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November 4, 2016
Police found her chained inside a metal container on the property of a known sex offe offender. her boyfriend who disappeared at the same time is still missing. >> and harvard university has suspended their mens soccer team for the rest of the season and post season over sexually explicit comments made about female recruits in a so-called scouting report. >> and a party, 108 years in the making. you know im talking chicago. theyll be honoring their champion cubs today by first dyeing the chicago...
November 4, 2016
The economy is still recovering. the unemployment rate right now stands at 4.9% of an estimated of 5 million people, 5 million people gathering in downtown chicago today. they are celebrating the cubs world series. the first one in 108 years for that long suffering franchise, players riding through the streets in opened roof buses to a victory celebrating grant park. what a day out there. this is just coming in in the last few hours. governor christie is now reacting to the verdict of two of his...
November 4, 2016
Its over! and the cubs have finally won it all! >> and with that moment the chicago cubs beat the cleveland indians last night in one of the most dramatic games in any sport you will ever see. more than 40 million people tuned in to watch these two teams end one of the longest championship droughts in major league history. after four and a half hours and a 17-minute rain delay, the cubs celebrated the first world series win in 108 years. thats the first since the model t ford went in production ...
November 4, 2016
Since the cubs last won a title. and, you know, there have been a lot of good jokes about that like the last time the cubs won the title, "people" sexiest man was adam and funny jokes. but if you go back 108 years and really think about what the world was then, just the sports world, the nba champion 108 years ago was nobody because there was no nba. the nfl champion? there was no nfl. so nothing there. the ncaa football champion was penn. not penn state. penn. it was such a different world from...
November 4, 2016
Of voting, it is not jt about targeting african-americans an preventing the poor and everything else but prevents us from having a responsive government. they cant vote on levies, the school system and be involved. when republican party members and occasionally democrats and mainly republicans make it harder to do their own jobs. >> i live in new york thats controlled by democrats for a long time or has a lot of democratic control where the democratic party doesnt want a lot of people voting bec...
November 4, 2016
Election or the sweetest escape. joining me now is dave zirin. im biassed because im a huge cubs fan and invested in the world series. as the series went on, it did feel like a nation that is -- has had the eyes glued to one thing, this campaign which is deeply divisive and polarizing and ugly and sometimes just days of sexual assault details. >> yeah. >> that this was like exactly what everyone needed at this moment. >> no. chris, this was a nightly catharsis. it was a nightly vacation. it was ...
November 4, 2016
Chicago cubs beat the cleveland indians last night in one of the most dramatic games in any sport you will ever see. more than 40 million people tuned in to watch these two teams end one of the longest championship droughts in major league history. after four and a half hours and a 17-minute rain delay, the cubs celebrated the first world series win in 108 years. thats the first since the model t ford went in production and since the ottoman empire fell. this morning, the internet with cubs fans...
November 4, 2016
Consequence someone saying we want a special prosecutor and there goes the next two and a half years. thank you, you have continued to depress me. stay with cnn for all day election coverage on tuesday. nobody will have every race and every count covered for you that day like we will. the city of chicago is set to celebrate the world series champion cubs today with a parade and massive rally. andy sholes has more in this mornings bleacher report. >> more than a million people showed up in clev...
November 4, 2016
Culture. good news. chicago is set to honor the world series champion cubs today with a parade and rally. the city, of course, still buzzing over this historic win. breaking the 108-year drought. the championship parade will begin at wrigley field and ends with a celebration rally at grant park. president obama congratulating cubs manager joe maddon from air force one. inviting the team to the white house before he leaves. >> what is a schnide? >> a run of bad luck. your power of spell that yo...
November 4, 2016
The title, "people" sexiest man was adam and funny jokes. but if you go back 108 years and really think about what the world was then, just the sports world, the nba champion 108 years ago was nobody because there was no nba. the nfl champion? there was no nfl. so nothing there. the ncaa football champion was penn. not penn state. penn. it was such a different world from a sports perspective. yet, baseball has a capacity and paraphrasing james earl jones speech of "field of dreams" but to make u...