Saudi Summit No-Shows, Uber Works & 'Halloween' - Friday, October 19th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, October 19th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about the latest in the missing Saudi journalist and the first big federal investigation into church sex abuse.
Plus: the team advancing to the World Series, a new 'Uber Works' service and the movie expected to make a 'killing' at the box office.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:05.7 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:07.8 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:10.4 | Today, the case being called the first federal investigation of its kind. |
| 0:14.4 | Plus, who's heading to the World Series and a new type of Uber service? |
| 0:18.2 | Those stories in many more in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. Today is Friday, October 19th. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:27.0 | It's nicknamed Davos in the desert, a financial conference in Saudi Arabia set for next week. |
| 0:35.1 | Already, many U.S. businesses backed out from going and now the Trump administration is not going either. |
| 0:40.7 | The Hill reports U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Manuchin just cancelled his plans |
| 0:44.8 | to be there. It's sort of a signal that the Trump administration is taking the |
| 0:48.6 | disappearance of a prominent journalist seriously. Remember there's been |
| 0:52.3 | global outcry about Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. |
| 0:55.0 | He was a contributor to the Washington Post and was living in the US, |
| 0:58.0 | but he's been missing since he went into a Saudi consulate earlier this month. |
| 1:02.0 | Many think Saudi officials are behind the murder, |
| 1:05.2 | the Saudi government still says not true. Well, President Trump now acknowledges that |
| 1:09.7 | Koshogi is likely dead, but he still says he's waiting on the results of three different investigations. |
| 1:16.0 | This is not over yet. |
| 1:20.4 | Some are calling it long overdue. |
| 1:22.2 | The U.S. Justice Department is now looking into alleged sex abuse by Catholic priests throughout Pennsylvania, and it's believed to be the first major federal investigation into sex abuse by priests in the US. |
| 1:32.9 | Why now? |
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