Consumer statement is breaking right now. Let us get the details with mike mckee. Little bit better news. Consumer sentiment is up a little bit from last month. The preliminary michigan numbers come in at 72. 8. There was an expectation that it would slip given everything that has been going on. We have seen an increase in expectations and the current level. Is 80 2882. 5 and that 82. 8 and better than what was expected. Level rises, and it had sharply declined last month but people are feeling better about the economy right now. Sales . Hat about retail we are still spending a lot in certain areas especially on ecommerce. Guy nice shoes. Alix thank you, i am glad somebody notices. Compared to last month it does not look as good. Mike the numbers did not come in as expected, but the trend is dead, a slowing during the month of july of 1. 2 after an eight point 4 rise the month before. 1. 9 down,mber at the retail control group, 1. 4 after. If you look at the june numbers, and retail sa
through the narrow alleys of an arab neighbourhood, waving flags and chanting slogans. the palestinian red cross said over 70 people were injured in clashes. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello, and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with, rather than an interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week has threatened to bring the country to a standstill, which has made him a target of those who accuse union militants of being hell bent on suicidal madness. others, though, say that he is an example for working people of how they can get a decent deal at a time when their standard of living is constantly being squeezed. whatever your view is, mick lynch, the general secretary of the rmt, now has the backing of his members for potentially a very major confrontation, notjust with the rail companies but with governments of all political persuasion, with the tories in westminster, the s
Who are looking to profit . You know, i think that theres a difference between a septa issue. And if there are only gonna be 500,000 people in town, those tickets were going to go quickly. I mean, so the ticket but i do think that the city has done the Convention Visitors bureau, visit philadelphia, and the administration have done a better job over the last several weeks toning down peoples sense of how challenging its going to be to move. Its gonna be challenging. But how challenging its going to be to move around in the city, and i think theyve done a pretty good job of it. And i think the people have discounted the problem. They understand its going to be difficult, its gonna be crowded, and theyre gonna have to figure out, and theres gonna be some negative behavior that goes on. But i think people are going to be here in big numbers. I think george is right. Its the timing of this. At the beginning, the city and septa, there were, you know this was like the popeocalypse, the popea
The jury. His own defense attorney was surprised he got off since the jury was told he was already a convicted murderer for killing another man connected to this case. Usually that kind of evidence is extremely damming to someone on trial. But the jury saw through it. Thats the credit to them. Today in court jones shouted out a thanks directly to the jury while beaus family sobbed. At the murder scene, prosecutors tried to calm beaus family his sister and his mother simply too heart broken to speak about the verdict on camera. His dad is angry. Ultimately theres another judge and hell have to pay the price then. Reporter so jones was found not guilty. Got off but hes not free. In fact hes never going to get out of jail because he was convicted in that other case for murder right now hes already serving a life sentence. Lucy . Thank you very much, karen. One man is dead after an accident at a concrete plant in Camden County. Winslow Township Police arrived at bow cello pre cast concrete
Extremist group al morabitum which we havent really heard of before. How big is this is the first part of the question and secondly how do you rank the groups and their threats toward the homeland . Which one should we be the most wary of . Let me bite that off in a couple of different chunks madam vice chair. We did point out in our statement this year to the emergence of this group in north africa which is an offshoot on which is al qaeda and ghraib, and internal fights about direction is a group that we know of as the al mura battalion which includes known links to al qaeda and they have engaged in internal feuding that has put them into separate organizations from the way we look at them. We look at that grouping as a significant threat to our interest in and across north africa. As far as the ability to project a threat potentially to the homeland i would describe that as more potential than actual at this point but they certainly have taken note of what happened in western europe