Rooted in something more basic. He was my First American president. My family and i arrived in america november 11, 1948. A week after he narrowly beat his opponent in 1948. That was some time ago. In fact, i tell my students now that i went to college about halfway between the invention of the ipad in the discovery of fire. [laughter] ms. Albright so, it was much later when i became secretary of state and the question arose as to where to hold a particular ceremony. The event was to mark naitos s decision too include . I cannot think of a more appropriate place than the truman president ial library in independence, missouri, a place devoted to the man whose vision is responsible for nato. As i stood there, i was so excited that i cannot help to use in old czechoslovakia expression, hallelujah. [laughter] ms. Albright i was equally excited to hold a ceremony in washington to formally rename this building in honor of president truman. In 2002, i was honored to be asked to serve this fou
When the options are done, everyone is done. Ready for christmas. Traffic in new york have settled down. James steelewhen will join us, we will talk to him about cold links to other commodities. Larry summers with a terrific blog, i will feature that as my morning mustread. Guy he is pretty concerned about what the fed is up to. Think you very much. What a show we have lined up. If youre sitting at home, maybe wrapping a few presents, this is the show to watch. Tom i havent started shopping, yet. Guy is that why it is so quiet over there, i think you will have an easy run of that. Vonnie i know youre both joking, you just dont want to tell me what you got me. The highranking officer asked that it will take some time for the iraqi forces to retake ramadi. They are in a battle in the center of the city. The capital was seized by the Islamic State last may. Accusing russia of killing hundreds of civilians in syria. They have conducted airstrikes since late sip timber. They say that russia
These tracks very similar to past hurricanes and even though they made landfall in the mid atlantic they still impacted the delaware valley. So as we continue to watch this storm, were watching latest track this is the 5 00 oclock update from the National Hurricane center. It brings the storm toward the north northwest as category three storm by saturday. That has a 115mile an hour wind. Then by the time we make it into sunday, somewhere along the outerbanks, remember, this is the cone of uncertainty, but this is 2 00 oclock sunday afternoon and then it drives it up the Chesapeake Bay this is by monday afternoon. Now we continue to see this northwesterly track pulling it further and further to the west. And that means by the time we get to the weekend, that mid atlantic landfall looks a little bit more likely at this point. That still means rain and heavy winds for us. Well continue to keep you updated. We have around of heavy rain before this storm even gets close. Well talk more abou
U. S. And iran over when sanctions will be lifting following a landmark nuclear deal but they send a delegation to china to discuss oil supplies. Samsung shares are lower despite the most promising in a year. This as they prepare to release the latest smartphone. Good morning, everyone. Lets just kick you off with some euro zone data. Final pmi we have the composite and services data. It came in at 54. 2 versus forecast of 54. 3. So just a touch below expectations but it is a raise for the Services Component from the month of february when we saw 53. 7. Now the march composite pmi and it was at 54. 1. So both with the composite and the services. A slight miss but its still an improvement from the month of february. Lets get instant reaction from david owen. Good morning to you. Hope you had a very good easter break. Yes, indeed. Fantastic. You are feeling equally upbeat about the euro zone economy arent you . Data points on the manufacturing side and Service Sector side that are much b
These are the goals that the secretary announced. Really focus on the dark circle on the page. The dark circle is the percentage of medicare fee for Service Payments in the alternative payment models. In 2011, they were zero. No medicare payments in the model. In 2014, at the end of 2014, about 20 of the 362 billion of the medicare feeforService Payments, excluding Medicare Advantage. But the numbers are similar. 20 were alternative payment models. The goal is by the end of 2016 30 of the feeforService Payments will be in the new alternative payment models that work and 50 by the end of 2018. So this is the first time in the history of the Medicare Program that we have set Broad National goals, and what is critical to understand is its not just a medicare project. This past wednesday at the white house, you may have seen president obama picked up something called off something called for health care learning Action Network where we have convened a commercial payers medicare organizatio