Now the musician is back with his 500yearold descrad anniversary yus. He stradivarius. He joins us tonight. Lego art. What incredible art one man is creating from these little plastic boxes. A lot to get to tonight. Breaking news out of tennessee. The historic vote whether or not to unions the volkswagen plant in chattanooga. Jonathan what can you tell us . John i can tell you the uaw is disappointed and pretty surprised. All week we talked with uaw officials, we have a solid number of workers who want a union at the plant. Obviously at the plant the totals dont reflect that. 53 of the workers voted against union representation. The uaw has lost influence, sheer numbers. They were hoping to finally finally get a foothold at a foreign auto maker in the south after so many years of being unsuccessful. They seemingly had a good shot at doing it. They had an unlikely ally, which was volkswagen. Volkswagen was allowing them to come into the plant, talk to the workers, and volkswagen wasnt o
A short week as well. Actually tuesday. Julie hyman keeping and i on us keeping an eye on things for us. Forest labs is the first victory we want to look at today because it is being acquired by activists, an irish drugmaker adding to the portfolio of branded drugs. Genericmerrily at drugmaker until the acquisition. 29 . T this is a cash and stock transaction. Ooking at Cocacola Cocacola shares are lower today. Volume only of one percent. This is taking its toll in terms of coach numbers. Tesla shares are trading at a record. The head of apple meet met with elon musk talking about potential partnership. Enough to send tesla shares to a new record. Not a lot happening as far as the broader indexes today. One of the reasons i am laid back, not just because of the short week, but because we made up all of the losses. I am matt miller filling in the s p, all of the losses for this year. Started out to be horrible. For adam but does not mean we cannot have inside and action. We have the bes
Not by as much as the company had indicated it could have. Its the first hike since the service was introduced. A lot happening in the Retail Sector today. Data showing a slight increase in february sales. Results from Dollar General and jcpenney relaunching its home goods department. And some new information in the gm ignition switch recall. The automaker now telling affected owners not to weigh down their key rings with anything more than the car key and key fob. Well talk more about that. First up, though, amazon is raising the price of its prime Subscription Service to 99 up from 79. The first increase sense the service was introduced nine years ago. Prime offers free twoday shipping and access to thousands of streaming movies and tv shows. Amazon said those who sign up for prime in the next seven days can lock in the 79 rate. Nice to be grandfathered if you act quickly. The big question, though, is and you, david, know this company pretty well by now i do. How much do people exit
With us, a friend of the show. Guys russias stock market took a big hit and so did its currency. A tough start for the ruble. Richard, basically the obama betting booten got a taftaste o whats to come. Maybe the market will do what i dont think the market as such. I think the external pressure will give pause for thought, but heres the point. The president president putin knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew exactly what the reaction would be. The best form of pressure will come, yes, with the market. Yes, with threats to the russian economy, but when russian olegogues, when they say youre causing us trouble and were now worried. Incredible. People saying when the stock market got hit in russia, how could putin keep Going Forward when hes hurting, maybe himself. Especially hes worth less today, i would bet than he was last week. Ken, let me ask you this. So american investors dont seem to be concerned about russia. American investors dont seem to be worried about slow jobs growt
If you think building with dna is only for mother nature, think again. Scientists have big ideas. Good sunday and a happy mothers day to you. So much to get to. We start with the search for nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in nigeria this week. Two Army Divisions were deployed to the northern border region in the hunt for the girls and the men who took them. International resources are on the ground to provide assistance. Stephanie gox is live for us today in cameroons capital city. First of all, what more do we know about the International Effort there . Reporter the Nigerian Government has said little about the operation. The United States is involved. The uk, france, china. Now we are hearing israel may get involved in assisting. Those efforts are really based on assisting the intelligence effort. The boots on the ground are coming from the nigerian military. The fact they announced they were moving two battalions is the first we have heard details specifically. They have flown some