Nasdaq declining. 26 . While the averages didnt do much, there was one recently red hot Smoking Group that really got knocked off its stride. The drug stocks going in today, the pharma complex was on fire levitating day after day, one of the strongest sectors in the market and then we get one darn tweet from the president that wrecks everything. Or does it . First, lets deal with the president ial tweet, and i quote, i am working on a new system where there will be competition in the drug industry. Pricing for the American People will come way down end quote. Not a lot of detail. Not a lot of specificity. You only have 140 characters with which to opine, but boy, oh boy, thats about the last thing you want to read if you own any drug stocks. So what do you do . Lets go mobile choice here. Do you a, panic and sell everything . B, wait to see what happens . Or c, buy the drug stocks you like because youre finally getting a bargain . The correct answer, drum roll, please. C. You buy. You
Old. There are computers that are 15 years old and they use zip drives and they are all on the verge of breaking. And 43 states, the voting machines, electronic computerized voter machines, our 10 years old or older. There will be a need for massive investment for Voting Technology around the country or youll have these lines. But even that creates opportunities to integrate that with electronic registration and other sorts of things can make a so that everybody was eligible to vote can vote. Its going to be one more way in which the fight to put will continue, to which its not only the formal rules but everything around it thats going to be contested but that ultimately hopefully can lead to continued progress. Thank you all so much for coming. You can get the books in the back or at brennancenter. Org. [applause] [inaudible conversations] heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. For more information, booktv will be coming to watch previous
A pedestrian is hit by a vehicle. Im christine maddela. Im john huck. So. In the last 24 hours. At least 2 people have been hit and killed while walking on our roads. And now. A third crash is under investigation. Fox 5s Cyndi Lundeberg is live on eastern between sahara and st louis with new informaiton on tonights crash. Captioning will resume shortly in december the Nevada Department of transportatin told me they were going to be making major changes to boulder highway for this reason. Those changes are behind schedule. Captioning will in december the valley. Nats boulder highway. 12 pedestrians. 2 bicylists and 4 people in cars died. Wednesday night. A similiar story. A man walking across the road just after 11. Was hit and killed. I spoke to the nevada Highway Patrol in december about these problems. Weve had boulder hwy on our sights for a number of years thats tony illia with ndot. And he went on to tell me ndot wwould be making changes. Including. Installing lights to crosswalks
Anything again the epa will be out here all weekend. We will bring updates on this contamination problem on ktnv. Com and live at 11 on 13 action news. Live at johnson junior high school, ck, 13 action news. Just to show you the magnitude of this situation. 12 students and Staff Members have been exposed to the we know at least one child reported feeling sick. As of this morning. The epa had cleared 168 bags. With more than a thousand left to be tested. Parents are urged to bring any and all materials or clothing that could have been contaminated back to johnson junior high for testing. Testing will continue until ten pm tonight. It will resume again tomorrow and then again sunday from eight am until eight both evenings. Thats a live picture behind me but it wont be that way for much longer. Were looking at some big winds blowing into southern nevada. 13 first alert chief meteorologist Bryan Scofield is here to let us know if its going to be enough to ruin any clear around southern nev
Neil charles payne, mcedes schlapp. Mercedes, what do you make of this . Well, ive got to tell you, its like the invasion of the regulation overkill in our country. I mean, its the fact that with all these regularringlations coming in regulations coming in, it really makes businesses feel very uncertain. Theye scared. They want to comply, but at the same time they realize that the Economic Impact could lead to more layoffs, and it impacts these businesses, especially the Small Business owners that are all trying to figure this out while obama decides thathis is going to be his legacy for the remainder of the year. Neil you know, jonas, when you lo at this, what always amazes me about this stuff is, you know, you can do it, a president can do it, agencies can go ahead and submit these regulations, and theyre very hard to reverse. But ive seen it under a lot of administrations, but it really picked up the pace with this one, and theyre very hard to roll back. Yeah. Well, because he hass