From sales and property taxes plummeted as millions lost their jobs and homes. Running a city means thinking about the urgent needs of today and about what the city is going to need 10, 20, 30 years from now. Money spent today will have an impact today and have a big say in how people will commute, learn, work, and play for years to come. Looking to the State Capitol isnt very promising these days, and the glory days of you are man investment from the federal government seem over for good. What the city has got in the 6060s can look in retrospect le a mistake. So america, how is it going . Well spend the rest of the program looking at the answer. 280 mayors descended on washington, d. C. Hoping to persuade congress the president and his cabinet to pay more attention to american cities. On thursday president obama pledged to help mayors and not wait on a divided congress. I can take executive action. On a phone i can rally folks around the country to restore opportunities. Reporter the
According to people with knowledge of the matter. The ceo is in San Francisco. We are learning more about the tense relationship between Tech Companies and the nsa. The government threatens to find yahoo 250,000 today if it did not turn over user data. This happened in 2008. We will look at what changed since then. To the lead story. The biggest iphone appears to be off to a hot start. The device is on backorder and is not expected to ship for three or four weeks. The data phone is scheduled to hit stores. People vented on twitter. One tweeted not everyone having problems but with the issues, is it a supply couple more are they trying to drum up demand . What do you think, is this marketing or do they have supply issues . Every single time they come out with a phone this happens. I will go with this is probably the way they want it to play out. It is great to have two or three week backlogs. It would be a disaster if it were two or three months. To say there is so much demand you have
The uns secretarygeneral is calling on the u. S. Am a britain, and france to live weapons inspectors more time to do their work in syria. After discussions today, russia called the British Initiative premature. The u. S. Says it has intercepted communications that prove the Assad Government was behind a chemical attack. But the Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations denies the charges and says the u. N. Inspection will prove it was in fact rebels who launched gas attacks. Meanwhile, people in damascus are stocking up on supplies out of fears that any u. S. Attack would hit civilian areas. The u. N. Inspectors have resumed their work in a damascus suburb, determining if chemical weapons were used in an attack last week. U. N. And Arab League Special Envoy says their investigation had up 30 had already produced onekey piece of evidence. It does seem that some kind of substance was used that killed a lot of people. Hundreds, maybe more than hundreds. Some people say 300, some people say
Peel shares in chinese ecommerce giant i mean baba have surged and its hong kong trading dead one of the years most and to support install for things the company which is already traded in the u. S. Raised more than 11000000000. 00 in its secondary listing on tuesday 8 c. B. Shares of ali baba surged almost 8 percent in the 1st few minutes of trading the initial Public Offering of the Online Retail giant is the Worlds Largest so far in 2019 the secondary listing in hong kong gives access to chinese mainland investors it also means that shares could be traded almost around the clock now between hong kong and new york. Was on kenyan saw the occasion of ali babas 20th Anniversary we have argued in an important milestone which is to come home come back to hong kong for the listing. This ali baba celebrated its founder at the event jack ma who started the company in his living room. Ma listed ali baba at the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 and became chinas richest man back then ali baba sa
And were starting with a blockbuster i. P. O. Shares in chinese ecommerce giant alibaba have surged in its hong kong trading deb you one of this years most anticipated stock offerings the company which is already traded in the United States raised 10000000000. 00 euros in its secondary listing alibaba shares surged more than 6 percent in the 1st minutes of trading obama is offering is a huge boost for the Hong Kong Market which has seen business slow amid the ongoing and poppy violent prodemocracy protests. And as were in the region already lets talk about chinas role in the current a bit coin decline the much hyped crypto currency has fallen to 6 months low partly because china has announced plans to take a harder stance against cryptic currencies in general but bitcoin has always fluctuated wildly in the past how fingal doubling in value within a few weeks is not uncommon because the cryptocurrency react strongly to good news and bad news and thats whats been happening in recently wh