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Nightly Business Report for wednesday, may 7th. Going, everyone, and welcome. Federal reserve chair janet yellen went to capitol hill today. She told Congress Joint Economic committee that the u. S. Economy is turning up after a winter of virtual standstill. But she pointed to several areas that bear watching, among them, housing. Steve liesman has our report. Reporter fed chair Janet Yellens testimony before Congress Joint Economic committee today blamed the first quarters economic weakness sol...

Nightly Business Report for wednesday, may 7th. Going, everyone, and welcome. Federal reserve chair janet yellen went to capitol hill today. She told Congress Joint Economic committee that the u. S. Economy is turning up after a winter of virtual standstill. But she pointed to several areas that bear watching, among them, housing. Steve liesman has our report. Reporter fed chair Janet Yellens testimony before Congress Joint Economic committee today blamed the first quarters economic weakness sol...

Legendary journalist William Worthy. At the height of the cold war, he defied u. S. Government by reporting from cuba, china, the soviet union, and iran. He went to north vietnam. The folksinger phil ochs once even wrote a song about him. Went down to cuba am a hes not an american anymore. Somehow it is strange to hear the state department say, youre living in the free world in the free world you must day we will air excerpts of our 1998 interview with William Worthy and speak to three journalis...

Today we remember the life of legendary journalist William Worthy. At the height of the cold war, he defied u. S. Government by reporting from cuba, china, the soviet union, and iran. He went to north vietnam. The folksinger phil ochs once even wrote a song about him. Went down to cuba am a hes not an american anymore. Somehow it is strange to hear the state department say, youre living in the free world in the free world you must day we will air excerpts of our 1998 interview with William Worth...

Nightly Business Report for wednesday, may 7th. Going, everyone, and welcome. Federal reserve chair janet yellen went to capitol hill today. She told Congress Joint Economic committee that the u. S. Economy is turning up after a winter of virtual standstill. But she pointed to several areas that bear watching, among them, housing. Steve liesman has our report. Reporter fed chair Janet Yellens testimony before Congress Joint Economic committee today blamed the first quarters economic weakness sol...

At noon, campaign 2014 debate coverage begins with the North Carolina Senate Debate between kay hagan and republican challenger tom tillis. Our guest on newsmakers this week is mary kay henry, head of the Union Representing 2 million unions in the u. S. And canada. This follows protests over wages and fast food restaurants. Your union participated in nationwide protests. 500 people were arrested. These workers are not members of the union. Why are you participating . We want to support any worke...

Perspective, because they had the willingness to risk arrest and bring more attention to the economy that does not work for them when they work really hard and cannot even afford basic necessities. We support their demand for 15 and a union, because when people have more money to spend in their local communities, they are going to be able to buy groceries, go to the hardware store, by more close for their kids, and get the economy going again, in every community in this nation. The National Labo...

Around the bay. Plenty of sunshine and numbers into the mid90s today inland. A few degrees of cooling in low 80s in san jose. 60s along the coast. 70s into the east bay. Details and then the cooldown for the week ahead, coming up. Breaking news out of richmond where a suspect has died in an officerinvolved shooting. Shortly after midnight, Police Responded to uncle sams liquor store. Officers are not saying what happened, but an altercation occurred leaving the suspect dead. The officer was not ...

Coming up, Deborah Potter on the controversial life of the late dorothy day. She was a convert to catholicism who fed the poor, defied authority, opposed all war, and is now being considered for sainthood. And this weekend of the Grammy Awards, kim lawton looks at the new mainstream success for contemporary christian music. Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. There was more attention this week to the ethical debate weaponized drones in the war on terror. The discussion came ...

Live from the kgo broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. It is sunday, september 14. Lets start with a quick look at the weather, heres the meteorologist. Hi, everyone, live doppler hd depicting cloud coverage along the shoreline. Low clouds and fog are just over parts of the bay here. Temperatures are in the 60s for most areas. 63 in san carlos, yanother warm afternoon for most of you, we had a little bit of cooling yesterday in our inland east bay. That continues today, well have the high cloud...