team wants, more states following florida say no plus the authors of a major study ripping into yahoo! newsor getting it wrong and falsely accuse florida of undercounting covid deaths. hunter biden making dubious claims in his new book trying to claim he would not have taken the job again at a ukraine gas company, why because the parts in politics, if that were so why is a hunter biden investing his 10% stake in a chinesee investment fund like he said he would, hunter biden trying to claim he's not like air a donald trump jr. that hunter got where he is on his own. if that were true why does hunter biden turn around and say the biden last name was considered gold by the ukraine gas company that gave them a lot of money to sit on the board and he also said having the biden name at the ukraine company, hunter biden is saying that was an f you to russian president vladimir putin, we break all this down tonight, i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" start right now. ♪. elizabeth: thank you for joining us we begin with president biden wrapping up his day in pittsburgh announcing a new two

postal service here in steps the survey england state to pick the bones clean as they say yahoo news is now reporting that according to a recently uncovered documents the law enforcement arm of the u.s. postal service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects american social media posts the never before made public documents includes a march 16th bulletin that was distributed to homeland security fusion centers lovely places which reveals that analysts with the united states postal inspection service titled inter-net covert operation program or i cop monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on march 20th 2021 these planned protests you see were part of the world wide rally perforate him and democracy yes my friends the government has now weaponized the post office and its in its obsession with online digital surveillance of u.s. citizens thankfully though there are members of congress working against this avalanche observed beilin state bootlicking u.s. senator ron wyden the democrat out of order. and more

what we know is that on september 4, 2018, i'm looking at a yahoo news report.s public back then. nobody is accusing secretary kerry of doing something wrong has been able to say that the comments, even if they did happen, happened before september when this was public. >> martha: i looked at that timeline. >> we're relying on the foreign minister of iran. we're taking what he said as truthful. we know that he often says things that are not truthful. >> martha: and he's in a difficult position with the hardliners in iran and speaking in a way that publicly benefits himself. i leaked at the timing on that, too. you'd have to go for back for this conversation with zarif and kerry to have been something that wasn't widely known. but mike huckabee, let you have the last word here. it's so striking. you can't help ignore how different and how many conclusions were jumped to under the trump -- with the trump administration in power at that time. it's extraordinary. >> that's why there needs to be a classified hearing. bring kerry in and let him talk. it's not what he

yahoo! news obtaining.ealing the agency's secret internet covert operations program that includes screenshots of posts on facebook, parlor and other sites deemed inflammatory would reportedly be shared with other government agencies. it mentions one alleged proud boy by name and identifying several others despite their posts not appearing to contain anything threatening. governor andrew cuomo's staff after a porter asks about sexual harassment claims. >> will you resign from office if it concludes you did violate the sexual harassment laws of the state? >> let's see what the report says and we will take it from there. okay? >> the reporter later tweeted that he had been intentionally silenced saying, quote, i got cut off while trying to follow up on this point. a hotline set up and impeachment inquiry into governor cuomo has gotten over 200 tips. >> children's book on race and law enforcement is being called harmful to public safety. new york's police unions in the book calls something happened in our town

and yet according to a memo obtained by yahoo news, the u.s.inspection service which by the way is the law enforcement arm at the usps is running what it calls the internet covert operations program or letter icop. they seem to be collecting data about planned protests. big brother mailman was looking for inflammatory posts about the worldwide rally for freedom held back in march, and that's where thousands of people around the world protested coated lock downs. but instead of looking for potential nefarious behavior across the board, the main surveillance was of facebook and "right wing leaning parlor and a telegram." in the memo did mention the right wing proud boys, some people on parlor intended to "do serious damage. m but there was no mention of any left-wing groups like antifa, which was surprising considerina the lion's share of the protest violence over the past year has been caused by left-wing groups. incidentally the worldwide freedom rally did spark violence in some countries, but none that we could find in this country. tucker? >>

they did this right after the election i read a piece in the yahoo! newsmerican men and y they're breaking from the democrat party in making it seem that a lot of them are not good people. we saw this in the new york times talking about hispanic men saying they fell for qanon conspiracy theory, the realizing they are losing minority voters and because of their policies is also because they don't feel that they have a leader, they're ilooking at joe biden he is noa leader, they look at the democrat policies and they're not helping them. when you t say let's make the borders poor, and pretend it's not happening in a couple of segments ago, will that help black americans, when they have to complete with illegals for jobs, absolutely not. all this makes sense to us but bsnddoes it make sense to peopln the left why minorities are breaking, calling people racist and white supremacist is getting pretty old you have to deliver and make their communities better which democrats are notri doing. maria: it's getting old but there's a resurgencee in school, i want to t

i read a piece in yahoo news and whey they are breaking from the democratic party and making it seem this recently in "the new york times" piece talking about hispanic men, they fell for qanon conspiracy theories and they are realizing they are losing minority vehicle coders and because of policies and because they don't feel that they have a leader, they are looking at joe biden, he's in the a leader. we are looking at democrat policies, they are not helping them. when you say let's just make the borders porous, is that going to help black americans when they have to compete for illegals for jobs, absolutely not. it makes sense for us and doesn't make sense for people on the left. calling everybody a racist and white supremacist is getting pretty old. we have to deliver and have to make communities better which democrats are not doing. maria: well, it's getting old but there's a resurgence of it in schools. i want to take a break and come back and talk about your take on the critical race theory being added to so many school curriculums and why learning through the lens of race cont

what do you make of this yahoo! news story that the u.s.ike facebook? are they trying to bust up planned protests of lockdownses say from conservatives? what do you think is going on here? >> liz, it is fascinating as a former federal prosecutor, the u.s. postal inspectors, the normal person thinking of it, well you get your mail stolen, they come out and chase down the bad guy who stole a package or something, but in reality the postal service is like this stealth, under the radar federal age sy that has expansive jurisdiction. when i was prosecutor, believe it or not, present a warrant to a judge and get what we called sneak and peek warrants. we could get your mail open it up. review it, copy it in. you never know the feds were there looking at it. they have jurisdiction a lot broader than people think. elizabeth: that is really interesting. so they're linking the mail with also what is being posted on facebook, telegrams and parler. not clear if they will look into what antifa is doing, i don't know. the question is this, if they're pla

last week yahoo news obtained an internal memo.anned demonstrations last month. interesting development. do you get a confession? there was on the postal service. >> dana: there is this. >> last night what was trending in social media was uncle tim. they doubled down on this concept of liberal oppression. it is stunning in 2021 that those who speak about ending discrimination want to end it by more discrimination. >> dana: tim scott reacting to the ugly racial slurs against him allowed to trend on twitter. carley shimkus, how are you seeing it this morning? >> i'm not surprised this phrase was trending because twitter is one part political commentary, one part cess pool and sometimes hard to tell one from the other. twitter's response say they will no longer allow the phrase to be included in their trending section but nothing about removing some of these tweets. it appears that some of them do violate their hateful conduct policy which says you cannot attack people based on their race. here we go again, guys. the question is would

yahoo! news says the usps has been running a covert program that tracks american social media.sts. the report says that information is shared with government agencies. i don't think they are doing dna samples on your liking the stamp just yet. >> sandra: i assume everything is getting selected everywhere. they are tracking everything you do. >> john: if you don't do anything wrong, it's got nothing to worry about. >> sandra: great advice. investigators say they have evidence that kristin smart's body may have been recently moved. smart was a college student when she went missing 25 years ago. brand-new evidence suggests her body may have been under the home of the man. prosecutors say. his father, ruben florez, was charged as an accessory after the fact for allegedly hiding her body. both has pleaded not guilty. her body has never been found. mercedes: joins us now. so much time has passed you have to get here is an update on the story. this coming from that central coast reporting on a body moving because that is the news on this. right? i want to read this to you. investigato

yahoo! news back on headcount, they're losing billions of dollars each year. do they have this type of money for this type of surveillance which is very complicated and why? stuart: apparently they do because they're doing it. move on. there is a new push on capitol hill by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to make the 3,000-dollar child tax credit permanent. hillary vaughn is on capitol hill. does it stand any chance of being made permanent. reporter: might stuart. it's a priority for the president. he told house lawmakers on tuesday he wants the temporary increase that beefs up the child tax credit to become permanent. at a meeting with the congressional hispanic caucus congresswoman theresa fernandez wanted to make it permanent. was not sure it would make it through the senate. he may have more support than he thinks, there is growing republican support for expanding the child tax credit permanently, how much, how to pay it out is where there is division. senators rubio and lee want the chi

yahoo! answers announced it will be shutting down on may 4th. users won't be able to post any news after april 20th. the move ends the 16-year reign of one of the internet's longest runn running question and answer sites. the company says the site has become less popular over the years as its needs change. diane. >> i guess it's rest in peace yahoo! answers. elite preston in new york, thank you. >>> up next, stealing the show, a friendly dog interrupts a live televisision report t but didn't far. i wawant time fofor the e people i l love. mymy heart doeoesn't pupump eh blood d so my doctctor gave e farxigiga. it helelps my hearart do i its job betetter. fafarxiga helplps keep mee livingng life and d out of thehe hospital for heheart failurure. do notot take if allergigic to farxixiga. symptomsms of a seririous allec reacaction inclulude rash, swellingng, difficululty brbreathing oror swallowini. stop takining and seekek medidical help r right away. tell youour doctor r right ay if you h have red cocolor in urine o or pain while you u urinate, or a g genital arerea infectn since a

host: another way to look at the numbers from the bureau of labor statistics in yahoo! newssome 167,000 childcare workers lost their job between december 2019 and december 2020. do you think all of those jobs will come back in post-covid economy, or has covid and what it has forced for what families have had to do to rethink childcare, will it change the way people use childcare? will we use childcare services as much -- need childcare services as much? guest: about the number of employees and childcare is down about 15% for pre-covid, and we all know parents have been coping in a number of ways. work from home has been important, and a number of mothers have had to leave the labor force or work less than they would like to or go in and out of the workforce. so i think, right now, parents are coping with stopgap measures . [indiscernible]are still way down. i would say childcare is scarce, there is a risk it will be more expensive and people will use less of it, normally, but i think that the american rescue plan contains a lot of aid to childcare abilities, providers, and p

the headline from yahoo! news is speaker boehner blaming trump for the deadly capital insurrection.talked about it yesterday on cbs sunday morning. [video clip] >> in the book, you write about political terrorists. is this the outgrowth of the mindset you have been describing? >> no question. this is the most extreme example of political terrorism. >> would you say donald trump is a political terrorist? >> donald trump is a product of the political divisions that we have seen grow in our country over the last 20 years. host: that, courtesy of cbs. some of the demonstrations the took place outside the capital into late afternoon of january 6. rita is joining us from alabama, independent line. thank you for waiting. caller: good morning. what has happened to all of these hotheads, like hannity, jordan, cruz and all of these trump people. what happened in the washington, d.c., that shows what this country is made of. that is all i've got to say. host: tom is next, republican line. caller: good morning. my comment is that who do these networks think they are fooling? all you have to do

host: that is the headline from yahoo news, "the pandemic was deadly."nesota on the air. caller: good morning. i cannot tell you how excited i am to see you back on the air. this is the best birthday gift i have ever received. host: happy birthday. caller: it is wonderful to see you back. i'm very excited. my question is, well, i am a huge supporter of w.h.o. i watch them every monday, wednesday and friday. that's where i have received the majority of my covid information in the past year. my question is, are ua scientist -- are you a scientist? with the pandemic, it is all about science. we need to know the science and we need to know the facts. and when we talk about conspiracy theories, the whole china virus, not quite sure about that, but i remember hearing about another conspiracy theory, is that maybe it did not come from china. maybe trump actually did that. that's a crazy theory, i'm sure you would agree. so i would just like to know the truth. again, i support the w.h.o., and if we are going to bash it today, i wish we would have scientists on.

quarantine-while, in sad tech news, "yahoo answers" will be shut down forever on may 4. answers." and for those of you who don't know, "yahoo answers" was a forum where the incompetent could ask questions of the uninformed. but now, it's gone. and this is a huge loss. now how will people get answers to important actual questions like, "how is 'babby' formed?" for your information, "they need to do way instain mother. it was on the news this mroing." you know what? maybe just ask jeeves. quarantine-while, a massive trove of hacked data from more than 500 million facebook users was made accessible on saturday, but facebookurha "this is old data that was previously reported on in 2019." quick tip here, facebook: "don't worry, we already leaked your data" is not a great defense. that's like your babysitter going "hey, i didn't lose your kids. i never knew where they were to begin with." quarantine-while, university of illinois gymnast evan manivong recently got creative with his vault. check it out: >> ninth nationally, the sophomore from kansas city, top score of 14.75 agai

benjamin netanyahu has been nominated by the country's president to form a new coalition after the 4th inconclusive election that yahoo now has $28.00 days to break an unprecedented political stalemate and cobble together a governing majority in consultations held by president reagan rivlin on monday that yahoo received the most endorsements from parliamentary factions. and top diplomats are meeting in austrian capital fianna for talks aimed at salvaging the iran nuclear deal with the us wants to revive the accord which former president trump withdrew from in 2018 iran is refusing direct talks calling for sanctions to be lifted 1st european nations will mediate between the 2 sides. top european union officials are meeting with a fair to one and today to see how serious the turkish president is about repairing relations everyone rolled out the blue carpet for its counterparts he said he wishes to turn a new page in relations with the e.u. european leaders have criticized her his record on human rights an increasingly assertive foreign policy in recent years officials hope the rare meeting will lead to a new chapter in

yahoo. they had good people what happened? >> yes well, there are so many different stories wrapped into this news today, but also just more recentlyhat happened to build up as yahoo media assets as a real alternative to facebook and to google and that digital duopoly as it is called in the space i think the effort to build up the advertising alternatives couldn't compete amid an overall ad contraction and couldn't compete with facebook and google on that sale we saw them sell off huffington post they sold off tumblr, so it is a combination of the two companies they purchased years ago. >> is this too much skating to where the puck was there's a lot of action in the businesses, not focusing just on advertising but diversifying into subscriptions, into courses, things like that. yahoo would have been in a really good position to do some of that. you know, iac has done it, venmeo did it, maybe not enough creative thinking when you get to be a bigger company and they just want you zwroegenerate cas. >> when you look at verizon versus at&t, these are two companies at their core selling broadband as well as wireless. they've done in dif

yahoo! answers just announced that they're shutting down forever. and it really -- it's really difficult newsre one of my favorite groups they sing real yahoo! answers submitted by real people so, if you don't mind, i booked them on the show to perform one last time. here they are, the yahoo! answers lounge singers [ cheers and applause ♪ the yahoo! answers lounge singers, everybody [ cheers and applause ♪ >> jimmy: hey, ronda >> hi, kad, how's it going >> jimmy: yeah it's going great i got some questions that need answered >> all righty, well i'm going to see what i can do ♪ can someone pleas give me netflix username and password ♪ ♪ just give me $1 a month an i'll give you my name an password ♪ [ applause ] >> jimmy: oh, hey, i like that answer >> yeah, i like that question. >> jimmy: all right, well how about this one ♪ is christian bale a christia since his name is christian ♪ ♪ is mitt romne a baseball glove ♪ [ applause ] >> jimmy: now that -- now that is a good point. >> yeah, that's a good point, kev. >> jimmy: kad. >> kad, my friend. >> jimmy: this next one makes a good point as well

yahoos and crack pots. you were early to identify a new chapter of conspiracy theories in the conservative movement with a video that you conducted about qanon. how do you, congressman, go about delinking the conspiracy theories from the conservative base? >> so, i think one of the big keys is we have to just be honest. so when i did my first video on conspiracy theories, the reason i did it is i have a familiarity with conspiracy theories. i remember in the mid-'90s, the u.n. helicopters and the fema camps that were being built to decapitate people and all this crazy stuff that never came true. it can suck you in. i remeer even in 2015, jade helm, this idea that the federal government was going to overthrow texas and even greg abbott activated the state guard to, quote, unquote monitor and he knew darn well that wasn't a theory. so i think first, we have to just be clear and honest. we have to, as leaders, quit looking at our job as simply just to get elected. it is to lead. that's why we have the word leader behind our name. it's to lead people and tell them the truth. that's the start. and i think the other

benjamin netanyahu has been nominated by the country's president to form a new a coalition after a 4th inconclusive election that yahoo now has $28.00 days to break an unprecedented political stalemate and cobble together a governing majority and consultations held by president reagan rivlin on monday that yahoo received the most indorsements from parliamentary fractions. the death toll from a ferry accident in bangladesh has risen to 34 rescue efforts had been halted on monday but were resumed after pressure from the relatives of people still missing leading to the recovery of further bodies the ferry carrying more than 50 passengers sank on sunday evening after being hit by a cargo vessel. rescuers are searching for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in indonesia and east timor of the weekend indonesia's disaster agency says at least 86 people have died that is a lower death toll than previously reported authorities say a miscommunication with local agencies was to pull. that diplomats from the world's most powerful countries are meeting in austria capital vienna today for

their weekly jobless claims report, the 547,000 americans filed new unemployment claims last week, marking a fresh pandemic era low, as yahoo! finance describes it. your reaction, congressman. >> well, look, we can continue to drop the number of unemployed individuals or people who go to state agencies as for unemployment benefit and to get jobs. and by the way, we need to say, we know what the number is because those are the people who go into [ inaudible ]. people might say, they don't want to work. they're going in to get jobs, that's how we know the numbers, unemployment bureaus around the country. i'm excited about the fact that our economy is on the way back. and the economists are saying it could go to greater heights. we're in a good spot now. if we can continue to grow this economy and stop fighting each other, there's no telling how close we can come to the nation god intended. >> how long do you think that a number that's still above half a million in a week stops being a good number during the pandemic? >> you know, we're doing some things right now. i think once this rescue plan is approved, the sky is the limi

news from dow jones. verizon exploring the sale of media assets. those include aol and yahoo!. we will see more about what the plan is. probably not a huge surprise. more next. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: ijoe: let's get a quick recap on those apple numbers that just came out. basically crushing on everything. q2 revenue, 89.5 a billion. all ahead of the 7.7 we estimates. every category. iphone, ipad, services, macs, all crushing estimates. stock up 3%. caroline: apple sales crushed wall street. other news on big tech to amazon saying they are hiring tens of thousand jobs in the u.s. boosting pay for three dollars an hour. amazon makes more than 100 billion per quarter in terms of revenue. it is investing in people. they are doing this sort of political gesturing as apple did as we start to hear president biden talk more about tax increases, about the future corporations in particular. we are going to be turning to president biden who is set to unveil the details of his tax overhaul this evening. when he delivers his first address to the joint session of congress. >> he has come

benjamin netanyahu has been nominated by the country's president to form a new coalition after a 4th inconclusive election that yahoo now has 28 days to break in on precedented political stalemate and cobble together a governing majority in consultations held by president reagan rivlin on monday netanyahu received the most indorsements from parliamentary factions. north korea has become the 1st country to drop out of this year's tokyo olympics authorities say they made the decision to protect athletes from covert 19 south korea has expressed regret over the decision saying it had hoped that the games would provide an opportunity to improve relations. rescuers are searching for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in indonesia and east timor of the weekend indonesia's disaster agency says at least 86 people have died that is a lower death toll and than previously reported authorities say a miscommunication with local agencies was to blame. jordon state news agency says that the country's public prosecutor has banned media coverage of a dispute between king abdullah and his ha

yahoo! finance. angeli: with california looking to open up more regularly do we have a new number to include vaccinations on what the new threshold might be for reopening, broadly? andy: why don't we start with dr. walensky and if you want to add something, dr. fauci, you can after that. dr. walensky: thank you for the question. i think dr. fauci has been talking about case counts below 10000 and 5000. we are at 62,000. what i would say is in the context of vaccination we have that have our case counts be very low to stop circulating the virus and the emergence of the variants and what will eventually stop deaths. i am encouraged by the decreased number of deaths which i am convinced is a part of the vaccination of our elderly communities. i think we are way too high to be thinking that we have won this race. andy: dr. fauci, anything you would add? dr. fauci: very well said. it is the question of the case counts. what we will almost certainly see as we get more of a proportion of the population vaccinated, that the case count numbers will come down, but we would not recommend doing anything different un

witnesses used to start giving evidence that in yahoo denies the allegations of bribery breach of trust and fraud those are the headlines and back with more news in just under half an hour next it's inside story do stay with us. the former police officer charged with murdering george floyd is now on trial. for the world watching this historic case unfold in minneapolis will have live coverage from inside the courtroom as it happens and the latest reaction to derek children trial on al-jazeera. corona virus infections are on the rise in europe tougher restrictions and lock downs are back in place in many countries but why are they struggling to contain the pandemic and what went wrong with the rollout of vaccines this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm how much of june europe saw a downturn in coronavirus cases at the beginning of this year but now infections are soaring in the majority of countries with more than 1600000 cases recorded last week the world health organization says the rapid surge is worrying and it's warned what it calls the continent's unacceptably slow rollout of vaccines could prolong the pandemic europe's

yahoo! will remain prime minister. no political camp received a clear mandate after the elections two to go, forcing him to choose a candidate to form a newovernment. to help them decide, he has been consulting with the various parties elected to parliament. >> i think and i can say it now, after talking to you and the party, that the people of israel should be very concerned the situation could worsen enough to drag us into a fifth election. >> he hopes to decide by wednesday. ethical concerns may play a role he says, hinting at how netanyahu's corruption trial could influence his decision. brent: benjamin not new -- benjamin netanyahu is already israel's longest later. earlier, we spoke to a former speaker of israel's -- and former interim president of israel. we asked him what this tells us about the state of israeli democracy. >> he is a very persuasive conservative leader. there is a full generation who was born or grew up or were educated into the situation of nobody else but netanyahu. the fact he is such a strong leader, like other leaders around the world where for so many years is in a way a very good point to his side. the down

"yahoo answers" announced it will be shutting down on may 4. users won't be able to post any new questions or answers after april 20. the move ends the 16-year reign of one of the internet's longest running question-and- answer sites. the company says the site has become less popular over the years as its members' needs have changed. >> trevor: oh, no! now where will we go to get life-or-death medical advice from anonymous strangers? i mean, this was the spot! but, yes, if you don't know about "yahoo answers," it's the site where the world's dumbest people seek answers to even dumber questions, like: "do you think humans will ever be able to walk on the sun?" or, "does spider have puss-puss?" and people will say "yahoo answers" was a wasteland. the questions were all so stupid. but that's exactly what made it so valuable, because no matter what you searched online, whether it was "what happens if i swallowed an airpod," or "how to tie a tie when hand is stuck in toaster," you knew that at least one other person had already asked it on "yahoo answers," and you felt a little less a

you home by yahoo for years we only have heard that buffett was acting against journalists and short selling us and yet the hum of a newhost at least until june 2021 we never heard that buffett was also looking into other matters for instance a potential market manipulation by wire cuts and signs why i caught. this just the order was in fact given to also examine why i caught a count in light of this press coverage which was to stop the full to name. of me cut up a public didn't hear about this because they probably wanted to prevent any details from escaping that would harm the company's reputation and names escape and they can survive for shift t.v. there is a whole range of rules that were strictly public reporting in order to protect market confidence and as for tom schultz is. the boston hot involved often actually misled the market through its behavior allowing wire cart to keep acquiring money as this meant across stores had one more year to loot the sinking ship they raked up another 1000000000 on that has now ended up somewhere it's one of the. we were terribly concerned that while a card was trying to infiltr

department, their weekly jobless claims report, 547,000 americans filed new unemployment claims last week, marking a fresh pandemic era low as yahoonce describes it. your reaction, congressman? guest: look, we can continue to talk the number of unemployed or people who go to state agencies for unemployment and if it's and trying to get jobs -- and unemployment benefits and trying to get jobs. by the way, we know the number because those are the people who go out looking for jobs. they are going to get jobs and that is how we know the number. the unemployment bureaus around the country. i am excited to think our economy is on the way back. economists are saying, at least many and most of them are saying that if we can pass this american rescue plan of 2021, it could move our economy to greater heights. we are in a good spot now, and if we continue to grow the economy and stop fighting each other, there is no telling how close we can come. host: how long do you think until a number still above half a million in a week during the pandemic? guest: you know, we are doing some things right now. once this rescue plan is approved, the ski

yahoo! in 2017 paying $9 billion for the pair of them. run by tim armstrong at the time it sold tumblr and huff news division a couple of suitors are lookingrategic takes a look i think yahoo! finance has some value. there is a question of what the rest of it is worth. >>> guys, we have numbers out from caterpillar we have been waiting for it. joe, you said it earlier are we going to see the huge beats we have seen so far? that is the case with cater caterpillar. adjusted earns of $2.87 a share. the street was looking for $1.94. that's a huge beat on the bottom line $11.9 billion in revenue big beat on the top and bottom line profit margins were up significantly. operating profit margin 15.3% for the first quarter compared to 13.2% from a year ago just looking through the numbers. the chairman and ceo saying that they are proud of the global team strong performance. they are encouraged by improving conditions in the end markets. and they are managing supply chain risks. that is strong news from the company. stock is up 1.1% because it takes a lot to impress the street these days. expectations has been high caterpillar is doing well. it is

yahoo has visited the site and has confirmed tragically, there are children among the dead. sunday has been declared a national day of mourning, kumasi. >> thank you, jobina. >> reporter: developing newsthis morning, police say they have made an arrest after the head of the chinatown chamber of commerce was attacked. you've likely seen carl chan on abc 7 news before, because he's been speaking out often on crimes in chinatown and against asian americans. he said he was walking near broadway and eighth street in downtown oakland yesterday, when a man yelled a slur and then pushed him on the ground. he was only scraped up, but he said it could've been much worse. >> and one away i say i got lucky, but i just don't want to see this happening over and over again, not only with me, i don't want it to happen, it against any seniors. >> he said he snapped a couple of photos of his attacker, while he was getting away and was able to give police a description. >>> santa rosa city council is looking to report that police use excessive force against black lives matter protesters last summer. according to the press democrat, the city hired an outside investigator to look into these allegations, s