Weakness in asia but again it looks like germany and france are turning things around at this point. Okay. Well talk about ebola this morning. The first case of a person contracting ebola on u. S. Soil has been confirmed. A Health Care Worker treating Thomas Eric Duncan who died last week contracted the deadly disease. We are joined this morning from dallas by meg tirrell. Meg . Reporter thats right. Good morning. This Health Care Worker was taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan. On friday she started to feel ill, went to the hospital to be assessed on saturday and tested positive. Yesterday the cdc confirmed it was ebola. Now we know that as of yesterday her condition was stable. One of her contacts has been proactively placed into isolation. The cdc director tom frieden said it is unknown exactly how the Health Care Worker was exposed. We dont know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. But at some point there was a breach of protocol and that bre
On sale. It says 62 of buyers purchased the less expensive sport model which started 349. Weve been talking to analysts in the last half hour about all of this. We may get numbers from apple themselves. In global news, chinas exports charge dropping a larger than expected last month. Stocks in china rallied today as the weak data added to expectations that the government will unveil more stimulus moves and speaking of china the world bank is trimming its growth forecast for the developing east asia citing a continued chinese slowdown. Activist Investor Jana Partners is urging qualcom to consider a break up. Jana wants the company to look at spinning off its chip unit from its patent licensing business. Jana is one of qualcoms largest shareholders. And symantec has been looking for buyers for its Storage Software business. Reuters says an interest from an potential enquirer has been limited because of a tax burden associated with splitting company. U. P. S. Plans to invest more than a b
Covering the games will be covering that. Well go to kayla with some of the top stories. Dangerous element six weeks before the winter games are set to begin. Elsewhere in corporate america, apple is just saying no. The company urging shareholders to vote against carl icahns 50 billion stock buy back proposal. No word yet from the billionaire investor. Apple releasing details of tim can cooks pay. He took home 4. 25 million which is on par with what he made a year ago. He gave up 7100 shares tied to an annual performance award. That was based on august 2012 to 2013. The stock in that time lost a quarter of its value. Those options set to vest worth just about 4 million. So a drop in the bucket for tim cook but, nonetheless, there are some repercussions for the apple stock price. To anyone else thats money but chump change. He m us must have had a big payoff. 2004. Two waves, five years and ten years. He actually asked the board himself, can these vest on an annual basis equally and tha
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