, first lets get headlines from my radio cohost. Facebook reporting after the close of trading reporting revenue beating analyst estimates. Facebook saw mobile Advertising Sales on the Largest Social Network surpassing those of desk top promotions for the first time. Qualcomm also out with its earnings. They reported fiscal First Quarter profits topping estimates. 1. 26it of about . 26 per share. Bernanke in the central bank announcing they will trim monthly bond buying to 65 billion. The dow falling 189 points. Those are the top headlines at this hour. Back to you. Top Technology Headlines facebook, lenovo, and microsoft making news. Lets bring in bloomberg editor atlarge cory johnson. It feels like a triple tech play into one person. Thats because im three times taller. I was not going to mention. Purchasing Motorola Mobility from google . Strange google getting into the business but it was first thought they were largely trying to get the patents. Phones and all of the other fonts u
Art laffer will join us, from whom we will learn the likelihood of the president s success in the analysis tonight. Also the Dow Jones Industrials today breaking a million fiveday losing streak. Posting a near triple digit gain and turning now to our top story. President obama to present his state of the Union Address tonight. The president will address an audience that is expected to be far smaller and far more pessimistic than in years past. A brandnew pool from the wall street journal today finding that two out of three americans now say that the country is stagnant or worse off since president obama took office. 37 say this nation is divided. In 23 described it as trouble. 21 say deteriorating. The Television Audience has been on a steady decline since he first took office. Last year to uninstall the 33 Million Viewers and that is the smallest audience for a state of the union in two decades. His First National address as president was watched by 52 million people. President obama
Martin. Mark strassmann reports. Reporter news helicopter showed George Zimmerman being questioned by Police Outside the home of his wifes parents, minutes after Shellie Zimmerman had called 911. Hes in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and he keeps saying step closer. Hes just threatening all of us. Step closer to what . With his firearm. And hes gonna shoot us. Okay. He punched my dad in the nose, my dad has a mark on his face. I saw his glasses were on the floor. He accosted my father and then took my ipad out of my hand and smashed it and cut it with a pocket knife. I dont know what hes capable of. Im really, really scared. Reporter Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce last week. She and her parents declined to press charges. After mondays confrontation. George zimmerman was not arrested. We, the jury, find George Zimmerman not guilty. Reporter last july, he was acquitted of Second Degree murder for shooting trayvon martin. Zimmerman thought the unarmed teenager loo
Hello, im ray suarez. Americans attitudes about marijuana have changed a lot since the worst days of the drug war. Theyve come to think of the drug as more benign and less dangerous than cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine, but the federal government still classifies marijuana as a narcotic that can lend its users, sellers in jail. Now two states have legalized marijuana for medical and Recreational Use. How can state law, revenue collection, Law Enforcement, be made to mesh with the federal code. Another win for weed. A spot on novembers ballot to determine if marijuana could be used for medicinal purposes. Opponents challenge its language in court. This particular initiative has nothing whatsoever to do with medicine. It is not tightly restricted. It is wide open. It would allow pretty much anybody to use to treat any condition whatsoever. The legislations language spacifies that medical marijuana can only be used in, quote, debilitating diseases like cancer, a. I. D. S. And parkinson
Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. Im john muller. Another brutal cold snap for the upper midwest and rare snow and ice storm for the south. The National Weather Service Shall ared winter storm watches and warnings from virginia all the way down to the gulf coast. Parts of the carolinas could be buried under as much as a half a foot of snow. A rare southern winter storm stretching more than 1200 miles is expected to dump snow and ice from southern virginia into south texas. Folks will be tempted to go out and cruise neighborhoods and want to look for the ice. Dont do it. Enjoy being at home. Stay off the roads. Reporter residents were ordered to stay off the roads in south bend, indiana, to make way for an overnight blitz of know plows. We have a list of areas where the drifts are worse than others and make sure we dont lose those lanes. Reporter many communities are now running out of road salt. Not that its doing much help in these frigid temperatures. A lot of spinouts as the roa