from The New York Times it's the headlines I'm Amelia nerenberg today's Thursday December 5th here's what we're [Music] covering the full investigative efforts of the New York City Police Department are well underway and we will not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter in this case in New York City an intensive man hunt is underway after the CEO of United Healthcare one of the country's largest companies was assassinated in Midtown Manhattan every indication is that this was a premeditated pre-planned targeted attack at a press conference the city's Police Commissioner said that the CEO Brian
Thompson was attacked as he was heading into a hotel for a conference early yesterday morning a gunman wearing a mask who' been waiting for Thompson came up from behind and shot him multiple times the suspect fled first on foot then on an e bike and was last seen in Central Park the police are using dogs drones and surveillance video to track down the suspect they are also analyzing a cell phone they found near the S side of the shooting and they're scraping data about the public ebike he apparently used since riders need a credit card
or debit card to unlock the bikes it's not clear what motivated the shooting Thompson had recently received several threats but investigators aren't sure where they came from or exactly what they said his killing sent shock waves through the insurance industry United Healthcare is one of the nation's biggest insurers with about 140,000 employees and over $370 billion in [Music] Revenue it is the classic art of the smear take whatever tiny kernels of Truth and there are t tiny tiny ones in there and blow them up into a masquerade of a narrative about somebody that I am
definitely not and P Heth Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary has launched a public campaign to try and keep his nomination on track in a radio interview and newspaper essay he pushed back on a swirl of accusations of rape sexual assault and drunken Behavior the revelations have sparked serious concerns even among Republican lawmakers who are loyal to Trump and Heth has been meeting one-on-one with Senators who will vote on his nomination to convince them that he should still be confirmed the word I would use to describe Pete heg the's viability right now is troubled Jonathan
Swan is a times political reporter most people I talk to who are close to president-elect Trump would rate heg Seth's chances less than 50% that he makes it through he hates surprises from his candidates he doesn't like feeling like people haven't been forthcoming with him he complained to people privately that heg Seth hadn't told him about these things and over the last 24 hours even as Donald Trump has insisted to heg Seth himself that you know he's got his back Trump has been very seriously entertaining the idea of replacing heg Seth with somebody else and
one person that has caught his attention in particular is Ronda santis the governor of Florida that might be very surprising to people given how ugly the primary campaign between Trump and DeSantis was but Trump has told sources of ours that he thinks it would be a quote unquote big story if he resurrected D santis after defeating him and put him in as the Secretary of Defense meanwhile the times has learned that Donald Trump's family business is poised to capitalize on his presidency and to do that it's loosening its own ethics rules during his first term
the Trump organization avoided deals in foreign countries this time they're not making that promise without the guardrail the company could profit from business in countries essential to American foreign policy Trump's son Eric the company's deao leader has already been forging ahead in the past few months he's made real estate deals in Saudi Arabia Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates he's also also considering new hotel projects in the Middle East Latin America and Asia there will still be some ethics guidelines for example the Trump organization is not expected to make deals directly with foreign governments still
the new Ventures could blur the lines between the Trump organization and the Trump Administration one ethics expert told the times quote I fear that Americans will look at public office as a job that is no longer about public service it is a family business and another news The Fallout from the short-lived Declaration of Martial law by South Korea's president continues the country's defense minister has now stepped down and today in the first inside account of the chaotic night military officials testified that President Yun sokol's decision caught them completely by surprise the general Who was appointed
to oversee martial law said he only learned of the move when you announced it on television massive protests against the president are continuing across the country they're expected to grow even larger on Saturday when lawmakers will vote on whether or not to impeach him and the US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a ban on transgender care for minors in Tennessee after hearing arguments in the case yesterday the Court's conservative majority seems inclined to let individual states decide how to handle the treatments much like it made abortion a state-by-state issue when an overturn Row versus
Wade today on The Daily Times supreme court reporter Adam lipac breaks down the case and the potential implications of the Court's ruling which will come next year and finally a new tool from Deep Mind a Google company could revolutionize weather forecasting using AI the company says the tool called gen cast can generate 15-day forecasts faster and more accurately than any other model according to results published in the journal Nature this week gen cast outperformed the current gold standard in weather forecasting 9 7% of the time it does have some limitations for example gen cast doesn't
provide much detail about the intensity of a hurricane even though it is better at predicting its path but the company is hoping that outside researchers can help test and improve gen cast and it's planning to make the tool and the computer code that powers it available to the public those are the headlines I'm Amelia nberg Tracy Mumford will be back tomorrow [Music]
