there are also complaints about the health of the food there. one woman stood up and said that ronald mcdonald is the new joe camel and why is the food so unhealthy for children? so it was on wages, it was on health, a lot of different things, a lot of different complaints at that meeting. more on mcdonald s coming up tomorrow on your money, 2:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. a look at an early start on your money this morning. stocks lower across europe. futures here, look, s&p futures up one point. this is after a great day for u.s. stocks yesterday. the dow rose 160. the s&p almost made a new record high. meantime, gm still the stock to watch. shares are down 6% since the ignition switch recall was announced in february, but that doesn t really tell the whole story. gm set aside $1.7 billion to pay for the recall last quarter. that essentially wiped out its profit for the first part of the year. and that money is turning into a stimulus of sorts for dealers. not only is gm paying
served our country, and we ve not just let them down, we ve let them die! reporter: congress is stepping up its investigation of the va, but three va officials scheduled to attend a house veterans affairs committee meeting yesterday morning didn t show up, and later in the afternoon, the va general counsel scrapped a meeting with that committee s chairman, jeff miller, after miller demanded it be open to the press. we waited all day long. we called nine times for them to tell us whether or not they were going to come, and he never came. reporter: all of this while the president s point person on va troubles, rob nabors, traveled to phoenix, the va office where problems first surfaced, to interview the interim director. even as congressional investigators warn the problems we know about now may just be the tip of the iceberg. christine and john? thanks for that, dana. all right, whipping winds and bone-dry terrain giving firefighters all they can handle near sedona, arizona.
attack. as pentagon correspondent barbara starr tells us, it didn t go well. reporter: john, christine, it was last summer at an air force nuclear base in montana when a security group, a small team of air force security experts failed an inspection. it was an exercise, training about what to do if terrorists took over a nuclear missile silo and tried to get to a nuclear weapon on the base. they failed that exercise. now a report has emerged about exactly what happened. i want to read you a couple of examples of what they are talking about. the report says that the personnel failed to take all lawful actions necessary to immediately regain control of nuclear weapons. and as a result of that, the test found that the air force team may not have been able to prevent theft, damage, sabotage, destruction or even detonation of a nuclear weapon.
your monday and pretty decent beach weather down across parts of the southeast. atlanta, you ll see a shower or two on monday, that s it. john, christine, back to you. have a great day. that chad myers, a good man. our thanks to chad. big news from hp. hewlett-packard says it will cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs after previously announcing plans for 34,000 layoffs. the once mighty computer-maker has run into a rough patch as consumers increasingly shift from pcs to mobile devices. the announcement came during an earnings report where an executive says the move will save an additional $1 billion a year. two days of protests against mcdonald s over worker pay not falling entirely on deaf ears. thousands demonstrated outside of the company headquarters in illinois, demanding a wage increase. they want $15 an hour. the ceo, don thompson responded, telling shareholders we respect the fact they want to challenge us relative to wages. we pay fair and competitive wages and provi
democrats are demanding he step down. chief congressional correspondent dana bash. reporter: christina and john, va secretary eric shinseki was summoned to a closed-door meeting on capitol hill yesterday afternoon, not to meet with a republican, but a frustrated democrat. and afterwards, shinseki told reporters that he has not offered the president his resignation. he said you guys know me better than that, but his remaining support is tenuous. do you still think that he should be at the helm? i have not called for general shinseki to resign, although i have to admit, i m getting a little bit closer. the reports that continue to come are appalling. these are men and women who served our country, and we ve not just let them down, we ve let them die! reporter: congress is stepping up its investigation of the va, but three va officials scheduled to attend a house veterans affairs committee meeting yesterday morning didn t show up. and later in the afternoon, the