susan smith watched in horror as the children were rescued.nto the ambulance and that. an awful thing to happen on your own street. yes. the 14—year—old girl who died at the scene has been named locally as demi pearson. an eight—year—old boy and seven—year—old boy died later in hospital. a three—year—old girl is in a critical condition. and the mother of all the children, named locally as michelle pearson, is also seriously ill. the deaths of three children is heart—breaking. our thoughts are with the family, the little girl and her mum, who are fighting for their lives. our specially trained officers are now with the family, to help them through this devastating time. tonight, several arrests have been made, the majority of them on suspicion of murder, as scores of detectives continue to work on this investigation. at the nearby church of stjohn the baptist, the doors were open tonight for people to come in and remember the children who died. and it was well attended — such is the effect of these awful events. now on bbc news, it is time for

smith: thank you for having me on. susan: let me introduce the reporters who will be asking two questions. leo shane writes for the military times. roxana is a bloomberg government covering defense and foreign policy. we want to start our conversation with the developing situation with north korea but there are reports from multiple national news sources the white house is set to make a long rumored move with secretary of state tillerson, replacing him with mr. pompeo from the cia, and replacing mr. pompeo with senator tom cotton. this is part of the national security team. i am wondering if you have a reaction to those names and those particular cases it rep. smith: i don't know that it changes anything. my biggest concern and that is the state department. whether it is secretary tillerson or secretary pompeo, the state department has not been engaged. diplomacy has fallen off significantly. morale at the state department is terrible. i think they have a third less people. there just does not seem to be a diplomatic focus.

susan smith watched in horror as the children who used to pat her dog were rescued.the ambulances were pulling up at the side of our house because they couldn't get down. they were carrying the children to the ambulance. awful thing to happen on your own street. very. a 14—year—old girl died at the scene. an eight—year—old boy and seven—year—old girl died later in hospital. the three—year—old girl is in critical condition. their mother is also seriously ill. police are being very forthright about what happened. i want to describe what this incident is. it's the murder — using fire — of three children, and we have a three—year—old girl fighting for her life, who is seriously ill. this will devastate this family forever, and words cannot describe what they're going through. and they believe they know who is responsible. all i will say is he knows who he is, and he should give himself up immediately. in the hours before the fire, there was trouble here and police were called. that means the force has to refer itself to its own watchdog. tonight an investigation continue

susan smith watched in horror as the children were rescued.bulance and that. an awful thing to happen on your own street? yes. the 1a—year—old girl who died at the scene has been named locally as demi pearson. an eight—year—old boy and seven—year—old boy died later in hospital. a three—year—old girl is in a critical condition and the mother of all the children, named locally as michelle pearson, is also seriously ill. the deaths of three children is heart—breaking. our thoughts are with the family, the little girl and her mum who are fighting for their lives. 0ur specially trained officers are now with the family to help them through this devastating time. tonight, several arrests have been made — the majority of them on suspicion of murder — as scores of detectives continue to work on this investigation. at the nearby church of stjohn the baptist, the doors were opened tonight for people to come in and remember the children who died and it was well attended — such is the effect of these awful events. police in new york say a man detonated a b

susan smith watched in horror as the children who used to pat her dog were rescued.cause they couldn't get down. they were carrying the children to the ambulance. awful thing to happen on your own street. very. a 14—year—old girl died at the scene. an eight—year—old boy and seven—year—old girl died later in hospital. the three—year—old girl is in critical condition. their mother is also seriously ill. police in new york say an explosion at manhattan's busiest bus terminal during rush hour was an attempted terror attack. the suspect was injured along with three others. he had a homemade bomb strapped to his body. there are some disturbing images from the beginning of nick bryant's report. it is 7.20, the height of rush—hour, and a security camera appears to show an explosive device going off amidst a crowd of monday morning commuters. a picture taken from cctv appears to show him on the floor shortly afterwards. it was a low—tech bomb which left the bomber himself with the worst injuries. three others were treated afterwards for minor injuries, including a police offi

state saw her in 1848 as an 8-year-old barnstorming through illinois, and that is emma smith duveau. she saw susan b. anthony in central illinois when she was 8 years old, and susan anthony asked who believes that women , have the right to vote and when she was 8t years old, she stood up. that has a connection to our state from 1848 right through to 1910. write about the same time as the women's convention in seneca falls, women and men, emily's -- women and men, families who were traveling west, these were hardy people and at that time, 1850, congress passed the oregon donation land claim laws. anybody who came to the oregon territory before 1849 got outright 640 acres of land. after 1850, they cut that in half to 320 acres, but the interesting is that that amount of land, half of it was in the woman's name. 320 acres were given to a couple. if you were a single man, you got half of that, if you were a single woman you got half of that. but half of that acreage was always in the woman's name. so right away women have land claim ownership. and that was an important part of the oregon trail era. by

he contacted consumer reporter susan hogan who got the results he couldn't. >> billy smith is a loyal but he recently took it in for service and got the chance to drive something a little different. >> it was a 2017 big dodge truck, i get to drive a new truck around two days. >> his dealership provided the rental from enterprise as a courtesy. when smith returned the truck the next day -- >> the guy comes out of the place and says, you put a dent in it. i said, no i didn't. he ran over and pointed to the passenger front door. it has dirt on it. no, it has fresh paint on t. >> enterprise sent a claim for $660. these photos of the damage to smith's insurance company. >> i didn't do anything. don't pay it. i'll try and get in touch with enterprise, get the rental agreements see if you can see anything. >> smith wanted to know if the damage had been noted on previous rentals. he said neither he nor his insurance company could get the documents. about a month later smith received another bill from enterprise. of the charges. smith continued to try to resolve it on his own. he finally reach

susan. al franken. resigns or not resigning? >> he's going to be resigning. you can't announce you're going to resign and say, oops. i forgot. by the way, never mind tina smithugh you've been basically named my successor. i do think we'll see reconsideration about whether the punishment fits the crime in all of these cases of accusations of sexual harassment. we're starting to see the beginning of a little backlash on the part of some about whether -- about the willingness both to believe women and force men accused to be fired, to step down from their jobs and whatever we're seeing it now with senator franken, but no question he will resign. >> susan, the two democrats that told politico, asking for his resignation and now saying, no, i don't want it? >> only one is doing it on the record. senator manchin, who's been very outspoken. you don't hear it from senator schumer, close to franken or senator gillibrand who kind of led the charge. there's a feeling if democrats draw a bright line on the issue of sexual harassment they don't want to spent their chips defending senator franken. >> i want to do more but i'm told we're out of time. thank you all. stay wi

susan collins has been concerned about medical deductions we'll see. >>> new this morning, the international energy agency says it expects the rise in u.s. shale production to continue putting pressure on opec joining us is matt smith they right >> they are. >> they are. are they ever wrong? >> they are. but there's a consensus across the monthly reports. this week, we had the oil reports, opec expect u.s. production will increase 1.1 million barrels a day. eia, 800,000 barrels a day, and iea, 800,000 barrels a day the key take daway no one knows what that value will be, but it is going to be a sizable chunk >> you have a stat for us. >> i do. >> it's a quiz for us? >> it is a quiz. we're talking about u.s. production here. >> yes >> u.s. imports, net import for oil and products in september reached 3.44 million barrels a day. that's down to the lowest level for many, many years it was at 13.44 million barrels a day there august of 2006 we dropped 10 million barrels a day of those net imports because we're producing more and exporting more as well the last time that was at that 3 million barrel a day level, beverly hills cop was on >> my favorite movie did you know that was my favorite movie eddie murphy with that

smith: thank you for having me on. susan: let me introduce the reporters who will be asking two questions. leo shane writes for the military times. roxana is a bloomberg government covering defense and foreign policy. we want to start our conversation with the developing