Markets. Well take a quick look at the futures right now. Youll see that at least at this point there are red arrows. Forget about being down and bouncing back. The dow futures are down by 35 points below fair value. S p futures are off by five and the nasdaq down ten. The markets will have a major event later this month with the release of the january employment report. That big number is coming up on friday. Also, janet yellen has a week or so to get her thoughts together. Her first testimony as fed chief is on february 11th. So a short honeymoon period. Over to brian now with todays top corporate stories. Brian, good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much. Well, the phone wars are heating up. At t is cutting prices for those who share wireless data plans to include any customer and Small Business with up to ten lines. At t is trying to regain lost ground from tmobile. And ibm executives are giving up their 2014 bonuses in response to the lackluster year for ibm. Many could have
Tech giants went to the white house to talk about troubled healthcare website. The sitdown was also an opportunity for more than a Dozen Companies to express concerns about Government Surveillance Programs. These realistic machines, like cheetah and pet man were made by a Major Military robot maker. It is the 8th Robotic Company google has gotten in the last six months. What google plans to do is top secret. A federal judge sentenced to d. C. Pediatrician to 18 months in prison and a decade of supervised release for possession of child porn. But that is way less than federal guidelines which could have given dr. Robert dickey five or six years behind bars. Bruce leshan reports its an unusual case. Dr. Robert dickey is a peed pediatrician who inspire sod much that more than a dozen of them turned up here at the white house to testify on his behalf. The judge, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, all struggled to reconcile two different portraits of dickey. One is a doctor who settled i
Tries to pull him on to the brink. A train rolled over them two small slips of paper words big bucks. Well tell you where the winning megamillions were sold and how some states used their share of the lottery to boost education. Good morning. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Escalating violence in two nash ouring nations in south sudan there are reports that up to 500 were killed tuesday, with 800 wounded. The government says 10 follow tirns are under arrest for taking part in a foiled coup attempt. Led by the former vice president. The United Nations says fighting across the border cost more than 200,000 people to flee the capital. The French Foreign minister says several nations are sending in troops to support a military effort to restore order there. We begin with the violence in south sudan. The state department is warning american citizens to leave the country and is suspending normal operations in juba. The u. N. Security council held an emergency meeting tuesday
A partyline basis. And now, my friends, they sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. So we need to repeal the Affordable Care act and we need to replace it. Because health care in america is still not satisfactory, nor have we fulfilled the needs and our obligations that we have to all of our citizens. The problems with the Affordable Care act are well known. A failed web site rollout that has hindered enrollment and the purchase of mandated coverage. As of december 17 only an estimated 440,000 835 people have ben enrolled for a health plan. Thats 6. 2 of the enrollment goal of seven million by march 31, 2014. Theres a destruct jiff tax on medical devices that encourages these businesses to move offshore. We have already seen medical Device Manufacturers leaving the United States of america, as they said they would if they were taxed to the point where they could not be competitive with medical devices that were manufactured in foreign countries. The disappointment for americ
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