Yes, we will talk about Frank Sinatra and whiskey. Headlines from my radio cohost, carol massar. Thank you. The ceo of Sony Entertainment america is the down. Sony says it was a a mutual agreement to not extend his contract. He oversees the Playstation Game console. Pay pensions for 69,000 nonunion employees and an executive. They are shifting benefit payments to a 401 k style plan as it works to cut costs. The changes will take effect january 1, 2016. And these headlines are just crossing that allergens is buying safeway for about 40 per share. Albertsons is owned by cerberus capital. Back over to you. Thanks, carol massar. I want to move into the business of the airline industry. Air canada and others operate in north america and they have had to deal with Winter Weather. Just last month, the airline forecasted a drop in First Quarter profit because of the storms. Also, theres the weaker Canadian Dollar. The president and chief executive officer of air canada joins us now from our to
What is the white house strategy . . Hat are they doing this has been a threat all along and the president is pushing through. The white house has announced the president has imposed visa b ans with certain individuals involved with undermining ukraine. That means they could be applied to both ukrainian individuals as well as russian individuals. We do not have the actual list of people. This follows action by the European Union. 18 were targeted by the European Union. The president has also authorizing additional sanctions against individuals and entities seen as undermining ukraine and ukraines sovereignty. Asset freezes could be some of the things we are talking about in terms of targeting russian banks. The president is moving on his own and at the same time encouraging further economic action, eight deescalation of the crisis. Of thisescalation crisis. What about congress . Are they willing to go further . Of congress, including republicans, are critical of the resident for his ha
Developments at microsoft as the new ceo puts his new Management Team in place, the bestknown manager arguably steve balmer passed hast the baton in terms of the ceo title is speaking out about some of his regrets about microsofts shifts into hardware. We are also getting fresh details from Bloomberg News on what was happening in the board room as steve balmer push to get that nokia deal done. Ari leavy is a Bloomberg News Technology Editor and joins me here in San Francisco with the latest on the story. Ari, lets start with what we are learning about that process of steve balmer pushing for this bigger move into hardware, trying to get a nokia deal done. It sounds like Board Members were not so sure about it. The surprise would be if there was not a lot of debate in the board room about this. A 7 billion deal for a handset maker, for a company that is trying to shift into the next generation of software and devices. They are buying one of the legacy players. A lot of boardroom drama t
Little bit on this friday. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for being with me. Im brooke baldwin. Now we take you to washington. Wolf blitzer. The situation room. Brooke, thanks very much. New plans for ending the war in afghanistan. President obama meets with the afghan President Hamid karzai. The white house looks at the connection between video game and gun violence as battle lines form in the looming fight over gun control. And a new report on the flu. We now have a clearer picture of where this epidemic stands. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Its the longest war in u. S. History and now were learninging new details about how president obama intends to end it for the United States. After meeting with hamid karzai at the white house, the president said the u. S. Will probably be able to speed up, to accelerate plan troop withdraws. Some americans will remain, presumably, their role, though, potentially becoming clearer. Our White House Correspondent Bria
Now . We have some brandnew facts and brandnew figures for you this hour and they are important. In just two hours also the afghan and u. S. President s are going to face reporters after some pretty talk tough some pretty tough talking at the white house. Issue, life after war. And also miss d. C. , stunning, and hoping to win miss america tomorrow night in vegas. Either way, her life is at a major turning point. Shes giving up a piece of her anatomy in hopes that the she will beat Breast Cancer. Breast cancer that she does not even have. Were going to start, though, with the flu. Despite the warnings that were facing an epidemic at this point, the situation across this country may actually be starting to improve. The cdc just releasing brandnew numbers showing that those numbers that have been very high are declining in parts of the country, and maybe its your part of the country. It is still a dangerous situation, though, just look at the map. The widespread activity has now spread t