Oakland the tax they already have and the 60 cops it helps pay for. Its hard for me to get into the exact numbers but it would be enough that it would make a big difference. Reporter so instead of rolling the dice, city officials are going to ask voters just to reapprove the existing tax and no more which city polls show 77 of the voters support. And the kpix 5 surveyusa poll shows 66 support. Either way, much better odds. Its great news as far as im concerned. Reporter this was a classic case of double down or nothing. Double or nothing they could have doubled the tax or tried to this november, but if the voters said no, they would have been left with nothing and actually even fewer cops. Given that choice, they are just going to have to live with the status quo for this year figuring thats the best they can do. Elizabeth . They got to change something, though. It has to get safer there. All right, phil, thank you. New at 6 00 we are giving you a special look at a Surveillance Video t
Our sense of the profound and. Nduring loss of mandela served for five years as the first black resident of south africa after the African National congress artie help end apartheid in 1994. Guy johnson has more on the mandela legacy. Firstree man takes his steps into a new south africa. From prisoner to president , his 1990 release from jail signaling the end of the racist policy of apartheid. He would go on to become the countrys first truly democratically elected leader. I do hereby promise to be faithful to the republic of south africa. Wasorn to a local chief, he one of 13 children and the first member of his family to attend school. He began opposing the white minority a policy of apartheid, laws that segregated society and made colored South Africans secondclass citizens. Byst, mandela was moved gandhi. More aggressive, so did he. As the head of the armed wing of led ational congress, he violent sabotage attacks and was arrested and tried in 1962. He would spend 27 years in jail
Billion. Tripoint is backed for gary sternlicht. Andrew, good morning. Theres some synergy there, as they say in the merger business. Also, we have some corporate buzz. The New York Times reporting that u. S. Authorities have expanded the probe into jpmorgans hiring practices outside of china across the asian pacific. Theyre focusing on south korea, singapore and india. The d. O. J. Was exploring other areas. We talked a little bit about this. Jpmorgan is the one that actually went to the d. O. J. And started talking about these other hiring practices and now theyve expanded their probe. There they are. Good news, in the i. P. O. Space, october was the busiest month for u. S. Offerings since 2007. 33 companies raised more than 12 billion companies. Finally, a new cnbc Associated Press poll is finding that the social Network Faces skepticism from potential investors and broader publica head of its initial public offering. Kayla is going to join us with more of those details in a minute.
Consolidation of the Beer Industry or at least stories to that effect. Apple reporting the biggest iphone presales ever. Supply problems raising concerns plus new insight into the companys cut of transactions with apple pay. And this friday alibaba now reportedly planning to boost the size of that already enormous public offering. All right. First up when david promises details, people listen. What do we have today . A great deal of talk over the weekend of beer consolidation. We had a story, of course, originally reported by bloomberg that sab approached heineken and said theyre not interested in that approach but this morning another story in the journal quoting a source familiar or close to the situation that there is financing being put together by ab to purchase s. A. B. According to my sources, that is not true. There is no talks with banks at this point. By ab inbev trying to put together any financing for s. A. B. Were no stranger to this story. The first rumors of this kind of
What, if you feel better later, you can read some of my stuff. Tag team. Youll owe me if i read this for you. Why did you do the back of your hand . Oh, you were doing the fist pump. You know why we do that . Germs. You dont care about germs. No, for you. The ecb decision is expected around 7 45 eastern. All these comments are going to be important for mario draghi. Hell host the News Conference about 47 minutes later. You think about what will it do to the euro versus the dollar versus the yen, what about, we always talk about why our tenyear is where it is. Germany, theyre even lower over there. You think about how impactful the recession in europe from a couple years ago and how much it impacted what our fed did here and what our economy does. Its a big trading partner. We may have but for the first time maybe theyd be moving in a different direction. Its important for us. I dont like to give them that much importance. I think our economy, were the strongest. Today for a little whil