15. 7 . Sort of a proxy, this is old data a week older than the other data for the Unemployment Rate looking at the chart you can see it coming down tick by tick but leveling off and well hope it keeps coming down in the weeks ahead. Lets look at the states with most claims. California, 28 , michigan 23 of those who are insured or eligible for Unemployment Insurance getting that insurance there, down to rhode island at 28 . Look at the states with the fewest claims, two stories going on here, one, some states not that hard hit, perhaps nebraska, likely wyoming, but look at the right, florida, again, thats a Big National Story here. The percentage of floridians who are receiving benefits being so small because of their problems with their computer systems, just 5. 2 . Now the fed out with a survey of Household Economic developments and they did a supplement for april just to try to get the recent data. They found 90 of households report either a lost job or reduced hours but 90 on the l
The judge also found that there was clear and convincing evidence of johnsons innocence. After more than 28 years behind bars, he was more than a free man. 49yearold Lamar Johnson had finally been exonerated. Bailiff . Yes, sir. The hearing is adjourned. All rise this time, he would leave the courthouse not in a prison van, but in a black sedan. When i first met you, i asked you to identify yourself. My names Lamar Johnson. Ive been in prison for 26 years now. If i asked you to identify Lamar Johnson right now, what would you say . I am a free man. An exonerated man. And a blessed man. How important was it to have greg elking take the stand and tell the judge what he had done at trial . That was very important. He intentionally, you know, falsely identified me. But not only did he acknowledge that he made a mistake, he took steps to try to correct it and im extremely grateful to him for that. And during that time he spent in prison, he says he never forgot about his friend markus boyd,
Still a lot of time between now and friday at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Weve got a lot to think about this week. Well go to andrew with todays top corporate stories. Good morning. Good morning, becky. We have a number of big corporate stories. Tomorrow gms Ceo Mary Barra is facing a Congressional Panel to try to get to the bottom of the automakers recall crisis. Shell be asked why it took so long for the company to identify and address ignition switch problems. Auto parts maker delphi told investigators gm approved ignition switches for cars that have now been linked to 12 deaths, even though the parts did not appear to meet the companys specifications. And according to a house memo, federal safety regulators decided not to initiate a formal investigation of problems with the ignition switches of chevrolet cobalts and other cars even after investigative groups reported it knew about 29 complaints, four fatal crashes and 14 field reports that showed the problem was preventing air bags fr
Elude people . Why do the talking heads focus fed tapering or even syria when what matters is the recovery in the two regions of the world that used to produce terrific earnings for so Many American companies and thats why the market rallied today. Sure, it helped that maybe there will be no war with syria, but wait a second. This is about international. The dow gaining 141 points about the International Companies in the dow. The nasdaq falling 1. 2 . Nasdaq 100, highest level since november of 2000. Hallelujah lets acknowledge that china and europe are returning, please. Why is that so hard . Weve had so fabulous news out of china excellent stories about target and infrastructure spending. 128 last time and that was like a 10 move. Now on top of all of this, a fantastic chinese export number, 7. 2 growth versus the 6 many were expecting. Just when people had given up on china, and so many other his started to believe that seethrough buildings are the landmark and hallmark of the chine
There, of course, is fever pitched speculation she will be a serious contender for the democratic president ial nomination in 2020. Shes in the middle of the immigration fight that led to the latest he said what nightmare involving this president. Senator Kamala Harris is live tonight in a couple minutes. Youll definitely want to see that. Today at the white house they tried to announce something about the Iran Nuclear Deal. They were trying to announce that President Trump will continue to certify the Iran Nuclear Deal for now but maybe not any more after this. And i say they were trying to announce that because they failed at it. They failed at actually making the announcement. They set up a call for reporters to call in to get this news from the white house on this very serious subject and we actually got a transcript of what happened when reporters called in for this call set up by the white house. Here is is hhow it started. Man speaking mandarin chinese. I am going upstairs to th