They have bought world pay for 9 billion. This comes after j. P. Morgan showed interest, but backed away. The u. S. Credit card processor will grade gator exposure to ecommerce and Small Businesses through this acquisition. Cory johnson and his partner joined us for reaction at to deal. Corey why cincinnati, ohio . Whats interesting to spin off from this tells you the history of the business of payment transaction and what is happening is the way this business works, when you use your credit card, they find it if youve got the money in your bank account and they approve the credit or not. There are a number of steps that happen behind the scenes. Each of those steps takes a different chunk. You get the verification from the merchant and the movement of the money between the merchant and the bank and the verification, when you go through the steps, there is money taken each hard way. It results in billions and billions of dollars. The movement of commerce has gone from physical stores t
And also thunderstorm wind w damage. Plenty of trees down in facultative certificatier area. Gainesville seeing the worst of it now, manassas, places like li fairfax just starting street heavy rain move in. In. If this holds together it will t move into the west side of the beltway. Were seeing the d. C. Split d. C right now which seems to happenp pretty often. Severe thunderstorm watch all wa the counties in yellow and thatt is until 10 00 p. M. Tonight. Line is moving through and we may have second a line around 9 00. 75 at dulles, 77 gaithersburg, 79 in westminster. We heres your planning forecast for tonight. Umbrellas needed now, umbrellas are needed. After probably 10, by 11 00 p. M. Midnight were all start to st clear out and we will see someoe much Better Weather morning. Well keep you posted on thehe Severe Weather as we go throughu the news forecast. Civil rights leader and the situate thinks first congressional delegate reverend walter font rear is out of jail. He is accused
Lisa i am here with the assistant manager of Bloomberg Businessweek, jim ellis. Jim, you are the brainchild behind this edition. You came one all these ideas of who to get and how to frame this. What was your thinking behind this issue . Jim well, i knew if i was going to do this i wanted to do it with people who i wanted to hear from, and so when i thought get all ofcan i these people from billionaires to Public Officials and regular people together, the best way to do that was change. Everybody sort of responds to change whether its a change in their business, politics, so i used that is my trigger and that is what led me to put the big changes were whether in business, the cloud, the public life, the big change on politics and changes with the way life is which is why i got alicia garza from black lives matter. We can gethange behind is the idea of a threeday workweek. Carlos seem to advocate. That was an interesting interview because so many people want to talk to carlos about bein
Little boy was shot. Hes in the ai Dupont Hospital tonight in Critical Condition with a head wound. Tonight investigators are still trying to figure out the circumstances behind this shoo shooting. Right out front when he comes out. Reporter Bill Jennings was stunned when he her his little next door neighborhood had accidentally been shot in the head Tuesday Morning. Happy go lucky little kid. Very bright. Baby, beautiful. Some neighbors were moved to tears when they heard the two year old boy living on cliff side court had been shot in the head and raced to the hospital. To think two year old. Oh, god. I couldnt even imagine because i have a two yeared grandson. Jennings says the little boy is always playing outside. He was stunned to hear this ne news. I feel very sorry for him. I hope the kid is all right, you know. That type of thing should not happen to a child. Its awful. Reporter investigators say it was just after 10 00 Tuesday Morning when they were called to the scene inside
But growth likely to slow down. And thats what we want to talk to you about for the first 45 minutes of this edition of the washington journal. Good morning. Today is saturday, october 27. We want to talk to you about your optimism or pessimism about the economy. Things Getting Better . Things getting worse . Are you doing all right . Could you be doing better . We want to talk to you about the economy, your optimism, and your pessimism in terms of your personal economy and not necessarily how you feel the candidates will do, what they might do for the economy once they get elected. 2025853881 for republicans. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. And you can also reach out to us via social media. The address on twitter, spanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. And email, journal cspan. Org. More from the article this morning from the wall street journal, economy grows at 2 pace. Josh mitchell and refugee write and jeffrey write host well take a look at more newspaper articles d