joy, great players beginning or ending careers. or you may have memories that are ambivalent. mark mcgwire and sammy sosa combining for 136 round trippers in one season. baseball trying to wrap its head around a new normal only very late in the game. today the decisions of the voting members of the baseball writers association of america were announced who among eligible players would be honored with the plaque on the walls of the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown, new york. they are greg maddoux, the winner the cubs and braves fame, and the great chicago white sox greg thomas with 521 career home runs. what to do with the players whose careers are in the shadow of the tainted era? the writers have decided not to decide. barring the gates of cooperstown glory to the most heavily rumored names and allowing players who had reputations for playing clean to emerge from their arcane balloting. reporter: players are voted in by members of the baseball writers association of am
joy, great players beginning or ending careers. or you may have memories that are ambivalent. mark mcgwire and sammy sosa combining for 136 round trippers in one season. baseball trying to wrap its head around a new normal only very late in the game. today the decisions of the voting members of the baseball writers association of america were announced who among eligible players would be honored with the plaque on the walls of the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown, new york. they are greg maddoux, the winner the cubs and braves fame, and the great chicago white sox greg thomas with 521 career home runs. what to do with the players whose careers are in the shadow of the tainted era? the writers have decided not to decide. barring the gates of cooperstown glory to the most heavily rumored names and allowing players who had reputations for playing clean to emerge from their arcane balloting. reporter: players are voted in by members of the baseball writers association of am
overall. let me read to you from the minutes to a majority of participants judge that the participants he was declining even though purchases to continued. what were they worried about in terms of cost-benefit analysis? the minutes go on to say participants were most concerned about the marginal cost of additional asset purchases arising from risks to financial stability. financial stability. in the end, they decided to by $10he tapering million per month. there was a healthy discussion about whether economic conditions were sufficient enough. let me read you more from the minutes other participants preferred a larger reduction. future reductions they would like to see a more deterministic path of the taper going forward. more guidance to the market as to exactly what the pace would be and when the entire thing would be wrapped up. we did not get that at the end of the day. there were other discussions in here about the forward guidance language. there was some discuss
consumer inflation missed estimates. europe, you can see, is in the green. the question everybody s talking about today, is the stock market rigged? we ll go behind the explosive headline, bring you some answers. plus, it is the final trading day of the first quarter. so far this year, one exchange has performed a lot worse than the others. i bet you know which one it is. and things keep looking worse for general motors, ahead of ceo s mary barra s testimony on capitol hill this week. why did it take federal regulators and gm over a decade to order the recall? we ll try to get answers. first up, a comment causing a lot of buzz today. best selling author michael lewis with harsh words about the stock market last night on 60 minutes take a listen. the stock market s rigged. the united states stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism is rigged by whom. a combination the stock exchanges, the big wall street banks and high frequency traders. big, impo
and is it happening where you live? tigers versus giants. it s happening tonight. we ll talk to two of their former pitching greats. jack morris, i love him. tropical storm watches up for the southeast coast of florida and maybe impacts across the entire east coast. forecast coming up. newsroom starts right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new revelations that could cast a large shadow on the presidential race 13 days before the election. they involve the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya and new questions about what the white house knew and when it knew it. as you might remember, the obama administration has been under fire for being slow to label the military-like siege an act of terrorism. four americans died in that attack, including the u.s. ambassador to libya, christopher stevens. here s the latest. cnn has obtained government e-mails showing that just two hours just two hours after the a