Headlines today. Michael mckee examines how hurtas import ban could its consumers. Olivia sterns looks at option plans for sothebys. Lets begin with Phil Mattingly at the white house with the latest on those airstrikes in iraq. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Wasted littletion time making good on president to get rid ofed artillery pieces and iraq. Fighter jets dropped 500 pound bombs targeting a single or tillery peace. The reason why . A president related out last night. Take a listen. In recent days the terrorist s have continued to move across iraq and have neared a city where american diplomats and civilians serve at our consulates. , i havethe advance directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil convoys, should they move toward the city. We intend to stay vigilant and take action if these terrorist versus threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. Officials say that didnt fact happen. Artillery was targeting kurdish Ground Forces in an area where u. S.
Banking within the igs fic im shocked Inspector General would go from waste, fraud, and abuse and inefficiency to promoting a specific agenda and im disappointed. Notwithstanding that, post office has every right to propose innovative activity including postal money orders and other items, some of which are historic within postal systems here and around the world. However, i would hope in the future that you would be much more of an advocate conclude like when people like mr. Lance find everything that reduces costs and allows the post office to break even and be more efficient for its customers which, as stated earlier, are the shippers. Mr. Lynch is not here. He proudly said i talk about after he left. Mitchell lynch will never be my partner in anything that reforms the post office and makes a more efficient because that will reduce labor. Im sorry to say but i think its a lost cause. Mr. Clay and others are not. Lets go through the numbers quickly. Anyone can when but mr. Williams,
News. We have a great lineup today. These are the most important businesses businesses. The present the president is planning possibly an airstrike in syria. President will address the nation at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. Microsoft is in talks to buy the maker of mine kraft. Than 2t might pay more million. Netflix is among 100 sites, internet slowdown day. They are intentionally intending to slow connections. Providers i am going a little downmarket but still big dollars. Todays rival Dollar General is taking its bid directly to shareholders, lower bid from a different competitor. Dollar tree. This is confusing. A lot of twists and turns in the threeway takeover battle. Olivia sterns is here to walk us through it year it helped me. Dollar general, dollar tree, Family Dollar. I am looking forward to zach posing for dollar tree. That would be huge. This all got started this summer when nelson carl icahn said they had bought up states in Family Dollar. Thirdy, dollar tree, player here. Thre
Collecting your personal information, amassing detailed profiles on each of us, and, largely without our knowledge or content, selling that data to businesses and other brokers. Earlier this year the ftc released a report titled data brokers, a call for transparency and accountability which lays out to the extent to which you dont know them, data brokers know you. They know where you live, how old your kid are, what you buy, your income, your ethnicity, your Health Conditions, your hobbies. Our report makes several policy recommendations to bring operations of data brokers into the light and to give consumers more control over their personal information. One of my concerns and an issue that good morning. Goo morning, joe. How did you sleep . Better than the night before i bet. What a great day it was yesterday. Colleagues, i think, director clapper set the tone yesterday talking about the National Intelligence strategy and issues that the Intelligence Community is confronting and the j
Anger boiling over on the streets of baltimore. A major confrontation between police and protesters a moment ago. Our own brian todd was caught in the middle of it all and let me show you. Lets go over here. Watch out. Watch out. Here they just got another man. Were being easy guys. Were being pushed. If you can see whats going on, when they try to arrest someone, they are being swarmed by the protesters. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And some as you can see this obviously a violent confrontation there between police and protesters. That was moments ago. It comes after days of mostly peaceful demonstrations. I want to show you the live pictures at this moment. Protesters are gathering at city haul and the Police Station again. It has been 11 days since freddie grays arrest. Heres what we dont know. What led to his arrest what happened to him in the police van, why has his autopsy not been released and why have we heard nothing from the arresting officers even though five of the six have given