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minutes. so when that statement comes, we ll, of course bring it to you. and of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6:00 local time. this siege going on now for more than eight hours. i m john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. and i m natalie allen. we have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. it is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. a gunman holding people hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother , and has contacted a radio station and two tv stations via hostages with demands, a conversation with the prime minister and an isil flag. we do know five people have managed to get out. three men were seen running out two hours ago. two of them were customers. the man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who ....
thought the most important story was the reaction of the death of a petty street criminal and it was most reported but not close to a story that is rocking your world and you probably didn t feel the tremor. the international monetary fund revealed that china s economy surpassed that of the united states and now china is now the world s largest economy. they reported on this story and it could should have caused demonstrations in our streets. we are losing our country and no one seems to notice. less than 15 years ago, the u.s. economy was three types the size of china. and americans since 1945 have grown used to having the number one economy and must have taken it for granted. get ready to the new ranking or get angry and we ll do something about it. our current president said running up the huge debt on children and dprand children was irresponsible and unpatriotic. if so, he is the least patriotic president in history. our debt topped the 18 trillion mark. that is more than ....
to win and why losing for him may be uniquely hard to bear. and his drive to win a state he cannot afford to lose, florida. jim acosta reports. where at least i know i m free reporter: donald trump stepped off his plane to big cheers. americans are going to experience another massive double digit hike. they said 25%. forget. up take 25 percent. it is going to be 70, 80, 90%. you have to brush up on your negotiation ability, believe me. squl the gop nominee is seizing on his latest report on obamacare that find whose buy their insurance through the affordable care act will see their insurance go up 22% on average next year. and i. and i can say all of my employees are having a tremendous problem with obamacare. you folks, this is another group. is that a correct statement. if you look at what they are going through with their healthcare is horrible because of obamacare. the problem, trump and even the hotel s general manager later acknowledged they don t receive the ....
and we experienced turbulence coming in and when we landed a pretty hard landing and the self-perceived back of the plane starts fish tails and you could feel the plane do things that wasn t straight on the run way like a normal landing would go. the plane continues to proceed down the runway in that way sorry i m being moved on the tarmac right now. and then we came to a very, very, sort of quick and harsh halt there on the runway. and everyone is fine on the airplane. there are no injuries. governor pence and his staff are fine. and there are a lot of rescue crews here. i m not sure if you are seeing the poll shoot. yes we are. reporter: there appear to be police and fire rescue here. and there is significant damage to the run way here as well. it looks like you can see divots where the wheels of the plane dug into the runway and damaged the runway. they are going to have to do reconstruction for this part of the runway. everyone is fine but liz, how long from th ....
unfairly. what is wrong with having an overzealous watch dog committee? and isn t getting rid of this office the kind of swampy stuff that republicans across america elected donald trump to get rid of? they re bringing anonymous charges and trying them in a public arena. a person targeted by that has to defend themselves after they ve been attacked publicly when they don t have a right to face their accuser. that s a right that goes right back to jesus himself standing before the high priest. i m going to read it off the screen here, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it is? so the president-elect appears to be making the argument that you guys have a lot of other things on their plate. why make this the first move in secret the way it went down last night? i would have been happy to bring that to the floor and let democrats vote on that independently. i think you would have s ....