We explore the World Wide Web at twentyfive. Talking about the internet is like talking about whether electricity is good or bad, or oxygen is good or bad. Its just this powerful thing that connects all of us and that has become an invisible part of our lives. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff ukraines embattled woodruff beijing today released this image and two others taken sunday over the South China Sea. It came after another day of fruitless searching. John sparks of independent Television News reports f
The value of spectrum is raising ahead of the incentive auction so for a variety of reasons a number of companies have consolidated and bought stations across the county. Sinclair broadcasting has been aggressive in terms of snatching up the smaller broadcasters. Host how Many Television stations does Sinclair Broadcasting own across the country . Guest i believe something in excess of a hundred stations. They have a number of joint Sales Agreements and they will likely be effected by this. In some cases, they can get waivers if they can prove they are necessary to keep them afloat but in most cases they will have align and hire people or figure out how to go. We may see them sold. Host can Sinclair Broadcasting own an abc and an nbc in the same city . Guest that is against the rules. You can only one one station in the large mack market. You are only allowed to own one out of the abc, nbc, fox, and cbs station in every market. When sinclair made an agreement to buy a number of station
Business. With a deal like this, looks like he was a good learner of all this. Well talk much more about this potential deal in just a few minutes. Immediately people are saying apple never paid for a brand, it was always its own brand. Beats, at first i didnt understand it. It was totally overpriced. My kids both have a couple of pairs. Theyre plastic. I dont know whether the sound is better. I know kids want them. I remember a couple of kids were looking at them. I wonder, are those knockoffs, are there real . Theres a cache around it. Theres the music business. Thats fledgling. Thats what apple really wants. For a couple of years, downloading itunes was growing and growing. Now its down 6 or something, yearoveryear for those tunes. I was amazed that sales of beats is like 1. 2 billion in revenue. I was thinking about that. Everybody who wants a pair has them. But they break. At least the ones my kids have had, that weve had to replace. If you drop them. 3 billion, 1. 2 billion in sa
Several of us noteasseveral of e testimony of the 40 million records 96 of them come from the visa waiver countries or aspiring in which the requirement to populate the database is set. If the country becomes noncompliant what actions would you take . First would be the communication between the Program Office working with the components on hsi to point out the deficit and overtime we havent met the situation yet but there would be the authority of the secretarys office with secretary johnson to take steps to see that that effort was enforced in the law. We havent had this instance happened yet. What would be a realistic amount of time, three months or six months quick because of the importance to the security vetting we wouldnt want that to be an extended period of time. I know everybody seems to be in compliance right now but is there a hurdle to providing the information you hear from the partner nations . With regards to the visa as the chair pointed out at the outset of these are
Budget cuts civic under current law you have problems there is not enough money currently. We will offer amendments on the democratic side to stand up for students and parents. Twothirds of the College Graduates have an average debt of over 29,000. The general consensus is we ought to do more to make college more affordable. I used to be able to see that far. [laughter] just a few years ago. You mentioned in School Subsidies can you explain it . To make under current law if you borrow from the federal government for a student loan the government subsidizes the Interest Payment while you are still in school. The proposal from the fiscal condition would require the student paid the interest cost. So as a student or the parents pay the interest while they are in school . Yes. For the graduate Student Loans the policy was adopted recently maybe two years ago spinet that is an important point for students to be prepared now they have to pick up soloed payment. It was a bipartisan basis a co