Manufacturing coming up. A lot of earnings. Janet yellen is expected to testify before the Banking Committee today. She gets a snow day every once in a while. Lets get a data check. Futures were up, now they are down. Go right on to the next screen. These are the currency markets. Yen abruptly moved on the crimean is. Crimea news. Ukraine currency is out of control. Shows anruble so injection as well. I am watching the japanese yen. Strongerews flow, a yen. That is the place to go. Buy it and sell everything else. We are still not below the 101 level. I would say, right now, it is the rate of change. The direction and the speed in which were moving. The russian flag above parliament south of kiev in crimea, that is something i will say in the last two or three hours. Here is scarlet fu with our front page. Across thestory internet is violence in the ukraine shifting to crimea. Gunmen took over parliament and other government buildings overnight, they raised the russian flag. About 120
Kids, high school, college age kids and i have taken to giving them some advice maybe is a little depressing to them but i say, look, i, like you, have seen a lot of pain and a lot of bad things and i know that life is cruel and short and bad things happen to good people. So i say to these young people, look, you need to do the things youre doing, whats next . How do i get into this school . How do i get into this job . Sometimes you need to turn the telescope around and in your mind look at yourself from the end, so youre an old man or old woman, god willing, and you look back and ask yourself this question, who do i want to have been . What do i want to have been . I think the answer will be, this is what you want to have been, right . You dont want to have been somebody with a great boat or a great house or a fancy car. I think you want want to be somy who has been part of protecting the innocent, rescuing children, doing all things thaw do. Turn that around to try and guide those c
Works and beyonce is going to get you to read barbara great. I think that comes back to i think what kind of society do we want to be, what kind of community do we want to create, what is the idea of america in 2014. Are we ok with 42 million women living on the brink and the 28 million children being brought up in that kind of stress . Is that something were comfortable with . There is so much gg on on the local level and so many states and marries doing innovative inspiring things. You come here, i live in california but everybody is kind of cynical like nothing is going to get done out there. What is going to happen is if we do something, manage is going to happen. Weve seen incredible examples of it. Everybody said nothing would change in the military and would you women come forward and tell their stories and they put a human face on the issue and there is change. The young girls that came up today and talked about what its like to be poor, talked about their shame, what it is lik
Not living at the mercy of tips. Ers [applause] stagease welcome to the our guests. [applause] hi everybody. We have heard from a movement leader, activists, and organizer. Before that, we heard from a senator. Those were conversations about policies. The idea is to bring it back to the ground level. Speak to some of the individual people who might be affected by some of these changes. Ho can tell us our stories what it is like to be an individual human being. A young woman living life in america today. Hopefully that will be a valuable perspective. This is a lie fed session life ed session. Kelsey come and from the leadership project in new york. We will hopefully have a bit of a conversation roundrobin style. We will start with the question of what challenges have you gone through . We will start with you, gracie. One of the biggest struggles i have had to overcome has been my financial situation with my mother. She is a single mother. My father left around 2006. It has been pretty r
Awareness on how cspan covers politics and government with our Public Affairs program. 20 years later, the cspan bus continues on the road, on the campaign trail, and visiting history events, education conferences, and schools. Look for us on the road and online. You can also follow us on twitter. All brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. This winter, University Students will get a chance to join us as we hit the road for the big 12 conference tour. Secretary of state john kerry spoke today about u. S. Diplomatic efforts around the world. He talked about political unrest in ukraine, the geneva ii meeting in iran, and reports of torture in syria. Annualnomic forum is an meeting of leaders in politics and business. It runs about 40 minutes. Good evening. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Back,have to say welcome because you joined us first time 21 years ago. And you have been part of many of our activities. It is really becoming a good old friend. , in all they discussions we had ove