the market shifts. i get an alert. thank you. live streaming audio. advanced charts. look at that. all right here. wherever here happens to be. mobile trading from td ameritrade. number one in online equity trades. trade commission-free for 30 days, plus get up to $500 when you open an account. from america s news headquarters, i m ainsley earhardt. senate democrats set to bring president obama s jobs bill to the floor for a test bill on tuesday. they have tweaked the original measure, offsetting most of the $447 billion cost with a new tax on millionaires. they might break the legislation into several parts. republicans and some democrats say the job its might generate don t justify more deficit
times for people who aren t rich players or owners. take san antonio. the spurs are the only major pro sports team. some 4,000 people depend on them for a living. and then cities like sacramento, orlando, portland, salt lake city, the nba is the only major pro sport in that town. we ll see the economic impact there for sure in those cities. so, let s talk more about this with mike pesca from mpr. mike, it s a complicated money dispute, no doubt. what is the main sticking point at 9:01 eastern time on this tuesday? money. lots and lots of money. the players get 57% of all basketball relate under come and the owners get 43% and the owners are saying just not a high enough percent for us to have this be a viable business. inowners are saying 22 of the 30 teams don t make a profit. they re willing or at least publicly saying they re willing to blow up this system. nba players are very well paid. the best in professional sports in the world. their average salary is between $5 mi
researchers believe you may be doing yourself more harm than good. it is tuesday, october 11th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live from new york. president obama s $447 billion jobs bill faces its first vote in the senate later today. in a warning to republican critics, the president s senior campaign strategist says that voting against the measure could cost them the election. next year in a member row release the by the obama campaign david axelrod wrote the more people know about the american jobs act, the more they want congress to pass the plan. axelrod also takes aim at critics of the bill s millionaires tax quoting while republicans claim it is class warfare, the american people are seeing right through their opposition to asking the wealthiest to do their part. some democrats have doubts and while they control the senate there is no guarantee the bill will get the 60 votes needed to clear tonight s procedural hurdle. the occupy
charged with trying to blow up an american airlines plane with explosives hidden in his underwear. he s acting as his own attorney. violence between egypt s christians and muslims may lead to new legal protection for religious minorities. a group described as thugs attacked christian protestors. that happened on sunday. at least 25 people were killed after the army and police got into the mix. well, egypt s prime minister says he s going to push a law that is making religious discrimination a crime. but experts say there is only so much that he can do during military rule. the problem, john, is we ve got 24 men, that s the supreme council of the armed forces. they re like the wizard of oz. they re behind a curtain. they re ruling egypt without any responsibility. so they have the power and no responsibility, and then you have this prime minister, a decent man, who has the responsibility but he s got no power. egypt has set parliamentary elections for november 28, and a
out front a major terror plot on u.s. soil foiled. a senior administration official tells me this was international murder for hire. here s what we ve been told. two men charged in an alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the united states. one is a naturalized u.s. citizen in custody and identified as 56-year-old mondaysor ar bab si ar. he appeared in a courthouse this afternoon. he did not enter a plea. according to the complaint that we read, he planned for someone to kill the saudi arabian ambassador at one of his favorite restaurants in washington, d.c. he told an informant that mass casualties didn t matter, saying, if the hundred go with him, expletive, them. the plot itself is a work of intrigue. it began this spring when he met in mexico with a d.e.a. informant posing as a member of a violent drug cartel. over the next few months, he got the informant to agree to assassinate the ambassador for a fee o$1.5 million. he also wanted an attack on t