Is up nearly 27 this year, which is the best year we have seen since late 1998. We have a big deal today. Talking about the food company, u. S. Foods reached a deal to merge. The total enterprise of the transaction everything included is actually over 8 billion. Up 11. 5 . Back to you. Adam so, deal or no deal. Negotiators in the house and senate work to hammer out a budget deal before the house leaves for recess at the end of the week. Rich edson with the latest. They just got back to work, i thought. Lawmakers are not getting into town until tomorrow, much of it because of the weather. We have been hearing for the last week they have been close. One of the breakthrough is when democrats publicly started telling them they would not blow up the project just to increase or extend longterm Unemployment Benefits. Still, senior aides said they had not reached a top lines been a number. Trying to increase fees in certain areas, government workers but more workers into their pension accounts
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Tonight on nightline, angry in america. A viral rant against gun control thrust him into the national spotlight, and thats just the beginning. Barack obama is definitely an unconstitutional criminal. Tonight, a day in the life of shock jock alex jones. The new facebook. An exclusive look behind the scenes as facebook launches a brandnew feature that might transform the worlds biggest social network. Knitting behind bars. We show you what happens when two retirees head to prison to teach the virtues of needles and yarn. kxan;n;x;x;x x from new york city, this is nightline with cynthia mcfadden. Good evening, im cynthia mcfadden. Tonight we begin with america and its guns, as president obama prepares to announce his sweeping plan to curb gun violence tomorrow, across the country millions have already rushed out to buy a Record Number of new guns. And one man who thinks thats a very good thing, radio shock jock alex jones. He made National Headlines last week with a fiery progun tirade
Closing bell is coming up next, everybody. See you tomorrow. Hi, everybody. We enter the final stretch. Welcome to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo at the new york stock exchange. Hi, bill. How you doing, maria . Im bill griffith. Did facebook overpromise and underdeliver . Now what we know what its big mystery announcement is, investors unimpressed. Stock down on record volume today. This may be the day apple closes behind 500. It will be the first time thats happened in 11 months. Herb greenberg is here on why he thinks he could get worse for apple. And the always colorful senator alan simpson is with us, no bigger advocate of getting americas debt and deficit under control, but does he think the debt ceiling is the leverage that republicans should use to get that done . Hell join us exclusively, and i know youre going to ask him about that. Absolutely. Lets check out the action on the street right here. Heres how things are shaping up with less than an hour to go. The Dow Jones
Rhetoric. Reporter absolutely, michaela, thats right, and the white house reaction to John Boehners lawsuit was swift and harsh with press secretary john ernest calling it a political stunt, a new day for washington dysfunction when its headed for a courthouse. Its a constitutional collision between both ends of pennsylvania avenue. This isnt about me suing the president. What were talking about here are places where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. Reporter House Speaker john boehner made official what hes threatened for weeks, that hes filing a lawsuit against the president saying mr. Obamas executive actions to change the Health Care Law and other federal programs are evidence of a white house thats out of control. Really . Really . For what . Youre going to sue me for doing my job . Reporter just hours before House Republicans revealed their lawsuit bill the president was sharpening up his defense in texas. Ive got a better idea. Do something.