Fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. Last october brown scored a 156 Million Contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of 5. 10 each. She subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate caterer in atlanta with 11 employees. Did you really think that 11 people were going to do millions of meals . She told me she was experienced with this work and as time got on as time went on that she would be able to hire additional people to scale up. Reporter only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. Fema terminated her contract due to late delivery. Fema should have understood reporter fema picked brown after vetting her, even though she had no experience working largescale disasters. Brown has had five previous government contracts terminated for not delivering required food and her inability to ship products. Ive had challenges in that area, particularly because im so young and being a woman in this world, in the Food Industry
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The knee. Yeah. Reporter and youre running marathons. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. We begin tonight with a correction. That is whats happening in the markets. The dow plunged more than 1,000 points today, or 4. 15 . That puts its dow 10 below the high it hit last month. That is the textbook definition of a correction. Most of the drop came just since friday, nearly 9 . So what is behind this selloff . Here is cbs News Business analyst jill schlesinger. Reporter the last half hour of trading today was brutal. A more than 430point plunge, capping off a terrible day on wall street. It all started last friday, when investors worried that news of higher wages would trigger inflation and prompt the Federal Reserve to increase shortterm Interest Rates faster than expected. Higher rates could lead to slower Economic Growth and make it harder for companies to earn money. And this week, theres been a new concern bigers have been forced to unwind a bet that mark
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