Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Ank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. In orlando, it is a weekend for Memorial Services and funerals for the 49 People Killed in the pulse nightclub last sunday. Today, 19 of the 53 survivors shot by omar mateen remain in the hospital, four of them in critical condition. The f. B. I. , which twice investigated and cleared mateen, has said he was neither trained nor directed by any foreign terrorist organization. But we now know mateen declared his allegiance to isis in facebook postings before his attack and in calls to 911 and a local tv news station during his threehour standoff with
Jobs at a healthy clip for years, but today, just one day before the july employment report is set to be released, there were two setbacks for american workers. Firsttime applications for Unemployment Benefits rose by 3,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 269,000. We also learned today that there was a rise in layoffs last month and tomorrow we may get answers to some pressing economic questions. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter sagging Energy Prices drove layoffs higher in july, a 19 increase over june. Out placement first challenger, gray and christmas says the cuts came from large employers. The big oil companies, conoco phillips, made a big cut this month as well as the Equipment Companies like halliburton continue to cut jobs as they react to the real amount of business that they have got to handle. Reporte despite the setbacks, leading economists still see a labor market healthy enough to support Economic Growth for the rest of the year without the volatility of the last two
Controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone kicked five of viacoms directors, including ceo fa lien de felipe delmon, off the board extending the incredible move over redstones iconic media empire. Shares rallied on the news climbing more than 6 . Viacom issued a statement pointing fingers at red stones daughter sherry saying, this is a brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt by ms. Redstone to gain control of viacom and its management. So how does this one play out . Tom megan, joins us now, welcome, nice to have you. I guess one of the questions is, who do you think actually made this move . Sumner redstone, ms. Redstone, or the board of national amu amuseme am when the story first came out it was billed as a National Amusement board move. Who do you think did it . Im not sure if it matters whether its sumner or daughter sherry at this point. I think that since they have this since they really control National Amusements and the they have 80 control of viacom, again, i think thats whats