Hari Sreenivasan:
The position also reported on another incident today. He quoted the father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan saying that the president had offered $ 25,000 from his personal account, but never followed.
We will get more details on all of this after the summary of the information.
The number of deaths in forest fires in northern California has increased to 42 today. Heads of the County of Sonoma found the remains of the last victim because they searched hundreds of burnt houses. Meanwhile, the firefighters made new gains during the night with the help of cooler time and low winds.
A double Olympic medalist said that the former doctor of the American female gymnastics team had sexually abused her for years. McKayla Maroney is the deepest athlete to manifest in the scandal. In a statement today, she said that Dr. Larry Nassar had started to molester when she was only 13 years old. He awaits the conviction for an accusation of juvenile pornography, but denied any sexual abuse.
No more questions this evening about the pricing of drugs. A new study reveals that the costs of injectable cancer drugs, approved since 1996, increased an average of 25% over eight years. It is much higher than the inflation rate. The study was based at Emory University and published in “The Journal of Clinical Oncology”.
And at Wall Street, health insurers and IBM have fueled a wave of stocks today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average won 160 points, more than half of percent, to close above 23,000 for the first time. The Nasdaq increased only a fraction, and the S&P 500 was up two points.
