good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m josé diaz-balart. we begin in new york city where tensions are flaring inside the courtroom as former president donald trump has taken the stand in the $250 million civil trial that threatens his sprawling business empire. the case centered around accusations that trump along with his two adult sons inflated various trump assets to get more favorable rates from banks and insurers. trump and his children have denied any wrongdoing, and while trump just took the stand about an hour ago, the judge already accused the former president of treating this appearance like a political rally. the judge has urged trump s lawyers a number of times to control their client. let s go right to nbc s vaughn hillyard outside the courthouse. vaughn. reporter: good morning, jose. donald trump just leaving here the courtroom for a morning break after a contentious first 90 minutes of donald trump on the stand and under oath, facing questions from the
a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind our talent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever seen that podcasting would be so central to this one? well, i def
to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever see
University. If a teacher teacher is hospitalized due to an incident at a high school and is assaulted in the process and thats how she ends up in the hospital and she also facebook she ends up in the hospital gets fired because of it is that violating her First Amendment right . Im sorry, the teacher. Im sorry wasnt really clear. The teacher was the teacher was assaulted in an incident at school. She was hospitalized because of it. While the hospital she posted on social media site that she was in the hospital. Can hospital. Can she be fired for that . It depends. The law will be different depending on where she lives because the Appellate Courts are not entirely agreement but there are some limits to what Public Employees including teachers can say about their work. So a lot would depend on whether this was considered a matter of public concern or not. Hypothetically if she would like to say attacked by a student or by the school principal, that probably to me it would be a matter of
Not allowed until they can find the source of the gas leak. Con edison is here, e office of Emergency Management as well. They are trying to figure out where that is coming from. As of now, we know four multifamily homes have been evacuated. Right now there is no telling how long this work could last. Again, they still have not found the source of that gas leak at this hour. The call came in at 9 45. Theyre telling us theyre going to work through the night ty. O from. Until then, the folks whinlive in those homes will not be allowed to stay the night. Im ray villeda, news 4, new york. Another big story tonight. A hospital worker and his wife accused of ripping off patients. Police say this couple stole records of more than 80 patients from Lenox Hill Hospital and tried to rack up more than a Million Dollars worth of designer goods using the patients personal information. News 4s Checkey Beckford is live on the Upper East Side to tell us how this tag team pulled it off. Checkey . Report