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'Rust' first assistant director sentenced in deadly on-set shooting
"On the set of the Alec Baldwin movie rust has entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to probation. Under a deal with prosecutors in the accidental shooting case from 2021. Safety coordinator and assistant director David halls was one of three people charged in the death of Helena Hutchins on the set of the western movie rust in New Mexico. Halls was convicted of unsafe handling of a firearm and sentenced to 6 months probation. He also agreed to plead guilty to a negligence charge. His lawyer asked that there be no prison time, saying halls was extremely traumatized and rattled with
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
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"That Demi bought illegal antiquities that were likely stolen and alluded from Egypt and Iraq and Syria and other countries, and she gave her some shit. She's like, these are not so much cuneiform tablets. I don't even know what that means, but it must be something fancy. As much as they are pre nod, dog biscuits. And she said, you better hope they're fakes. With genuine tablets like this have frequently been looted from Iraq. Including to support insurgent groups like ISIS. But it just, you know, it's not only the oracle that bugged me guys like I've been looking at a lot of people's pictures lately. It's not only the Kardashians and the Megan foxes. It's basically everybody. The amount of filtering going on. The amount of things people do to make themselves look a certain way is so alarmingly bad. That I don't have much I just don't I just don't have much hope for the future of this country. The picture of Demi Lovato when this article way too slender, we see now portly she got. And I'm not going to make a wage job. She gained some weight. It's okay, we all do. I didn't know Phil this could be this crazy, and this aggressive. It's very sad that people resort to this. These photo manipulations and, you know, before they post these pictures do they really look at them and go, oh yeah, this is completely what I look like. No, you don't look like this at all, honey. It's all theater. So many things right now in this life are just pure theater. You know, the mass mandate is theater. This is theater. The high gas prices are theater, what's going on in Ukraine is theater, albeit very horrifying and sad, you know, the way that people still think we've got aware mask here and there. It's just, you know, thank God here at the casino. There's no one's even thinking about it. Man, sometimes you see an old person, where when you go, okay, maybe the guys got some other shit going on. You don't want to have any comorbidity problems. That's fine. But no more of that mask nonsense, what a pleasure. You speak about bullshit artist, you gotta bring up Alec Baldwin again. This guy's gap, yap, yapping again. I don't know who the hell is on his side. In a legal sense, but he can not still talk this way. Nothing's going to stop this guy from speaking. His truth, he demands to speak it. His legal team can't stop him, I guess. His wife ain't stopping him. You put this guy in your microphone, he'll start talking to you about the whole shooting incident. And now there was an article in The Hollywood Reporter that Alex truth is that the people who were filing lawsuits pertaining to the onset shooting of the cinematographer Helena Hutchins and the wounding of the director Joel Souza are targeting innocent non negligent deep pocketed litigants like himself instead of the people who likely seen negligent but have no money. Basically he's saying you're not suing the people you know you're not going to get money out of. It's a real shitty way to act. Now I know it may seem inappropriate to keep talking shit about the people who are affected by this guy and the wife and the mother and the father and the husband I mean it's so sad. But he made these comments while he was moderating. Why is he even moderating events right now? Why is he making a movie right now? He was moderating events at the boulder International Film Festival. And he just went off after the moderator, opened the floor to Alec Baldwin, he launched into a lengthy and whatever you want to call it statement about there being just two victims. It's just two victims in the rush shooting. While also implying that some individuals who have filed lawsuits are financially motivated and just going after people, they assume have deep pockets. And right from the beginning, from the moment this thing happened, everybody is put out, you know, besides all the anguish and the suffering and the horrible feelings, everybody has, of course, there are two victims and nobody else is a victim, so to speak. And Alex said, we have dealt with a situation where specific people are not as interested in finding out what really happened. So is fake? This guy just can't help himself. And I gotta be honest, I haven't seen elaria do much on social media lately. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen her go bananas on Instagram and say things to make her husband look great. But this guy should be smart enough to know that calling himself a victim is awful. But we also know how narcissistic he is to believe that does he really think he's the only victim that counts? He said to the group, what you have is a certain group of litigant son, whatever side, who their attitude is, well, the people who likely see negligent have enough money and the people who have money are not negligent. But we're not going to let that stop us from doing what we need to do in terms of litigation. Why should people if you you're not going to get money? That's what they're doing. It's very hard to sit here and think that he's actually thinking of Elena Hutchins husband Matt functions. In this group of people who are money hungry and trying to get money, but this, I mean, if you saw Matt Hutchins on The Today Show interview, in which he said, finally, that he was really upset and enraged by the fact that Alec Baldwin refused to take responsibility from pointing a gun and his wife and shooting her and killing her. He also pulled out Alec over his bullshit tears and said, are we really supposed to feel bad about you, mister Baldwin? Every time Alan talks, he just keeps making it worse. And by the way, every time he's up there talking, he always looks like he needs to burp, but he can't. Just keep that in mind. There was a time I felt a little bit of empathy for Alec. Remember that funnel of him holding the phone after the shooting? That was rough to see. You know, he was just spilling his guts out to his wife and I guess that's what we call and just spilling about, I can't believe this happened. But everything he and eladia have said and done since this has just shown everybody that just the most tone deaf people self centered people dare I say trashy people shopping in Vermont, getting new clothes, eating and fancy restaurants that are roped off in the fucking windows seats. Give me a goddamn break. You fucking killed somebody, bro hide for a while. And this guy, the poor husband, and the son of Helena. Their lives will never be the same. And Alec is sitting there crying and not being a victim. With all of this says that I know we've talked about this AD nauseam, but all of this sense is that Alec Baldwin, went in there as a producer, obviously didn't have any of his business order, a business shit in order. It wasn't up to snuff, there was some problems we've heard about. Maybe his incorporation paperwork was off. His insurance, maybe he didn't pay for the right kind of professionals on staff. We know that to be the fact. And instead of focusing on that, he's just living this Instagram life with Elia. Sorry, it was my back hitting the wall. Just living the Instagram life with Eli ya. Somebody else who suffered some public humiliation, I got a kick out of this. You know, we talk about cancel culture a lot, and remember Morgan Wallen, the singer, he had a public relations nightmare that could have been limited to get getting caught breaking the COVID-19 rules set by NBC and signing that live when he was going to host that show or at least be the musical addition to that show. And he got voted for the show back in 2020. He got read book several episodes later, but then just a few months after that, a video came out on the Internet. And it showed in casually using the N word on a night that he was a little bit toasted and drunk. He apologized, he said, I'll never do it again. I brought up since then and it's never going to happen. But his tour was canceled, radio stations began dropping his songs. He was banned from several awards shows like the ACM awards and the Billboard Music Awards. Well, here we are here later. And a $500,000 check from his record label and he's ready to resume his career. A few nights ago, at the country music awards, he was nominated for three wars, male artist of the year, song of the year, an album of the year. And that was right before his video went viral and he had to step away for a while. He won album of the year, he gave a shout out to everybody you could imagine. I mean, everybody that was important to him in his life, the fans and the audience were over the moon to see him turn out again and show up and win. But on Twitter, they roasted his ass. You know, Twitter like I've always said, we've always known it's just a bunch of assholes talking shit and they're just the pussy kids in the schoolyard who don't get the attention they need in the schoolroom, but they, in the playground, they become loud and obnoxious. But this guy's back completely. He's back. What is this sense of canceling someone if they come back this hard and when like this, what are we doing to people? It's just getting so out of hand. The cancellation of. Movie stars and singers and what have you and rappers. It doesn't make any sense if you're going to take them back into the fold. A year or two later, McLaren will be hosting news again soon. You can bet Chris Cuomo will be doing something in the next two years. That just don't know what this all means and what it amounts to if these people end up coming back. What's the real lesson? They have all this money. They have all these millions. Does it just mean go home, count your money, sit still for two years? And then you'll be back in the fold. If that's the case, what's the lesson we're really teaching and why are people so adamant to teach it? I mean, this guy he shouldn't be working because it is mullet. Let alone what he said with the end more than what have you, but, you know, I just don't know what they're going with this stuff. They're getting ridiculous. They've got to there's got to come a point where people go, you know what, it's just like people made a mistake. The guy made a mistake. He said what he said, we uncovered old stuff. And you know, he's apologized, and we all need to move on. Except his apology and move on. I keep saying this because I really feel like a guy like me who walks a tightrope every day and says things into a microphone that can be judged and misinterpreted and interpreted and laid its scary and you go, well, am I a day away from not working for two years? Can't we just get to a point where they get to apologize and if it's sincere, we move on with our lives and everybody moves on and it's all good. I don't know. I just couldn't believe the guy was out there again receiving awards and accolades after he was a pariah. Less than two years ago, it just doesn't make sense to me. Oh. There you go again. That was your free show, I guess we're calling it, what do we call it? What do we call it? Because we know what to do with Thursday's show. And so it's a reckless Wednesday, but let's just call it reckless when they even though it's on Thursday, but either way, you'll get three ball Friday tomorrow. We'll get back to our normally scheduled programming and there'll be a Patreon as well. And if you really need to feel like you need to know more about the political situation in this world, then by all means go to Patreon dot com slash politics is
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"helena hutchins" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Charge against actor Alec Baldwin in connection with the deadly shooting on the rust film set in 2021 is being dropped. TMZ reports he is no longer charged with gun enhancement after his lawyers filed a motion to show the law used as a basis for the charge didn't apply at the time of the shooting. Gun enhancement only factored in if a gun was brandished with the intent to do harm, which was not the case in the death of Helena Hutchins, with the charge drop Baldwin no longer faces a minimum of 5 years in prison, should he be convicted of involuntary manslaughter, he could walk away with probation even though that charge carries a sentence of up to 15 months. The gun enhancement charge was also dropped against the film's armorer. Actor and comedian Richard belzer has died at the age of 78 that is according to his friend and fellow comedian Lorraine Newman. Belser was best known for his role as John munch on the police drama Law & Order. He began playing the role in 1993 and reprised it in 23 years at 23 years across different incarnations of the show. The Connecticut native began his career as a comedian in 1972 before joining the initial run of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Bells are also appeared on National Lampoon radio hour alongside the likes of John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and there is no word on the cause of his death. And the country world is mourning the loss of singer songwriter Kyle Jacobs, the husband of Kelly pickler died Friday in what police are investigating as a parent suicide. Clint black shared the tribute to Jacobs on Twitter saying Kyle Jacobs was a bright spot on the earth and will be missed. The USO also honored Jacobs for going on 7 holiday tours saying he lifted the spirits of service members. Now Marina rockinger has tonight's life be reports. Having to endure COVID-19 is bad enough for most of us, including children, but when it comes to other complications, it can be devastating to the body. Some children have developed miss C or multi system inflammatory syndrome, a rare but potentially life threatening condition that can impact different parts of the body, like the heart, lungs, or brain. Researchers at the Cleveland clinic have looked into why some kids develop miss C and it appears to have a genetic component. Doctor Robert silverman was part of the study. The exciting thing about this study is it's really the first indication of a genetic cause. It gives rise to mechanistic studies. So how did these mutations result in the sea? According to the CDC, more than 9000 cases of miss C have been reported in the U.S. with the average age being 9 years old. The study shows the underlying genetic cause in a small number of cases. It
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"helena hutchins" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"He was badly hurt in an SUV accident while playing in the same event in 2021. Now Tiger Woods is returning to play it again. ABC's Alex stone reports from Los Angeles. It was two years ago, February of 2021 when Tiger Woods had to be cut out of the car he was driving after he lost control of the SUV it flipped outside of LA. He nearly lost his right leg. He vowed he would play on the PGA Tour again. Now he's teeing it up at the very tournament he was here for two years ago. The genesis invitational Woods, telling reporters he still recovering. The leg is better than it was last year. But it's my ankle. Woods hasn't competed in an official PGA Tour event in 7 months. Alex stone, ABC News. Los Angeles. ABC entertainment news. We knew the movie rust would finish filming in part to honor the work of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. Now we have more details about when production will restart. Producers of the film saying a statement that the pick back up this spring with new safety officers is a part of the crew and a pledge that no working weapons will be used and there will be no ammunition of any kind on set, returning director Joel Souza was also shot on set by the gun and Alec Baldwin's hand says it's bittersweet to return, but a privilege to see the film through on Hutchins behalf. The statement makes no mention of Baldwin, who is facing manslaughter charges. We have a date for season three of Ted Lasso. If seen is believing, I believe we've been seen. March 15th. According to a little teaser video released by Apple TV plus on Wednesday. Over on Netflix, a Dayton teaser for the Bridgerton spin off Queen Charlotte, a Bridgerton story. Is the business of this country? That'll debut may 4th and tell her the quiet half of magic and comedy duo Penn and teller is 75 Tuesday. Jason Athens and ABC News. Hollywood. Your business is our business, stay with the team that more people trust for money news at 20 and 50 past the hour. News radio 1000 FM 97 7 you're information station. My name is Corporal Bradley Joseph sites. Jerry Reed. Kate Weber. These are real veterans. Facing a real challenge. I have PTSD. And I have PTSD. I have PTSD. Post
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"helena hutchins" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Ford is halting production and shipments of its electric F one 50 lightning pickup. Brian shook reports. The company said there's a potential battery issue, which is currently being investigated. Ford hasn't shared any additional details, but found the issue during its pre delivery quality inspections. I'm Brian shook. After a fatal shooting, Alec Baldwin's rust will resume production this spring more from ABC's Jason nathanson. We knew the movie rust would finish filming in part to honor the work of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. Now we have more details about when production will restart. Producers of the film saying a statement that the pick back up this spring with new safety officers is a part of the crew and a pledge that no working weapons will be used and there will be no ammunition of any kind on set, returning director Joel Souza was also shot on set by the gun and Alec Baldwin's hand says it's bittersweet to return, but a privilege to see the film through on Hutchins behalf. The statement makes no mention of Baldwin, who is facing manslaughter charges. Jason Athens and ABC News. Hollywood. From ABC News, tech trends you may be familiar with Spotify wrapped. Well, it's not just for music lovers anymore. Welcome to my urine dating rap. Somebody came up with the idea of doing a dating wrapped on TikTok. Amelia Sampson is an online creator focused on dating culture. She says the dating wrapped trend became popular with hinge and Tinder users posting videos of homemade PowerPoint presentations. Breaking down how many led to a second date, what did we do on each first date? How many of these people ghosted me? I went on 13 first dates, proper dates this year. And while not all data is good data. Sam's 2022 dating wrapped. Bring on the trauma. Samson says the trend was a welcome dose of reality in an often challenging social media landscape. Like Instagram is seeing happy couples and feeling like you're all alone. There's something really comforting about the camaraderie of like, okay, yeah, we're all so like not doing great at this, but we can laugh at it. With tech trends, I'm Mike de buskey, ABC News. The
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Turkey's foreign minister noted dozens of nations and international organizations have stepped up to provide aid and arrest has been made in the assault of Minnesota congresswoman Angie Craig, police in Washington, D.C., tweeted Thursday that the suspect is charged with simple assault. The police did not provide a motive for the assault, but Craig's chief of staff said in a statement there was no evidence that it was politically motivated. The family of Helena Hutchins is suing Alec Baldwin for her death on the set of rust in New Mexico. Anyone who is responsible for her loss must be held accountable. Her parents and sister are being represented by celebrity attorney Gloria allred, Hutchins was shot and killed when Baldwin fired a prop gun loaded with a real bullet. Baldwin has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter. I'm Brian shook. And I Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Let's get you caught up on this hour's top business stories and the markets. China's consumer inflation accelerated last month as the lunar new year holiday stimulated demand. The CPI rose 2.1% from a year earlier. That was in line with estimates. Core inflation stripping out food and energy gained just 1%. In the meantime, the producer price index was down 0.8% as commodity prices lagged. The estimate was for a drop of about a half a percent. Bloomberg's James mager says consumer activity is quickly getting back to normal. It does feel almost like the last few years didn't really happen and how things are going. That's the case in Beijing and other places. I was traveling in January in Georgia and Chengdu. And that was very much quieter that that was partly because a lot of those factory towns were shut down prior to the lunar new year. So all the work has already gone home early. Now, if you were to go back to those places, especially the big cities, there's going to be similar to Beijing and that life is coming back to normal. The shops are open again, restaurants are open again. It's much more lively. There's much more activity. How that translates and does that continue through the rest of the year I guess is the real question. In other news, Richmond fed chief Thomas barkin said it's important for the fed to continue hiking interest rates. Barkin spoke in an online interview posted on the Richmond fed website. You know, with demand slowing, but still resilient, labor market is healthy, and the added and unfortunately enduring shock of the war in Ukraine, it shouldn't be a surprise that inflation, while likely passed its peak, is still elevated. Not of course is what makes the case for us to stay the course. Barkin said, recent inflation reports have been positive, but he said the fed can not assume that they'll continue. Lyft has shocked investors with weak earnings guidance. Bloomberg's Tom busby with the story. Shares of Liv took a tumble in after hours trading after giving an earnings outlook far short of Wall Street expectations. Instead of passing along higher insurance costs to its customers lift will instead eat those costs in order to keep pricing low and attract more riders. Now because of that, it's predicting earnings of between 5 and $15 million in the current quarter that's compared to Wall Street's average estimate of more than $80 million. Lyft shares down more than 30% in late trading, and alphabet shares fell 4.4% on concerns about its new AI chat bot barred. Let's check the markets in the Asia Pacific than EK is up about a quarter of 1%, advancing 69 points on this Friday. The Hanks hang index down 1.8%. The tech index off more than 4% as profit taking is underway. And the CSI 300 in China, trading down about three quarters of 1%. The Bloomberg dollar spot index is slightly higher. Dalian, one 31 72. And the yield on the ten year treasury now 3.66%. Global news powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in a 120 countries. In Hong Kong, I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"National news with Nancy Lyons in the Bloomberg 99 one newsroom in Washington, Nancy. Thanks, Joe. President Biden says money from the infrastructure law will go toward the Hudson gateway tunnel that'll serve 200,000 Amtrak customers who travel from New Jersey into New York. He spoke during a visit to New York today. The new tunnel, the president said, will enable rehabilitation of the one that's been in use since the year 1910 and was badly damaged by hurricane sandy. This is one of the biggest and most consequential projects in the country. But it's going to take time. It's a multi-billion dollar effort between the states and the federal government. But thanks to the white and I emphasize the bipartisan infrastructure law. We finally have the money and we're going to get it done. I promise you, we're going to get it done. The president ticked off a list of other projects along the busiest U.S. rail corridor, the northeast, which is served by 2200 trains a day. In Washington, earth Chapman Bloomberg. Alec Baldwin is being formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deadly 2021 shooting on the film set of rust in New Mexico. Cinematographer Helena Hutchins was shot and killed when Baldwin fired a prop gun loaded with a real bullet. The weapon's handler on the set faces the same charges if convicted Baldwin faces up to 5 years in prison. Global news powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast team. On the latest balance of power podcast, I talk with Republican congresswoman Maria Alvaro Salazar of Florida for her views on raising the debt limit. We should not be doing what we're not asking the average American family to do, which is to spend more than they make. You know, when you talk to your children and you tell them, hey, you have to stay within your allowance or you have to make ends meet with what you earn or what your salary is the same thing for the government. So yeah, there is waste. There's fraud. There is a lot of problems in every branch of government, and we should be going there and cutting. But at the same time, we are the United States and we need to be responsible. We need to be paying our debts. We can not default on our debts, but at the same time put the house in order. So that's what we have to do. And I'm very happy that Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, is going to be meeting with the president. And now the president is willing to negotiate and put an end to this situation. But at the same time, sending the message to the rest of the world that we are not going to default on our debts. But there is reporting at least the President Biden will say, can we agree, as you just said, we won't default on our debts, number one. Number two, I'll put forward a budget, a fairly specific budget, March 9. Why don't you, Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, you put forward a specific budget as well. Are those two reasonable requests, they kind of sound reasonable to me, but I'm not in the middle of it. Well, I think that they are. And then you do reconciliation, which is the same thing that we do with the house on the Senate, and we come together. And as the committee, and then we put together the final version. Of course. Hey, the word is bipartisanship. The word the word is working together. Those people who are working and not spending more than what they earn would want from us. Get more of this and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"helena hutchins" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The gun and the gun goes off. Actor Alec Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Helena Hutchins as they rehearsed a scene on the set of the western rust in New Mexico. Hutchins was fatally shot, but Baldwin has maintained that he did not pull the trigger, and that gun safety on the set was not his responsibility. Someone is responsible for what happened. And I can't say who that is. But the Santa Fe district attorney is saying who's responsible. Baldwin in the film's armorer had a Gutierrez Reed. A person died because of this negligence because of this recklessness. And DA Mary carmack all tweeze is charging both of them with involuntary manslaughter. Joining me is former federal prosecutor Robert mintz, a part of mccarter and English. Bob, most people see this as a tragic accident. Is it surprising that the DA is bringing charges? Well, this does represent a dramatic culmination of more than a year speculation over who if anyone would be held accountable for the tragic death of cinematographer Elena Hutchins. In this case, there is no evidence that anybody did anything intentionally wrong when it really turns on is whether they acted recklessly. In other words, whether they should have been more careful in making sure that the weapon that was being handled by Alec Baldwin did not contain a loaded bullet and ultimately it killed the cinematographer based upon a series of people who handled that weapon before it was placed into the hands of ballots all. The DA is going to file two involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin and Gutierrez Reed, two levels sort of that require different standards of proof. Under New Mexico law, there's voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter consists of an intentional killing for which there was a mitigating circumstance that reduces the crime from murder involuntary manslaughter, which is what has been charged here consists of a killing that was unintentional, but it results from either recklessness or criminal negligence. Here Alec Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, one of which carried the penalty of up to 18 months on the other is more serious. It carries a penalty of a mandatory jail sentence of 5 years in jail because although it was involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful hack, it was done with the use of a firearm. So Baldwin has said, Baldwin has said all along that gun safety is not the actor's responsibility, and that he relied on the professionals on the set. Does that strike you as a good defense? Well, that really is the heart of the defense here. Mister Baldwin's defense is simply that he had no reason to believe that there was a live bullet in the gun, where frankly anywhere on the movie set, and this is most important that he relied on the professionals with whom he worked who was short in the gun did not have live rounds in it. And the question is for this jury if it ever gets to a jury, is whether that is enough, whether he can simply turn over the responsibility for gun safety to the professionals who worked around them and rely on what they tell him or whether he has an added responsibility since he is the person who is holding the gun if he have a bad burden to do something beyond simply conferring with the professionals and relying on what they tell him. The DA said that all the actors they spoke to said that either the actor should have checked the gun or should have had it checked in front of him, and that there was a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the set. So at trial are we likely to hear from both sides experts about safety protocols in the industry. I think we are. I think in a lot of ways what the DA has done here by saying things like on my watch, no one is above the law. Everybody deserves justice. But she's really doing is putting not only Alec Baldwin on trial, but in a sense, Hollywood on trial celebrity on trial really the question of whether Alec Baldwin should get any kind of special treatment here or whether he has to play by the same rules as everybody else. But the question is what are those rules? And whether it was reasonable for him to rely on what others told him or whether he had an added burden of checking that gun himself or taking additional steps to ensure that what he was told was accurate because he had in his hand and weapon that was a working pistol that if it did have light ammunition could result in a fatality, which is exactly what happened here. How problematic is it going to be for Baldwin that he and the DA completely disagree about whether he pulled the trigger? Well, the trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger. The trigger had to have been pulled. So Alec is wrong. That guy would step off to the FBI analyst in Virginia who took this gun, which is a replica of a vintage cult 45, and they determined that the weapons tested normally. In other words, they concluded that in order for the revolver to fire the trigger would have to be pulled. So what you have there is an inconsistency between what Alec Baldwin is saying about how we handled that weapon at what the FBI report said. Doesn't really go to the heart of the case, but when you're a defense lawyer, you never really want to have that kind of inconsistency because the prosecution may be able to argue to jurors that he is not telling the truth about whether he pulled the trigger and therefore he may not be being totally candid with the jury about what he was saying and what he was thinking and what he did when he handled that weapon. So the inconsistency does not necessarily something goes to the heart of the case, but dancing efficiencies in your witnesses testimony are never something that you want as a lawyer. There were three people who handled the gun, first Gutierrez read the weapon specialist, then assistant director David halls, who handed ball when the gun, saying coal gun, meaning there was no live ammo in it. He's pleading guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon, and then Baldwin. Any impact from the second person in the chain pleading guilty? No, what happened here really is that the district attorney approached this case by scrutinizing the actions of everyone who handled the weapon and everyone handled the line ammunition. And what they did was they looked at that chain of custody and ultimately the prosecutor concluded that everybody in that chain of custody bears some responsibility for their fatality. When bringing criminal charges, the prosecutor is going to argue, if you are holding a gun in your hand, you implicitly have a responsibility to
Bloomberg Radio New York
"helena hutchins" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"They would rescind one of their tongue and cheek awards given for one of the worst performances of the year Well it says wife Emma hemming ex-wife Demi Moore and the actress 5 children issued a statement saying the family is tight knit and strong and that they plan to continue as they say brusso he said to live it up You'd be I'm Scott Carr A Wisconsin girl is celebrating your birthday by donating over a $1000 worth of dog food to local animal shelters WK OW says 5 year old Manet lust told everyone she wanted dog food for her birthday so she could make a donation to Madison's animal shelters The report says after a social media push from her mom she wound up getting $1300 worth of dog and cat food Monet and her mom Julia delivered the pet food to three different animal shelters on Friday Julia says her daughter was inspired by watching chicken soup for the sole videos The latest version of match game will not return to ABC's lineup variety reports the reboot hosted by Alec Baldwin was canceled by the network after 5 seasons and about 70 episodes ABC says its decision to cancel match game was not related to last false incident of Baldwin's accidental shooting of cinematographer Helena Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set I'm Chris coraggio And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom Tesla delivered a record 310,048 cars worldwide This in what Elon Musk said was an exceptionally difficult first quarter as a growing tide of consumers made the switch to electric vehicles The results today edged out expectations fluctuations in COVID-19 infection rates and rules worldwide continue to impact logistics and supply chains Tesla also temporarily suspended production at its Shanghai factory beginning last month after the city enacted a lockdown over its worsening coronavirus outbreak Federal Reserve bank of New York president John Williams is weighing in today on inflation In remarks prepared for a speech in Princeton Williams said inflation risk in the U.S. is particularly acute This as he reaffirmed the Central Bank's guidance that it would keep on with a series of interest rate increases to keep price pressures under control After the worst quarter since 2008 credit markets are on pace for the biggest annual loss ever as the Federal Reserve rushes to squash inflation The story from Bloomberg's Charlie poet The benchmark high grade U.S. credit index fell 7.7% in the first quarter almost equaling the slump of the global financial crisis and losses for the year could jump into the mid teens according to Bloomberg intelligence the worst since records began in 1973 Bloomberg's truly felt reporting On NASA astronaut called a Russian ride back to earth on Wednesday after a U.S. record 355 days at the International Space Station He returned with two cosmonauts to a world torn apart by war Mark Vande hei landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan along with Russian space agencies pietre dubrov who also spent the past year in space And Anton Schwab Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm Susanna Palmer This is Bloomberg This is masters in business with Barry riddles on Bloomberg radio My extra special guest this week is the bond king Bill gross the cofounder of pimco at one time bill's total return fund was nearly $300 billion It was the world's largest mutual fund gross controlled more bond money than anybody else in the world He advised the US Treasury on the role of subprime mortgage bonds in the O 8 O 9 crisis He was named Morningstar's fund manager of the decade in 2010 they observed no other fund manager made more money for more people than Bill gross He is the author of several books including Bill gross on investing and most recently his book I'm still standing Bill gross and the pimco express Bill gross welcome back to masters in business Thank you Barry Excellent I'm sitting talking to you but I'm standing in life So that's why the title applies I think But it's good to be here It's good to have you back Let's talk about your career starting with Pacific Life You're a junior guy there literally going into the vault taking bond certificates and clipping coupons off of that How do you get from that sort of junior intern menial labor to launching a stand-alone active Bond shop Well let me add to that quickly I could only clip coupons for half of the day I guess the other half I was off making private placements loans to fledgling companies such as Berkshire Hathaway and Walmart I visited Sam Walton with his two kids at dog I struck at two walmarts in Bentonville Arkansas and same thing with Buffett and Charlie Munger So I was doing some of that but just to make the transition I guess to managing money I did a master's thesis at UCLA and I just graduated and it was about convertible bonds but also about Warren's and option related vehicles So I was interested in the bond market even though I wanted to get into stocks and specific mutual and downtown LA had a $1 billion worth of buns and a broker from whedon and company Howard dreykov decided to visit and tell me that somebody else in town was treating some bonds from boxes and those days as you know there weren't any computers or IBM three 60s but we only had one You couldn't really buy and sell on the wire And so it was very difficult to trade But I convinced him to let me use 5 million of their funds and set up an active trading account And that was the beginning Of pimco And before pemco I've heard bond trading described as by appointment only is it fair to say you and your team invented fixed income trading Am I overstating that Probably just a little there was a gentleman I forget his name said that a life insurance in LA that was doing some of that There was a guy from Lehman who later died It was doing some of that But I was certainly one of the first to know certainly one that pursued it and convinced the executives of Pacific ritual that this could be turned into a business So maybe I should say pimco helped to bring about institutional trading on a level that just didn't exist before You guys helped systematize it Is that more accurate Yes I think that's true Because back then stocks with the vehicle to trade and even then they weren't treated that actively Bonds were basically bought and ultimately matured I guess that the big banks in the east and New York and Boston and Chicago and so we have bond trading was no one thought that you could sell one bond by another and make some money And so it was innovative and I was glad to be part of it So in the book you describe how pimp go grew in the 1980s and 1990s We'll talk about the latter years later but that period following everything that chairman Paul Volcker had done with the bond market that really was a perfect storm to plow into the fixed income space Tell us about the growth of pimco in the 1980s and 1990s Okay.
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"Episode Speaking to the paparazzi and Vermont Baldwin said he can not make any comments on the shooting which killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins and inter director Joe Sousa He says that's because of the ongoing investigation by the sheriff's office in Santa Fe New Mexico President Biden will wrap up his time at the G 20 summit in Rome Sunday as reporter Mike momoe reports leaders of the world's 20 largest economies have already reached a major agreement At the top of the agenda world leaders agreeing to move forward towards a new global corporate minimum tax rate of 15% which President Biden has been advocating as a way to both target economic inequality and also to prevent corporations from hiding their profits in low tax havens G 20 leaders also agreed to send more COVID vaccines to poorer countries and pledged to vaccinate nearly 70% of the world's population by mid 2022 A proposed deal to win the John Deere workers strike is up for a vote Tuesday That's when members of the united auto workers union will vote on a tentative agreement reached between the union and John Deere The new deal on wages and employee benefits covers almost 10,000 workers across 14 facilities in Iowa Illinois and Kansas workers at John Deere have been on strike since mid October I'm Brad Siegel A young boy was killed His grandmother critically injured in an overnight apartment fire in Manhattan Paul de Castro has more Police responded to the 6 story building at 6 60 a 178th street in Washington heights around one 30 a.m. flames broke out in the superintendents basement apartment This witness told channel 7.
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"President Biden will wrap up his time at the G 20 summit in Rome on Sunday The White House says he'll begin his day by meeting with Turkey's president Recep Erdoğan Biden will then meet with other world leaders before hosting an event on the global supply chain the president finishes his time in Italy's capital with the press conference For the first time since the tragic incident actor Alec Baldwin is addressing the accidental shooting on the set of the movie rust speaking to the paparazzi in Vermont Baldwin said he can't make any comments on the shooting which killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins due to the ongoing investigation with the Santa Fe county sheriff's department in New Mexico Baldwin did say he has met with Hutchins family Everything related to the investigation of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo should be preserved that's according to Cuomo's attorney who sent an evidence preservation notice to the sheriff of Albany county Cuomo is accused of forcibly touching a woman last December and he was charged with a misdemeanor The Democrat resigned this past summer after numerous sexual harassment allegations were made against him I'm Chris courage And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg news room President's prime ministers and other leaders of the world's 20 largest economies are endorsing a global minimum tax that would be aimed at stopping big business from shielding their profits in offshore entities The tax on corporations was hailed as a victory of renewed multilateral cooperation with major companies facing a minimum 15% tax Leaders taking part in the G 20 summit in Rome also agreed to send more COVID vaccines to poorer countries and pledged to vaccinate nearly 70% of the world's population by mid 2022 After the meetings wrap up president Joe Biden will fly to Glasgow on Sunday for the UN's climate summit known as COP 26 The U.S. and the European Union have concluded a trade truce on steel and aluminum that will allow the allies to remove tariffs on more than $10 billion worth of their exports each year Negotiators reached an agreement today as they work to balance market demands and climate change according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaking on the sidelines of the G 20 summit Microsoft is the latest technology tenant to expand in Manhattan even as most employees continue to work remotely The story from Bloomberg's Charlie pellet It comes even as most employees continue to work remotely The company signed.
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"Is Bloomberg 11 three O Now a global news update Actor Alec Baldwin is addressing the accidental shooting on the set of the movie rust for the first time There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time but nothing like this This is a one of the trillion episodes Speaking to the paparazzi in Vermont Baldwin said he can't make any comments on the shooting which killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins he explained that's due to the ongoing investigation with the Santa Fe county sheriff's department However when talking about hutchin's death he says she was his friend and also confirmed he's since met with her family describing her husband as being overwhelmed with grief and investigation is underway after an Amtrak crash of three people dead and one seriously injured in South Carolina the North Charleston fire department says the Amtrak train slammed into a vehicle about two 30 this morning Four people were found near the heavily damaged vehicle and three people were pronounced dead at the scene paramedics treated the lone survivor who was taken to the hospital I'm Chris courage You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek with Carol masser and Bloomberg quick takes Tim stinney from Bloomberg radio Everything you watch is like a new piece of art It doesn't different story to tell Italian wines as a whole really speak to that quintessential need It is the most powerful car nay in the U.S. period You get the beautiful interior or the iconic design It's very chic and pause It's something that American gets So our Bloomberg pursuits editor Chris rowser joins us now with.
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"National news Nancy lions is standing by in the 99 one newsroom there hey Nancy Hi Tim It's coming down to the wire on the president's deadline to get a deal negotiated on his human infrastructure agenda before he leaves for Europe tomorrow The plan would fund things like paid family leave expanded healthcare and efforts to combat climate change White House press secretary Jen Psaki says world leaders will not question U.S. credibility just because a deal is not 100% finalized They're seeing we're making progress They're sophisticated They're seeing we're on the verge of getting to a deal And that's not they don't look at it through the prism of whether there is a vote in one body of the legislative body before he gets on an airplane Psaki says the president could make a trip to Capitol Hill to see if he can break this stalemate One proposal that had been floated by Senate Democrats to place a tax on billionaires has been taken out of the proposal Instead lawmakers are discussing a 3% Sur tax on top of the top income tax rate for those earning over 10 million Santa Fe county sheriff's investigators continue looking into the shooting on a movie set starring Alec Baldwin The accidental shooting resulted in the death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins and injured the movie's director District attorney Mary carmack all tweets responded to the possibility of charges still being filed If the facts and evidence and law support charges then I will initiate prosecution at that time Carmichael tweet says they can not say with certainty negligence was involved Officers have interviewed Baldwin the person in charge of the weapons on the set as well as the assistant director The three are reportedly the main individuals connected to the shooting Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take Powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries I'm Nancy Lyons back to you Carol and Tim Thank you so much for that update Nancy lions Let's check in with Charlie pellet for a check of the latest business news Hey Charlie Well hello.
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"Take This is Bloomberg 11 three O now a global news update Former president Obama is hitting the campaign trail this weekend stumping for Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey in Virginia today he encouraged young people to support Terry mcauliffe for governor in New Jersey the 44th president called on voters to back governor Phil Murphy who with early voting already underway is hoping to become the first Democrat since 1977 to win a second term as governor in the garden state The American Film Institute is setting up a scholarship for women cinematographers following the death of Helena Hutchins Thursday the 42 year old director of photography was fatally shot by a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin that contained a live round of ammunition on a movie set in Santa Fe New Mexico After canceling hundreds of flights for the past three days partners of the regional airline sky west are reeling sky west operates flights for American Delta United and Alaska airlines who have all been impacted by the cancellations The Utah based carrier says they've experienced an internal technical issue resulting in approximately 700 cancellations before resolving the issue Thursday I'm Chris garageio You're listening to Bloomberg opinion on Bloomberg radio I'm June grosso Negotiations over President Biden's build back better Bill continue to stall And while both outside observers and participants are saying it's time the president cut a deal that isn't really possible According to opinion columnist Jonathan Bernstein a president has limited tools to get legislation over the line and simply forcing lawmakers to agree isn't one of them He joins us to explain Every time I turn on the news I hear someone saying President Biden needs to sit down with his own Democrats and work out a solution Cut a deal Is that going to happen Well they seem to be moving Towards the deal But there are things that a president can do and things of the president can not do And one of the things that president can not do is to order Joe Manchin or anybody else to agree to something They are independently elected members of the Senate or the House And he's not their boss So there are some ways he can exert influence but it's not as simple as boy if he only tried harder everything would be fine I think what they're hinting at is that he should exert some pressure over the holdout senators or Congress people Well there are things that presidents can do If they for example summon somebody especially from their own party to The White House for meeting That's going to be very difficult for senator to say no I'm going to ignore that But once they come to the meeting president can only do so much Maybe there's some kind of an appointment nomination that that senator wants that the president can do Maybe there's some campaign assistance that the president can do But the bottom line is if Joe Manchin doesn't want $3.5 trillion in a bill he's free not to vote for it And there's very little that the president can do to enforce anything Presidents aren't the bosses of members of the Senate It seems like senator Kristen sinema has been at The White House many times to no avail Well we don't really know to what extent it's happening One of the things about all of this is that a president cham put a deadline on things Can sort of create an artificial deadline And that may get things moving but at the bottom line is it's artificial And if cinema or mansion or whoever it is wants to take more time isn't there yet There's very little president can do to enforce that artificial deadline other than saying well we're done now We're not going to do the bill President Trump could do that but that's hardly in the president's interests Does it seem as if the Democrats have put themselves under some kind of artificial deadline that they have to get this done now Well I think that it makes sense to generate artificial deadlines of sorts because otherwise they'll wait till the real deadline which is probably next year's elections And you never know what could happen between now and then So it does make sense for The White House It makes sense for congressional leaders to put pressure on and to create deadlines But the problem is that they can't enforce those deadlines So that can generate negative media coverage when they're supposed to be a vote At the end of October and there's not going to be a vote at the end of October or whatever it is So if they do get this past and signed will the Democrats necessarily benefit in the midterms from it It's a great question The general history of these things is no with an asterisk There's no real sign that parties are rewarded for legislative success On the other hand presidential popularity matters a lot in midterms and to the extent that there's negative stories about the president including legislation that didn't pass That would tend overall to hurt the president's popularity But for the most part it actually doesn't seem to have very much to do with it We can think of presidents who have extremely effective legislative results in the first two years And had terrible midterms anyway from Lin and Johnson to Barack Obama So there's not a direct correlation there And things like the economy and war and peace tend to be much more important for the midterms Thanks Jonathan That's Jonathan Bernstein a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg opinion.
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"Former president Obama is hitting the campaign trail this weekend stumping for Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey in Virginia today he encouraged young people to support Terry mcauliffe for governor in New Jersey the 44th president called on voters to back governor Phil Murphy who with early voting already underway is hoping to become the first Democrats since 1977 to win a second term as governor in the garden state The American Film Institute is setting up a scholarship for women's cinematographers following the death of Helena Hutchins Thursday the 42 year old director of photography was fatally shot by a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin that contained a live round of ammunition on a movie set in Santa Fe New Mexico After canceling hundreds of flights for the past three days partners of the regional airline sky wester reeling sky west operates flights for American Delta United and Alaska airlines who have all been impacted by the cancellations The Utah based carrier says they've experienced an internal technical issue resulting in approximately 700 cancellations before resolving the issue Thursday I'm Chris garageio And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom Meme stock and spac mania could be about to give former president Donald Trump's sagging fortunes of boost We get that report from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini We're the former president's new media enterprises planning to go public through a special purpose acquisition company is sparking new investor frenzy and the stock gain related to the planned venture by Trump media and technology group has already driven the implied value of the new company to more than $8 billion It appears that the former president will own more than 50% of this combined company And if the current gains are sustained that would make the former president the richest he's ever been and way up from his current estimated net worth of just two and a half $1 billion Today's Pellegrini Bloomberg radio It's the go to place for making crypto wagers on whether Donald Trump retakes The White House and Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck get engaged It's also under scrutiny by a top Wall Street regulator The firm is poly market a New York based platform that surged in popularity during the pandemic as a way for betters to predict the outcome of real world events The problem it may be breaking U.S. financial rules We're hearing the commodities future trading commission is investigating Poly market tells Bloomberg gets firmly committed to complying with applicable laws and regulations the CFTC declined to comment A federal judge has ruled Johnson & Johnson can't immediately halt lawsuits claiming the company's baby powder hurt tens of thousands of women more from Bloomberg's surely pellet U.S. bankruptcy judge Craig whitley sided with lawyers for more than 38,000 people who have sued J&J claiming one of the companies most recognized products cause cancer and other health problems Charlie pellet Bloomberg radio Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts and more than 120 countries I'm Susanna Palmer This is Bloomberg This is Bloomberg opinion I'm Bloomberg radio Bring.
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"Is Bloomberg radio Now a global news update House speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are closing in on a deal the past President Biden's economic agenda the California Democrats spoke with the president on Friday and said she's very optimistic about the democratic push on Biden's two big agenda items One is a social spending plan that's been caught up in an ongoing fight between moderates and progressives Democrats hope an agreement on that Bill would lead to the passage of a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure Bill The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to the Texas abortion law and will hear oral arguments November 1st The court's conservative majority did not put the controversial new law on hold so it can continue to be implemented in Texas liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor released a dissenting statement saying the law should be temporarily blocked She argued the women of Texas are being deprived of a long-standing constitutional right An investigation is underway after a prop firearm discharge by Alec Baldwin killed one crew member and injured another on a film set in Santa Fe New Mexico Hollywood weapons expert Larry zanoff says strict measures are supposed to be in place to prevent such a tragedy But questions that I would always ask is were the safety guidelines of our industry followed Blanks are not designed to do what the final outcome of this was The local county sheriff's office says the prop gun went off Thursday on the set of the western titled rust at bonanza creek ranch Baldwin was reportedly told the gun was safe before firing it the director of photography 42 year old Helena Hutchins was killed director Joel soussa was also shot and taken to the hospital He has since been released Authorities filed no charges after they questioned Baldwin production of the film has been shut down The American Film Institute is setting up a scholarship for women cinematographers following the deaths of Hutchins reportedly the institute is accepting donations for the scholarship fund that aims to help female cinematographers build sustainable careers in the movie business Supply chain issues are leading to a nationwide drug shortage the American medical association calls it an urgent public health crisis that threatens patient care and safety The FDA is listing 115 drugs in short supply nationally three of the top drugs that are getting scarce are used.
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"200 U.S. citizens in Afghanistan trying to get out of that country A top official with the State Department tells Congress the department has stayed in contact with over 360 U.S. citizens there the number is higher than what the Biden administration had estimated during the military withdrawal from the war torrent country Actor Alec Baldwin says there are no words to convey his shock and sadness regarding the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set a New Mexico Baldwin was making a movie when the shooting occurred Thursday the director of photography for the production Helena Hutchins killed when Baldwin discharged a prop gun while director Joel Sousa was injured Baldwin was reportedly told the gun was safe before firing it Doctor Anthony Fauci says when it comes to a COVID-19 booster shot it's recommended to stick with the same vaccine You got originally Here's Brian shook Speaking to CNN Fauci noted it just makes sense to go with what you originally received but he mentioned circumstances may change for some people and mixing and matching is also fine His comments followed the CDC director signing off on recommendations for certain Americans to get booster shots from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson A ship off the coast of Washington dropped about 40 shipping containers into the Pacific Ocean Friday the coast guard says the ship was inbound and dropped the containers in heavy seas reports say the shipping industry has been seeing a spike and lost containers The Houston Astros headed to the World Series now after a 5 nothing win over the Boston Red Sox in game 6 of the American League championship series It's the third time over the past 5 seasons the Astros have advanced to the series And tomorrow marks the day when people living and visiting in Hawaii will have to punch in all ten digits to make a local call Authorities say the change is required by a new FCC standard that uses the numbers 9 8 8 is a shortcut for a national suicide prevention hotline After today if you try to dial a 9 8 8 number in Hawaii is the first three digits your call would start connecting to the hotline immediately I'm Scott Carr President Joe Biden's job approval rating remains underwater and a new national poll Gallup has Biden at 42% That's down 14 points since June It held between 54 and 57% from January through June as the economy continues to struggle with supply chain issues related to the ongoing COVID pandemic And gas prices may not be helping James flippin tells us the prices at the pump have lately been the highest we've seen since about 13 years ago The national average right at 3.4 cents a gallon in Manhattan where it's never easy to actually find a gas station It's more like 5.
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"Now with the latest news from New York City and around the world here's Michael Barr Tom Bayley John there's been a deadly accident on the set of an Alec Baldwin movie in New Mexico authorities saying the Hollywood star discharged a prop gun while filming a scene for the western movie rust killing the film's director of photography 42 year old Helena Hutchins and wounding director Joel Sousa Bill Davis is a weapons expert and an armorer for movies and TV That's the person who handles the guns on set before the actors get them There are certain commands certain rules that are unbreakable when it comes to handling firearms on a movie set and that sounds to me like somebody broke some of the rules And somebody lost their life Weapons expert Bill Davis spoke to CBS the cinematographers guild released a statement overnight saying we support a full investigation into this tragic event This is a terrible loss The CDC backed COVID-19 booster shots from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson the move will allow recipients of all three shots cleared in the U.S. to receive a supplemental dose to bolster their immunity against the coronavirus Additionally the CDC said that eligible people may choose a different booster from the vaccine they originally received President Joe Biden said the U.S. was committed to defending Taiwan from a Chinese attack Biden made his comment during a CNN town hall in Baltimore to protect the democratically ruled island China Russia and the rest of the world knows we are the most powerful military in history of the world Don't worry about whether we're going to be more powerful But you do have to worry about is whether or not they're going to engage in activities that will put them in a position where there may make a serious mistake A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman offered a rebuke urging the U.S. to speak.