question dominating the sports world after the new york time res ported that an employee of draft kings was foupd nd to release information. >> it's the employees of the companies are winning these contests, that needs to be disclosed. >> reporter: a contestant pick as roster of players and after the games are played, the scores are totalled and top finishers earn prize money. contestants can't see the line ups until they begin. nbc sports have investigated in fan dual. they issued a joint statement saying nothing is more important than the integrity of the games we offer and have since barred employees from in entering fantasy contests for money. and said the employee could not have possibly used the information about his fantasy line up. but now credibility is at risk. nbc news boston. >>> just ahead, yet another reason to love tom hanks. >>> and a pair of unlikely friends that might just make you day. your day. good. very good. you see something moving off the shelves and your first thought is to investigate the company. you are type e . yes, investment opportunities can be anywhere... or not. bu

the city will shut down a portion of west martin luther king junior parkway the westbound lanes--- from southweast 4-th street to southwest 2 -nd street will close saturday at 5 - 30 pm. and will re - open at 8 - 30 pm tomorrow crews begin work on 12 - street... between mulberry street and grand avenue... the city says the new roadway will make it easier to get around des moines. they are converting the street from one way traffic... to two. that means drivers will be able to travel and park in both the city is implementing the change ahead of a "walkability study" downtown coming up after the break a bus crash in france kills morning.... the effort to save the lives... and where the investigation into the crash stands plus... the latest in the former subway spokesperson sex case... and how much the court is ordering jared fogel to pay to his victims officials in france are calling nearly three decades. this morning a bus collilied with a bus in countyside of france -- killing dozens passengers on board. keir simmons has the story the horrifying remains of the bus... a burnt out shell, where 42 died. the worst accident in franc

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nds a hail mary pass. if anyone can save weight watchers, it is oprah. >> she will take prt grm and provide us with updates, something her pal gayle king started doing last month. >> taken everything was, shouldn't eat this and shouldn't eat that, in the house. there was nothing in my house but frozen hot dog bunun i remember telling the story of those hot dog buns. taking them out of the freezer, thawing them out and pouring syrup on them because i was is rave enous one tight. >> blake shelter suing for $2 million claiming defamation and invasion of privacy. saying that shelton check need rehab b llowing his split from miranda lambert. blake says he is not in rehab nor does he have plans to enter rehab. shelton took issue with allegations he was unfaithful to lambert during their marriage. blake's attorney says he is taking this action both to quote set the record straight and recover damages for the harm done to his reputation. >> let's talk about the stars, bindi irwin-db. >> that's my girl. >> she is your girl. she did it again this week with her best dirty dancing moves. you even saw jennifer gray stop by to give her dancing tips. >> because? >> bec

king unless you can kill him. jeb bush is weaker today because of it. i heard last night based on personal responses i was getting that there are big bush nd-raisers now lookiki to move over to rubio. >> frank luntz, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and china could be set this morning for a demographic boom. the world's most populous cocotry dumping it's long-standing one child country. the ruling by the communist party opens the door for l chaepz chinese families to have two children. barry petersen is with us. good morning. >> what china has done officily today is approve a policy it's been sort of allowing for quite some time. and like the one-child policy, it's driven by demographics. the one-child policy was implemented in 1980 to slow china's population growth. it wasas 969 million that yeye. it is more than 1.3 billion today. there were exceptions. families in rural areas could have more children because they needed children as workers on their farms. in 1984 the chinese made a quiet change, saying that, if a husband and wife are both from a one-child fami, they can have two children because that just replaces, not increases, the population. today's move m

king, and nourished many, many younger coy painters who came to, study wi him. copley, on the other hand, stayed in boston for the first o 20 years of his career, so we nd have these wonderful portraits of early colonials by copley. let's start with this one of epes sergeant. a 70-year-old new englander. he was a wealthy merchant who nt lived in gloucester, massachusetts. by the time he died, he owned most of gloucester. he and his sons owned most of gloucester.di he was in his 70s at the time this was painted, and it's an early 1760s portrait by copley.s you get the sense of a man who's done well, who's happy with hisn position in life, who looks comfortable.o' copley's given us more than jusa a representation of his features, but we have a sense of his status and his feeling about himself. he's painted -- copley has a pd great attention to detail.great he doesn't leave anything out. he's got the mole under epes' left eye is there. his somewhat wrinkled skin is portrayed just as it is.ng the fact he's bursting his jacket, he's filling out his jacket anyway, is evident.jacket the hand he has in front of him, i think, gilbert stuart, the american painter, said late