president obama. folks, bain was responsible for thousands of layoffs. bain acquired dade international in 1994. the company went bankrupt. 1700 jobs killed. bain cashed in on a profit of 242 million. bain acquired gs industries in the early 90s. the company went bankrupt. and bain got a $50 million payoff. then there was american pad and paper. bain took it over, two plants were closed, and 385 jobs were lost. willard left bain in 1999, but bain never left him he s still getting paid millions a year for nothing. what s the record up to run on,
up the east coast all the way to canada. this is a huge storm, folks. just check out the view from the international space station. we re all over irene, where it is, where it s going. we ve got jim spellman riding out the storm in the bahamas. john zarrella is in wrightsville beach, north carolina, and jacqui jeras here in the hurricane headquarters. jim, let s start with you. what s the situation there? reporter: good morning. the winds have been blowing like this for hours now. about an hour and a half ago they really picked up a lot. you can see the sea is being blown over the sea walls here, a lot of the low-lying roads along the coastal areas already have water on them. fortunately so far we have yet to see any major damage to structures. reports coming in just within the last hour of widespread power outages across the island, as you may expect, as lines get blown down. so far they have avoided that main blast. just about all of the tourists in the area that could ge
dark studio. but we re going to improve, i promise. the big stories are the u.s. markets. the markets tanked again yesterday. the dow, the nasdaq and s&p were down 4% but good news for stocks futures. premarket trading is all up across the board this morning but remember, futures doesn t mean much until 6:00 a.m. eastern time. let s see how the world s money is doing this morning. andrew stevens is joining us live from hong kong, so tell us something good. i with us going to tell you something good yesterday butcy think i failed you yesterday, carol. there is something good at the moment because wall street may have tanked but europe particularly is up and up pretty healthily at this your hour, between 2% and 3% between europe, germany, and france. that s prosecutor surprising after what we ve seen. as you pointed out, u.s. futures are higher so we do seem to be taking a lead on what the u.s. investors in the market are doing. here the markets finished between flat and 1% d
i wouldn t say nobody. that s not fair. but less than we expected. radio is in good shape. in the last several years, notwithstanding iphone and pandora and all the other things we can listen to, actual a.m./f.m. listening is up. some 242 million people listen to radio each other. a.m./f.m. radio is still good. what seems to be flat lining is this i m right, you re right, i talk you listen radio. and i think it will always be a reliable five share act to use the industry lingo. but what that means is that 95% of listeners are interested in something else. look what we ve seen in recent years with the surging popularity of public radio. whose listeners, many of them baby boomers, disenchanted with a lock on commercial radio have
a quarter of 1%. it s now at a nine-month high. helped by the exporters, of course. the recent weakness in the yen and also by banking and tech stocks. it s been up for two straight days but the currency has been making up some losses. the positive mood spread to the rest of the region and gains were moderate as investors continue to take in a slew of corporate earnings reports. one of the big ones which was around the region in a positive way with you quantas airways. the australian airline. that stock up in sydney by more than 5% of the company said that its first-half earnings more than quadrupled between july and september of last year, profits hitting 242 million, a rise of 315.5%, compared with the same period in 2009. this fell short of expectations though, although investors did take comfort in ceo alan joyce s strong full year earning s