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and she is one of the most successful bloggers that we have here in germany she is called jessica vise and she spent ten years writing about fashion beauty and lifestyle and let me just thank you first for being here in the studio of course with us. i mean writing about these subjects but not about technology that is an issue that my colleague christina cuba as well takes issue with and she followed up that particular story. fashion babies cooking i feel a blogger stuck in the fifty's. women have been fighting for decades to be taken seriously in their world of work. but when i look at this young female blogger all i have to say is this is not the way to go. there or just question even if. you go to work out the women blogging about science i take economics politics or even career path. they just working for us all this terror types about women that all we care about is lifestyle and cooking so why do they do it. jessica vice is germany's most successful female grover i want her to answer these pertinent questions. jessica are female bloggers stuck in the fifty's in this decade you kno

. - so you go tell the employees who work for vise gp in southn nebras that all their jobs have went over to mexico, don't worry about it, that's actually good for america. after 30 years old i put my life's work into making this product, i was pretty proud of it too, i have three kids in high school. my mother's down the street sick. and i'm supposed to just subscribe to macroeconomic theory that says there's a free move of the labor, that's not human, that's not real. so the painful aspects of trade, the dislocations are very really and they're localized. - that is a problem, but the us economy has been good over the years at redeploying people who've lost their jobs finding other jobs in other sectors. although for the past decade or so the economy has not been very good at that. there are a lot of labor market frictions. it's hard for people to move because their healthcare's often tied to their jobs. - we have a program called ade adjustment assistance which was designed to help workers who are displaced because of trade. and that's been around for many decades, but i think what

get up in those guys grill and vise versa.now what i mean those guys are trying to go over top of us just that level of competition at practice when we go out to the game it's very very high. >> we'll have much more on the eagles out west sunday on fox 29 "game day live". then at 1:00 great nfc match up with the vikings and atlanta then later the panthers visit the saints. real sal great double header here on fox 29 this sunday. >> yeah. >> an lot of teams that, you know, we'll be seeing in a couple of weeks down the line. maybe a little preview. >> exactly. >> yeah. >> kristen, thank you. >>> all right. so thank you for the warm weather. >> what a day. >> much appreciated. >> 64 today. 54 tomorrow. so 10 degrees change there but then warming up by the beginning of next week again. >> wow. before next wednesday that's a turning point. i think it will get cooler after that. >> december and all. [ laughter ] >> that does it for us here at 6:00. >> thanks for watching. page six followed by dish nation at 7:00 and stay tuned for t

encouragement is the fact that bell was surrounded yesterday by her church family that she loved fiercely and vise versa. >> the victims were mostly part of two extended families ranging in age from 18 months to 77 years. and we of course are staying on top of the investigation. we have continuing coverage on television on online at fox29.com. west chester university is investigating an accident where three students were hit by a car. skyfox was over the s parking lot earlier where the university says two of those students were waiting for a bus when the car hit them. the other was hurt not too far away. one student was not hurt and went to class while the other two were taken to hospital. one is still recovering there. west chester university says authorities are who aring into that driver who does not go to the college was actually impaired. >>> a disturbing crime at a local synagogue is police are looking for whomever vandalized the building leaving some hateful messages. investigatoinvestigators say whd this spell the words out with shingles that they tour from the roof of the building. fox 29

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. >> reporter: the legal vise may be tightening on michael flynn.ultiple sources familiar with the investigation tell nbc news federal investigators have gathered enough evidence to bring charges in their investigation of flynn and his son michael g. flynn. the elder flynn was fired after just 24 days on the job for lying about his contacts with the russian ambassador. mr. trump has downplayed any connections between flynn and russia. >> i do think he's a fine man. >> reporter: under scrutiny, flynn was paid nearly $34,000 to speak at a 2015 moscow gala and seen sitting next to the russian president, vladimir putin, while he was informally advising the trump campaign. sources indicate special counsel robert mueller is zeroing in on flynn's lobbying work and whether he laundered money or lied to federal authorities about his overseas contacts, and whether flynn attempted to orchestrate the removal of a chief rival of turkey's president from the u.s. to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. sources confirm flynn's son, who worked on the trump ca

you have a small presence of really large us or uk vises that are manufacturer rental car fleets, butro options to sell your car. how do you persuade people to move to you from let's say honestjohn or whoever they know, they come to trust and here is a new bunch saying and they don't know you, they don't know you locally, saying we're going to do it ina locally, saying we're going to do it in a better way for you? that's why we have spent so much on building a brand there. there is, the honest joe, there is no honestjoe in these markets, they have classifieds or non trustworthy dealers, we are creating a transparent, trustworthy process. that's a big statement to say there is no honestjoes. people are trying to run their own businesses. you are saying we can do it bigger and better and what offer more services to people trying to buy or sell? you think about dealers. in the uk or the us floor plan finances is a $13 billion market in the us and in nigeria, for example, dealers are scrappy and entrepreneurial and sleazy because sometimes they don't have the accesses to financing opportu

i said i think i know who's ad vising her, and i think he was ad vising bernie before. because remember bernie had the most award-winning campaign ad. it was one where it was a simon and garfunkel -- >> america. >> yeah, people streaming. i got chills when i watched it. that was so good. and he had all the game. and then suddenly she went from nothing to something. and i speculated that one of the greatest persuaders of all time may have joined her team after leaving the sinking bernie ship. i had been calling him godzilla in my blogs -- >> sort of like deep throat. >> right. because i didn't want to name him. i wasn't sure, but i thought i saw the fingerprint on the work. andd i had seen a book called pre-suasion before most people had from robert -- [inaudible] the person who wrote influence, the most influential book about how to influence. and pre-suasion talked about things like using that word dark that would just prime you to see things in a different way. and i thought i see his fingerprint. and soju finally, i finally said it publicly, and there was -- i sent i

i started to take heed to that and utilize the in a vise strategic way because i sort of recommend it was stand of a feet and i came a spy of people who did i say you know that's what i need to keep door you know so of myself to start learning more history because i hated history not because i'm just not on the start of the who cares about what happened back then right we need to focus on it now but in our realize how important history. research and more learning more and becoming more in tune with black history you know and i'm right it's a lot of people and it's not going to re you know so i have to be that right that middle man and that i had has got something want to me is like yo want to you might be the only babu that people really. take the things that i learn and i put it to our party because i don't people listen to me and if i had his influence i don't want to be telling them to do you know because just how you know if you was in a good way i could be a force in a bad way so you know it's already a lot of negative stuff on the outside i want to just be you know other person

customers this also converges that same time that the companies who create these pills are in sin of vising the doctors on the back end and also advertising for these pills which is unusual in america that you can advertise for a prescription pill is good compared to other countries so this is really driven from the corporate side the corporatization of the american medical industry like that person said i think they're spot on i talk to so many people i talk to one dad his son played division one college football really top tier athlete. twelve kids on his football team which was akron university ended up in rehab from opioids two of them including his son ended up dead and his son's addiction started with sixty vike in pills that were prescribed by the doctor there's another thing that happens in the us is the way we accept authority and we think that doctors are thorough these and that they have our best interest in mind so if they give your son sixty five couldn't say he needs us after the surgery we just we do it meanwhile the companies that made those pills were telling the doctors th

. >> laura: they want to put them in a vise grip. >> the whole case is about pressure. it's about bribing and threatening. we can do this for you. >> laura: trump said this and it was a little over the top. our system is screwed up. prosecutors have discretion. what fitzgerald did to scooter libby. >> how someone spent 85 days in jail for refusing to tell the federal government for something they already new. the judges say if there is merit to the case i won't throw the case out. they will never prosecute one of their own. >> laura: i find it appalling. this investigation is circular maze of pressure against people. we have to move on. the state deputy. -- department. some are feeling uncomfortable because rex tillerson is trying to move along the request for transparency linked to clinton's emails? >> mrs. clinton's emails we have not seen. until last week the same lawyers from the justice department were making the same argument as in the obama years. last week rex tillerson change that 180 degrees. we will vet these things. the people she emailed with are terrified.

that's saturday morning so be aced vised. -- advised.ta rosa, 65 on the low cloud deck. >>> time now, 5:23, if you live in richmond and you work in san francisco, coming up, a new transmission alternative. we have all of the details. . >>> later today, president trump will announce who he wants to lead the federal reserve. the president's expected to nominate jerome powell, the current governor of the federal reserve. analysts say if he gets the job he will likely continue yellen's policy. >>>two former campaign aides of donald trump are due in court today on charges related to the russia investigation. paul manafort will appear in federal court with co-defendant rick gates. they first pled not guilty on monday to charges that include money laundering. in court filings, prosecutors say that manafort tried to hide his financial assets and that he has three passports. >>>the sentencing hearing for army sergeant bowe bergdahl will continue. closing arguments may happen today. the prosecution may call the defense's last witness back today bu

not just squeezed personally but in a vise now. doesn't appear to be wealthy man. decades in the military, only retired after obama fired him in 2015, not out that long. not from wealthy family. facing legal jeopardy from at least three investigations. pentagon, congress and department of justice. under the headline of worrying about legal bills in dictionary, there's a picture of michael flynn now. he's set up a legal defense fund where anybody can pay to help him defray the costs of what appears to be seven defense lawyers. no idea how much they raised or from whom. contacted the people who run the site and they've not responded to our request for information. up until now, with this little bit of news i'm about to break tonight, profound ambiguity as to whether a certain billionaire might conceivably be able to help mike flynn out. human factor at center of this massive national security scandal that the trump administration has brought upon itself, human factor is financial factor for those caught up in investigations. don't have to have sympathy or like or dis

encouragement is the fact that bell was surrounded yesterday by her church family that she loved fiercely and viseersa. >> the victims were mostly part of two extended families ranging in age from 18 months to 77 years and we of course will stay on top of this investigation with continuing coverage on television and online. at fox 29.com. >>> west chester university is investigating an accident where three students were hit by a c car. skyfox was over the s parking lot earlier where the university says two of the students were waiting for a bus when the car hit. the other was hurt a little bit away but the one student was not hurt and went to class. the other two were taken to a hospital. one is still recovering. west chester university says authorities are looking into if that driver who doesn't go to the college was impaired or intoxicated. in south jersey disturbing case of vandalism as shaken up one community. police say someone actually tour off part of a synagogue's roof and used the shingles to spell out hateful message. dave schratwieser joins us live from evesham township tonight witness

and, you know, we were at vised that he was being suspended from the mall because he would hang around the young girls that worked in the stores and, you know, really got into a place of where they say he was harassing. and we were also told to watch him at the ball games. and make sure that, you know, he didn't hang around the cheerleaders, when the cheerleaders were there. >> so you were an officer for 37 years, in gadsden as a local officer, so who would tell you these things? is this a rumor or were you given instructions from your superior? >> they were just rumors. the rumor mill was that roy moore likes young girls. and it was not only in our department, but at the courthouse, too. >> so how -- >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> i'm sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you. tell me what you knew at the time? >> i worked juvenile cases. so in a complaint, if it came in, it would come to us in the juvenile division. and we would have been the one that had to investigate and work the case up on it. and we looked, we waited, you know, when it was really -- heard, like on a daily basis, every d

punched, kicked and struck with an impro vised weapon. >>> graphic body cam video of a deadly shootingrch. it comes as the officers were cleared of wrong doing. we have frozen the video just before the shots were fired. >> let me see your hands. >> let us help you. >> let me see your hands. >> it shows the 24-year-old run from officers who followed him until one of the officers fired four shots. the department has already said officers were not sure he was armed and they believe he would have been a threat to people in neighboring homes. the suspect's family actually called police that day. they believe officers would take him to get mental assistance. the stepfather said he had no idea it would end in death. >> what i saw was flat out murder. they said they tased him. i never saw a tazing. i never saw nothing. i saw him in the bushes getting shot. he's against a fence. >> the family filed a wrongful death suit playing out. the d.a. did not issue a comment after the announcement. >>> a 44-year-old woman is behind bars following the brawl at great america. police say she was arrested af

i think we need as a recommendation to incent vise to increase the 7% number. it is going down in fact. it's gone down substantially. i think the 2017 numbers will show a significant drop in venture capital. i think my colleague will talk about that. bias and unconscious bias does exist. the me too movement is not just about hollywood. i'd like to encourage to continue to strengthen. a critical part of the country. while women are five times likely to get loans and shows how important it is. they're actually the amounts they get are two and a half times lower than the male counter parts. so something i hope we look into. another thing is certification. women owned business certification. but there's one thing that we need to change. the program with the u.s. sba is an excellent program. however, if you get venture funding and those capitalists are male, you are not considered women owned anymore. so you cannot get the certification and be venture backed. this is something that we can simply change through legislation. that is my top recommendation for the year.

change, and i would also like to see the business taxes, which do need to be reduced in order to insent vise the creation of higher wages in this country, but it does not need to be reduced all the way to 20% for large businesses. >> all right. senator susan collins, always a pleasure to have you on. thank you so much. >> thank you, jake. >>> as republicans battle over the details in the tax bill, will americans actually see the tax cuts president trump promised? the white house budget director is here next. stay with us. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it's time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,... ...with reduced redness,... ...thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has... ...no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if

kristen, right now, i don't think there's a pathway for jones to win, but if i were at vising the democrats, i would say, spend some money. i mean, come down, try to make it competitive. but it's going to be difficult. listen, these allegations are thrown around too loosely these days. we need to take everyone serious and just step back and find out everything we can. >> well, again, in this case, all four women have gone on the record, which is pretty incredible in "the washington post" speaking to more than 30 sources for this reporting. bill britt, thank you so much for the unique perspective on the ground. we appreciate it. >> kristen, thank you so much, kristen. >> thank you. >>> and we want to turn overseas now, president trump is continuing his tour of asia, landing in vietnam overnight. he's just wrapped up a dinner there with world leaders. and my friend and colleague, peter alexander, working around the clock, is traveling with the president in vietnam and is joining us now. peter, obviously all eyes were on this potential meeting, pulled aside with vladimir putin, will it or won'

. >> jeremy says, wouldn't vise anyone against it.nsider if the field you are entering may be replaced by machines in ten or so years. >> i mentioned a lot of tweets. a theater major still has to take other things that he doesn't need for his major, for his degree. he thinks it is unfair and too expensive. cost is a huge factor. i went to community college for two years and transferred down to san diego state. cut my college bill in half. i would do it again in an instant. >> you have to be focused so you don't waste the money. if you have a plan. i talk about college with my children. we talk about it. they're going to go to college. if for some reason they're going another direction, i support that. >> if they have a plan. >> if they have a plan. >> growing up in a latino family, it is one of the things that is emphasized. we were told we were going to college. >> are you the same way with your young children now. >> pretty much they're going. if they want to. >> they're three and four years old. >> if they want to. we will talk abo

they felt like they were caught in a vise, putting all their time into soul-sucking jobs that paid barely enough to cover the rent or the mortgage with no promise of ever being able to retire. those feelings were grounded in hard fact. wages and housing costs have diverged so dramatically that, for a growing number of americans, the dream of a middle class life has gone from difficult to impossible. as i write this, there are only a dozen counties and one metro area in america where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. you'd have to make at least $16.35 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage, to rent such an apartment without spending more than the recommended 30% of income on housing. the consequences are dire, especially for the one in six american households that have been putting more than half of what they make into shelter. for many low income families, that means little or nothing left over to buy food, medication and other essentials. many of the people i met felt that they'd spent too long losing a rigged game, and so

in economic paradox collision of rising wages unstoppable force meeting unmovable october call in a viseputsing all of their time into exhausting soul-sucking jobs that paid enough to cover o rent or mortgage with no way to better their lot for long-term and no promise of ever able to retire. those feelings were grounded and hard fact. wages and housing costs have diverged that for a growing number of americans the dream of a middle-class life has gone from difficult to impossible. as i write this, there are only a dozen counties and one metro area in america where a full-time minimum wage worker can be at fair market rent and make at least 16.35 an hour more than twice the the federal minimum wage to rent an apartment would spenting more te recommended 30% of income on housing. the consequences are dire especially for the one in six american households that have beense putting more than half of what they make into shelter. for many low income families, thatom means little or nothing leftover to buy food, medication and other sellers. many of the people i met felt they spentnt too long l

. >> be add vised. we have multiple people on the ground from chambers up to halston.ty situation here. >> i heard a loud bang. the front of the car was totallied at that point. >> i need an ambulance right here, right here. got t-boned. there's a kid right there. >> the driver, he didn't look like he was bleeding or anything per se. he did have a noticeable limp as he was getting out of his car. he looked like he was dragging his foot a little bit and was screaming in the street. >> suddenly i heard the gunshots and then i went down because i was scared. after the gunshots, i didn't know which was the gunshots coming from. i just heard it. then i saw the guy the ground and the cops just got him. >> at first i thought it was fireworks so we walked over to see what was going on, and then we get up there and we see bodies on the floor. we were just shocked. >> it is a tragedy of the greatest magnitude. for many people and family also here in new york city and beyond today, i wand to commend the response of our nypd officer on post near the location who stopped the carnag

they're going to go where this bill insent vises them to send their factories, and we're going to see the outsourcing of jobs to other countries. this bill is basically a job killer s. it's based on the idea that if you trickle down from the top. goldman-sachs talking about how trivial the increases will be under this bill. it is essential that we not outsource more american jobs, that we not burden this generation and future generations with more and more debt as this does. at the beginning of this enterprise, the chairman, back at the beginning of the year, they said they would have a fully paid for tax bill. it is not fully paid for and today we reach for a mythical 4% growth that it will generate. why not 40%, or 400%, those numbers are as unrealistic as 4%, and they are not supported by anything other than propaganda and wishes for the future. i yield back. >> mr. kelly, you're recognized. >> thank you chairman, and thank all of our members for being here today. i think we all get confused when we talk about these bills. i did retail for 45 years, so i actually get to talk to har

to need in this case to make it a homerun to get a guilty verdict against darrin wait a minute and visewhat would they need to have darrin wint found not guilty and there's so many elements to t this, and one of them being witnesses. of course, witnesses are so important to this case. so far there aren't witnesses that saw darrin there that we know of aside from things like dna and pizza crust. >> i loved both of the atto attorneys. >> yeah. >> i googled them i wanted to what they looked like. and so the one thing that i learned about the process was from rosco howard who was like you don't have to have a motive which blew my mine. >> i know. >> right. >> you really don't have to defend your client. you only have to disprove the prosecution or make people doubt what the prosecution is claiming. >> yeah. >> that was fascinating to me. >> so fascinating. i think they both really break down the process and it's so much different than what you hear or see on tv. >> right. >> right. >> and actually in rosco howard, we'll throw to his clip right now. he tax about the dna on the pizza crust ho

this is really a linchpin helping to incent vise apprenticeships and continuing education. unfortunately house tax bill in its current form that we're voting on this week eliminates that benefit. secretary costa, do you support continued assistance from the tax code? >> thank you for question. let me just note at the outset, it sounds like these are examples of apprenticeships that aren't registered apprenticeships. and precisely the times of apprenticeships that you mentioned we want to support and expand, which goes back to the earlier discussion about should there be alternatives to the registered apprenticeship. and one of the -- one telephone topics of the task force is going to take up is what are the appropriate incentives to provide to support apprenticeships? now the tax code is a large and complex code. and we want to strive to make it fairer and simpler and simplify. so putting aside whether or not this particular provis ion is te most appropriate, let me say obviously we want to find ways to support and incentivize apprenticeship programs, whether registered or

recently with their pa parodies but now would kids who watch stranger things be watching sesame street or visee stranger things. >> i haven't seen it. >> you like strange strange thing. you might. >> i think. i really like it. >> i think tucker would fit in quite well. >> that's pretty good. look at ernie finally ernie getting some love. >> that's right. >> caitlin get something today, too. she's in for erin. final check. >> good job, caitlin. >> it was roll really busy earlier. the whole rush right back at it. a lot of the roads have calmed down quick check on metro. this is going to be reminder as we go through december 10th with the red line. trains replacing buses. >> silver sprin it's always something. it will be metro until december 10th. >> thanks for pulling double dirty early no problem. >> weather and traffic. >> i haven't watched stranger thing either. >> you haven't? >> we'll talk. >> i really like it. >> tucker i'm going to say when caitlin does weather and traffic it kind of makes your job look a little easier. >> ooh. >> i know. 55 today with sunshine. good he's aware much he's

stop incent vising them to take the dangerous journey. and subject themselves to horrors. i want to thank you for your past service and willingness to serve. this confirmation process is not particularly fun. and as former secretary as well as i said my opening statement you are agreeing to step in the position with a very daunting task. this year you have shown yours knowledgeable. you have rel vent experience. and very qualified for the position. i thank you for your willingness to serve. the nomine who made financial disclosure submitted by the committee. without objection the information will be made part of the hearing record with the exception of the financial data. which are on file and available in the office. the hearing record will remain open until noon tomorrow. november 9 through the submission of statements and question for the record. the members wish to steph response from the questions prior to a vote they must submit questions for the record by 5:00 p.m. today. had this hearing is adjourned. [ inaudible conversations ] >>> in honor of vert rans day. vice

banks, mid-sized banks and regional banks while still giving the feds the authority it needs to super vise those institutions? >> i do. >> thank you. and lastly for me, housing reform. our our economic growth markup next week housing and finance reform will be one of my top priorities for the remainder of this congress. earlier this year you gave a speech in which you outlined a few principles for housing finance reform. and in your words, do whatever we can to make the possibility of future housing bail outs as remote as possible. number two, change the system to attract large amounts of private capital. number three, any guarantee should be explicit and transparent and should apply to securities not to institution. and number four, identify and build upon areas of bipartisan agreement. i strongly agree with these points that you made and believe that there is bipartisan support to seek a solution in that zone. would you commit to work with the committee on our efforts to pass housing finance reform? >> yes, i will senator. >> and i guess i'll take my last 15 seconds to ask my last final

this will insent vise -- with small businesses responsible for a majority of new jobs, this is a crucial opponent of the pro jobs, pro growth tax fame work. into the 21st century. the high corporate tax rate, and outdated worldwide tax system has put american companies at a real competitive disadvantage globally, costing american jobs. our corporate tax system has been strained to its breaking point as we have battled corporate inversions and foreign takeovers, without action, we expect this trend not to only persist, but to grow in the coming years. i know my democratic colleagues have expressed concerns that we're moving too fast, but we have been discussing tax reform for years and the time for action is right now. the food work of the democratic committee in years past have helped lay the ground work to get us where we are today. i also understand that our democratic colleagues have objected to the use reconciliat past practices of this committee, prove reconciliation does not have to synonymous wit partisansh partisanship. i know this from experience and also ranking member bacchus,

with the rest of the covered entities, transformation plans and finally how do you actually incent vise additional investments in areas critical to puerto rico's economy but not necessarily a critical infrastructure projects. >> do you think these require statutory changes to expedite and get to work? >> i would confer to the committee on what the solutions would be but a clarification on the powers of the revitalization coordinator would be appropriate. >> fair answer. mayor perez, can you share your experience of working with fema in the immediate aftermath of the storm? >> i think in the beginning it was hard because no communications were at the 78 municipalities. so we just had fema at san juan and it was very hard for the rest of our mayors to communicate and to receive some help. after that, they asigned and i think it was the best thing. they assigned some people to each municipality and the help is getting better and it water, the food and all the help from fema and from the core of engineer ing is getting to our municipality, but in the beginning it was really hard. we were ex