In wendy miami. Joining us now is gary a professor at stanford and the coauthor of this book will be no america how americas most dynamic population was poised to transform the politics of the nation. How do you define latino . Anyone that identifies the defendant. This is the population that is defended in the nation. And you said serving. What do you mean by that its based on the work that we do do in that decision on the research that focuses on what he knows. Primarily for political purposes but also for social and advocacy. We interviewed about 80,000 people over the last seven years and we asked them different questions in the government, politics, society, life in the United States, families and health and any topic you can imagine. As the 2010 census it is arrayed around a 17 . Of the population change quickly over time but it should be creeping up in the 20 range. Translate that into numbers. Theres about 55 million latinos in the United States. How many of them are citizens a
Markets. Stocks mixed in premarket, dow looks to make historic thousandpoint gain in the month of february. Warren buffett announcing hes exiting an investment worth more than 3. 5 billion. Yeah. Which one . Well tell you. The ceo of monthdelez, sitting down with sara eisen. Talking about the state of the consumer later this hour. First up futures moving lower after the s p closed wednesdays session at a record high. January ppi fell. 8 showed unexpected decline of. 1 when you take out food and energy. Housing starts came in below forecast, down 2 last month. Markets waiting for the release of the fed minutes. A lot going on. Some of the macro data, jim, worryisome worrisome, singlefamily down 6. 7, the biggest drop since last january. Yeah. I think that these were surprising numbers. When i say surprising numbers i dont think you take action on them because they seem uneven. Housing starts weather. Its cold. Because if you look at housing etf, ever since horton announced that numbers
Must do ex parte. If you cannot do ex parte, you can send out a partially filled out renewal form, et cetera. Those are wonderful policy changes, however, since this data is a brand new application, its brand new data points, were looking at tax filing status and all kinds of data we never used before in eligibility, we dont have that in our current data files. Therefore, we must ask the family for that new data. And, therefore, we cant do ex parte for this first year for those folks. So its another challenge for work processes and the workers. But once we get through that, i think its going to be wonderful. Great. Well, we would now like to open this up to questions from those of you in the audience, those of you watching us on line as well as people who might be sending in a question from twitter. We have them roaming around the room with microphones. Please identify yourself first by name or affiliation. If you have a direction for one of our panelists versus another, please do so a
We have debate and over the course of time are, i think, whats critical. You have already taken steps by moving away from sequestration. That will be helpful to us as well. But again i think that recognizing that we have to manage risk and that we cant prevent every incident, and as long as we are adapting. General . Yes, sir. The federal protective services to the be very brief, very brief. We have to work and weve our way through both state, local, federal, and civilian contractors environments. And we do that with a very small force. Your help in helping us to your support in helping us move through and navigate through some of those areas is critical, quite frankly. Because we are trying to look out and predict, if you will, what is coming down the road to keep our people safe. And we really need the support of folks like yourself and this committee to help us see through that and help us to work through some of these challenges. Brief response, please. We believe that continuing t
Upper hand of a mass of a wildfire that has destroyed a multiple homes and injured more than 10 people. The cloud cover is not as extensive. We are seen drizzle along the coastline. The temperatures are in the 50s and 60s. As we head into the afternoon you can expect partly cloudy skies. As we take a look at the temperatures are richmond is coming in at 55 degrees. Upper 50s out the door in hayward. Satellite and radar shows that a marine layer is more compressed. Were not seen as much and cloud cover. We will see sunshine into the afternoon. Antioch will have a high of 86 degrees. Mid70s for redwood city. The temperatures will start to climb to rob the weekend. In fact we are moving closer to where we should be this time of year. By some that we are talking low 90s. That is a look at your weather around the bay. We are monitoring a potential hot spot. Here is a look at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. This is a problem that does happen on the traffic map. We have a fatal acc