That snow will be winding down late morning in to the midday. Theyre looking at basically a trace to maybe an inch or two, best chance for higher accumulations, totals will be south and east of new york city. Monmouth, middlesex, and ocean counties. A light at the end of the tunnel, a big time spring warmth coming up next week. Pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears when a man with a gun choked and robbed a 92yearold woman. When a Good Samaritan stepped in to help, he robbed that person too. N. J. Burkett live from park slope, brooklyn with more on a heartless mugger. Heartless is the word. And tonight that suspect is believed to be the same man who attacked and robbed the 71yearold woman here in brooklyn three weeks ago. That robbery, like this latest one, happened in the middle of the afternoon. Of course im afraid. Is 92 years old and shes terrified tonight. Detectives say she was walking home from her local library in the middle of the day and had no idea she was being followed by a 250
Like the new 1,000 per pill hepatitisc drugs. Everyday drugs to treat conditions like Blood Pressure more than doubled over past few years. Those prices are expected to go even higher. Despite the promise of generics to bring prices down. For more on this, lisa gill, prescription drugs editor at Consumer Reports joins me now. Lisa, welcome back to the show. Thanks. Gerri weve had 11 increase in drug prices since 2007 and that is despite the fact that generics comprise 86 of all pharma out there. So i thought prices were supposed to crater, not go up . It is true. A lot of blockbuster drug prices have dropped but meanwhile other prices on some of those key remaining branded drugs and specialty drugs are boeing way up. Gerri theyre driving overall Prices Higher . They are. A couple of other things. More people are taking medications first of all and you have a aging population. That is another issue. Gerri well that adds into the mix too. I was looking forward to some of these prices act
Melissa the dow and s p are on track to close above their record highs. S p looking particular good after ending last week in the red. What is behind todays climb . Joining me now and our panel, our very own Liz Macdonald. We have James Freeman from the wall street journal and fox newss Brian Kilmeade. Why do you think of this market here . Why are we rallying . Earnings, better than expected. Give u. S. Businesses credit for continuing to eke out profits even when people dont expect it. Melissa you think it is merger mania . That and earnings. What is interesting, melissa, stocks dropping like a stick, ones that ipod last fall. Were talking zulily, chegg are still under pressure. Melissa brian do you make sense of this this or what stock market does about economy and what people talk about their wages and something else. Where will i put my money to be safe . Real estate, i get a bigger house. What happened to a lot of real estate prices . I dont know that is where you will put your m
Social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and dividers society. But musk did not say how he envisioned creating that town square on twitter, which already has fractured echo chambers or how to moderate users who do incite violence and how content would be curated to avoid the spread of lies or misinformation. The Electronic Frontier foundation says. Those are Critical Issues concerned that there were risks to human rights and personal safety. Any time any Single Person has complete unchecked control over policies affecting almost 400 million users would love it if they brought their International Guidelines here to the u. S overseas. The hate speech is much more monitored, reportedly told employees during his visit wednesday that he does not plan to lay off 75 of the 7500 workers. But on thursday he did fire the ceo ceo. Oh policy head and general counsel twitter struggle. Called to be a place that handled their moderation we
Quote, she, meaning katie miller, tested very good for a long period of time and all of a sudden today she tested positive. The president went on to say, this is why the whole concept of tests arent necessarily great. The tests are perfect. And then something can happen, unquote. But that doesnt actually make any sense. The testing has meant now that the white house nows that katie miller has contracted coronavirus and they are isolating her from others so it doesnt spread at the white house. President trumps own Health Officials say the opposite of what President Trump just said, that this is why surveillance testing is needed, to prevent the spread. Take a listen to dr. Deborah birx on cnn last night. Its important to test those with symptoms but really, to get out there and proactively monitor. I really want to emphasize over and over again that this asymptomatic spread is key. We have to be able to find it. Of course there is routine testing happening at the white house looking for