i never wanted leanne to be seen as a victim, and i think this is empowering for leanne. is incredible, isn't it? definitely, yes. when you have discovered how brave she had been, i bet it didn't surprise you at all? not at all. leanne was just a fantastic mum. from being a little girl, all she ever wanted to be was a mummy. her daughters were her life, and she gave her life for leila in the end. she was just unbelievable. my little girl. she was fantastic. look, thank you for coming and sharing your story. sharing your pride. she sounds like an amazing person and you are right to be proud and thank you so much. congratulations to her and all of you. thank you. that's all from us today, here on breakfast. ben and babita are back from six o'clock tomorrow. have a great day. and good luck, mike, tonight on a strip dancing. —— strictly come dancing. this is bbc news. the headlines at 10am: a "politically motivated attack". downing street reacts angrily as borisjohnson is referred to the police watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman when he was mayor of london.

leann, have you had a chance to catch up with the candidates today? >> reporter: so, hallie, you heard from dan mccready just now. we caught up with him and that was exclusive to nbc where he's trying to dismiss this argument that he's part of the democratic party, which is too far left. now, let me set the scene here. i am at a polling place in a suburb of charlotte where really this race could be decided. at this precinct specifically, there are about 4,000 registered voters. about 1,000 have already voted early. but turnout is much higher than expected so far, especially for a special election. and we've talked to a lot of these voters this morning and we've heard a common theme president that the president is on their mind. >> i'll give him credit for the economy, but i mean, he's going off the walls. i want to live. i have little kids to live for. and i feel like he's putting our country in harm's way. >> i voted for dan bishop. >> why? >> because i think we need to continue along the path that we've taken in this country. i think president trump

one of our capitol hill correspondents, leanne hill, joins us. leanne, the decision to make this an address to the nation, i don't think we fully comprehended what they were thinking about until we saw what she just did. this is not a press release. >> reporter: no. >> this is her taking this -- trying to send a message that this is an extraordinary step, one that you almost never see in a lifetime. >> reporter: chuck, that was my takeaway sas well. the fact that the speaker of the house talked about a formal impeachment inquiry, that was gravity. that was something that was the most apparent to me. and what has really changed in this whole scenario. chairman nadler has been talking about conducting an impeachment inquiry for months now. as far as the semantics is concerned, it leaves us wondering what has actually really changed here. but what has changed is the speaker came, standing with a backdrop of american flags behind her, prepared remarks, talking about a formal impeachment inquiry. she's saying the president has to be held accountable,

leann lamonte. sf public defender's office. glide, laura sign, hillary brown, june bug and tak fatina. you have two minutes. speak directly into the microphone. if you have prepared written statements leave those with the clerk. no applause is permitted. in the interest of time speakers are encouraged to avoid repetition. >> hello. in the spirit of melvin bell high i want to use demonstrative evidence as my debate. i am the evidence here. i don't have a doctor in front of my name but i do have a ph.d. in drug addiction and homelessness. i was a drug addict for 20 years, 15 of those i was homeless on the street of san francisco. i had three sons on the street between fifth and sixth on market street. i have been clean and sober for four years. i know the programs today in san francisco have worked for me. i want to talk about why i am passionate about treatment on demand and i believe we need treatment on demand now. we live in a age in a society. it is now. when i was homeless in the 1990s i had a lot of opportunities and peopl

we asked abc7 news reporter leanne melendez to get answers. >> reporter: over the next five years all bay area bridges, including the bay bridge, will transition to all electronic tolls. nothing new for those with a fast track device. this device is attached to my personal credit card. i know it's the year 2019, but let's face it, not everybody has a credit card. in a few years all bay area bridges will transition to all electronic tolling just like the golden gate bridge did in 2013. we wanted to find out how it's working there. >> if you do not have a fast track and you crass the bridge, you'll receive an email for the registered vehicle. >> reporter: one of our viewers asked, what about the people visiting from out of state who have no reason at all to have fasttrack and the like? i personally went to a car rental company to find out what their policy was. i found out the big rental companies do have a tolling program but it comes with a fee. >> reporter: in this case, if you the just drive through, you would pay a $3.95 surcharge on top of the cost of the toll. as the golden gate

much.thanks very leanne garin's with your first word news.hrugged off as the tribes latest trade war -- shrugged off president trump's latest trade war negotiation. meanwhile, hong kong is reeling from another weekend of violent protests that disrupted the airports and train lines. joining us is derek wallbank in singapore. and yvonne man is in hong kong. derek, chinese stocks rallied. why were investors optimistic? think there has been a lot of happy talk that has gone on recently. one of the things you get is the idea there is not a furious escalation. you're not going to escalate into contagion. all of that is seen as a good sign. this wasn't as bad as it could have been. although if you look at currency markets, you saw some of this trade implementation of these tariffs were not priced in. there was some movement there, not as bad as probably could be. matt: now yvonne, let's go to you. what is the latest in hong kong? what's the latest as far as the emergency law that could go into effect? heard --ight, where we well we heard from the nu

leanne karen's in london.h yen andlong treasury futures after a strike on the heart of saudi arabia's oil production increased concerns. let's get a market perspective of what is going on here. let's start with the question of the day. which assets are most vulnerable to this oil shock? we've seen aviation stocks. what other assessments are you making? >> i think the one that's most interesting, we've been debating it because there are so many reacting to it. treasuries, gold, aviation stocks, of course energy stocks, even financials are reacting. i think the asset that might be most interesting is silver. the gold value has been based around the fact we've had lower interest rates. when gold rallies silver, it's like gold on drugs. been trading that, gold gets a surge, silver gets an extra serve. is what we are seeing today the precious metals have been getting a boost from the geopolitical side. that thelping the fact monetary policy. gold is doing well, silver is doing better. -- legs.t have like the initia

leanne: good morning. the u.s.ans to start exchanges,panies on after we reported on friday the white house is exploring limits on u.s. investments in chinese companies. meanwhile, facing its value to continue, to encourage foreign investment, trade talks are set to restart the week of october 7. arabia's crown prince is warning a war with iran could bring down the world economy. he says the price of oil would go imaginable he high the price just if the country went to war. he urged -- if the country went to war. nourged the country to add pressure to tehran. >> the region represents about 30% of the world's energy supplies, about 20% of trade passages, about 4% of the world gdp. imagine all these three things stopped. this means a total collapse of the global economy. governmentspean need to spend more to counter the global economic slowdown. that's what ecb chief mario draghi told the financial times. he's urging members of the single currency to commit to closer physical price. he quotes him as saying we need a c

. >> all right, leann, thank you. it's an interesting situation and a decision that the prosecution has to make with regard to how they proceed in the almena case and whether on october 4th they actually want to proceed with a whole new trial for him. they almost got the verdict they were looking for by a 10-2 count, but there's a lot at stake here and a lot of decisions to be made and whether the family members want to go through another whole case. >> that is going to be painful. no doubt they'll be consulted but it's not a total loss for them. i mean, they lost in the max harris case but the main guy is almena. they still have a chance, or they wanted to, to try and get their main guy and they were close, as you mentioned, 10-2, but we'll here more about that in a little bit. but right now let's turn things over to leslie and laura out there together outside the courtroom. >> reporter: hi, kristen, actually, we both covered this trial pretty much from the beginning back in april and we both have our observations ab

leanne: it was the same sort of investors meeting both in their ipo roadshows.oton, they did the ipo pretty richly, at the high end of the range, at $21. there is a question whether investment bankers were trying to invest richly to get the full payout for investors. it is a question of whether it is unprofitable companies they are forming. thankhank you -- vonnie: you for all your coverage through this. much appreciated. ahead, oil erasing all gains since the saudi attacks as the country moves to ease tensions with yemen. what closed the gap? we talk about that next. ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy and from london, i'm johnson. this is "bloomberg markets." let's talk about the crude space. brent bouncing back after saudi arabia moved to impose a partial cease-fire in yemen, bringing hopes of easing tensions in the middle east. more on oil, let's bring in phil struggle -- let's bring in phil from the cme. we had this gap higher when the attack happened. since then, all prices have been coming back down to where we started. we filled the gap.

. >> that was leann suitor reporting.f you want to learn more about the victims of the fire, we have that on our website at abc 7 news.com. >> new developments now with the two bay area teenagers accused of stabbing a policeofficer to death in rome italy. the lawyer for fin elder says he dropped request to be released. he needs more time to get a better idea of exactly what happened. elder and gabe have been in jail since july. that's when investigators say they stabbed an officer during a scuffle. prosecutors say the two were trying to sell a backpack in exchange for money and cocaine. >> support is growing for a 22-year-old came here for treatment for a genetic disorder known as mps 6. until now the family received regular extepgss, but last month the customs and immigration service eliminated the program that loued her to stay. the ij reports the company has provided her medicine is condemning the trump administration. in a statement, they said we are alarmed and distressed that patients who have emigrated to the unite

. >> leanne caldwell has some new reporting there.rote the biggest hurdle may not be the scandal that sparks this whole thing. what's the strategy inside this campaign? >> reporter: halie, that's right. he has such high name. both campaigns are saying they are feeling really good in these final hours before election day. they're also saying it is going to come out to turn out. it that's why we are here, outside of a rally, donald trump is going to happen tonight where the republican candidate is tieing himself so closely to this president saying he'll be an ally of him in congress. that's what these supporters want. they want him to stand with the president and we spoke with one of them a few moments ago. >> he says he's going to support the president. if we don't have the support from elected officials to support our president, why did we elect the president? i mean we need the representatives to support his ambition. >> reporter: dan bishop is also tieing his democratic opponent dan mcgreedy to the national dem i democratic party. w

without further ado, i would like to welcome leanne, executive director of the ethics commission. >> good morning. thank you, and good morning members. i appreciate your opening comments and the ethics commission is really delighted to be able to be here and have the opportunity to encourage this paddle and the full board to support this ordinance. as you indicated in your opening comments, this is a process where the ethics commission, for the past year, is really tried to focus on how we can strengthen the public financing program and it has been a process with lots of stakeholder involvement. we know there is a balancing of interests and needs in any legislative package that we bring forward and we feel that this one really does move the dial forward in terms of encouraging, not just participating by candidates in community-based individuals, to run for office, who don't have to rely as heavily on larger donors, would also really encouraging citizens to get more involved. we are increasing the value of their contribution to political campaign. as you indicated, cities have been le

i like what leann panetta had talked about. this shouldn't be just about democrats coming forward.has to be republicans as well. we have an obligation to put our country first. we have an obligation to uphold the rule of law and make sure we don't have a president that's selling our nation out to foreign entities and selling them out for his own personal reasons. that's what this is about. >> senator klobuchar, i appreciate your time tonight. >> thanks, anderson. >> join me, jake tapper, 11 p.m. eastern tonight, just two hours from now for a special cnn report, "the impeachment inquiry." the news continues now. i want to head over to chris for "cuomo primetime." chris? >>> all right, thank you, anderson. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime." it is a critical day for america as we start to examine the proof against the president of the united states and a pending impeachment investigation. what do you say? let's get after it. >> this is c nn breaking news. >> the latest is that congress has the whistleblower complaint. it may not all be unredacted and available to all members of

leanne is live for us from downtown with more on how this will work. >> we've had a pilot program insfmta says it has been very successful so what's next? right now, we have about 2,000 scooters. get ready for 4,000. just when people thought there wereoters in the city, the san francisco municipal transportation agency made this announcement. >> we decided to announce today the extension of the scooter program in a way that's substantial and thoughtful. >> permits have been granted to increase the number of scooters from 2,000 to 4,000. the number of companies operating them will expand from two to four. permits have been granted to increase the number of scooters from 2,000 to 4,000 and the number of neighborhoods that will now have scooters will now also double. >> i got to go with decreased congestion. the downside is like people leave them around randomly. >> when scooters began inuning you are streets, a report called for better enforcement of traffic laws. >> when was the last time you saw a police officer stop a scooter for riding on the sidewalk? >> i never have. >> here's wh

. >> and one of the moments that was talked about the most, leanne castro said this. >> are you forgettingeady what you said just 2 minutes ago? i can't believe that you said 2 minutes ago that they had to buy in now you are saying they don't have to buy in. you are forgetting that. >> it ended up being a cheap shot but castro is obviously trying to capitalize on vice president biden's biggest liability which is most democratic voters at this point don't know whether to cap the ballot or call in a silver ale alert. he seems unsteady. time and time again where the former vice president is a little unsteady and castro is clearly trying to make an issue. >> bill: sold towards the end of thursday night, this happened in one of the closing statements. >> it's not that they don't want to help, they don't know quite what to do. be sure you have the record player on at night, make sure the kids here words. the one it's hard to overlook that. >> catherine: i'm not sure my kids have ever seen a record player but, more forwardly, i think that answer has raised questions in conversations about the mod

. >> i am leann drew. a native of san francisco. i went to high school here. i feel like i was a victim my life until i got treatment and went to recovery now, i feel like a walking success story. i want to appreciate everyone in the seats. we are altogether with this. thank you for giving me some time. >> good afternoon. i am hillary brown. i am one of the residents at tenderloin for 15 years. i treat people with mental health issues. i am an advocat for health justice. there should be treatment if there is people using might be caught with federal law enforcement and incarcerated for many years by law enforcement. that is my support. as you are aware it the jails are overcrowded. the people in james are serious offenders like victim crimes. i believe there should be a treatment with a demand for people especially the people on the streets. personally i never was a user. i knew a lot of users who spent years in prison for using in the streets. that is all i wanted to say. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisor

. >> wow, joining us now from washington nbc f news correspondent leann caldwell. let's talk about how nancy pelosi's announcement moves the needle on the topic of impeachment. is there any concern that this could be a double-edged sword to unitege the because going into 2020? >> pelosi throwing the weight of her office behind this impeachment probeis is significant. it's a big moment in this entire process. he said they have a new captain of their impeachment inquiry and that's speaker pelosi. the fact that 190 democrats have come out in support of this is is also significant. there wast. a newfound energy. they were thrilled there was such unity behind this. so what it does to the base, it can motivate the base, but democrats are pretty confident that the politics are behind them. i had several lawmakers tell me yesterday as well that their phones are ring iing off the ho and the overwhelming amount a o those calls are in support of them moving forward on this. they are also telling me that they are hearing in their district when is they fwo home that more and mo

. >> reporter leanne suter from our sister station tracked down the woman to find out how she went from pianist to homeless. ♪ >> she's the subway soprano captured in a viral video by an lapd officer enjoying her song. >> you know why i do it in the subway? because it sounds so great. i feel like i'm already there. ♪ >> there, on stage where emily has dreamed of performing. music has always been her love and her means of making ends meet after a serious health challenge. playing her violin on the street all over the city. but three years ago, a thief stle her treasured instrument and so much more. >> that's when i became homeless, when i could not actually pay any of my bills and could not pay any more my rent. >> the 52-year-old was evict and says since then, she has been struggling to find a place to live. >> i am sleeping actually on the cardboards right now in the parking lot. i'm sleeping wre i can sleep. sometimes i have people that feel sorry for me, but i don't want to be a burden to anybody. >> she says she was stunned to learn she had become a social media sensation. ♪ her sin

my name is leanne, i am a community engagement organizer at the south of market immunity action network. i support the legislation and the update to the existing jobs housing linkage fee. so many wasted effort has been spent focusing on this. ever since its last update in 1997. within our community, planning work and our data analytics and community development intern have idolized a rise of 1000%. in terms of the rise of tech companies in soma, to the tax break in tran11. how many people have had evictions since then? how many success rates have we had on affordable housing since then? how many apartment had been slipped to four airbnb and pushed out tenant since then? how much traffic has increased for workers commuting outside of the bay area to soma since then? fees in s.f. have never been the determining factor development. it base rate was set in 1997. the current fee is based off a 22-year-old housing cost and office density. it is time to work together, and bring the fees up to date. in queue. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon commissioners, cory's death on b

that was house speaker nancy pelosi answering a question from my colleague leann caldwell and confirmingke the allegations the focus of this impeachment inquiry. the decision comes earlier after charging six house committees to proceed with their investigations under the umbrella of the impeachment i but as former congressman edwards points out, if all were doing it it would mean half of the democratic caucus would have a foot in the impeachment room. is that what you want? joining me now is someone who knows a little about house committees, julian epstein a former democratic side chief counsel for the house judiciary committee and went through during the clinton impeachment. julian, good to see you. you heard what speaker pelosi said about the six committees, but you also heard that they want to narrow it to one essentially this incident although as we see the incident has a lot of tentacles. is that the best way to proceed here? is there an ideal that you would like to see? >> there isn't an ideal and i think she's got it right by having the intelligence committee do the primary invest

anna: leanne garin with your first word news. the top stories.'s get back to ecb story, mario draghi littering a final stimulus package after a revolt from dissenters. the ecb president sander the alarm over the growth outlook in the euro area. bloomberg spoke exclusively to one of draghi's mueller hawkish ashmore hawkish -- more hawkish colleagues on whether the president made a mistake. effective will a further monitoring easing be? will -- is it something where we start to reach the end of? reason this was a major why a pushback took place. the question of monetary quantitative easing moving further into negative territories, will it have an outcomes the economic or are the risks already higher than the benefit emerges? further,vel decreasing what will be the reflect on the market compared to alternative of doing nothing? or on the forward guidance, how much is necessary now to plan for the future president coming in? how much should they leave their freedom there? these things will be discussed in an open manner, but these are arguments that

. >> i'm like wasabi when i bust rhymes like leann rimes. try to hold me but i bust through. this woman thought wasabi, the little green stuff you put on the sushi, she thought it was avocado. she put the whole thing in her mouth. this woman was hospitalized. it did so much damage -- >> sudden pressure in her chest. >> they said it was like broken heart syndrome when all that -- >> the feeling moved down her arms. >> all the way down her arm. >> she thought she was getting avocado -- time out. does it say avocado dip? because we call that guacamole. >> yes. that's essentially what it is. >> guacamole. >> it was a temporary disruption of her heart's normal pumping function in one area because of all that wasabi. sometimes when people do those wasabi -- just to see for fun they put the whole thing in there. maybe you should not do that because it can lead to some real medical issues. >> and i bet -- like seriously, i bet her tastebuds were really disappointed. >> but her nostrils and everything in them is clear. >> because we love that avocado dip. okay. >>> so a wheelchair is

, he announced his resignation under growing pressure in the midst of the t #metoo movement, after leann> he said, no, we need to practice the kissing scene. >> reporter: after that, there were several allegations of improper conduct. >> some of the allegations are simply not true. others i remember very differently. >> reporter: some of franken's physic fellow democrats publicly piled on, asking him to step down. according to an article from "new yorker" magazine, several of the senators who wanted franken out then, now say they were wrong. >> it was awful. there were no good choices. >> reporter: speaking to conan o'brien about his colleagues. >> it was gratifying to have colleagues who apologized to me. they basically said that i deserved due process. and i believe i did, too. >> reporter: with washington now behind him, franken is using his new show and podcast to stay in the political conversation. >> when i left the senate, i said, i'm giving up my seat. i'm not giving up my voice. >> reporter: taking that voice to a new stage. for "today," blayne alexander, nbc news. >>> still to

leanne darren's has it in london. >> prime minister brian johnson is set to defy the new law to stop importing to a no-deal brexit. he is vowing to do everything he can to secure a deal, but we have been told he will reject any extension to the deadline. this ahead of the prime minister's first face-to-face -- with jean-claude juncker today. in hong kong this weekend, the protests have taken a more aggressive turn. demonstrators set fire to a subway station and police hit back with tear gas and water cannons. unrest in the city is into its fourth month. the city had largely returned to normal by this morning's commute. kim jong-un has invited president trump to pyongyang according to reports from south korea. it would be the third time meeting. a local newspaper is saying the offer came in a letter delivered last month. inking talks have stopped hanoi without a deal. apple heads to court this week to fight the world's biggest tax case. they will tell the court in luxembourg it is already the biggest taxpayer on the planet, but that will not convince the commissioner. in 2016, she rul

leanne massey and megan rapinoe. —— lionel messi.n't, he lost out to lionel messi, he voted for lionel messi, and his two teammates. you can see their votes and everything. rinaldo did not vote for lionel messi. that is the interesting thing. that rivalry. did they vote for each other? no, they are separate. 0ne they vote for each other? no, they are separate. one is a man and one isa are separate. one is a man and one is a woman. the men are not allowed to... the men vote for men and women vote for women. the women can't vote for men and the men can't vote for women? i have never looked in detail. shall i tell you? that is lionel messi, and her speech was incredible last night. i was watching idlib. she has called the greater equality after being named the best women's player. she took the best women's player. she took the rising of lucy bronze who had a great world cup. rapinoe urged professional players to use their platform to tackle racism, homophobia and sexism. listen to this. if everybody was as outraged about homophobia as l

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leanne was nigh. both we re home crowd. leanne was nigh.e, a lot of resilience, a lot of character, and everyone should be really proud of how we approached the day. i think we will look back at other points in the game and think, maybe we could have been better. in terms of what we have been able to achieve as a group it is pretty satisfying to this point, from where we have come from in the last 18 months. i think it shows great character, great people we have got. lam character, great people we have got. i am really proud to be in the position i am in, we turned up here and did ourjobs good cricket teams good sports teams do. charles leclerc gave ferrari their first win on home soil for nine years, with victory in the italian grand prix at monza. leclerc held off the mercedes of va ltteri bottas and championship leader lewis hamilton in an incident packed race, underlining his status as a new force in f1. pippa funnell won the burghley horse trials, her first major win for 14 years. the multiple olympic medallist led from start to finish

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joining me from matthews, north carolina, nbc news congressional correspondent leanne caldwell., these past elections show a pretty big divide in this district. 2020 now a little over a year away. how have the campaigns amped up their efforts? because this is kind of looking like a toss-up at this point, right? >> reporter: it's definitely a jump ball. that's why both candidates are out this weekend knocking on doors trying to get their supporters to turn out to the polls on tuesday. for the democrat dan mccready, he's running to be the first democrat to represent this district since 1963. so, his message, he's running as a moderate democrat. he's separating himself from the national democratic party and instead running on local issues of health care and education. we caught up with dan as well as his opponent, dan bishop, over the weekend, and here's what they had to say. you said up here that if you win, it will send shock waves through the entire country. what did you mean by that? >> well, this campaign is about bringing people together. we're up against every kind of hatefu

children becoming addicted to nicotine, and we will continue to use our regulatory authority thought leannehoroughly -- thoughtfully and thoroughly. data,ency released showing more than one quarter of high school students use e-cigarettes -- use e-cigarettes in the past 30 days. the overwhelming majority of the use vapers site of fruit, menthol, or mint flavors. the product is sold under an fda waiver. there is some opposition to this movement coming out of the white house, gregory connolly, the president of the american vaping association had this comment after the statement. are deeply disappointed in the president's decision to take direction from anti-vaping activists like plate -- mike bloomberg by attempting to ban the sale of nearly every vaping product on the market. a ban will remove life-changing options from the market that has been used by several million. -- several million american adults to quit smoking. in the history of the united states prohibition has not worked and a flavor ban will create another multibillion-dollar black market which will operate with zero safety contr