Counterparts. You may have seen this week that the Starbucks Coffee Company Announced a new initiative called race together. In encourages employees to engage in conversations about raise with people buying coffee. You may think this is a good approach, or you may disagree with it. For the first 45 minutes, we want to discuss what this means for Race Relations. If you live in the eastern are central time zone, 202 7488000 is the number four calling in. 202 7488001 if you live in the amount no pacific zone. If you want to post on twitter journal cspan. Org. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or you can send us an email, journal cspan. Org. If you go to the companys website, it you can read the press release and why they are doing it. Race together is what employees have been voluntarily writing on cups this week. If you got a copy of a copy of usa today there was a pullout on Race Relations. It also has a picture of that ceo of starbucks as he was talking to members of his company about
Whether a disaster can still be avoided. Would you sublet your name for an entire year . A bidding war breaks out for the right to one mans name. He is here to explain his bold idea and how he is cashing in. Even when they say its not it is always about money melissa first let egg look at the days market headlines. Concern over the fiscal cliff bleeding into the u. S. Manufacturing sector. Factory activity in november declined for the first time in three months. The news weighted down stocks helping shed 59 points off the dow. The Raw Materials sector hit hard by the contraction in manufacturing. Shares of dupont were the biggest loser closing down 2 . Dell getting golden endorsement from Goldman Sachs today. The Investment Bank upgraded the struggling computermaker saying the stock has been oversold. The dell shares rose by 4 over that news. To our top story tonight, Speaker Boehner and House Republicans are rolling out their fiscal cliff counteroffer to the white house. Includes 800
mcdonald s, taco bell, walgreens, walmart and the big banks support it, but it may be costing those who can least afford it far too much in fees. we start as always with sue at the nyse. hey, sue. hey, ty, good to see you. stocks are off of their highs but we are in the green. here s a look at where we stand right now. the dow jones industrial average up 43 points. the s&p 500 up just about six. the nasdaq up almost 10 and the russell 2000 is up 1.66. start this hour with the great american auto industry. auto sales numbers are coming in today, and so far so good. here s a look at how the stocks are performing. gm is down a quarter of a percent but ford, nissan, toyota and honda all solidly in the green with good percentage moves. phil lebeau is live in chicago with the big numbers for us. hi, phil. very big numbers. in fact, we could see a june sales pace that hit 16 million vehicles, that would be the pace and not the actual sales, first that we see that since december
arican economy. woodruff: then, two takes on the failed fukushima nuclear power plant one year after the earthquake and tsunami. miles o brien reports on the still high radiation levels inside the uninhabitable area. i m wearing this suit not to protect myself against gamma radiation but to ensure that any contamination which i pick up whale i m inside the exclusion zone doesn t stay with me when i leave. suarez: and we have a conversation with an american nuclear technician who was at the site when the earthquake hit. woodruff: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week s news. that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasti
inside the uninhabitable area. i m wearing this suit not to protect myself against gamma radiation but to ensure that any contamination which i pick up whale i m inside the exclusion zone doesn t stay with me when i leave. suarez: and we have a conversation with an american nuclear technician who was at the site when the earthquake hit. woodruff: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week s news. that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. suarez: the jobs numbers for february offered new signs of hope today that the recovery is gaining some tra