Tom keene in new york. At g7 will focus be china. Tom the president with those comments. What i find remarkable is how all of these leaders seem to be speaking to their homes, but it is not a g7 meeting but it is people talking to america, to canada, etc. Francine especially japan where you see shinzo abe trying to get out of the increase. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra starting with the g7, angola merkel does not have much support when it comes to austerity. The debate over stimulus versus belttightening has shifted. Canadas new Prime Minister had shifted his countrys focus to Infrastructure Spending and cash. David cameron joins markel as a champion of fiscal restraint. Just a few minutes from now, president obama holds a News Conference at the summit. In france, strikes at Oil Refineries may spread today. Workers at six of eight refineries have walked out. The strike is protesting the president s proposed labor reforms that makes it easier to fire employee
Released. It is a made in america attack. A closing line made in china who attacks china. Our Political Panel zeros an all the chatter about this word intervention. We are getting to that in a minute. They are out after the bell. We have a record setting driver who made it all the way across country using the autopilot features. How does he feel now. We will ask is he still on board with the tesla ride. Look at the dow up just four points. The worst in five years we will know at this hour. The big focus for this hour just two points. Looking to snap it sevenday losing streak. Could it be the eighth day. It is a eight consecutive loss. Its the largest losing streak in five years. This matters because walmart is a course a stock. It is down half a to 72. The discount giant is in talks to buy that 3 billion they Just Launched last year. At such a new company. But walmart is clearly showing is a little desperate to take on the ecommerce. Not getting what they expected. One of the biggest t
The most frightening part tonight is these teenagers have done more damage and we may not know the final tally. Jason valentine is live at one of the crime scenes near 98th and lower buckeye. What do we need to know about this . Reporter first of all, 217 yearolds arrested and police say they could be responsible for even more robberies but in this case, one of the teenagers they say state in the car. He was the getaway driver in the parking lot. The other 17yearold ran into that we have a look at the surveillance video. That thing on his head is a mexican wrestling mask. The suspect shoots at the counter. Now watch the bullet slam into the phone and then coins go flying as he rips the cash from the employee leaving everybody, customers included, traumatized. We heard the gunshots. It affected me a lot. I lost it. Reporter now nine minutes later, Phoenix Police say the same suspect, now wearing a clown mask runs into a Dominos Pizza store, still has begun and does the exact same thing.
Era in the United States from the 19th century the United States has a spoiled system or patronage system in which every office of the federal government all the way down to the local postmaster was allocated on the basis of political patronage dividend to somebody as a reward for Political Support by a member of congress or representative or whatnot. This system was ended beginning in the et nates as the result of a Grassroots Movement where that grandmothers would get access to that they are a fourth class postmaster. It was the assassination of James Garfield in 1882 at the hands of a wouldbe Office Seeker that finally embarrassed to the congress into passing something known as the pendleton act in 1883 that set up the First Civil Service commission and its not going to be done on the basis of the Civil Service exam and so forth and to serve as an example of democracy fixing itself. Listening to you this very exciting. rightparen he commented you were saying that iraq was the bigges
Living in my city. We need to go after violent crime. Reporter it was the final showdown between the top five contenders in tuesdays oakland mayoral race. And they wasted no time in bringing it on or taking each other on for that matter. Libby said would you hire a doctor who didnt know how to operate . My question to you is, would you continue to hire a doctor to do surgery when they failed in the past . I really am the only person up here who has worked in every neighborhood in this city. Reporter but even as the candidates worked the room, the ballots in the election were already coming in at the Registrars Office where they were being sorted and test run for what will likely be a very long and complicated count. For a final tally, its probably going to take into the following week. Reporter the reason for the delay is rank Choice Voting which allows every voter to make three picks, tabulating all those extra votes taking extra time. In fact, nearly as much time as it takes explaini