And dynamic made on the floor of the house of representatives. It was not an amendment i drafted, not an imminent i was familiar with. It came up on the floor of the house in the routine of handling this is of legislature for that day. I supported the measures like that and including that because those issues were important to the people that i represented. My constituents as a state legislator were 38,000 citizens in one county in Southeast Georgia for the first two years i served. The district grew larger than that but that district is a very conservative and a very prolife constituency. I believed it was the obligation of the legislator to vote, listen to and vote the will of the constituency. Those issues were important to my constituents and thats why i supported that full amendment. That amendment came within a few years after and before a tax on doctors who provide abortion services. Would you agreed with me it was a mistake to support that kind of an animate . In light of what
White house considers sanctions against russia. A year later, remembering the lives lost at the Boston Marathon. A survivor tells us why she is returning to boston for the race. Five days in detroit fighting the brain drain, and how young entrepreneurs are helping to bring the city back. We begin with a doixing story from developing story from south korea. A ferry started sinking with more than 330 students and teachers on board. A dramatic scene unfolded as passengers were pulled from the water. It happened 60 miles off the southern tip of south korea. Harry fawcett has the litst from sole. The majority of the passengers on board the vessel were students. 1617yearold students from a suburb south of the capital in seoul, on their way from the port of inion on the west coast, down to the Holiday Island of jeju. We understand there were perhaps 320, perhaps slightly more students and teachers on the school trip. As well as that, perhaps 100 or more passengers. In total we understood the
Week starts following the worst trading week of the year for the dow. Selling persisted friday with the major indicies all giving up ground. Gold rallied 12 dollars. Oil finishedup 41 cents. Violence in egypt caused several Major Companies to shut down businesses there. Among them gm, Royal Dutch Shell and toyota. And deere and company is recalling 7,000 tractorsdue to a faulty rollover system. No injuries have been reported but the company is warning owners to stop using the tractors immediately. The tractors were sold nationwide from february to july. Michael gurka of chicago based spectrum Asset Management is on the show with us this monday morning. Happy monday to you michael. Thank you. We have a lot coming from the fed this week. Fed minutes and the big jackson hole meeting with the fed heads. Will that hold the market in a pattern today . A holding pattern. I dont think it will. Actually i think that the anticipation that this weeks meeting and a lot of the vernacular is going t
Startlingly bad news. Meanwhile, the market marching to new highs even with apples problems. The dow needs to gain just three points for another record. Any positive close for the s p is a record. Right now, were up. 011, as more and more worry is getting into this market that it may be frothy amid a mixed earnings season so far. Is that a reason to think it can keep going, michelle . Also, hotter than the stock market, the Housing Market. In fact, its so hot, the firsttime home buyers are being priced out. And thats a big worry for some in the real estate business. Well have diana here to explain why. Lets take you through the markets now. Its been a bumpy day, i guess i would call it, with the industrials hanging on to a very nice gain, on track for yet another record, up 48. 30 at 15,983. Moving on to the nasdaq, it is down about 10 points, almost 11, at 3,589. 58 ahead of the apple report after the bell that were all watching, and well cover it so closely in the next hour. The s p
Buying the Washington Post newspaper for 250 million. This deal ends the graham familys 80 years of ownership. He calls this acquisition a personal endeavor. Not amazon money hes using, this is his very own. And chairman and ceo don graham talking about this deal. Jeff reached out to me less than a month ago. We met at a Conference Face to face, twice, the second week in july. We spent an hour together. He asked for time to study the numbers, we then spent another two hours together. And at the end of it, he said he thought he wanted to go ahead, but he obviously, he and his team needed time to look over the business and understand it more thoroughly. And then we he did and we quickly reached a deal. Shares of Washington Post climbing to the highest level in almost five years. 588 and change. Almost up 20 on this news. And this is something that were really focused on just because of the journalism and everything. We have to. But the graham family. The graham family, giving it up after