Its been more than two weeks since both sides faced off in the courtroom here. Theyre in recess right now, the exhusbands attorney is an hour into his closing argument, its an emotional case with long lasting impacts for both sides. You see them both coming in around 9 30, the doctor appeared with someone who told me she was her friend lending her support. Steven finley walked in on crutches. He hurt himself playing sports a couple months ago. Both he and lee were stone faced in the courtroom today. The judge asked questions throughout the First Closing argument. At issue is the fate of the five frozen embryos made by finley and lee back in 2010. Three years later, the couple split. Finleys attorney went first, and he called lees cancer a red herring, she doesnt have cancer any more, its a separate issue. Focusing on the consent waiver signed before freezing those embryos. On page eight of that form, you can see language that if a couple divorces, the embryos can be discarded. Finleys
Appears in court this morning. And turning to sports its clemson versus alabama in tonights College Football Playoff National championship game. The same two teams played for the title last year with alabama winning 4540. Tonights game is on espn starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 9th. Good morning, everyone. Were going to start this half hour overseas and that deadly attack against Israeli Soldiers in jerusalem. That palestinian drove a truck into soldiers about to go sightseeing. They were all in their 20s. Molly hunter is in jerusalem with more. Reporter the Surveillance Video showing that white truck barrelling into the group of soldiers, crushing bodies on a sunday outing. Im just seeing a truck that went on the sidewalk, and hitting the soldiers. Reporter you can actually see the tire tracks right here. This is where the truck hopped the curb, ran into that crowd of 100 people, reversed and hit the gas and plowed through more
If not this microphone very similar to this one. When we are done speaking if you could hold your questions until im in your face with a microphone that would be wonderful just to make sure everyone can hear you and it will be heard on broadcast. Tank you all so much for coming to book people tonight. We are an independent bookstore and your business is the single reason we exist. We could not put on events like this without you. For some energy why do we give ourselves a round of applause. [applause] we are thrilled to be joined tonight by author and activist roxanne dunbarortiz. Tonight will be learning about roxannes eighth book making us all feel lazy, an Indigenous Peoples history of the United States. Roxanne has been active in the International Indigenous movement for more than four decades. She received her ph. D. From ucla and went on to teach and a newly established native American Studies Program at cal state university. While there she helped found both the ethnic studies a
Thousands of people have been evacuated in nearly 800 heat related deaths have been recorded as authorities across southern europe, bashful to control massive wildfires. Forest fires in france, greece, portugal, and spain have destroyed thousands of hectares of land, famous rather reports from one of spains worst affected areas, some more of the battling to control the infernal across spain. Its a race against time to contain wildfires that have been raging out of control from the south of the country to the north. Where blazes have scorched 4600 hectors of land over the past few days. The train journeys also supported by the worst wildfires for a decade in a visit to one of the worst effected areas. Spains Prime Minister petro sanchez, made clear what he thought was to blame. I want to say that evidently Climate Change kills it, kills people, kills ecosystems. The bio diversity and also destroy the most precious goods of our society, which is affected by these wildfires, homes, busine
Am the blocker in doha, with the top stories allow to 0 from says on his highest state of alert for extreme temperatures in more than a dozen locations as a heat wave envelops lodge pass of southwest europe, firefight is trying to contain to lodge wildfire near the city of bordeaux. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate oconee to wilsons hut the she was still using a strategy of preventative evacuations. So far weve had no loss of life. They were facing a difficult day because of the temperature, but also the changes and wind direction. The more than 35 betting across spain, thousands of people have been forced to flee the homes, especially in the south. The country has been experiencing a week long heat wave with highs of nearly 46 degrees. The heat is also being blamed for hundreds of deaths. Authorities in the u. K. A warning temperatures and parts of england could break records in the coming hours. People are being to take precautions. The mercury rise is beyond 38. 00 d