Droughtstricken areas of africa. In ukraine a symbolic vote widening the divide between east and west, Crimean Parliament voting to become part of russia. Now russia and the rust even further apart as america has decided to impose sanctions. Phil ittner is live in kiev. And phil this vote wont be official until the people approve it later on. What does the vote by the Parliament Mean . Its mostly symbolic, the Crimean Parliament suggesting that they want to reunite with the Russian Federation. They will of course debate whether or not to rejoin. Theres a lot of minorities on the peninsula who dont want to, but the majority are ethnic russians, and crimea was part of the Russian Federation up until 1954. So there is a history where it was part of russia previously. Phil if the people vote yes, what does that mean for kiev . Well, it means a lot for kiev. We are talking about loosing a huge chunk of territory from the integrity of ukraine. There is also issues in financial terms. It is d
Lawyers on the case will not return email, telephone calls. And rethinking h. I. V. 30 years since we learnt what causes aids we are still learning how that vicious virus can be used to help. In a radical new approach to cancer treatment. Good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. Chicago is recovering from a violent weekend leaving nine dead and at least 36 injured, including children. Underscoring what folks on the streets say warm weather brings more violence. Flying in the face of what the down. A debate heats up over whether crime is up or down. A brutal gang war is underway on the streets on the streets and online. How social media and hip hop may fuel attentions. Violence over the weekend has residents feeling anxious. You cant come to the park without in happening. My kids should be able to come into the Community Without being worried about violence. It needs to stop. Violent crime in the city is down this year, compared to last. Not by much. A marsh reality for Police
So ive directed the Intelligence Community to make public as much information about these programs as possible. Woodruff then, despite recent challenging moments of diplomacy, the u. S. And russia held highlevel meetings in washington. Margaret warner recaps todays talks. Brown four out of ten street lights dont work and it takes an hour on average for Detroit Police to respond to 911 calls. Hari sreenivasan looks at the motor citys battle amid bankruptcy. Detroiters are so used to bad news, and they are so used to things not really breaking our way, and theyre used to getting up the next morning and going, well, i cant stop, ive got to keep going, ive got to keep trying. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and yes, those are goats in that graveyard. More than a hundred of them. Kwame holman tells us what theyre doing in this historic washington, d. C. , cemetery. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour h been pr
Dow jones industrials down 117 points and those losses down 6, the nasdaq composite the best group to dance names like microsoft and cisco doing well and the nasdaq is one of the 3. We got a weaker forecast in europe and that weighed on things around here. And cbs, a care markets briefed via outlook, and the fact they have participation of public and private Health Insurance they say list revenue going into 2014, isnt that nice . Up 2. 7 . It hit a new high at 64. 44 and they noted the process more prescriptions for new clients which was good news. Lets watch traffic with competitors noted traffic for items falling to a certain extent. Adam so far 2013 is the strongest year for ibm ands since 2007 with Tech Companies featured prominently among those going public including of course twitter. They start trading thursday but how worried should an investor be that several of these are not even profitable . For is that they turn to john molloy, a cofounder of blue run ventures, joins us for
Melissa the countdown is on. Were starting with the effort to help you decode exactly what is happening with your health care. The state exchanges are set to open two weeks from now. Did you realize it was that close . New reports that the big three, aetna, unitedhealthcare and cigna, either arent participating or only involved in a small number of states. The reason . Because they arent sur if the exchanges will be good business. Our Favorite Health care expert is back to tell you what the choices will be. And what you will actually be able to buy. Paul howard is director for center for medical progress at the manhattan institute. So what does this mean to you if these three big companies, all of us have bought insurance from one point or another probably likely are not going to participate . So then who is . Probably means they dont know what their losses are going to be next year and they will sit out the market and see how it develops. You will see smaller, regional or statebased i