Might strain storage limits. A strike in the oil patch may be over. The union has less workers and has reached a you with royal dutch shell. The united steelworkers say they are getting paid and health care increases. Federal officials want to know if bill ackman tried to manipulate herbalife stock. The fbi says that he and people working for him are being investigated. He made a billiondollar bet against herbalife shares. Ackman claims that herbalife marketing is effectively a pyramid scheme. Herbalife has lost about half of its value in the past year. Well ask will ackman about this later today right here on Bloomberg Television. And a controversial bill aimed at targeting hackers in congress. A proposal was clear. Prosecutors say they need new weapons to fight cybercrime. Activists say that the bill would give the government too much power. Peter cook asked the Committee Chairman if it would stop corporate hacks. We mightve minimize the loss the cosa response time. We couldve provid
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Television, and journalism. And digital journalism and me, an old reporter, editor, and recently an escaped publishing executive. What we did was we sat around and argued because we did not agree on the same topic. Were all interested in the same topic and that is the digital disruption of the journalism business. Our question was simple what happened . How did we blow it . What could we have done differently . We argued for a while and said we would do an oral history. I think they thought that we were all crazy. But we had googled the topic and found found 77,000 articles on it. That to say we dont need to write 77,001st articles. We decided to target the key institutions and decisionmakers going back 35 years. The original idea was 10 key moments, 20 key people, we will be in and out in a heartbeat. We met a lot of skepticism but we found the godfather in nico melle. We went to and he said, this is a great idea. He showed us a template for which, frankly, we stole from vanity fair.
Out of this as they possibly can by opening up last night, 5 00. When you talk about the doorbuster deals, though, and you talk about the next couple of days, how much this meant or the last couple of days, Retail Federation says about 90 Million People last year or shopped black friday, thanksgiving, representing some 4. 3 of all holiday sales. Theyve been doing it since yesterday. Ashley . Ashley and i can tell by the crowds behind you, are they looking at things, or are they actually buying . I guess thats the key. Reporter they are buying. We talked to one woman who was doing some Holiday Shopping for her kids, and so the toys in her cart were stacked up to about her. And then she came up to about here. [laughter] and she was taking it on the subway too. Ashley she is very, very brave, indeed, braver person than i. Thank you so much for braving the crowds here in the times square area of new york. Lets head out west now to robert gray who is at the target store in carson, californi
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The american prisoner of war had been turned. He was coming home to carry out an attack. Do you believe this . He told me moments before he was executed. He was cooperating at the end. There was no reason for him to lie. You think im that p. O. W. Theres no one else it could be. Claire danes is here. She is the star of homeland. She plays the role of Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but troubled cia officer. Here is a look at the series. Blue is what is available. Green is necessary. It does not make sense. It is not an unreasonable request. My green pen is dry. Is this so hard . I asked for a green pen. She should go to her room. The doctor will be in. She is very focused on the green. The avenues here have methods and patterns and priorities. A single sniper, he never has and he never will. He goes big and he explodes. Slowdown. Slowdown. There may be no threat. That is quite a theory. It is incomplete. He is not even critical. He