commissioner richard ross has said the video does not show her smack the officer hard in the face. here's what the fop had to say in a statement. the young woman who freely adm admitted to assaulting a uniformed officer on duty is allowed to walk away with absolutely no accountability by a district attorney too busy dodging federal subpoenas to do the job he was sworn to do ". >>> the district attorney's office has response saying "district attorney williams will never apologize for relying on high investigative and prosecute al standards before deciding to take away someone's freedom. and it's stunning that anyone, much less a member of law enforcement would ever believe anything else ". there you have it. >>> time now for for your fox 29 weather authority. meteorologist kathy orr joins us for a first look at weather between those two statements heating up around here. >> it certainly is. it will be cooling down big time outside, lucy. we have to get out this evening. little bit windy but temperatures are still warm across the region. look at the high temperatures. wilmington 56.

. >>> and philadelphia police commissioner richard ross is talking about his first year as to that cope of the department. >> now the details. an orlando police veteran was following a tip about a murder suspect when she was gunned down reportedly by that man. master sergeant debra clayton was trying to make contact with markeith lloyd when lloyd allegedly opened fire and fled. a sheriff's officer also died in a crash searching for lloyd. elizabeth hur is live with morism authorities say they're following up on a number of leads and they have reason to believe he's still in the area. that is why hundreds of officers from multiple agencies are in orlando right now and they say they will not rest until their suspect is caught. a somber morning for police in orlando turned into a day of an all out manhunt for a cop killer. >> he's going to jail. >> reporter: master sergeant debra clayton was that gunned down in this wal-mart parking lot while trying to contact murder suspect markeith lloyd wanted in the shooting death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend. >> the preliminary information was she e

." >> philadelphia commissioner, richard ross is marking his first year as the city's top cop. vernon odem talk to commissioner ross about success and challenges. >> realizing despite your best efforts you'll you mean up short for some people. >> reporter: one year after being sworn in as commissioner, richard ross reflects a year he was charles ramsey's top deputy running the operation hour by hour and minute by minute each day. there are few surprises. stability are the operative road. what are the crime stats after year one. the murder rate the same, cop-involved shootings, aggravated robbery and murder and assault down five%. what about police corruption, a necessary preoccupation for his predecessor was determined to clean up the department. >> you're not dealing with any major scandals right now. >> reporter: during this era of cops caught on cameras in violent confrontations it is a tough time recruiting nationwide. after year one, the commissioner finds himself more than 250 short on desired staffing leaves. to broaden the pool of applicants he scuttled the priermts tha

but commissioner richard ross says the video does not tell the whole story. >> one thing that that doesot capture on video, is that she smacked the officer in the face knocking her glasses off her face. that officer remains off the street pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation. >>> an all out search continues for a 6-year-old boy in aurora, colorado, missing since new years eve. david puckett left wearing only a light jacket. law enforcement and other agencies joined in the search for the little boy. and an amber alert is issued. they asked people to check their cars and other places where the child may have taken shelter. and they posted a 10,0$10,000 w ward for his safe return. >>> a day after storms killed five people in two states, they are calling for more dangerous weather. the national weather service is trying to confirm if tornadoes hit the region and more strong storms are coming to alabama, georgia and the florida panhandle. >>> authorities have recovering more than 100 pieces of debris possibly from a missing plane in ohio. the plane was flying from clevela

katherine scott spoke to police commissioner, richard ross, about the what the video does not show. >> reporter: this remains under investigation, police say that the cell phone video doesn't tell the whole story but got a better idea of what happened before speaking with the officer and the teen. >> it's just an ugly situation from start to finish, there is no denying that. >> a giant melee captured on cell phone video. yesterday afternoon police responded for a person with a weapon at 54th and springfield. they arrived to chaos, a large group of teens fighting in the streets and officers trying to break it up. you see an officer and his team separate from the group and the office forcing the young woman to the ground, and hitting her. >> one thing that did not get captured on video that the young lady admitted to in her interview was that she slapped into the officer in the face knocking her glasses off her face. >> the officer was directing the teen to move back from the fight and the teen refused her commands. >> that is not a neat and clean situation when people are jumping off t

. >> first lady frances wolf, fire commissioner adam teal and commissioner richard ross along to helpocal kids put together shelves for families in need. >> we're writing letters to military families to their children, we're giving them books and we're making dresses for children in africa. >> reporter: i met a lot of people from all different walks of life in the main theme today everybody tells me they are inspired to do service to do work in their communities. if you want to volunteer folks will be here for the rest of the afternoon also many other events going on in philadelphia we have some of those on our website cbsphilly.com. rahel, send it back to you. >> david, thank you. speaking of other events happening let's go back now live to the liberty bell where it appears they start to tap the bell any moment now. this is now 32 years in the making it actually began back in 1986 at the request of dr. king's widow coretta scoot king. let's see if we can hear this >> father will bring us the final prayer and we'll have another selection by the choir to which we'll end our program. be

police commissioner richard ross says the girl refused commands to back away and admits to smacking thefficer in the face knocking off her glasses. pendleton tells "action news" she was trying to help her friend's mother who was being detained by police. >> from there she was dragging me my hair, punching me, was pump me in my face. >> a source tells "action news" the video and witness statements seem to indicate that pendleton never intentionally tried to harm the officer. >> camden county police need help identifying at the armed man who robbed a pharmacy. the man walked into mac miguel's pharmacy on river road in camden on friday morning showed a gun grabbed bottles of medication and then took off. if you recognize him, contact police. >> a lehigh county judge has dismissed the murder case against former pro wrestling star jim plea super fly snuka. prosecutors say snuka beat nancy argentino to death in 1983. the judge who dismissed the charges says the 73-year-old is not competent to stand trial. snuka's lawyers revealed last month that their client suffers from dementia and only has

3,000 to 10,000 demonstrators we're told late this afternoon i spoke with police commissioner richard rossbout preparations for tomorrow's visit from the president. >> you still trying to look at every possible thing. get as much intelligence as you can from your colleagues from around the country. in particular dc in this case, and make your plans accordingly. and that's what we're going to do. i mean we have an obligation to ensure the safety of the people who live and work here and visit here as well and the protesters and obviously dignitaries that are visiting as well. >> reporter: now, they'll be quite a bunch of dignitaries on hand here tomorrow along with all of those protesters. the commissioner says they are well prepared. they have plenty of intelligence from around the country. they've spoken with their comrades in washington, d.c. about the inauguration protests and the march the women's march on saturday last week. i spoke to some protesters as well. they believe these will be peaceful protests tomorrow. self of them citing the half million people that showed up for the women

. >> reporter: richard ross said both officer and teenager admitted fault in the police statement but 16 year-old is nodes anything that she ever hit the feast mail officer. video never shows that incident. >> she said that she struck the female and female said that she struck the officer back. >> reporter: she says for now she still wears scars from the altercation. >> i feel like, sick. i feel like i threw up twice, my legs hurt, body aching, i have a headache, i have a bruce on my face. >> reporter: police tell us that the 16 year-old girl did admit to hitting the officer in her statement despite the fact that she's denying that claim now. meantime officer involved in this incident has been taken off the streets, pending an internal affairs investigation at police headquarters, natasha brown for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> three chester county high school football players have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, to settle criminal allegations of hazing. a statement by d.a. and attorneys for the three conestoga high school seniors, say that the the alleged victim was not physically

pendelton and she was on the may lay on 54 and springfield yesterday afternoon and police commissioner richard rossid she refused commands to back away and admits to smacking the officer in the face knocking off her glasses. pendleton tells action news she was trying to help a friend's mother who was being detained by the police. >> she was dragging me by my head on the ground and car and punching me in my face. >> reporter: a source tells action news the video and witness statements seem to indicate that pendleton never intentionally tried to harm the officer. a lehigh county judge has dismissed the murder case against former pro wrestling star jimmy super fly snuka and his girlfriend's 1983 death, prosecutors allege nancy argintina was beaten and snuka said she died from a fall. the judge who dismissed the charges today said the 73-year-old is not competent to stand trial. last month snuka's lawyer revealed that his client suffers from dementia and only has six months to live. elsewhere on the crime front the city of chester is operating with 34 fewer police officers than its budget would allow t

but last syringe commissioner richard ross nicked the requirement and raised minimum age there 19 to two two -- 22. >> ryan says department gets 5,000 applicants a year and predicts an increase of 20 percent. >> you will find out that you will find some good police officers. >> reporter: guardian civic league criticized college credit requirement for years arguing it scared away black and brown recruits, but now they are hoping that changes. >> i know quite a few people a lied now that they don't have to worry about 60 credits. >> reporter: it is unclear if more recruits will result in more diverse qualified officers, as applicants must pass physical, written and other testing. >> we are hopeful because we have gotten more people to apply. >> reporter: in the meantime brian and his unit the are using social media and join philly pd.com to let all communities know that they want you. cherri gregg for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> and as we continue, taking their fight to philadelphia, when we come right back supporters from the affordable care act bring their message

police commissioner richard ross says his officers are well prepared. >> people have a general idea of how we deploy in terms of the bike officers and foot patrols and you will see a number of folks out there. again, we will there been to make sure that people are safe , to protect, the dignitaries, and people walking about center city as well as some protesters and very hopeful that people demonstrating will do so peacefully. >> reporter: in addition to road closures secret service is limiting pedestrian traffic around loews hotel, 1100, 1200 blocks of mark streit, 12th between chestnut and filbert and 13th between chestnut and market will all be closed off to pedestrian traffic. >> if you are driving around the city around midday, it is going to be very, very difficult to do that. you might want to take public transportation. >> reporter: if you are planning to take public transportation, again, 13th street is closed, so you have to get off at 11th or 15th street. president trump is scheduled to appear at noon here at the loews hotel and, you guys, i don't know if you can hear but pe

police commissioner richard ross says the girl refused command to back away and admits to smacking the officer in the face knocking off her glasses. pendleton tells "action news" there trying to help her friend's mother who was being detained by police. >> she was dragging me by high hair banging my head on the ground on the car punching me. was punching me in my face. >> a source tells "action news" the video and witness statements steam indicate that pendleton never intentionally tried to harm the officer. the 12th district officer involved is now on desk duty. >>> and it's case closed for jim flee snuka. a lehigh county judge dropped murder charges against the former pro wrestling star finding the 73-year-old incompetent to stand trial. snuka suffers from dementia. prosecutors allege snuka killed his girlfriend nancy argentine nah no, sir back in 1983. snuka maintained she died from a fall. >> 5:36 now. president-elect donald trump turned twitter to take a swipe at the intelligence community. last night's post read the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed u

now, we caught up with commissioner richard ross, just went last ten minute, we asked him questions about the city in general, and security, and facing concerns. go ahead and have a listen tacoma the commissioner told us. >> it is early, but a lot of people on the plaza, as you can see, very peaceful. very engaged group. so we got a long day ahead of us. so we will see what happens at the loews hotel. we'll see what happens. >> now, once again, commissioner ross also add that he is unaware of any planned mars at this point right now. so talking about traffic concerns, and congestion, we will remember that that traffic box basically secret service construction traffic box in the area of loews hotel at 12th and market. for now right now here in the pain plaza across from city hall, demonstration well underway, has been going for about an hour now. here, we will keep you posted on all of the latest. live in center city, joe holden, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> joe, thank you. now those protests for the president's visit have result in the many road closures and detours in center city. meisha

president trump in town today demonstrations are expect throughout the day, and police commissioner richard ross says his officers are well prepared. >> people have a general idea have of how we deploy in terms of the bike officers and foot patrols and you'll see a number of both out there and again, we will there been to make sure people are safe to protect the dignitaries, the people walking about center city as well as the protesters and very hopeful that people demonstrating will do so peace fully. >> reporter: meanwhile in addition to those road closures secret service is limiting pedestrian traffic here around the loews hotel, look at this map here, 111200 blocks have of mark streit, 12th street between chestnut and filbert as well as 13th street between chestnut and market those will be all closed to pedestrian traffic beginning at 6:00 a.m. today. meanwhile president trump is expect to address the group here today, at noon, during a lunchtime speech. but for now we are live in center city i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back to you. >>> in other news president of mexico says hi

ramsey and now richard ross, philadelphia police have done a good job of trying to tamp down the issuef murders. but the president of the united states has a responsibility to be factual. i don't care who's -- you can play to a constituency and be factual. you can take liberties with those facts. he was intentionally or unintentionally -- it's inexcusable -- not factual. there was no -- there's no -- i don't care who the political audience is. he's in a city. he's talking. everybody pays attention to what the president of the united states says and interprets it -- you in the media. he was factually inaccurate, and that probably wasn't even intentional, but it's problematic. and it's a simple issue, but it's problematic when the president of the united states decides not to be factual and we got to go back and parse his words and his press secretary has to make up for it and redefine it, the vice president of the united states has to redefine, legislators have to redefine what he means. >> and it's emblematic of what is going to be an ongoing problem with his presidency. i mean, the fa

commissioner richard ross says they have been preparing. >> what happened down in washington, d.c. we would be remiss if we didn't get our people out there, obviously there will be a significant presence, particularly tomorrow. >> reporter: the grid surrounding the hotel will be shut down by 6:00 a.m. secret service will limit pedestrian traffic. septa routes will be detoured and the 13th street stop will be closed. >> it's going to be an area that's going to have a lot of police presence. people should notice septa ambassadors will direct them around that, but it will be a fluid situation, they will have to be patient. >> reporter: and today is the busiest day for the retreat. the president is expected to have a joint session at noon, followed by the vice president and also a joint session with the prime minister of britain. reporting live in center city. annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." back to you. >> thanks for the details. >>> president trump sat down with abc's david muir for his first post inauguration interview. they discussed a host of campaign topics, including th

. >> she was dragging me by my hair and punching in the face and commissioner richard ross says the teen was refusing the mands and the officer says that the teen knocked her classes off her face. >>> and now new charges after a fight between students sparked by a racist video posted online. lehigh valley correspondent, walter perez is live in saucon township with the story. >> reporter: well rick, this is an update to a story we reported several days ago when an african-american student was charged with assaulting a white student but this story took on a whole add the dimension once the d.a. confirmed the motive behind this case. >> this is the kind of conduct that we have to try to stop. >> northampton county d.a. john morganely is talking about a video by a white student, of a 16-year-old african-american student who is unaware he is being filmed and the 14-year-old is heard common tating using racial emat that times -- >> at one point someone draped a confederate flag around him and used a derogatory name. the african-american student then assaulted the white student and at first afr

commissioner richard ross thanked his force during a merit commendation ceremony and certain officerswere sirngled out for arresting dangerous suspects. congratulations to them. >>> there is a reminder about a medicare mistake that could cost you. the so-called enrollment trap. people only sign up for medicare part a believing that the insurance from an employer covered medicare part b but if you don't register for it by the age of 65 you may experience gap in medical coverage when you retire. you could be hit with a permanent financial penalty. >> 750,000 people were caught in this trap last year and were facing penalties to simply sign up and be afforded plan b. >> they have clarified the medical options and the government has to notify people six months before they surgeon 65 and a sec time one more before is that an urgent care fas ill opened in center city on chestnut street. local officials and mike quick took part. it gives consumers the care they need with the focus on making their experience the best it can be. >>> understanding how children learn has a direct impact on what

. >> reporter: philadelphia police commissioner richard ross is continuing plans set in place under the former commissioner. ramsey was concerned about the number of police shootings and use of force and called in a special department of justice unit. last year, nbc 10 news showed you what was being labelled a scathing report. one filled with criticisms of the department. and that outlined 91 different ways police needed to reform in order to bring use of force numbers down. some of it was retraipning, others included bringing in an outside agency. a new unit will be a separate group of police. especially trained and tasked with investigating their own. >> the group that is not engaged in the day-to-day interactions with their peers so we don't do a case together and tuesday i'm investigating your shooting. >> reporter: please say new rules will allow for quicker interviews of officers. a step prior to this could take months. >> we believe a lot of this will help us to stream line the investigations. >> reporter: of the 91 recommendati recommendations, almost are complete and they will

police commissioner richard ross is part of that task force.ally this is an issue that has really flown under radar but more resources are now available and authorities are going to be more proactive. >> people mistakenly think it's just foreign born people and thinking you can't just penn straight a lot of those networks, and so realizing that it's muddle if he facetted and so we're going to do everything possible to help these victims because that's what they are to get away from these horrible predators. >> january is human trafficking awareness month. >>> former homeland security secretary janet napalitano is in the hospital after suffering complications from cancer treatments. the university of california where she now serves as president says she has been under going treatment for five months. she was diagnosed last august but the school didn't say what type of cancer she has. her condition was not previously made public but in a statement from her office says she is doing well and expected to be released this week. >>> well, visitors goi

police commissioner richard ross say police will continue their work to drive those numbers lower ande also says he is not happy with the city 's level of gun violence. >>> well, president obama presented vice-president joe biden, with the last medal of freedom. >> and in the ceremony it came as a total surprise for the vice-president, thomas, seeing his reaction. >> you are about to say easily one of my favorite stories of the week. did youe this live yesterday. >> yes. >> emotional, wasn't it. vice-president biden thought it was a simple farewell ceremony at the white house and didn't though about the award. teary eyed biden accepted the medal which is highest civilian honor. >> for the final time as president, i am please add to award our nation's highest civilian honor the presidential medal of freed om >> it what's motional had to turn around wipe away tears. as days wind down on the obama administration, president obama reflects on the eight years of their partnership. he joke they had a bromance praising biden for his job and accomplishment. >> from the situation room to the we

commissioner, richard ross, says the video does not snow the team smack the officer so hard in the face her glasses fall off. here's what the fraternal office of police had to say. young woman who freely admitted to assaulting a officer on duty is allowed to walk away with no accountability by a district attorney to do the job he has been sworn to do. very disappointing over the past seven years watches one promising district attorney degenerate into morally annette i cannily challenged side line playboy. district attorney's office had its own response saying, quote, district attorney williams will never apologize for relying on high investigative and prosecution standards before decide to go take away someone's freedom. and it is stunning that anyone much less a member of law enforcement would ever believe anything else. >> happening today, family, friends, say their final good-byes to fallen pennsylvania state trooper. hundreds showed up for the viewing every landon we have nerve altoona yesterday. >> paul robeson shot and killed 23 year old state trooper while investigating domestic

commissioner richard ross and mayor jim kenney were also on hand. >> be humble, be kind, be in servicegod bless you. >> reporter: thousands where is optimistic hoping to build bridges while building actual furniture to give to under privileged families. volunteers were out early this morning, hoping to get as much services donnas possible. >> i think that this is an important day because we should give back. >> reporter: michelle rodgers a proud volunteer said day of service should last the entire year, after all, it is why she believes that this city and country is so great. >> we're writing letters to military families to their children, we're giving them books, and we're making dresses for our children of africa. >> reporter: mlk junior day of service in philadelphia is oldest, largest in the country reporting from girard college i'm david spunt, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> tapping of the liberty bell on independent hall was among many special king day ceremonies, that took place today. state and local leaders including philadelphia mayor jim kenney were on hand for the event and c

police commissioner richard ross, he is part of the task force, he says locally this is an issue thatlown under the radar. he says, there are more resources available now, and they will be more pro-active. >> people mistakenly think it is just people, thinking that you just can't penetrate a lot of those networks, and so realizing that it is multifaceted, and so we're going to do everything possible to help these victims, because that's what they are, to get away from these horrible preditors. >> by the way, january is human trafficking awareness month. >> prosecutors new jersey say convictions against two former governors aids should stands. they are asking a judge to deny request made in december by their defense for a new trial saying the evidence in the case was overwhelming. defense attorneys for bridgette ann kelly and bill barone argue there was a problem with the jury instructions and that prosecutors did not proof the plan to create traffic jams was a retalatory move against the democratic mayor. kelly anbar own scheduled for next month. no deadline on when the judge will mak

we are here at police headquarters waiting for police commissioner richard ross to show up to ask himstions and find out if he knows about this, what is happening and what police think about everything that happened that played out on that video, mike and alex. >> okay, see what you can find out. >>> 6:37. >>> testimony set to resume in the civil trial of a salvation arm building collapse in center city that killed six people and injured 13 others n 2013 salvation army thrift store at 22nd and market collapsed when a adjacent four story building being demolish came crashing down this could be the final month of the 11 week trial to determine who was responsible to pay damages for the collapse. >>> well, a man wanted for killing his wife, in new jersey, is now in jail. jeremiah monell was arrested by state troopers yesterday, authorities had been looking for him, for two weeks, ever since his estrange wife, tara was killed on december the 18th. witness tipped off state police after recognizing him in folsom boro. he was found in the wooded area off of route 322. he have is facing murde

commissioner richard ross says the video does not show that teen smacking the officer so hard in the face, here's what the f.o.p. had to say in a statement. the young woman, who freely admitted assaulting a uniformed officer on duty is allowed to walk away with absolutely no accountability by a district attorney, too busy dodging federal subpoenas to do the job he was sworn to do. it is to has been very disappointing over the past seven years watching an once promising district attorney to generate into a morally annette i cannily challenged side line playboy. the district attorney's office has a response saying, quote, district attorney williams will never apologize for lying on high investigative and prosecution standard before deciding to take away someone's freedom. it is stunning that anyone much less a member of law enforcement would ever believe anything else. >> thomas? >> karen, today family and friends will say their final good-byes to a fallen pennsylvania state trooper. hundreds showed up for the viewing of landon weaver in altoona yesterday. authorities say paul robeson

commissioner richard ross has said the video does not show the teen smack the officer hard in the facehere's what the fop has to say in its statement "the young woman who freely admitted to assaulting a uniformed officer on duty is allowed to walk away with absolutely no accountability by a district attorney too busy dodging federal subpoenas to do the job he was sworn to do". >>> the district attorney's office has response saying "district attorney williams will never apologize for relying on high investigative and prosecutor al standards before deciding to take away someone's freedom. and it's stunning that anyone, much less a member of law enforcement, would ever believe anything else ". >>> fire investigators spent the day combing through the aftermath of a greenhouse fire in lehigh county. it took several fire companies from surrounding areas to help battle the flames at the dan chance farm and greenhouse in lower milford township. several buildings were caught in the flames. the first started around 8:30 last night and they weren't under control until 3:00 this morning. the rural

but last spring, commissioner richard ross nixed requirement, and raised the minimum age from 19 to 22 a positive thing. >> ryan says the department gives 5,000 applicants a year and predict increase above 20%. >> i think you will find out that good police officers? guardian civic lil criticized the college credit requirement for years. arguing it scared away black and brown recruit. but now, they're hoping that changes. >> i know now they don't have to worry about -- >> unclear at this point if more recruits will result in more differs and qualified officers. since applicants must pass physical, written, and other tests. >> we're hopeful. we've gotten more people to apply. >> meantime ryan and his aoun rid using social media and join philly pd. com to let all communities know they want you cherri gregg, "kyw news radio", for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> no doubt philly police are some of the finest, justin, how can we describe our weather forecast? i was hoping for a fine forecast. might be little colder? >> we won't be seeing any 50's, 60s like we have the past week or so, but still

police commissioner richard ross says the girl refused command to back away and admits smacking the officeroff her glasses. pendleton says she was trying to help her friend's mother who was being detained by police. >> she was dragging me by my hair banging my head on the ground on the car, punching me. was punching me in my face. >> a source tells "action news" the video and witness statements steam indicate that pendleton never intentionally tried to harm the officer. the 12th district officer involved is now on desk duty. >>> and it is case closed for jimmy snuka. a judge dropped murder charges against the former pro wrestling star finding the 73-year-old incompetent to stand trial. snuka suffers from dementia. professor allege snuka killed his girlfriend nancy argentina in 1983. snuka maintained she died from a fall. >> president-elect donald trump turned twitter to take a swipe at the intelligence community. last night's post read, "the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed until friday. perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange ." government sourc

. >> and you just heard, from police commissioner richard ross who is saying obviously police their job to create a safe environment for protesters to be heard. but they understand that people are angry, and it is a good thing to let protesters vent their feelings, how much, if criminals show up in the place of these protesters, police will be prepared to handle them. protest scheduled for 11:00 going to be happening at thomas payne plaza, which whicha couple of blocks off broad street. expected to make their way over here to the area of 12th, 13th, and market streets, in front of the loews hotel again. that's the only scheduled protest that did receive proper permit, how much, police are anticipating number every additional protests will occur out here today. >> you never know who will show up, thank you, jen. >> i better to be prepared. never know what's going to happen. >> and 996 year old woman is in the hospital with life threatening injuries, after being mauled by two dogs, east germantown. the pitbulls have been seized and they're going to be put down. the attack happened behind

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i think it will be interesting to hear from wilbur ross about china and trade and nafta, richard. >> providing you're looking at things in a transactional deal-making way, that's fine. but i was at a breakfast this morning where people are talking about you can't do that always with public policy. davos feels different. there's an intensity about what will happen. an uncertainty about future direction. and they really believe the rules by which they have lived their lives here for so many years are about to change. and they, frankly, don't know what to do. >> globalization backlash embodied by donald trump by brexit by a whole bunch of things right there in front of them. >> richard quest, nice to see you. >> put the cap back on that marker. "early start" continues right now. >>> big backlash after

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there is a difference is on how wilbur ross has handled that issue of separating himself from his businesses. he said when asked by democrat of connecticut richard blumenthal about his divestment and ross has divested about 90% of his holdings and he's a billionaire worth $2.5 billion, has assets around the world, separating humae ining himself that in agreement with the office of government ethics. when asked why hasn't the president done the same thing, ross responded the ethics rules that apply to a senate confirmed nominee, such as himself, do not apply to the president. blumenthal was using that questioning to say if the secretary of commerce is trying to avoid conflicts and is separating himself from his massive wealth, shouldn't the president do the same thing? beyond that, there's been a lot of conversation about things like trade where he and trump ring the same bell sag that nafta is something they could look at right away. he explained why he opposed the trans-pacific partnership. also talking about things like rural broadband and infrastructure. donald trump wants to increase infrastructure. ross is saying that oppressed by republica

wilbur ross, commerce secretary, $2.9 billion and betsy devos, the daughter of richard devos, a staggeringion. coming up, get a look inside the trump penthouse worth more than $40 million. >> the first time i got to know donald is when i was interviewing him for "lifestyles of the rich and famous." he was more interested in interviewing us than we were in interviewing him. he would get up and look at the camera shot. not that he was picky. he just wanted to understand the business. he wanted to know how to communicate better for himself by understanding the technicalities of the medium. and that always fascinated me about him. and when he announced that he was going to run, that was the first thing that went through my mind, was that he's remembered absolutely everything from the days that he interrupted our interviews. he knows how to make a television camera work for him. come on in. pull up a chair. gather 'round. so many ways to invite people to come together. or you could just put out the sabra and let the simple, fresh ingredients do the talking. sabra. welcome to the unofficial meal

ross, trump's pick for commerce secretary. his net worth $2.9 billion. betsy devos, trump's selection for secretary of education. she is daughter-in-law of richardr. her family's estimated net worth, 5.1 billion. coming up you, get a first look inside a trump penthouse worth more than 40 million. first, more of the limo ride with trump's buddy, robin leach. >> the first time that i really got to know donald was when i was interviewing him for "lifestyles of the rich and famous." he was more interested in interviewing us than we were interested in interviewing him. he would interrupt the interview to get up and check the camera shot. not because he was picky, he just wanted to understand the business. ♪ >> he wanted to know how communicate better for himself by understanding the technicalities of the medium, and that always fascinated me about him. when he announced he was going to run, it was the first thing that went through my mind, was that he's remembered absolutely everything from the days that he interrupted our interviews. he knows how to make a television camera work for him the newly advanced gle can see in your blind spot. onboard came

commissioner richard rot says the video does not show her smack the officer hard in the face, something commissioner ross said the teen admitted to doing. so, here's what the f.o.p. had to say in a statement. the young woman who freely admitted assaulting a uniform officer on duty, is allowed to walk away, with absolutely no accountability, by district attorney, too busy dodging federal subpoenas to do the job. he was sworn to do. it has been very disappointing over the past seven years watches once promising district attorney to -- degenerate into morally annette i cannily challenged side line playboy. >> well, the district attorney's offers issued response saying, quote, district attorney williams will never apologize for relying on high investigative, and prosecution standards, before decide to go take away someone's freedom, and it is stun g anyone much less law enforcement would ever believe anything else. the officer in the video has been taken off of the streets while the incident is being investigated. not necessarily kumbaya moment. >> strong words from both sides. thomas, thank you. >> 6:37. co

and he was drawn out by connecticut democrat, richard blumenthal, who noted that the president-elect has donot done e same, and asking ross if he believes he must do this in order to comply with the rules and not be subject to any ethics conflicts, why shouldn't the president. and he said, ethics rules do not apply to the president in the same way. this is a friendlier environment, but the issues will be very prominent in the new administration. andrea? >> kelly o'donnell and anne thompson, and of course, cakasi hunt, thank you all so much. joining me now is gene shaheen, a lot to dig into here. fit of all, theonfirmation hearing today for what would be governor hailey as the -- nikki haley as the new ambassador to the united nations. i wanted to play one of your exchanges with her. >> how will you avoid the conflict between your efforts at the u.n. and the security council and the president-elect's tweets, his -- the positions that he's taken on many of the issues that will come before the security -- the united nations? >> you know, i think that what the president-elect has put out there are his opinions as they stand n