Good evening, everyone. President obama taking a strong stand today on an open and free internet. He called for strict new rules that would regulate the internet and web access as if it were a public utility like electricity or water. Specifically the president is asking the federal Communications Commission to reclassify web access to prevent cable and Telephone Companies from providing special access to some content providers. Cable Company Stocks sold off sharply on news of president obamas proposal. Time warner cable tumbling 5 . Comcast the parent of cnbc, which produces this broadcast, down 4 . Charter communications was the hardest hit, off more than 6 . And cablevision lost about 1 1 2 . Eamon jaggers has more on the president s call for neutrali neutrality. The president has gone farther today than he has before in the Net Neutrality debate. Whether or not Internet Service providers can charge different speeds or speed up or slow down service to particular websites based on wh
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It is an exclusive you wont see anywhere but on cnbc. As you were saying a positive month but ending with losses with the dow and s p 500 down for the third time in four days now. The nasdaq down for a fourth straight session. It is currently off by over 1 . The major averages up however, for the month of april. Having their biggest drops today, though since april 17th which is approximately two weeks ago. Check out oil, though having its best monthly gain in six years. Crude is up more than 24 over that period. Bertha coombs is at the nasdaq jackie deangeles at s p. Bob, is there something more to this . I think the problem is we have continuing concerns about the inability to get earnings up significantly. Were flat but not moving up very much. I think we would have ended april last week because youre right, we havent had any energy at all this week. Look at the s p 500. Were to the downside and moving sideways and were at the lows for the week. Really were having a lousy week overal
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Some medication on something because he had surgery or something. Reporter wayne whiteys still waiting to hear the facts about a friend he knows as blue. Police say minutes later at stenton and ogontz, two other office are opened fire on the suspect. Detective say that he kept driving and made to it colonial street where he parked the the car got out and then collapsed near these stairs. He was just laying there. Reporter margarita rodolph lives across the street from where the man collapsed. When she ran outside other neighbors told her what happened. I think it is always about the the cops. I really company. Reporter couple of other neighbors who didnt want to be on camera told us that they recognized the suspect. They say he had been in the area for a while. He did not seem to cause any problems in the past but one friend that i spoke to insist that he has a medical problem obviously, we will continue to follow this story to find out more about that suspect. We are live on colonial,