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UpdatedWed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:30 am MT Reply(1) President Donald Trump speaks before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland Wednesday. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press) President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons and commuted sentences in the final hours of his presidency, including Drew Bo Brownstein, who was sentenced in 2012 to a year in prison for insider trading. In a briefing, the White House said Brownstein was described by his sentencing judge as someone who goes out of his way to help people that are less fortunate. Brownstein has paid his fines and forfeitures in full, the briefing says. ....
Economy with one of the president s top economic advisers, dr. christina romer is going to be joining us. she is actually the outgoing chair of the president s council of economic advisers. she will be heading back to uc berkeley to teach. she will talk to us before she goes talking about the new government numbers, jobless numbers. she s coming your way in a bit. a remind earp the president, we re expecting him to make comments about the jobless numbers and the economy. there s a accepsense of relief. an oil platform fire turned out to be far less serious far, far less serious than anything like the bp oil disaster. the fire broke out just 200 miles west of the oil rig explosion that led to the bp oil spill. that fire, you re seeing some of the pictures here, put out quickly despite the early reports, no oil was spilled. the platform owned by mariner energy, all 13 crew members aboard. they jumped into the water. they had their survival gear ....
Forecasted. the economy still lost jobs. u.s. employers got 54,000 positions in august. far cry from 120,000 economists were expecting. most of the job losses were because of further cuts. private employers added 67,000 jobs last month. that s really good news for the economy. it put cash into the pockets. then they are likely to spend it. jobless rate ticked up to 9.6%. wall street looked past that. the market has really been jittery leading up to the reading. right now we are seeing a strong start. dow right now is up about 45 points. nasdaq higher by 27. s&p 500 is also up a bit. we are watching one stock today, bp. oil joint says that it spent $8 billion so far in response to its oil spill in the gulf of mexico. we will be keeping an eye on shares of mariner energy. ....
Oil platform explosion. some house democrats are already demanding answers. the house energy and commerce committee is asking scott josie, president and ceo of mariner energy, for a briefing on the incident. for abc news, eric barajas, houma, louisiana. meanwhile, at the site of the bp oil well, engineers there have removed a temporary cap that last month stopped all that gushing oil. no additional oil has seeped into the water because the well has been plugged with cement. that temporary cap was removed so that part of the well that failed to stop the spill can now be replaced. then the drilling of a relief well that will plug the broken well for good can proceed. federal safety investigators have been looking into consumer concerns about pampers diapers. that s after 4,700 complaints of severe rashes, all on children who had worn swaddler and cruiser dry max diapers, which hilt the market a few months ago. investigators could not find a direct link between these diapers and the s ....
Ocean, although none of them was hurt. the fire was 200 miles west of the bp spill site and the explosion, of course that killed 11 workers back in april. nbc s chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson is live in venice, louisiana. and anne, federal agencies that oversee offshore drilling say they will investigate this fire, but do we have any clues at this point about what might have caused it? they don t know what caused the fire at this time, chris, and that is exactly why the bureau of ocean energy management, which is the new bureau which replaced the minerals management services is going to look into the cause of this fire. mariner energy said yesterday that as far as it knew, the fire was contained to the top of the oil platform. there was no production going on at the time of the fire. they were painting and doing some welding so there is a question did that spark the ....