So we begin tonight with a new ruling on the nsa spying controversy. A federal judge ruled at the time legal for the National Security agency to collect socalled metadata from persons cell phone. A week ago another judge ruled it basically violated are rights. John terrett could you tell us . Half us think its a good idea because it keeps us safe, the other half thinks its terrible. And now members of the judiciary. Not just any members of the judiciary, two federal judges, district judges, pretty high up, one in new york, one in washington, d. C, coming to completely different conclusions on basically the same issue. Take a look. In his ruling federal judge William Pauley of new york, connected fragmented and fleeting communications. He said the 9 11 attacks might have been prevented if the phone Data Collection system had existed then to help investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred. He says the governments learned from its mistakes and has adapted to confront a new
Good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Its a tough weekend for those still struggling to find jobs. Emergency jobless benefits, a life line for many of americas unemployed, expire today. About 1. 3 Million People who have been out of work for months are finding themselves cut off. The government check they depend on, a little more than 1,000, will not show up in the mail. The benefits program was introduced in 2008 at the height of the recession. The payouts cost the federal government 225 billion. Extending them for another year at 19 billion, but congress has not done that yet. Tony harris reports. Months ago they lost their jobs. Now they are losing the money they get from the government to get by. Since 2008 congress extented the Compensation Program a dozen times. This time lawmakers let it lapse. This means people who lost their jobs will no lodger have a cushion once state benefits run out. Usually after 26 weeks. With the extensi
Alix steel alongside me as cohost today. Good to have you here with me. Really ignoring some disappointing news we got earlier about retail sales and business inventories up. Offset theenough to rally because we had the time warner table deal. We will get to that in a moment, but first, the stocks we are watching as we get into the close julie hyman is keeping an eye on them. One of the stocks we are keeping an eye on is facebook. Not really any headlines that have spurred the gains today, but what is notable is facebook is trading at a record high. Track thisteresting stock has gone on. Goodyear tire rubber is the best performer in the s p 500 after it came out with its earnings which Beat Estimates even as revenue fell, missing estimates. Goodyear has managed to to boost its bottom line and they are also boosting its relationship with sumitomo of japan. A lot ofdecline concerns about slowing sales growth at the grocery, cutting its forecast for fullyear sales eatingwith competition i
And he will join us live from there starting tomorrow. Theres a lot of big guests lined up. Could be a lot of fun. Earnings central is in full swing today. Among the names that are reporting before the bell, we have dupont, Johnson Johnson, travelers and verizon. Four dow components before the bell even rings. Our newsmaker this morning is duponts ceo coming out want 8 00 eastern time. After the bell, Technology Takes center stage. We will hear from google, Texas Instruments and amd among others. And friday, the 49 mothership and it was good. Revenues above expectations. And also a little beat on the bottom line, but a lot of the different Business Segments doing well. All clicking and stock was up above 22. Comcast traded over 40. I saw that, too. And it makes you wonder if the Dow Jones Industrial average will follow the transports at this point. Why follow those two so closely . Comcast at 51 and 49 owners. Im hearing that dupont is hitting the wires right now, which is inconvenient
Palestinian prisoners paving the way for renewed negotiations that move fulfills a long standing demand and is being called a significant step forward. Yesterday u. S. Secretary of state john kerry said they will restart talks in washington next week. Kerry has been working for months to bring them back to the table after the last attempt at talks fell apart three years ago. Finally a sign of a breakthrough for kerrys shuttled diplomacy. Peace talks between israel and the palestinians will resume after his third meeting this week with palestinian president. Ab agreement with israel seems to have been reached but the details are unclear. So they have courageously recognized that in order for israelis and palestinians to live together side by side in peace and security, they must begin by sitting at the table together in direct talks. Hamas islamists who control the gaza strip have denounce it had plan. We reject kerrys announcement. It also considers the Palestinian Authoritys return to