you're from st. louis.l, local pizza. >> yes, yes. >> jimmy: the worst pizza you've ever had in your life. >> i'll say it specifically. >> jimmy: jon, though, whether he likes it or not, he has to defend it. >> yes, i do. >> jimmy: he is from st. louis. >> yes, i do. >> jimmy: but in the interest of fairness, i brought you another st. louis treat. >> oh, god. >> jimmy: now this -- >> oh! >> jimmy: i've had, and it's actually delicious. >> yes. >> jimmy: in fact, my wife, who is from st. louis, stole most of these. this is ted drew's frozen custard. >> oh! >> jimmy: now have a look at that. >> this is very good stuff. >> jimmy: i don't know why they gave us plates for it. >> i don't know why they gave us spoons. >> jimmy: what is your flavor at ted drew's? >> it's usually -- i usually do vanilla but you mix stuff in. >> jimmy: don't they do a thing -- because i've been there. where they turn it over and it doesn't come out. >> that ain't going anywhere. >> jimmy: it's called a concrete. >> concrete, right. a

. >> st. louisthe highest murder rate in america and the first congressional district have been represented by william or his son lacy clay since 1969 and now that dynasty is under threat from the left by corey busch, who rose to fame during the ferguson riots. >> what do you offer that lacy clay doesn't? >> a fight, a fighter. an advocate. >> bush is just one of the far left challengers across the country endorsed by democratic socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez, who has hit the campaign trail with another socialist. >> and i have no doubt that what alexandria did in the bronx, you are going to do right here. >> has brought her message to st. louis. >> the movement for economic, social and racial justice knows no zip code. >> running on a form of medicare for all, free college tuition and the elimination of ice, cortez rocketed to fame by knocking off joe crowley, who some saw as a potential house speaker. >> welcome back to the voice of st. louis. >> mike kelly says moderate democrats need to stag

st. louis affiliate, has the forecast. >> reporter: elaine, it's going to be another really hot day. on monday in the southern plains dallas expecting a high of 103. new york city the heat index is what it's going to feel like out there. it's going to be intense monday afternoon. peak index of 96 in new york city. 59 in st. louis. 104 is what it's going to feel like in memphis, tennessee. there is severe threat for monday as well. a low threat for parts of northeast into new england. higher threat for severe weather in the central plains into the upper midwest. looking ahead to the 4th of july holiday, mostly cloudy and 69 in san francisco, sunny and 108 in phoenix. sunshine to the central plains, scattered storms in the lower mississippi valley where dallas is expected. 96, 88 in new orleans. scattered storms expected throughout the southeast and the mid-atlantic as well, and new york city where a 87 is expected on the 4th. elaine? >> kristen, thank you. heat is fueling two dozen wildfires in

behavior, names and even images of passengers' homes were streamed live on the internet by this st. louis driver. >> yeah, we need some content, man. we haven't really had content. it's been a couple weeks since we had good content. >> reporter: nobody knew the video was going online according to "the st. louis post dispatch." >> the riders that i spoke to were shocked they were on camera. they had no idea and a lot of them felt violated. >> reporter: jason who worked for both uber and lyft drove hundreds of people since march reports the paper. here he is half heartily promising not to show people's houses. >> i'll probably forget half the time but i like to pretend like i remember. >> reporter: both lyft and uber dumped him from their service after the story was published. he did not return nbc news's request for comment. he told the paper he sees nothing wrong with what he did and he may not have broken the law. in 39 states and d.c., conversations can be legally recorded with consent of just one person involved. >> some of the laws written in a time when wiretapping was new, which is

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both companies fired a st. louis driver that anecorded passengers in his calive streamed their lives online to see. the passengers unawath ey were being broadcasts live on the web. here is nbc's stephanie gosk with more. na>> reporter: per conversations, embarrassing behavior, names and images of passengers' homes were streamed live on the internet by this st. louis driver. >> yeah, we need some content. we haven't really had contitt. been a couple weeks since we had good content. >> reporter: nobody knew the video was online according to the st. louis post dispatch. >> the riders that i spoke to were shocked theyere on camera. they had no idea and a lot of them felt violated. >> reporter: jason who worked for both uber hundreds of people since march reports the paper. here he is half heartily promising not to show people's houses. >> i'll probably forget half the time d but i like to preten like i remember. >> reporter: both lyft and uberd him fr om their service after the story was published. he did not return nbc'

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st. louis affiliate, has the forecast. >> reporter: elaine, it's going to be another really hot day on monday in the southern plains. check out dallas, expecting a forecast high of 103. 94 in memphis. st. louis and cincinnati looking for 89, 95 in new york city, but it's the heat index, what it's going to feel like out there, that's going to be so intense monday afternoon. peak heat index of 96 in new york city. 95 in st. louis, 104 is what it's going to feel like in memphis, tennessee. now, there is the threat for some severe weather on monday, as well. it's a low-end threat for parts of the northeast into new england. a little bit higher threat for severe weather as we get into the central plains into the upper midwest. looking ahead to the fourth of july holiday, mostly cloudy and 69 in san francisco. sunny and 108 in phoenix. sunshine through the central plains. scattered storms in the lower mississippi valley where dallas is expected 96. 88 in new orleans. some scattered thunderstorms expe

from 103° in dallas, to 94 in st. louis and chicago, and 99° expected in new york city.nd check this out, once you combine the effects of the heat and humidity, here's what it's going to feel like on sunday, a heat index of 103° in new york city. 102° in st. louis. ay6° in dallas. kansas city gets a little bit of a relief tomorrow. lie rest of the midwest wets some relief after tomorrow licause of severe storms xpected. we're expected isolated to scattered severe storms for parts of the midwest into the great lakes. towever, for those of you in the northeast, well it looks like above average temperatures are expected to stick around at least through the fourth of july holiday. thena? >> ninan: kristen cornett, thank you so much. in the west, hundreds of firefighters are battling more than 46 large wildfires. almost half-a-million acres have been burned, and carter evans reports thousands have been forced to leave their homes. >> reporter: video from a security camera in southern colorado shows just how quickly flames move in and engulf a home. this is the spring fire, an

. >> st. louismurder rate in america, represented by william or his son lacy clay since 1965. that dynasty under threat from the left by corey bush who rose to fame during the ferguson riots. >> a fight, a fire, and advocate. >> bush is one of the far left challengers endorsed by alexandria ocasio-cortez who hit the campaign trail with another socialist and brought her message to st. louis. >> economic, social and racial justice, no zip code. >> talkshow host and democratic official mike kelly says moderate democrats needs to stage a counterrevolution of their own to the center. >> the true progressive stance in the city of st. louis, that is a message that doesn't sell in suburbia. >> reporter: voices outside the democratic party sounding the alarm, james comey, democrats, please don't lose your mind and rush to the socialist left. in states like missouri that went hard for donald trump, democrats worry incumbent 2018 senate candidates like claire mccaskill are going to have to answer to democratic

onin again,al score, the st. louisth o andur entire fox crew l thank you for watching and saying so long from chicago. igee game, the latest on the duck boat disaster that killed 17 people. tonight we're learning a warning was ignored. plus, will it be a washout this weekend? we're tcking heavy rain that are raisinge flooding concerns th hisatgame. flu

vaccine researchers in st. louisople $3,500 to be exposed to the flu for research purposes. joining us now to talk about that is "tonight show" writer and st. louis native joe firestone. ♪ joe, thank you. hey, joe! thank you for being here. oh, wow.be thank you fog here. >> yeah, sure. thanks for having me, jimmy. i'm so happy to represent the lou. we got the arch, we got chuck berry and now we got thelu paidbaby. [ laughter ] bo jimmy: right. so how do you feel all this? >> uh, if i'm honest, not good. i mean, i've been living in w york city for years, just getting the flu for free this whole time. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. i'm sorry about that. >> yeah, i mean, i'm getting it on the subway, waiting for the subway, on my way out of the subway. >> jimmy: yeah. [ light laughter ] mostly just the subway. h, spend a lot of time there. i got a long commute, plus i don't wash my hands. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, have you ever considered using purelinor somelike that? >> oh, jimmy, i didn't move to new york city to us

. >> reporter: steven paul is a st. louis-area inspector. last year the current owners of the ride the ducks company hired him to inspect the vessels as they prepared to buy the business. in his report, he says he warned them that design flaws made the boats more susceptible to sinking and harder to escape in an emergency. >> one issue is the canopy on the ducks, as well as the curtains that come down the sides, when the curtains are down, there's no way for the people to escape. it becomes a people catcher. >> reporter: the owner of the duck boat company insists safety is their number one priority. now investigators are hoping surveillance video recovered from the boat will shed more light into what happened. >> we have some fairly sophisticated means to dry them out, retrieve the data that's on there, before we have a chance to see what's on the video. >> reporter: clues in the search for answers as loved ones seek to understand what what they we through in those last few minutes, it is horrific. guard said salvage operations are set to be

meantime, a live look at granite city, illinois outside st. louis. president trump is expected to speak in this news hour. we see if he has anything to see about the news at hand. rick leventhal begins live in new york city. rick? >> i called michael cohen this morning but didn't get a chance to ask him about this. he said he was in a meeting with his later. he said he would call me back but hasn't yesterday. his attorney said that cohen had a habit of using his phone to record conversations instead of taking notes claiming that he never intended to make use of the recordings and didn't intend to be deceptive. the government reviewing more than 100 recordings in all. davis says cohen is covering for telling the truth and sees himself alone against the president, rudy guliani and the whole administration. the "wall street journal" says cohen's recordings include a two-hour conversation with chris cuomo that asked cohen if he was recording him and cohen said no even though he was recording him with an iphone in a desk drawer. the journal reports that h

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it's going to be a beautiful chicago st. louis and the great we'll get thunderstorms out of this. 30 million plus at risk in albany, baltimore, washington, d.c., harrisburg areas hit hard by the flooding earlier this week. storms will only last half hour, 45 minutes, they'll be in, they'll be out, but they'll hit you this afternoon and evening. we have a large area in kansas and northern texas and oklahoma all the way to nebraska has a chance for severe storms. mostlyind will be the w air mass. minneapolis today 79 degrees and mostly sunny. >>> we will take a look at the weekend forecast and some of the great weather. we'll be on the move. >> all right. we'll hear about it. thank you, fast forwarding into your weekend box office, tom cruise is looking to stunt his way back to the top with mission impossible fallout. the 6th installment of the franchise is eyeing a franchise best. $135 million globally this opening weekend. standing in its way are two sequels, equalizer 2 and mama mia here we go again. both had big opening weekends

the st. louis a ride share driver was live streaming a personal video of his riders for online entertainment. polo sandoval has more on all of this for us. exactly what was revealed? >> reporter: this story is raising a wide range of legal and ethical privacy questions. the st. louis post dispatch reported earlier this weekend that a 32-year-old man had been essentially streaming using the application twitch, some of these fairs he was accepting while working with lyft and uber. we've blurred some of the video but you can see how the interior of this pickup truck has been lit so he in essence can provide the clear picture for viewers around the world with the exchanges harp happening, the conversations that were happening with his customers. why did he do this? i can tell you the st. louis post dispatch did speak to him directly and he said it was mainly because of security reasons so he could potentially feel protected while he's doing these uber and lyft rides. but at the same time in the post re

and the st. louis post dispatch and bloomberg. give them a round of applause. there is no one name i did not mention that i will get to in a second. i would like to acknowledge staff and additional members of the headliners team who made this possible today, betsy fisher martin, lisa matthews is here with us, lloyd russo, tamara hidden, press club staff, lindsay underwood, executive director bill mccarron, thank you very much. i would like to thank the kitchen staff who blessed us with very good food and cookies. they are delicious and tropical. that is a fun thing. for our broadcast audiences watching on c-span and elsewhere please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction is not necessarily from the working press today. now our lead guest. this week nearly 155 years ago union pacific railroad laid its first rails to the outskirts of omaha, it was incorporated in 1862 through an act of congress signed into law by abraham lincoln, one of the company's biggest supporters, union pacific has served as a critical l

tim edmonds is a st. louis county park ranger. >> time the find out how dark it really is. >> reporter: 30 feet in, it's pitch black'd your other senses will kick in but you can also get disoriented and it's hard to tell when you're standing straight and leaning. >> reporter: the soccer team in thailand trapped more than two miles in, some for more than two weeks. >> visualize if you're one of them kids in the cave, had no light and sitting up on one of them ledges waiting and seeing the water flow you. that must be a horrifying experience. >> reporter: cave expert dave says heavy rain can turn a fun outing into a deadly disaster within minutes. >> there's not typically a gradual rise with cave streams and tends to be a very quick, abrupt wall of water. >> reporter: that's just what happened here 25 years ago. >> when we arrived down here, the water was just very rapid. >> reporter: exploring underground, five young boys and two adult counselors found themselves suddenly trapped after a violent thunderstorm fil

the severe weather stretches from iowa to arkansas, with kansas city, st. louis, and little rock among the cities in the risk area, threatening some 13 million people. jo ling kent, nbc news. >>> big news tonight about one of the nation's biggest banks. "the wall street journal" is reporting that wells fargo is refunding tens of millions of dollars to customers because of services added to their accounts like pet insurance and i.d. theft protection. in some cases, wells fargo customers were aware they signed up, but were not clearly informed they would be charged once the free trial period ended. wells fargo tells nbc news it is no longer selling these products and if issues are found with past services, it will make things right with customers. >>> now to the massive explosion that rocked new york city, sending debris raining down, people running for their lives. tonight, as the air is clearing, it's raising alarms about the old pipes lying beneath the surface of not just new york but cities and towns across the country. here is nbc's rehema ellis. >> reporter:

it happened to passengers in st. louis who rode in jason gargac's car while he was driving for uber and lyft. the images obtained and posted by the "st. louis dispatch." >> for the sake of privacy, i'm not showing you exactly to people's houses anymore. i'll probably forget half the time. >> in missouri, if the driver gives consent to the recording, it's not illegal. >> reporter: in statements, both uber and lyft say they've deactivated gargac. uber stating, "the troubling behavior in the videos is not in line with our community guidelines." and twitch, the live streaming service gargac was using to share the video, wouldn't speak to this particular case. but in their posted policy they state, "we do not allow people to share content that invades others' privacy." these are very personal moments and conversations shared here. you can always ask the driver if they're recording video before you take that ride. >> sometimes they have the signs up in the cars as well. adrienne, thanks so much. >>> coming up, an update on the s

and he just come over from st. louis to start an abolitionist press. here's the interesting thing but alton. it's in madison county, illinois. madison county, illinois, had a long history of free and successful literate african-american farmers. starting -- right. >> doctors and everything. >> right, right. so, starting in the 1790s, 1800s, a lot of them coming from st. louis, across the river, that's really, really good land. extremely successful farms. there's a reason why the second -- don't note if it's deliberate but the second illinois convention was held in at online. in the 1820s they were petitioning their state senator to give them back the right to vote that the right to illinois stolen from them, they originally had under northwest territorial ordinance and he read that pet television -- petition allowed in the state senate and was hung in effigy. he says, okay, eye may not be all for african people but they pay taxes. they deserve to be represented. but this is also happening during that illinois war, right? this first civil war that broke

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a st. louisarea driver for ubr and lyft is suspended after live streaming the passengers without their knowledge. it happened in the st. louis area, and the driver installed dash cams in the car to record passengers and apparently hundreds of rides were streamed online. pablo sandoval has been digging into this and what do you know about it? >> well, the story was first report ed ed by the st. louis " dispatch" and going back to march when the 32-year-old man who you will see in the video behind the wheel video streamed the passengers. he has spoken publicly to the post dispatch saying that the livestream offered him security in the uber and the lyft rides saying that is the main reason for webcasting the passenger's behavior, but he told the newspaper that he wanted to capture enterinte interactions himself and the passengers so which is it. we have been trying to reach out to him directly from cnn of why he did this, but we have been unsuccessful in the attempts to contact him. this is raising

. >>> hundreds of people in st. louisd into the back of an uber or lyft may have unknowingly been part of a voyeuristic, live streaming broadcast. >> the driver shared their conversations with thousands on the internets. here is adrienne bankert. >> reporter: imagine the driver of the car service app you use live streaming your every move, for the world to see, without your knowledge. it happened to passengers in st. louis, who rode in jason's car while he was driving for uber and lyft. images obtained and posted by the st. louis "dispatch." >> not showing you guys exactly to people's houses anymore. i'll probably forget half the time. >> in the state of missouri as long as one party and in this case it's the uber driver, gives consent to the recording, it's not deemed illegal. >> reporter: in statements, uber and lyft say they deactivated jason. they say it's not in line with their community guidelines, and twitch, the live streaming service he was using wouldn't speak to this particular case, but in their posted policy,

we run a line between chicago and st. louis. we had a long-term agreement with the state of illinois that under certain circumstances we would increase or at least host passenger service on that line. that's happened. and it is a higher speed rail line. it's built out to be, i want to say, 120 miles per hour on certain segments. and it's hosted by amtrak and they're making significant capital investment along with the state and the federal government. and so we're already a for days pant in that. now i'm going to tell you, i don't think that ridership is going to explode on that service and it's going to replace the air service between chicago and st. louis. >> all right. well, we are coming to the end. i did promise to be prompt. and i would like to respect everyone's time on that. i know you all are used to promptness. so i would like to, right before we close up, we do have one last question, it's a tradition, i'll get to that in a moment. but before that let me make some announcements while i have you all hire as a captive a

marshall worked in st. louis, memphis, as well as at f.b.i. headquarters where he worked on multiple task forces and supervised a public corruption squad. in 2008, mr. marshall was promoted to f.b.i. leadership as assistant special agent in charge of the dallas division crime and aged the intelligence programs. after dallas, he was promoted to the inspection division where he led inspectors of local field offices as well as shooting incident review teams. mr. marshall was then appointed ecial agent in charge in louisville. most recently, he served as deputy assistant director of the cyber division where he supported the mission to identify and defeat cyber threats targeted u.s. interests. prior to the f.b.i., mr. marshall worked for the prosecuting attorney's office in little rock, arkansas. we thank mr. marshall and his father, brian, for their combined 54 years of public service to the american people and their service to the f.b.i. and all their fellow agents at the bureau. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. th

st. louis is only one game over .500. abc 7 sports report is sponsored by river rock casino.'s where eric's from and probably have some thoughts on that. >> well, they like winners in st. louis. so one game over .500, that's not going to do it. >> especially when you're trailing the cubs by seven. >> the who? >> the cubs. >> oh, no. >> we don't talk about them. >> can't be objective. >> thanks, minldsy. >> thanks a lot. >> that's it for tonight, everybody. >> abc 7 news continues tomorrow morning at 9:00. >> for all of us here at abc 7 snurksz thanks for joining us. find us on twitter and facebook. until next time, have a wonderful night. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ previously on "scandal"... you are gonna make me president of the united states. i've already lost a daughter to hell if i will let what happened to you happen to my son. jake ballard is going to take the stage tonight as mellie grant's vice presidenti

i also think that happening in st. louis it didn't surprise me as far as the history of st. i know i have a voice and i can make some change, so my next move is to just do what i can to i guess make the world a bittetter placo live in and i think this is a good start. >> you're obviously taking the most positive approach after this. is it your sense or your friend's sense, that this would not have happened if it had been ten white kids leaving ihop? >> in my opinion, i don't think so. for the description -- five black males, one wearing a read t-shirt. that leaves a really large pool for police to pull over any african-american males they see even though we were in a mixed gender group. i guess if there was white kids walking around, i don't think they would have been approached in the same sense, it seemed like they approached us like we were the culprits of the crime. as think in my response, i don't know as far as legally, my rights, i could have said no and tried to go back to the metrolink and took the train home, but as far as my response, i guess it is a difference be

it happened to passengers in st. louis. the images obtained and posted by the st. ake of privacy, i'm not showing you the people's houses anymore. >> in the state of missouri, as long as one party, and in this case it is the uber driver gives consent to the recording, it is not deemed illegal. >> both uber and lyft say they detacted it. the troubling behavior in the videos is not in line with our community guidelines. and twitch wouldn't speak to this particular case but in their posted policy, they state we do not allow people to share content that invades others' privacy. >> that was adrian baker reporting. now the 32-year-old said he is trying to capture the natural reactions between myself and the passengers. that was his quote. he also said he has since taken those videos down. they suggest always asking the driver if they are recording before taking a ride. >> tempers spilled over at the rugby tournament at at&t park. it all happened in a match between samoa and whales yesterday. they have suspended a player from the samoa team as a result of what happened. a

he have just come over from st. louis. here is the interesting thing. it's in madison county illinois. have a long history of free and successful african-american farmers. starting in the 1790s a lot of them are coming from st. louis. across the river. that's really good land. it's extremely successful. there is a reason why the second illinois convention was held and alton. they are petitioning their state senator he went that around. in the state senate. in the 1820s. for the honor of doing that. and i remember him. this is a wonderful quote. they deserve to be represented. also this is happening during the illinois war. not to slavery but equality. i think it's so important to stay on this. the debate before the civil war was not just over slavery versus freedom. it was over the quality versus that. these two were intertwined. they were separate discussions. they were being struggled for a two different fronts. not just fighting been enslaved. the unjust written manacles. the laws that create inequality. there are two different things. i would argue

st. louis, in going through some records, st. logical records in louis, i came across an ancestor had come over from germany in -- before the war. and some prominent citizens that lso enlisted at the same time, and i was wondering, was there a incentive for people to enlist in the union army at that time? a citizenship incentive? >> yeah, you could become a citizen and bypass the process like that, in order to become a citizen? not that i know of offhand. if you were an immigrant, you were ineligible unless you applied for citizenship. he mere application for citizenship made you eligible draft. i don't know of any specific it certainly wouldn't hurt, but the main thing was money. money to enlist. and if you're an immigrant, with then maybe you want that. i don't know if i understand entirely.tion >> for example, going through st. ist of enlistments, in louis, i came across august bush, who was a recent would not and money have been an incentive for him, so i don't know why he would and enlisted at that point that's why i thought

extendin down to st. louis the heat warning in effect and north of us, we're in the heat advisory excessive heat warning for philly up towards eastern sections of pennsylvania as well. no doubt, hazy, hotid out there. temperatures today to upper 90ss. like with this in place 100 to 105 degrees. looking at expected feels like temperates later this afternoon this is 5:00. i think we're 102 to 103 here. this say guide to give you an to if not up to or or 100.up some place could be more or less. you getde the i hot, humid, and even at 11:00 tonight we'll feel like we're in the lower 90s in terms of feels like temperature. very hot, very humid today. where are we starting off this morning. 76 already. we were down to 75 for a low. fairly mild. temperures out in the suburbs. prty comfortable at least for a couple hours with 60 degree readings. we're going to heat up in a hurry. here's the forecast for the next couple days. you know by now sunny and hot today, 97. will feel like 100 to 5. tomorrow will be holest day t

. >> reporter: a jury in st. louis4.7 billion, and signature baby powder. and the majority of this billions of dollars, and failed to warn them of these risks, they are very disappointed by this ruling and plan on appealing the single biggest verdict we have seen in 9000 cases who sued johnson & johnson because of this. very common. rob: everyone going nuts because they were losing followers and the former president lost quite a few. jillian: you will notice how many people you are losing and twitter followers, former pres. barack obama lost 2 million twitter followers, donald trump lost 325,000 followers. and accounts that were deemed suspicious and getting rid of all of those. and to clean up their act. >> we all realize that. >> 25 after the hour, the left chanting apologize for weeks. >> ice has strayed so far from its mission when it turned into is a terrorist organization of its own. rob: now the democrats have a chance to make this a reality they are putting this idea on ice. >> jackie ibanez with this. - [annou

an analysis of professor epstein of the washington university of st. louis found that judge kavanaugh would be the second most conservative justice on the court, to the right of judge gorsuch and second only to justice thomas. this is the most conservative yearswe have had in 80-90 , since the 1930's at a very minimum. thaty to those who say president trump has made a moderate selection from the judicial mainstream in the form of judge kavanaugh, think again and look at his record. he is a deeply conservative justice and his judicial philosophy appears to spring from his history. judge kavanaugh was embedded in the partisan fights of the past few decades, the notorious starr report, the florida recount, president bush's secrecy and privilege claims once in office, and ideological judicial fights throughout the bush era. the hard right has had a goal. they can achieve their hard right philosophy through the two elected branches of government, tries they might -- try as they might. the congress, the president, but if they get control of the one nonelected bran

berlin to national emergency increases fast moving wildfires cause death and destruction to port st louis seventy four people have died as the flames close in on the capital the government calls on the european union for assistance to hear live from athens for the latest also on the program. hundreds missing as a dam collapses in laos. there have been fatalities and thousands left homeless. it's time to deploy troops to polling stations on the eve of national elections but are they there to protect or to intimidate the ministries accused of trying to influence the election and of attacking press freedom. i'm still going to welcome to the program greece has declared a state of emergency as wildfires fanned by strong winds raced through residential areas around the capital athens a fire brigade official says at least seventy four people have been killed more than one hundred seventy have been injured the government has declared three days of national mourning called on the european union for assistance. they're the worst wildfires grace has seen in a decade the flames moved quickly and took

the st. louis post dispatch reports that 32-year-old driver has given 700 uber rides in the st. louis area since march plus with lyft. almost all have been streamed to his channel. the driver told the newspaper he was trying to "capture the natural interactions between myself and the passengers." some riders felt their privacy had been violated. uber and lyft have both deactivated him. >>> luxury fashion brand burberry is being criticized for burning millions of dollars worth of goods on purpose. the brand reportedly destroyed $37 million worth of products last year to get rid of excessive stock. some of the company's shareholders have asked why the products weren't offered to private investors? a spokesperson for burberry says the company has a careful process in place to get rid of an overflow of goods in a responsible manner. >>> cvs is responding to a transgender woman in arizona who set a armistice refused to fill her prescription. the woman went to a pharmacy in april to pick up prescriptions for hormone therapy. she said she was questioned about the prescriptions and the p

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on fed decisions that begin during the clinton administration and federal reserve president from st louis president jim boehlert said the comments would not affect the fed's decisions on interest rates but other still fear that the fed choices will now be second guessed to an even higher degree. we have seen record bank profits some of which we reported here on the program earlier in the week at the same time we see continuing calls for relaxing regulation in the financial sector and even things like stress tests conducted by the federal reserve which are meant to guard against another government big bank bailout and here's.

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this is according to the st. louis post dispatch. the st. louis area uber and lyft driver ve-streamed hundreds of rides to thousands of his followers on the twitch website. in statements uber and lyft both say they have dropped him as a . driv missouri, like most states, requires consent from only one rty for recording to be considered legal. >>> storm team 4 is tracking more rain on the way. ♪ you know when you're at ross and that cute dress gets even cuter? yes. or when you can say yes... to both? sure. or when you find that brand at that price? are you kidding me? yeah. that's yes for less. and that's what ross always has in store. whoa. (sighs) yes... oh, yeah. get your yes for less at the newest ross store on rhode island avenue. >>> so you and the family probably have a beach pla planned this summer, but recent shark attacks and sightings are raising concerns about the specie kerry sanders is giving us an up closelook. >> reporter: for decades shaves haoth intrigued and terrified us, even as statistically we are more likely to die from

the scene to st. louis the last minute was so vivid because that was "access hollywood" weekend i remember every moment of that because it seems like we may lose a presidential candidate and probably for good reason. then he brought out bill clinton this was wild and recounting that part of the reason i recount all of this is because it will happen again. there is a fantasy that suddenly he will wake up and be presidential. how many times have you heard that? can you believe what he just said? i have been hearing that since 2016 he will not change. people need to take him on or live in this environment. >> in reading this i was transported back. i was. it was astonishing because i lived it but for someone who didn't, you really feel like you are right in there so first explain what gaslighting is. >> that is the subtitle nobody can test that he lies. we all agree on that. but the way i explain it is if imagine somebody stops you on the street and says what color is the sky? blue. no. it is green. no it's bl

we have unfortunately, in st. louisr a police officer there who pulled somebody over, routine traffic stop, got his license, for the police car, and while he was walking back away from the car, the guy put a gun in his neck and shot him, and he's paralyzed from the neck done. called michael flamion, in a specially designed smart technology home that we helped to build for him in st. louis. there's another police officer that we're about to build for that was shot in the head. mark: do you feel there's more and more of this taking place? >> it seems so, you know, it seems so. it's a dangerous business. you put on the uniform, you drive around, waiting for trouble. mark: pretty much. >> that's what -- we're waiting for the call where there's trouble, and then you go and try to deal with it. so it's a dangerous business, you know? it's a dangerous business. it seems in certain areas it's more dangerous than other areas. mark: we'll be right back. more and more people are finding themselves in a chevy for the first time. no

you'll be dodging the storms kansas city, st. louis, most of the storm should be just to your north. from peoria to springfield and chicago you'll have storms to dodge saturday. today's forecast very warm in the middle of the country. as we head towards the weekend, this is when we'll watch the midwest storms on saturday especially heading around areas like chicago and iowa. southeast will dodge some storms and finally heading into sunday, we continue to watch isolated storms notice ohio valley. notice we hid 95 in d.c. on sunday. things warm up on the east coast. it looks like a nice beach weekend for many areas of the eastern seaboard. >> monsoon storms on saturday in the southwest? >> phoenix, that whole area we've had a lot of sandstorms harkes bobs in that area. there's been a lot of it and it will continue. >> thank you very much. still ahead, the justice department goes after the recently approved at&t time warner merger. why the federal government is appealing that union now. >> plus the trump administration loses another high

st. louis just handed it to the giants. fourth straight loss, 11-2 the final. >>> pro basketball returning to oracle later on today. it will be filled with former uninhabitable ballers thanks to entertainer ice cube. it will be filled with former nba ballers thanks to entertainer ice cube. the creator of the eight-team big 3 league. >> looking forward to coming into these great arenas oracle you know. it's got that championship smell to it. >> that's right. >> we know it. he brought in his own half court. julius erving is a coach. warriors great rick barry is another head coach. it's 3-on-3 basketball. former warriors steven jackson told me 55-year-old michael jordan better not even think of suiting up. >> not now. i wouldn't have done it 25 years ago. but now michael jordan is living his best life enjoying life. i even had --when i was --i got it back and forth and he got the best of me in u nkan take it. >> and we have this. me on camera as i say good-bye for this morning. i'm going to leave the rest of the day to you! i'

we run a line between chicago and st. louis. and we had a very long term agreement with the state of illinois that under certain circumstances we would increase or at least host passenger service on that line. that's happened. it is a higher speed rail line. it is 120 miles an hour on certain segments and hosted by amtrak and making significant capital investment along with the state and the federal government. and so we're already a participant in that. now i don't think that ridership is going to explode on that service and replace the air service between chicago and st. louis. >> all right. we're coming to the end of this. i did promise to be prompt. i'd like to respect everyone's time on. that i know you all are very used to promptness. so i would like to right before we close up. we have one last question as a tradition. but before that, let me make announcements. future national press club events with major speakers july 16th, luncheon with mlb commissioner rob manfred. you can ask him about the all star game. july 18th, a