Wall street hasnt seen a down day like this for months. Investors sold stocks and bought bonds. They also put money into gold, a socalled safe haven. Lets get into the closing numbers for this thursday. The industrial average plunged 274 points to 21750. Nasdaq tumbled 123. And the s p 500 was off by 38. It wasnt just one reason for the sell washington uncertainty contributed, so did some weak earnings reports. And the losses intensified midday on news of a deadly terror attack in the heart of ba we watched the selloff today from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Are the markets in trouble . Well, not yet. But theres some cracks. We seen something in the last two weeks we havent seen in some time. A selloff last week and another one this w starting to do so they broke below a key level with almost half of all nyse stocks. Whats causing this . Several events have come together. First, theres leadership doubts about President Donald Trump starting to emerge. The markets drifted l
This is on the kmoney, your money, your life, your future. Now, becky quick. We begin with a story of courage. Jonathan silversteen spent time creating new drugs to cure Rare Diseases this weeks cover story is race for a cure making smart bets on potential new medicines is how Health Care Venture capitalist built a 20 year career the stakes just got a lot more personal. It wasnt until i saw a Movement Specialist i had a slight tremor in my left leg that he was able to put it together and say these are symptoms of park insons disease. He has a genetic form of the disease, like for other forms of parkinsons there are no drugs approved to cure it or slow its course jonathan and his wife natalie decided to take action. Given the fact that jonathan works in this space, were sort of uniquely positioned to potentially make a difference. They foundeded silverstein foundation. I sent out 1,000 letters to venture capitalists and ceos and hospitals and Research Labs and they came back with litera
Silverstein had lifechanging news that set him on a new course. Reporter making smart bets on potential new medicine is how this Venture Capitalist built a 20year career. The stakes got a lot more personal. It wasnt until i saw a specialist when i noticed i had a slight tremor in my left leg that he was able to put it all together and say these are all symptoms of parkinsons disease. Diagnosed at age 49, he discovered he has a genetic form of parkinsons disease. There are no drugs approved to cure it or even slow its course. So jonathan and his wife natalie decided to take action. Given the fact that jonathan works in this space, we are uniquely positioned to potentially make a difference. Reporter they founded the Silverstein Foundation with 10 million of their own money. I sent out a thousand letters to Venture Capitalists, ceos, to hospitals, research labs. They came back with literally dozens of ideas. Reporter hes been traveling the world, meeting with researchers and donating blo
Marc lamont hill is at Temple University. His books include nobody, casualties americas war on the vulnerable from bergersen to plant and beyond and except for palestine, the limits of progressive politics. He also owns uncle bobbys coffee and books and is a founding director of the Peoples Education center. A Nonprofit Organization devoted to community education. Todd brewster is the coauthor of the number one bestseller the century. Their other work includes the book lincolns gamble and in search of america but he also taughty journalism at Temple University was a knight fellow at Yale Law School and was the founding director of the center for oral history at west point. He is also the executive producer of the documentary in harms way. In their new book seen and unseen the authors examined the uniqueness of this moment in the overall history of the Civil Rights Movement in the united states. Joining them in conversation this evening is award winner, awardwinning broadcaster and jour
Analyze our political situation and hopefully leave here with a better outlook for tomorrow. Sfwroo to have such a well of experience in this struggle is not the elders of our movement. Of our party. When i was asked to give a speech honoring our elders, i was fearful of being someone who would come up with some things of the past and give a tone of the passing archaic, unmoving, and gone. Basically i was afraid i would get up hire and give something of a eulogy. Thing is, this had is not a funeral. And the elders who are with us today in this room and with us in spirit and their local place of residency are still very much alive and fighting and wonderful resource of knowledge of things we are that things the party we need to know and be reminded of in order to be the best we can be and looking forward towards the future. Political activist jane baldwin once said children have never been very good at listening to their elders. They have never failed to imitate them. I think this holds