Good morning. I am John Friedman and im based in washington dc where the Government Affairs a global apartment shared partnership. Ge is one of the leading technology companies. We have 50000 customers and 130 cussed countries. I dont see him, but i had the honor on tuesday of attending the white house water summit. Peter, marianne, you were there as well and probably others. One of the interesting things i heard was from john, president obamas scientific advisor and he said while members are almost never everything, there almost always a great starting point. I think in your opening remarks where you talk about the state of the nations water challenges you laid out numbers that are very sobering. I will just add to that that the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report giving the countrys water and wastewater of the structure a grade of d. That is worse than my grade of calculus to at the university of virginia. I still dont know why i took that class. I was a history maj
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Bill gates and many others have taken the ice bucket challenge. The chief executive describes how this is a form of movement marketing. All that and more. Lets get headlines from su keenan. , fresh from his appearance Steve Ballmer has resigned from microsoft board. It comes eight months after his the parts are as ceo. Steve ballmer remains microsofts top shelf holder. Home depot with alltime highs. Second quarter profit topped estimates. Itemsses of bigticket helped to drive earnings. Another stock hitting a record high, apple. Investors look ahead to new products. Those may jumpstart revenue growth. Those are the headlines. Unrest ining ferguson, missouri. Police fired teargas at protesters. 31 people were arrested. We are in missouri. Our reporter was there when violence broke out last night. We join them by telephone from st. Louis. Tell us what you saw. The streets of ferguson, missouri looked like a war zone. Like the Foreign Countries where the United States military is operatin
We have full coverage of the stocks and stories making headlines today. Mike mckee looks at the shortage of construction workers. Phil mattingly looks at u. S. role in iraq. And in irbil, troops and into battle militants. First, a breach in the gaza siege fire. Palestinian militants fired rockets earlier today in response, the Israeli Military carried out a series of airstrikes across the gaza strip. Shortly after, benjamin atanyahu ordered negotiators ceasefire talks to return home from cairo. The israeli move, coupled with the outbreak of violence, through ceasefire efforts into jeopardy. An israeli spokesperson said that rockets landed in open areas and did not cause any injuries. Meantime in iraq, Government Forces stepped up their attack against Islamic State militants. The rebels suffered a serious setback, losing control of the countrys largest dam. We went to the dam in mosul today. Irbil. Ith me now in one of the most striking things was a mile from the dam, which is no longer