We are in for eric and stephanie and they will be back with you tomorrow morning. We have breaking news coming up on housing. Lets get to julie hyman who was in the newsroom. Julie the pending home sales for the month this shows some progress for the housing recovery, especially after we did not have a strong number. Again we were estimating that 1 gain and that was the average of the economist we surveyed. The advance in february with about 3. 1 percent, so it doesnt really slow down from february but it had a worse than estimated number. Remember in terms of Economic Data this morning, this adding to the gdp figure that we got earlier that showed only a 2. 10 a point to gain in the First Quarter. Revision downward and coming in worse than economists had predicted. It seems a most economists are looking forward at the balance of the year and this pending home sales might give them a little more optimism. Back to you guys. Matt thank you. Time for the bulletin and the top business stor
Could replace man. In disasters, the robot olympics. President obama and the first family now in mid flight, leaving washington behind for two and a half weeks for a vacation in hawaii. Before leaving, president obama spoke to reporters about a variety of issues. The nsa spy scandal, the troubled Health Care Rollout and the Nuclear Talks with iran. Mike viqueria is with me. Interesting exchanges with reporters today. There are john. The president had the tone of putting 2013 in the rear view. But he also insists that 2014, things are looking up. With calls for reform coming from the courts and some of his own advisors, president obama defended the nsas collection of millions of phone records. But for the first time he left the door open for a different configuration. Whatever might be outweighed about concerns on the potential abuse. If thats the case, there may be another way of skinning the cat. Asked whether a plea deal could be gotten from edward snowden, president obama chose his
Arabia. In brazil, the police try to gain control before the worlds cup. Welcome to the program and we are getting reports of heavy gunfire in the democratic republic of congo and people with guns and machete have got control of the tv channel and have taken several journalists hostage and gunfire across the city and we will keep you updated as we get news from drc. Russian investigators say a male suicide bomber that carried out an attack that killed 14 people in the city of volgograd on monday. It follows another bomb attack at the citys train station on monday and we have more. The twisted, gutted remains of a bus in volgograd and debris strewn across the street and a male suicide bomber is responsible for the attack and this is within two days and on sunday 17 people were killed by a female in the railroad station. Investigators say security controls at the entrance to the station prevented even more deaths. Translator the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who when trying to
Shooting out in myanmar, where twothirds of young people are hooked on heroin. Russian president Vladimir Putin called for more security following a second bomb attack in two days in volgograd. At least 15 have been killed by an explosion on a trolley bus after 17 people died in a suicide bomb attack at the train station on sunday. Bernard smith has more. The twisted gutted remains of a trolley bus in volgograd. Bodies and debris are strewn across the street. Russias Antiterrorism Committee says the blast was likely caused by a bomb. Its the Second Attack in the city in two days. On sunday 17 people were killed by a female suicide bomber in volgograds main railway station. Investigators there say that security controls at the entrance to the station prevented more deaths. Translation the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber, who, when trying to pass through the metal detector gates saw a police officer, got nervous and detonated the bomb with grave consequences. Coming a month befo
Now jamie obrien and hooppies talk about the waves, the babes, most importantly how do you endp with a name dhor opies . Question. He just found out hes getting another baby sister. Oh, you havent seen anything yet. Girl, girl, girl, girl now hear what the rest of the family has to say about big brothers meltdown. I think hes crazy. Highspeed run around the Phillip Island racetrack in australia, were riding with phil gray, phils got his camera on the back of his bike and you can really see what it takes to get these bikes to lean way down. Hes got his butt off to one sidecarving into the turn, he changes his body position before he gets to the next turn, superhigh speeds. But when he gets into turn 12, this happens. Oh did the bike roll over him . Yeah, the bike did hit phil. That was what they call a high side. If you watch it again youll see the bike going into the lefthand turn and loses a little bit of traction and slights and grips and thats what catapults phil up and over. Turn 1