lauren, tracee. tracee: griff, thank you very much. the senate will hold closing arguments in the impeachment trial on capitol hill today. president trump is expected to be acquitted on wednesday. but as one investigation ends, republicans are gearing up to start their own investigation. tracee: david spunt is in washington, d.c. as the fight against president trump appears to be wrapping. >> reporter: good morning. the t senate will reconvene later this morning at 11:00 for closing arrestingments and both -- arguments and both legal teams have to do it in four hours. wednesday they will vote on the actual articles of impeachment. that's when the senators will declare guilty or not guilty. to remove the president on wednesday, 67 senators need to sign object. the math is not there for that to happen. meanwhile, the president is back at the white house this morning after arriving late last night after a weekend in florida. >> they don't care about fairness, they don't care about lying. look at the reports that were done that were so fal

"the daily briefing" with trace gallagher in today for dana. >> trace: harris, thank you. a live look in las vegas as president trump will take the stage to rally thousands of supporters less than 24 hours before democratic voters begin caucusing. good evening, everyone, i am trace gallagher in for dana perino, and this is "the daily briefing." ♪ folks in vegas lining up last night to get into this afternoon's trump rally. nevada, one of several states where the g.o.p. has canceled the caucuses. the president looking to steal the spotlight from democrats making their final pitches to voters. democratic socialist bernie sanders appears to be the clear front runner right now. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg rising in the polls, but not even on the ballot as he skips the early stage to focus on super tuesday, which is march 3rd. let's get right to the campaign trail and peter doocy who is life for us on the vegas strip. >> trace, michael bloomberg's big argument is that bernie sanders cannot be elected because americans don't want a socialist. but now bernie sand

"the story" guest hosted by trace gallagher starts right n now. >> trace: great video, thank you so much. tonight, an exclusive one-on-one with rod blagojevich, now a free man after president trump commuted his 14 year prison sentence, he served eight years of that sentence and critics say they are disappointed he didn't serve more for public corruption, crime and attempts to sell the senate seat vacated by president obama in 2008. >> i've got this thing and it's [bleep] golden and i'm just not giving it up. >> trace: and others believe his sentence was extreme as one reporter covered his trial puts it, there was one sentiment i heard over and over again, i know blagojevich was guilty but 14 years is insane. an argument his wife patty has made on this very show. >> my husband is serving more time than any other governor has ever served but he's also surfing more time than any other politician for charges that have to do with fund-raising. >> trace: is standing by tonight's bernie kerik, he too received clemency from the president, the former new york city police commissioner was pardoned

trace: mike, thank you. well, best selling author mary higgins clark in 2011 ringing the opening bell on wall street. she died yesterday at the age of 92 in naples, florida. she wrote over 50 mystery novels, selling over 100 million copies of her books in the u.s. alone in a career that spanned decades. in 2000, she became the highest paid female author in the world, at the time signing a $64 million deal with her long-time publisher, simon and shuster. she was humble about her success, saying she was just an irish girl from the bronx who liked to tell stories. and stories she told. how are folks you across the country feeling about the 2020 presidental race as we -- presidental race as we count down to the iowa caucuses. i said a they're on tuesday. they're actually on monday. josh kimbrell will break down how this is playing out in the heartland, after the break. do. however, since 2000, the buying power of the dollar has dropped by over 31% - that means the dollar is only worth about 68¢ now compared to 2

i'm trace gallagher. thanks for joining us.at you right now. ♪ >> bill: thank you, tracy. i bill hemmer and it's good to be back in new york city today. we are waiting to hear from the president, right now speaking with reporters at the white house. first we will talk about roger stone. this is one day after the rare move surrounding the sentencing of this campaign advisor. and those prosecutors had recommended for stone. last year a jury convicted him of lying for to congress.

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to now officials are trying to trace all those who were on the infected man's flight. i'm joined now by a reporter. who was of the press conference with nigerian health minister on friday and always nice to have you know how all trying to trace all dues this italian could have come into contact with. what the minister of health in nigeria has said and authorities side b. and i trying to track all the people who that might have traveled with this italian person and then the people he might have come in contact with because he went in his house it was 2 days on i didn't nigeria to even put it to the hospital today i thought nigerians that they are going to track them and they will be kept cool 14 to 20 it this shouldn't be done have defiance i need to show any sign indeed will be taken to the treatment center which is ok separated from the hospital facilities ok i mean sounds like difficult to do so i'm sure the awakened not the best strategies but talk about strategies the health ministry has been given some sort of guidelines for people to use to help contain the virus

tracee.> thank you very much hillary. as primary results started rolling in democratic race got smallerrer and andrew reported he was ending his bid and tech entrepreneur had a new policy of freedom dividend in which he promised to give each american adult $1,000 a month. dropping out his new fueling speculation that he may run for mayor of new york city once bill de blasio's term is up. meantime yang 2024 trengdzing on social media about, and michael bennett also ending his run, the colorado senator was a late entry to the race announcing his presidential bid last may. >> all right president trump also celebrating today. a record-breaking victory in the republican primary last night. his campaign touting that president actually received more primary votes in new hampshire than any sitting president running for reelection over the past 40 years. yes todd pirro has more. good morning, todd. >> lauren and tracee good morning, the outcome on republican side never really in doubt check this out.

trace: thank you. republicans are claiming victory, democrats are condemning that vote against new witnesses. chuck schumer calling it a great tragedy. lucas tomlinson reporting on what we can expect next asked the impeachment trial presses on. >> reporter: democrats need four republican votes to bring witnesses forward and only received two so the motion failed by a narrow majority, 51-49. the vote had been an even 50/50 split, john roberts spoke last night. >> of members of this body elected by the people and accountable to them divide equally on a motion, normal is the motion fails. i think it would be inappropriate for me, and an elected official from a different branch of government, to assert the power to change that result so the motion would succeed. >> reporter: susan collins and mitt romney were the two republicans to defect. democrats hoped lisa murkowski, the alaska republican explained her vote, quote, given the partisan nature of this impeachment from the beginning and throughout has come

says the country is facing a coronavirus epidemic the german health minister says there's no way to trace all the infections back to china meaning germany now has its own epidemic. and as germany becomes one of dozens of countries grappling with an outbreak the virus is not slowing down for the 1st time the number of new infections outside of china is higher than inside the country class journeys highest court backs legalizing assisted suicides the federal constitutional court overturns a 20150 that prevented doctors from helping truly old patients and their lives. and now she's in 70 years berlin film festival my colleagues i'm in s.f. and scott drops below with the latest from the red carpet today it's been all over we've got a modern day adaptation of the german literary classic berlin alexanderplatz plus some hollywood star power we have someone hired because you brought them out here on the red carpet the clear of their films the rich not treated that's coming up. i'm going to phenomenon well we begin with the latest on the coronavirus in germany 7 new cases of the disease. has been

says the country is facing a coronavirus epidemic the german health minister says there's no way to trace only infections back to china meaning germany now has its own epidemic. and as germany becomes one of dozens of countries grappling with an outbreak of the virus is not slowing down for the 1st time the number of new infections outside china is higher than inside the country india's prime minister appeals for calm after delhi is hit by the worst sectarian violence in the decades 20 people are killed us in news and muslims come to blows over a controversial citizenship drawn. out at the 17th president film festival today on the knesset trucks borrow up on the red carpet to dance the film of almost gone potter and the adaptation of the german literary classics berlin alexanderplatz 1st some hollywood star power we have some of them out there on the red carpet at the premier of their film the rage nazi that's coming out. i mean a phenomenon welcome we begin with the latest on the corona virus in germany 7 new cases of the disease have been confirmed in 3. different states 2 patients are

they treat the patients they they trace their contacts and trace all the people who are possibly been infected on the way they quieten people or and struck them to cells monitor for a while so as long as this is under control this is good news but there is a very high potential as the colleague also just mentioned of this reaching pandemic levels and once it reaches we will certainly talk and in those terms. but let's not make this mistake here the effort of response is not limited or related to whether we call it a pandemic or not or whether the world comes as a pandemic or not the efforts a country can do the efforts the individual can do the efforts every health system can do are there yet and will be all right we'll have to leave it there chris and then my a spokesman for the world health organization thank you for joining us. well here in germany the government has set up an emergency task force to deal with what the health minister says is the beginning of an epidemic the country a see 10 new cases since tuesday a couple is being treated at a hospital in schools and kindergarten

tracee: i have no words.ng, corona beer is not coronavirus. in fact, after this week on thee markets, i think people need to have a corona beer or some kind of something today. lauren: i agree. cheryl: just throwing that out there. lauren: maybe start right now. tracee, thank you. go enjoy your corona. cheryl: again, we're coming back, maybe we're okay. you may not need that corona just yet. lauren: there's volatility. cheryl: right now, dow jones futures are down 284. s&p is down 32. nasdaq is down 106. lauren: coming up, after winning hearts around the world, one bullied boy is now sharing the love. what a story. we'll have it for you when we return. ♪ with over 75 years of savings and service, geico is the easy choice. we could even help you with homeowners... oh! not again! oh, thanks! you know automated lights are just the beginning. pretty soon they're gonna have eyes... everywhere. well goodnight. geico. over 75 years of savings and service. lauren: well, she's not the queen, meghan and harry will find

tracee. tracee: no comment. blake: we continue to take a look at u.s.be one of those days, coronavirus fears all across the world and this is really what's happening, you can see futures, nasdaq come off future lows but red all across the screen this morning, in the meantime president trump would rather take on former city mayor mike bloomberg in 2020 election, rather do that than go against bernie sanders, how would that work out, take a look. lauren: and is this ruining your marriage? >> did you get any sleep? >> are you snoring while you're awake? lauren: we will tell you how snoring is starting a new trend in the real estate market. we will be back. more? he has asked for... what? well he did say please (all boys): thank you, thank you, thank you. blake: president trump making it known who he would like to go up against in the general election, so what would a trump-bloomberg matchup be like or trump-sanders. democratic strategist max burns, good morning to you both. appreciate you coming on in. the president said yesterday that he would rather go u

to now officials are trying to trace all those who were on the infected man's flight. i'm joined now by i did. a press conference with health minister on friday and always nice to have you know how. trying to treat all dues this italian could have come into contact with. what the minister of health in nigeria has said and authorities try and. all that he proved that might have traveled with this italian person and then the people he might have come in. because he went in his house it was 2 days on time i didn't i did to even put it to the hospital today i thought nigerians that they are going to trot them and don't be camp will 14 to clean it is he should they don't have to fire us i need to show any sign then they would be taken to the treatment center which is ok separated from us by c.t.'s ok i mean it sounds like difficult to do some shoddy work and not the best strategies but talking about strategies the health ministry has been given some sort of guidelines for people to use to help contain the virus what are some of those guidelines the spreading around. well nu

country is now on the brink of a virus epidemic the german health minister says there's no way to trace all the infections back to china meaning germany now has its own epidemic and is germany becomes one of dozens of countries racing to respond the virus has not slowing down for the 1st time the number of new infections outside china is higher than inside china and germany highest court backing legalizing assisted suicides the federal constitutional court overturning a 2015 wall that prevented doctors from helping terminally ill patients and their law. i'm going to have you with us we begin tonight with the latest on the coronavirus here in germany 7 new cases of the disease have been confirmed in 3 different states 2 patients are being treated at a hospital in the city of dusseldorf authorities warning that the number of cases is likely to rise significantly as they are no longer able to trace the chains of infections of the country's health minister yes sean says that the country is at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic and he has urged regional authorities to review their emerg

lauren: tracee, hold up.ew star wars, they might have teased another baby yoda. so this one even though it's sold out might be old news come time for a new star wars. tracee: maybe. lauren: just putting it out there. cheryl: thank you very much. well, good news for the future of space tourism. virgin gal acparticular said they'll -- galactic said they will start taking deposits for trips to space. lauren: joining us now is brett larson. did you buy tickets? >> can i borrow your credit card for a moment? this is actually really exciting, space tourism is coming. virgin galactic has been talk about this for the better part of a deck aimed now you can go on virgingalactic.com and sign up for the program and for the low price of $1,000 you can put down a refundable deposit to then purchase a $250,000 ticket. cheryl: the 1,000 is just the deposit. >> you get it back if you chicken out at the last second or you decide maybe i don't have $250,000, maybe i want to buy a house and not a trip to space. cheryl: if these

says the country is facing a coronavirus epidemic the german health minister says there's no way to trace only infections back to china meaning germany now has its own epidemic. and as germany becomes one of dozens of countries grappling with the outbreak of the virus is not slowing down for the 1st time the number of new infections outside china is higher than inside the country. quarterback's legalising assisted suicide the federal constitutional court overturns a 2015 percent of doctors from helping terminally ill patients and their lot. and of the 70. assistants got roxboro on the red carpet. modern day adaptation of the literary classics for limit the plots of star power we have. out here on the red carpet the bureau of the film the it's not a. i mean. we began with the latest on the corona virus here in germany 7 new cases of the disease have been confirmed in 3 different states 2 patients are being treated at a hospital in the city of desoto off authorities warn the number of cases is likely to rise significantly as they are no longer able to trace the chain chains of infection. he

says the country is facing a coronavirus epidemic the german health minister says there is no way to trace all the infections back to china meaning germany now has its own epidemic. and as germany becomes one of dozens of countries grappling with an outbreak of virus it's not slowing down for the 1st time the number of new infections outside china is higher than inside the country. plus germany skies quarterback's legalising assisted suicide a federal constitutional court overturns a 2015 all that prevented doctors from helping terminally ill patients and their doctors. absent at the 70th berlin film festival today if you don't use i mean as a friend scott trucks borrow on the red carpet today at the bell and all of that we've got a modern day adaptation of the german literary classic berlin alexander books plus some hollywood star power we have some javier bardem called you're on the red carpet the premier of their film the rage nazi that's coming up. i'm your new phenomenon well we begin with the latest on the coronavirus here in germany 7 new cases also do. these have been confirmed in

trace gallagher rejoins us with the very latest. trace?ve you an idea. 92% of the precincts have been counted which means there are only 141 precincts left to get the returns in. and you see right there, it is buttigieg leading 26.5% of the vote, bernie sanders next. almost the exact opposite 25.6%. so less than 1% separate them and then have you elizabeth warren 18.3%. and joe biden now with 15.9%. what it does not show is amy klobuchar she is running about 12.1%. what this shows is it appears joe biden will beat amy klobuchar, which is at least somewhat of a boost for joe biden who says the iowa caucuses were like a kick in the gut. and it does not appear that joe biden will surpass elizabeth warren, which is bad news for the biden campaign you have buttigieg and sanders close call there the rest seem to be what they will be when the other 8% of precincts check. in tucker? >> tucker: biden is at least beating amy klobuchar. this isn't turning out as he expected. trace gallagher thanks for that i prevent it? >> sure. >> tucker: one of the

contact tracing.ot, i am told, anything to do with the cases in brighton so none of the contacts there are relevant here. contact tracing is what public health england do and be like to do it and are effective, i imagine there may bea are effective, i imagine there may be a little bit of tracing around people who are on the same flight immediately in front of and behind. it isa immediately in front of and behind. it is a two metre thing. it does not involve the whole flight but i am told there don't seem to have been many contacts as she arrived, so it may be something we can do quickly and, using flight information and information she has given, they will get on with that and people are already under way. people who are going to walk through arrivals, stand beside a luggage carousel, they're going to potentially take public transport, is the message she didn't take public transport? public transport, is the message she didn't take public transport7m public transport, is the message she didn't take pu

it seems to trace quickly did he do. that badly elite athlete. max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know gold. it's part of history you saw history gold you can find out some interesting things about people history all kinds of good stuff stacie max we are here in mexico city mexico it used to be the capital of the aztec empire and you know what montezuma who ruled the aztec empire 500 years ago exactly well he has a lesson for us today the modern human about how to deal with cohen keester doors and how we are still willed by the doors i have this headline here spanish conquistadores stole this gold bar from aztec emperor montezuma's true here is the actual and gold bar this is all the gold that montezuma had her own car test stole it he melted it down put it into bars this is just under 2 kilos here that they found under a street here in mexico city in 1901 and spend carbon dated to prove it is from 151920 when cortez sacked the city stole all their gold and is worth about $100000.00 u.s. dollars say it still has value today this is historic

they did treat the patients take they trace their contacts and trace all the people who have possibly been infected on the way they quarantined people or instruct them to self monitor for a while so as long as this is under control this is good news but there's a very high potential as the colleague also just mentioned of this reaching pandemic levels and once it reaches we will certainly talking in those terms. but let's not make this mistake here the effort of response is not limited or related to whether we call it a pandemic or not or whether the world comes as a pandemic or not the efforts a country can do the efforts the individual can do the efforts every health system can do are there yet and will be all right we'll have to leave it there chris and then my a spokesman for the world health organization thank you for joining us. well here in germany the government is taking measures to contain an outbreak of the virus that's after a sudden rise in infections this week and a warning from industry of a severe impact on the economy 10 new cases have been reported since tuesday a co

paula's work tracing babies' graves has been recognised by a cross—party group of mps.s to help families gain some sort of closure. it's so important that they are able to commemorate, that they have to know where these babies are. we do owe these mums an apology, and the system was wrong, and now we have an opportunity to make sure that we make amends for the damage that we caused. lovely to see you. thank you. after making contact online, yvonne and paula are meeting for the first time. it took four months of searching through records, but in the corner of a graveyard, amongst the bushes, is her son's grave. thank you. it is sad. i'll cut the bushes down, don't worry. i'll keep it clean now. she found him for me, and i'm so happy. i think for parents, the worst thing is not knowing. yeah. thank you very much. but this is just one family. there are so many other children waiting to be found. frankie mccamley, bbc news. a study by the media regulator off, has found that half the uk's 10 euros now own a smartphone. the annual survey also found that older children like to

paula's work tracing babies' graves has been recognised by a cross—party group of mps. commons this week that aims to help families gain some sort of closure. it's so important that they are able to commemorate, that they have to know where these babies are. we do owe these mums an apology, and the system was wrong, and now we have an opportunity to make sure that we make amends for the damage that we caused. lovely to see you. thank you. after making contact online, yvonne and paula are meeting for the first time. it took four months of searching through records, but in the corner of a graveyard, amongst the bushes, is her son's grave. thank you. it is sad. i'll cut the bushes down, don't worry. i'll keep him clean now. she found him for me, and i'm so happy. i think for parents, the worst thing is not knowing. yeah. thank you very much. but this is just one family. there are so many other children waiting to be found. frankie mccamley, bbc news. that work will be going on and we will give you update here on abc news. the new head of the premier league has said the vir

but first, nhs officials are trying to trace people who had close contact with two chinese nationals,the corona virus. the two are being treated at a specialist unit in newcastle. one is a student at york university. elsewhere, 83 british nationals — evacuated from the chinese city of wuhan yesterday — are spending two weeks in quarantine at a hospital in wirral. i've been speaking to paul hunter — a professor in medicine at the university of east anglia. he said cases of the virus were always likely to emerge in the uk. i think it was almost inevitable certainly, nothing in life is ever totally inevitable but this was pretty much certain going to happen. you know, we were certainly not one of the first western countries to have cases, so, yeah, it was going to happen and it did. could you explain to us a little bit about what the public health england is doing, in terms of its approach with regard to containment? yes, as it stands at the moment, with just two cases, the important thing is to make sure that the current cases are nursed in the environment where they will not be any ris

tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, amazing.ou. >> you too. >> tucker: what does this all add up to? what is the state of the democratic race actually beneath the noise? for that we are hosted by our friend dana perino and obviously co-hosts the five. we are happy to have her. the take away i think for a lot of democratic voters on bernie's team is that it is being stolen from bernie right now. but past this week as we move forward to nevada, new hampshire and the rest, where are we exactly in this race. can you tell? >> i just read a piece by jonathan that posted late this afternoon in new york magazine a liberal guy who says basically the state of the democratic party is an abysmal mess. of course, the bernie people are going to say it's rigged against them or being stolen from them they said that in 2016. that's one of the reasons that the democratic national committee made changes to accommodate the bernie people. and you saw today joe biden who came in fourth, which is abysmal for him in iowa and doesn't look too great in n

tracee carrasco has that story.aturday night, a man ambushed two officers sitting in a patrol van in the bronx. one of them was shot in the neck. the alleged suspect did not stop there, just a few hours a after the first attack officers say he opened fire in a bronx precinct, shooting a lieutenant in the arm. the man surrendered and is now facing several charges including attempted murder. well, pentagon officials identifying two soldiers killed in afghanistan. sergeant first class javier gutierrez and antonio ray rodriguez died in a fire fight with a gunman during a mission with afghan troops on saturday. six others were injured. both were promoted to sergeant first chat class and awarded the bronze star and purple heart. a record for british airways. a 737 left new york and landed in heathrow airport in just under five hours, setting a record for a commercial aircraft to fly between the two cities according to flight radar 24. the previous record was held by a nor h norwegian air flight wia flight hour of 5 hours

tracee carrasco has that story.e than 100 american troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. the pentagon confirmed 109 soldiers were hurt, that's 50% jump from the 64 reported just last month. almost three quarters of the service members are back on active duty. the january attack is considered retaliation after u.s. forces killed a top iranian general. president trump traveled to delaware following his rally in new hampshire last night. he went to dover air force base to pay respects to two u.s. soldiers killed in afghanistan on saturday. president trump saluted the fallen heros, sergean as their s were carried out of the plane. vice president pence was also there to honor the service men. last week, uber said it would be profitable by the end of the year. after the bell, lyft reports earnings and it's questionable when it will see profitability. the ride share company has lost about two and a quarter billion dollars over the past three quarters. last month, lyft announced changes, laying off 90 pe

those people are now being traced.n was trying to contact the a&e department to find more information, because her son was there last week. i am concerned. when we initially saw it breaking in china, it kind of didn't have the impact it does now over here. in brighton, it was frightening enough, but now it is in worthing. it is scary. there is an understandable concern here in the local community. coronavirus has established a toehold on the south coast. health officials are working hard to ensure it doesn't spread any further. 118 people on the second evacuation flight out of wuhan into the uk are in quarantine. they should find out soon whether they test positive for the virus. we can't leave our rooms for the first 48—hour because they are doing tests. i think people are glad to be here and back in the uk. i mean, i certainly am. i think my parents were probably more worried than i was. department of health figures show 1358 people have been tested in the uk for the virus, but only eight have proved positive. our be

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it shows the benefits of contact tracing.hey were able to get in touch with all these people who had been in contact themselves with the man who came back from singapore and quickly advise them and got them tested. they say that is the benefit of their contact tracing expertise. whew, many thanks. well, china, where the coronavirus outbreak originated, has been counting the cost of the disease. china's leader xi jinping said his government will work to prevent large—scale layoffs. many in china were due to return to work today after the lunar new year holiday, but much of the country remains closed to contain the virus‘ spread. the economic cost has mounted as shutdowns in the country continue to disrupt global supply chains. 0ur economics editor faisal islam reports. it should be back to work in china, after celebrating chinese new year, tens of millions of workers were expecting to have returned to the cities and factories, one of the fundamental drivers of the world economy. but the commute so far is quieter than usual and

if isolate them and trace their contacts.infected, it is a bit of a challenge. thank you very much. we ta ke challenge. thank you very much. we take all your questions at quarter past 12, get in touch with your questions. you can do so on twitter or e—mail us. more than a thousand people with the most serious complaints about the department for work and pensions face a delay of 18 months before their cases are even investigated. radio 4's money box programme has found the indepdenent case examiner is also regularly missing targets about how long investigations should take once a case has been opened. 0ur bbc money box reporter dan whitworthjoins me now. these figures are pretty stark, what lies behind this problem, what do we know about the kind of people being affected ? know about the kind of people being affected? that is the issue, ultimately you can talk about as many figures or numbers as you want. at the heart of the story are people. i want to give you one example, a gentleman who we are speaking to who we are calling

that contact is trace and if their working environment is deep cleaned.the things were doing, anyone at risk —— they should be a condition we're able to contain. you can find out how the coronavirus story is being covered and other stories developing in tomorrow's front pages as it towards 40 and 1130 this evening,. a victim of planning a terror attack just 1130 this evening,. a victim of planning a terror attackjust over a year after he was cleared of attacking police with a sword outside buckingham palace. the 20—year—old —year—old was arrested a few days before a gay pride parade in london. a summer evening and a security alert right outside buckingham palace. he's armed with a sword and he injures two officers shouting out the walk bar. at his original trial, he claimed it was a suicide attempt. he said he wanted the police to kill him. he was found not guilty of planning a terror attack. he lives here in luton with his family. within days of being cleared by a jury over what had happened at buckingham palace, he was on the internet and social media s

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this after trace amounts of the known carcinogen showed up in the fda testing of johnson & johnson's baby powder, which the company disputes trace asbestos also found in makeup no longer sold by the chain store claire's after issuing two recalls. >> the beauty industry has been built on secrets. >> reporter: beauty counter, a clean cosmetics line is also an advocate for regulation and transparency >> the beauty industry is basically a self-governing industry that allows companies to make claims on products that they can say they're natural or fake or pure when they may or may not be that way. >> reporter: experts say mineral particles found in talc products are small enough to be inhaled, and even trace amounts of asbestos could be dangerous. in a statement, johnson & johnson supports the fda review and says a range of independent laboratories have found their talc safe and asbestos-free. "we look forward to a thorough review of the most effective and reliable ways to test for asbestos in cosmetic talc. a call for the government to ensure the beauty industry is keeping a clean comple

left visible traces. most of the affected areas can be recognized by the green zones on the buildings this is where the water rises and falls with the time. it's not major floods that are causing the greatest damage to the city but try to change. so quickly if you so water comes and goes incessantly. with each new time to the salt water is now also reaching the bricks another falling the architect centuries old preventative measures the ring of history in stone can no longer protect the palaces from the water. the water is always against the brick and the bricks are very hot and. leaving behind the souls which crystallise and as salts crystallize they expanded in body and 12 times and that is a very kind of slow way you can say exploding brick. the sun towards her is also attacking the line most have between the bricks loosening them and weakening the entire building structure. to provide more stability more and more steel barry is having a wrecked it in the city's canals. today one in 3 venetian finance

still sometimes i get books from artists i look at them play she traced them with my fingers and just start painting i still. here in berlin mikhail is opening his tent exhibitions his paintings sell for a cool 621-3000 euros some people are reminded of works by famous artists make a match like this life will basically mckerrow has 3 role models for one we have these pictures made with the dripping technique modeled on jackson pollock and action painting which started in 1946 and here we have the trowel or squeegee technique modeled on care how do they stop before we think it is and then there's the style of johnny showed basque yeah. those are his 3 role models on a guy like me. at home they are cologne mikhail likes to spend his time in his basement studio experimenting with paints and techniques he's never taken a course he started working intuitively after his parents gave him finger paints and a canvas for his 4th birthday. candle for nothing until after the show the very next day he was painting. i came home from work and saw the 1st picture about my wife had done it. she hadn't

down all his contacts and could trace 150 cases of coronavirus connect that to this man is wife is now. she's pregnant both of them are in the hospital. we also have a new death case here in this town but the. authorities still don't know how this patient 0 got the of ours he has never been to china he had some context over a friend who has been to china but this friend to say they get tips so nobody knows exactly how this virus arrived here along but the hardest hit region of italy right now. and being it's reporting now the other stories making news around the world and supporters of julian assange gathered outside a court in london where a hearing has begun into wiki leaks founder should be actually teach the u.s. to face spying charges supporters say he is a journalist exposing government misdeeds. spent 7 years holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy seeking to avoid extradition. a german chancellor angela merkel's a center right c.d.u. party will choose a new leader in april i'm going chief. resigned was a month over a scandal involving the party's apparent cooperation with the f

authorities warn the number of cases is likely to rise significantly as they are no longer able to trace the chain of infection. german health minister yen spawn says the country is at the beginning of a code a run of by risk epidemic and he's urging regional authorities to review their emergency planning if in on some begin 9. we are at the beginning of a coronavirus demick in germany the cases in north rhine-westphalia and a further sign of this change of infection are partly and this is a new aspect not traceable there are multiple persons who have had contact with the infected patients. and. that's a qualitative difference to the 16 infectious cases we've already heard in germany where in each case the chain of infection could be traced back to the break in china. for more on how germany is coping with the corona virus are joined here by our political correspondent kate pretty good morning kate so the health minister there we heard him saying that the country is now facing its own coronavirus the demick what's the government doing about it well at the moment we're seeing a very clear

tracee carrasco here with the details. tracee, happy friday.-mobile and sprint agreed on terms for the merger. they agreed to improve the exchange ratio in the all stock deal for t-mobile's parent company, deutsche telecom ag. it will reduce shares of soft bank to 24%. sources say soft bank agreed to the change to to avoid losing e merger. iranian voters heading to the polls today as iran is expected to be black listed over the failure to address money laundering and support for terror organization. the wall street journal reports it's meant to put pressure on banks and businesses to cut ties with iran. this comes as 800 troops from the 82nd airborne that were rushed to the middle east in the aftermath of the attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad finally came home. it is unclear when the remaining 2700 will return. well, on the heels of naming ambassadorlambassadorlyambass ae secretary, president trump is looking to appoint congressman collins permanently. and the university of southern california will start phasing in free tuition for students

tracee, this is survey tracee burns survey. >> i know, i will from god to come on the show and to talkout it. charles: part of the company you and i but your passion has been helping women and you're doing that full-time right now. >> i'm trying so hard, female entrepreneurs, women in general, so many are widowed, 8 and 10 of us will be alone at some point managing our own finances, it could be by choice, retirement issues, somebody got divorced, you just don't know but 8 and 10, 56% of married spouses advocate financial decisions to their spouses and so when you're alone, you don't know what's happening and the question just, you know, begs with this booming economy, with all the greatness going on why would you put it off, everyone needs to take a seat at the table, women in particular. charles: this survey suggests that the women are stuck, right, unhappy relationship or unhappy situation because someone else is making the money, i mean, what are you doing in a circumstance like that? >> worst position in the world to be, charles, to think that you are financially stuck, first of al

tracee carrasco here now with them, tracee, good morning.acy's will close 125 of its least productive stores, this is expected to happen over the next three years. on top of that, macy's will also close its cincinnati headquarters and tech offices in san francisco, cutting about 2,000 corporate jobs. macy's says it plans to focus on opening smaller stores in strip malls where more people are shopping. more than 100 macy's locations have closed since 2015. ebay could soon have a new owner in continental exchange. the owner of the new york stock exchange is interested in taking over. it could value the company at a more than $30 billion. the journal says i.c.e. has approached the online marketplace about a deal in the past. it added that i.c.e. is mainly interested in owning ebay's core marketplace units. amazon is revealing more about the future of deliver youly vehicles. back in september, amazon ordered 100,000 electric vans from a michigan based plant. in a blog yesterday, amazon gave a behind the scenes look at the production process. ama

in some ways it shows that our contact tracing is working rather well.iate for those individuals. that is the phase of —— we are in and we hope we can prevent further spread. we are hearing about gp practices under school being closed for deep cleaning, we are hearing the term super spreader used quite a lot, do you think that is helpful? is it about awareness at this point in making sure you are chasing those co nta cts ? in making sure you are chasing those contacts? i should be clear that the contacts? i should be clear that the contacts were most concerned about, that we need to trace, are only people who have been a very close contact, because face—to—face contact, because face—to—face contact, or within two metres of the individual for at least 15 minutes or more. this is not a general risk to everybody who has been in these health care facilities or other places people have been, it is a very specific risk to people who have been in particularly close contact. have been in particularly close co nta ct. we have been in particularly close contact. w