlight how sign language can change lives and cast maisie sly, a profoundly deaf six—year—old girl, in the lead role. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson has been to meet them. yeah, i mean this story is incredibly close to my heart. i want her to speak... the silent child tells the story of a deaf girl struggling to communicate. i think she'll be able to have a career in whatever she likes. rachel shenton, who used to be in hollyoaks, wrote and stars in the short film inspired by her own family's experience. she is a qualified sign language interpreter. my dad lost his hearing when i was younger, and he actually lived the last two years of his life profoundly deaf. and i saw then just how hard that was on a family, and i started to learn sign language. she made the film to draw attention to the f

rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, lansing, michigan.ord high. figures released this morning also show that pay has improved slightly. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity is with me. what do these figures tell us today? it's quite surprising. for years we are used to the number of people in work gruelling to new records. almost every month we hear that. last time we had the figures that stopped and there was a drop in the total number of people in work. a lot of economists were expecting that to continue. instead we had a rise in the number of people in work of 100 and 2000. it got up to 32.2 million people altogether. that was a bit ofa million people altogether. that was a bit of a surprise. 0ne indication ofa a bit of a surprise. 0ne indication of a tightening labour market. another indication is the demand for labour. if you look at vacancies, the number of vacancies for that a 17 year high of 810,000 people looking for work. when you get that combination, a high demand for labour and combination, a high demand for labourand a co

. >> if we have learned anything from the nassar sentencing in lansing that it is too many voices of too many victims had been unheard for too long. >> nassar a former michigan state employee and doctor from the u.s. olympics team was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. more than 160 women came forward claiming they were abused by nassar. >> imagine feeling like you have no power and no voice. you know what larry, i have both power and voice and i am only beginning to just use them. >> you stole my life, larry nassar and i am now taking it back. >> you were never a real doctor. you did not heal me, you only hurt me. >> former prosecutor william forsythe will now lead the investigation. >> how was he allowed to engage in this behavior for almost 20 years? how could he victimize so many innocent young girls and young women for that long a period of time and no one caught him and stopped him. >> the investigation coming a day after the michigan state's athletic director announced his retirement and days after its president resigned. >> a heart breaking end in the case of a missing 4

january 31st, 1917, robert lansing, secretary of state, received a note from the german ambassador tor forego every trade not agreeable to the powers, or too limited according to their arbitrary decrees. from february 1st, 1917, sea traffic will be stopped with every available weapon and without further notice." >> this message from the german ambassador directly contravened the german guarantee to wilson that ended unrestricted warfare after the sinking of the lucitania in 1915. germany's renewed aggression decisively changed american's attitudes about the war. on february 3rd, 1917, the united states formally ended diplomatic relations with imperial germany. on february 25th, 1917, the canard line ship laconia was struck by german torpedoes. the chicago tribune was on board and lived to describe the scene. >> at 10:30 p.m. there was a muffled noise. five sharp blasts, a signal to abandon. we walked hurriedly down the corridor to the lounge which was amid ships. we moved fast, but there was no crowding and no panic. we looked down the slanting side of the ship and noticed her water l

>> well, we're right here in the attorney general's office in lansing.a highly unusual weekend press conference that they called at the very last minute. and it is to talk about the investigation into michigan state university. now, up and to this point of time, there was never an investigation publicly into michigan state university. but today, they've called this press conference to discuss exactly what will happen. we do know they're going to announce the investigative team involved in all of this. it cannot be considered a criminal investigation at this point, i am told, but it can veer and become a criminal investigation by talking and gathering potential evidence during the investigation phase. now, some people that will be very happy to hear this the are the students of michigan state university. it was last night. i was at that rally. there were so many of them there and they're so loyal to their school. they believe in michigan state university, but they want new people in very high positions. they want a new beginning and they want an atmospher

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you have been watching a powerful sentencing hearing in lansing, michigan. judge aquilina sentenced larry nassar to up to 175 years. quote, i just signed your death warrant, the judge said. that 50-year-old sexually abused girls under the guise of performing medical treatment. just a powerful hearing. you see the prosecutor there hugging members of her team, hugs some of the survivors in the courtroom as well. the jge spoke poignantly. the prosecutor spoke poignantly. the defendant spoke very briefly, telling victims and survivors that there's no way, there's no way that he could apologize, find the right words for the pain, trauma, and emotional destruction he caused. paul, earlier in my career, i was in a lot of courtrooms. this was a wow. this was poignant from the beginning. powerful presentation by the prosecutor saying this must stop, the victims must be believed, this man must never set foot outside of a prison again. the defense attorney saying they've received death threats for handling this case. nassar said he couldn't find the words. the wrap-up

jean casarez, east lansing michigan, cnn. >>> nancy is with us.under of champion women and also a former olympic gold medalist herself. thank you, nancy, for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> of course. first of all, do you think this is the only case of its kind? do you think this is isolated or there is more to this? >> yeah. i don't think it's isolated and the reason why is because we had lots of women and girls coming forward and we just didn't believe them. and we didn't ask for hard scientific evidence that the procedures that larry nassar was doing was medically necessary. so, no, i doubt it, seriously. >> olympic gymnast aly raisman tweeted this. what do you believe needs to be next, nancy? >> yeah, i think in addition to looking at sort of who knew what when when it came to one person, larry nassar, i think we also need to look at the bigger issue of sexual abuse in club and olympic sports and seeing why didn't the usoc knack the same kind of child protection. whether it's boy scouts or girl scouts or ymca or police, athletically

we want to go live to lansing and bring in jean cassar else. >> reporter: alisyn, 163 victim impact statementsn read in court. we believe one of the final young women this morning will be the victim who was the very first to come forward to the indy star in 2016 saying she was assaulted by larry nassar and that allowed so many other young women to come forward saying me too. >> i am not weak. and i will not accept the feelings of embarrass. or shame. i'm leaving those here with him. >> the victims of gymnastic doctor larry nassar coming forward. many confronting their abuser directly, including 18-year-old emily morales. >> i wanted you to look at me. i believe in forgiveness, larry. you and i are human beings. we make mistakes. although you have hurt me, i want to forgive you and feel closure and move on to healing in my life. i want you to apologize to me right here. i want to forgive you but i want to hear you say you regret all the hurt you've caused. >> new brother breanne randall traveled from seattle to tell her story of being ignored by authorities after she reported nassar's abuse 200

. >> reporter: nassar's trial has been going on for months in lansing, michigan, but it wasn't until the last few days when dozens and dozens of women came forward with their stories that the nation really started to take notice. today those women heard from the man they say sexually abused them. >> your words these past several days -- your words -- your words -- have had a significant emotional effect on myself and have shaken me to my core. >> you saw nassar turn to the women in the courtroom as he read his statement. he did it three times until the judge told him to stop. more than 160 women spoke out about nassar's sexual abuse and the anxiety, the eating disorders and broken families that resulted from it. the judge praised each one of the women after they spoke. today she had no kind words for nassar. >> as much as it was my honor and privilege to hear the sister survivors, it is my honor and privilege to sentence you because, sir, you do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again. >> nassar was led out of the courtroom. the room burst into applause. a number of surviv

. >> watching things very closely in lansing, michigan, this morning.re continuing in the sentencing hearing for the former usa gymnastics doctor, larry nassar. victims spoke in court yesterday. we're listening to more victims speak out this morning. nassar has pleaded guilty to seven cases of sexual assault and women have described how he sexually abused them. many say it was when they were children. >> you used my body for six years for your own sexual gratification. that is unforgivable. >> you broke and shattered a lot of girls. >> meanwhile, prosecutors said they have scheduled 98 out of 125 victims to address the court through friday. accusers include olympian simone biles, aly raisman and mckayla maroney. 98 people expected to come forward. a staggering amount. >> terrible. >>> speaking of maroney, she had previously reached a settlement over her claims. that settlement would have forced her to pay $100,000 if she talked at the >> usa gymnastics said they would not go after they are. chrissy teigen offered to pay the fine if it was enforced. she

nassar learned his fate yesterday at the end of a seven- day hearing in lansing. >> sir, i'm giving you 175 years were 2100 months. i just signed your death warrant. >> the hearing included testimony from more than 150 women. nassar had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting 7 females between 1998 and 2015. but the hearing was open to all of his accusers including some olympic athletes. 2016 gold medalist simone biles said: >>> a few weeks after apple said it was sorry for slowing down phones it says they will release a software update but some need a faster fix. the new software update will come out in the spring showing the users the health of the batteries and if it needs to be serviced. the update will allow user to disable a function that slows down the iphones. last month apple admitted to secretly throttling down performance to keep older versions from shutting down. >> i feel they should do a better job of standing behind their products. >> they are offering discounted battery replacements but many customers are being turned away. apple says there was a battery shortage and the w

now a report from the lansing child and adolescent journal says that the societal and biological changesolonged the adolescent years from the ages of ten to 19 to now ending at 24 years old. >> that sounds a little odd to me. does you're definitely not done growing when you're 18 years old. i feel -- hopefully i'm not done growing. i'm only 5-foot four. >> reporter: navies is a developmental society she says that the societal move to extend the age bracket of adolescent is valid. >> most kids are not fully financially independent health care independent or educationally independent by age 19, right? they're still many are pursuing college and graduate school. and so they're really quite dependent on their parents or caregivers. >> in your early 20's you make a lot of mistakes and by the time you get to like 25, 26, you figure out more about who you are what you want to do with your life. >> reporter: the report highlights young people are also getting married and having children later than before. biologically the brain needs time to catch up as well. our brains don't fully develop until

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