To say, yeah, i want to be part of that. Narrator but theres no hollywood happy ending for carpenters investors. She told people that she put hundreds of millions of dollars of her own money into the project, and that was not the case. I didnt steal their money. They made an investment. Frey what can you say, you know . Some days youve just got to go tip your hat to her ability to swindle. Narrator abundant fields of sunflowers and tomato crops surround the sleepy town of dixon, california. But in 2013, the Small Community 20 miles west of sacramento is in the whitehot spotlight. The biggest movie studio in the world is going to be built in the middle of its fertile farmland. This was cast as a 2. 8 billion movie studio project. There was nothing small about it. Narrator according to the projects supervisor, carissa carpenter, the movie studio will be the envy of the film industry. She was going to build it bigger and better than anybody else in california. Stanton she had this team of
Narrator then he destroys them. He yelled at me for a half an hour, called me stupid, incompetent, lazy, idiotic. Narrator but his is a con that pays off big. He was spending, on average, 1 million a month. Hes the greatest con man, in my opinion, that ever lived. Narrator in early 2007, troy stratos is living in a 12,000 square foot mansion outside of sacramento, california. He is taking care of the house because the owner, his good friend Nicole Murphy, actor Eddie Murphys exwife, has moved to los angeles. He gets a call. Its nicole. She has entrusted stratos with her money and now she is being hounded by creditors. Stratos reassures her that everything is fine. But he is lying. At this point he has already taken at least 13 million from trusting victims like Nicole Murphy. And the question is what is the secret to this con artists stunning success . The answer begins in maui in 1994. Stratos is 28, an aspiring film director. He comes to the island to work on a film script with the m
And native American Communities face significant barriers to voting but is this the u. S. Election where it could play the role. A lot welcome to the program all top story france is again coming to terms with a deadly attack a violent act of violence which the countrys president has described as an islamist attack a knife wielding man beheaded an elderly woman and killed 2 other people in a church in the riviera city of nice it comes just weeks after the murder of a teacher all this against the backdrop of heightened disquiet in france and around the world the president s defense of secular values and a push to confront extremist islam so lets take a look then at how the events unfolded today the attacks started at around 8 am local time thats 0700 g. M. T. At the church of not today in the center of nice thats where 3 people were killed including the woman who was beheaded its a round a kilometer from the sea front probably not the zone play where 86 people were killed in an attack us
Georgia and the fight for control of the u. S. Senate live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening. As america faces whats expected to be the worst wave of covid yet, there is a groundbreaking development in the race for a vaccine. The drug maker pfizer announcing early data shows its experimental vaccine is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 that would make it about as effective as the polio vaccine pfizers ceo telling cnbc we could have up to 50 million doses of it by the end of this year it is a great day for science. It is a great day for humanity when you realize that your vaccine has a 90 effectively. Thats overwhelming. The good news comes as the virus spreads across the country at a rate weve never before seen cases on the rise in 49 states over the past week 31 of them having their biggest spike since the pandemic began in the past eight days, weve had more than 830,000 new confirmed cases. Total hospitalizat
Today, david. David this no argue about it. We were supposed to have the second president ial debate last night. Instead we got dueling town hall meetings. One moderated by abc news George Stephanopoulos and form Vice President joe biden. The other Savannah Guthrie and featuring donald trump. The contrasts were sharp including the economy and the president s response to the coronavirus. President trump i now it was a big threat. At the same time i dont want to go out and say everybodys going to die. We make up 4 of the worlds population. We have 20 of the worlds deaths. We are in a situation where we have 210plus thousand people dead. Whats he doing . Nothing. President trump we had the greatest economy in the history of our country last year. Including the state of florida where we are now and pennsylvania and North Carolina and every place. We had the greatest economy we ever had. We had to close it down. We saved two million lives. We are opening it up. We have a vshape and its comi