Is stranded. The polar star was in the region for another mission. Former First Lady Barbara Bush was released from the hospital this morning. Doctors say she is doing well. Houston Methodist Hospital had been treated the 88yearold since monday for pneumonia. She praised the hospital staff saying, quote, i got the best treatment and got back to george and our dogs as quickly as possible. Those are the headlines tonight. I am jonathan betz. Stay with us. Real money with ali velshi is next. You can always find us online. Just go to aljazeera. Com. The rise and the Housing Market is starting to cool off, and thats a good thing. We will explain. Plus, have you heard of that online currency called bitcoin . Its not the only game in town. And somebody is getting a big payoff, well show you who is getting a big payoff off the ncaa. Ienl David Shuster in for ali velshi and this is real money. This is real money and you are the most important part of the show so join our live conversation for t
Next half hour aj realmoney. In december Consumer Confidence surged close to where it stood before the government shownd in october. That episode of washington dysfunction helped to drop the conversation boards low in november. Consumer spending accounts for growth. In addition to a stronger job market and an incredible year for stocks Many Americans are feeling more confident and wealthier because of the rebound in home values. Home prices for 20 cities tracked by the s p case shiller index jumped compared to the year earlier. Thats the biggest jump in eight years. Thats a cautionary note. Cooling off just a bit. Prices rose just 2 10th of a percent. S ps David Blitzer said, we are living on borrowed time and the boom is fading. The question is kment where does the Real Estate Market go from here . Zillow forecast that u. S. Home prices will increase 3 in 2014. To put that in context, zillow said prices went up when 7 in november. 30 year Mortgage Rates rising to 5 by the end of the y
Thats fair but republicans dont automatically assume the only way to people help people is with another Government Program and republicans circa dont agree with this particulaparticula r Government Program is a good thing. Again its hugely expensive. Its very bureaucratic. Even trying to get people to sign up for it they have had three years to come up with a system to enroll people and it is not working. Even the democrats admit that so in terms of the republican alternative we had a republican alternative when this bill was being debated here it i helped put together. It covered the existing conditions. It did it through the creation of a secondary market on a statebystate basis where you created a highrisk pool and you had state and federal subsidies for that risk pool for people that had a preexisting condition and couldnt get Health Insurance in the private marketplace. And the idea of keeping children on their parents Health Insurance until they reached 25 or 26 was and is a repu
Copper Communications Network and significant plans to deploy new fiber infrastructure how will the new Fiber Networks handle natural disasters like hurricanes . We know that the copper continue to operate but what happens now with the new Fiber Networks and you know dealing with that issue . How are you going to deal with them . There is unfortunately no Ip Technology congressman that allows you to power the line. You cannot put power over a fiber connection. Fiber has many other advantages in addition to its internet capacity and one of them i think is relevant in a hurricane or a flood zone or a sandy type situation is that seawater will destroy copper and make it unrepairable. Fiber is very resilient in that type of situation frank desoer our wireless networks. We get them up and running quickly after these storms and i say that knock on wood because we are still in hurricane system. Again i think that we all agree that these community should not lose services they rely on simply b
Khodorkovsky is going to spend time with his mother as well as wife and children. He requested a release from putin, who granted it yesterday. He was pleased to be released in time for christmas but insist he did not admit guilt to corruption charges. Jessica is standing by in berlin. What role did germany play in the release . Publicly acknowledged he owes a lot of. The extra men foreign minister has been working for months to try to secure the release. He is the man who organized a private lane that flew him today. He has been an agreement with to try to government secure her release. He has been working with his lawyer, and he asked putin that khodorkovsky be released on humanitarian reasons because his mother was very ill. The news of his release was met positively by german chancellor angela merkel. , and germany news will try to engage with rush on further human rights issues. On human rights issues. He will be in a hotel for the next few days, where he will be reunited with his