Heres what is ahead on cspan2. First up, the Community Indicators with Gordon Crovitz then jeb bush outlines his priorities for reducing Government Spending, reforming Veterans Affairs and improving the economy. Later we hear about president ial candidates disclose showers the federal elections commission. And from the Cato Institute a discussion on the rise of synthetic or designer drugs. Host Gordon Crovitz, what too you write about in your wall street journal column . Sunny try to support the newspapers position on free people and free markets in the ers of technology and particularly around the internet and innovation. Host how did you get that assignment. Guest ive been with the wall street journal for many years, publisher of the wall street journal. I spent quite some time overseeing the Digital Businesses of the journal. I consider myself in fact maybe the oldest possible digital native. I oversaw businesses that were based on what we then called electronic publishing, even bef
Gas station in september 2001. Police say they dont know if the crime has anything to do with his ethnicity. He handled the money. Why did he get shot . We dont know whats going on. Reporter we are told the suspect chased the second clerk out of the store during the ordeal. The second clark was not harmed. The reward for information it has been increased to 11,000. If you know anything, call silent witness. Of the initiative to raise the minimum ways to 12 an hour is being challenged. The Restaurant Association filed a lawsuit claiming the signatures collected are not valued. The judge could reject the challenge or take the minimum wage hike off the november ballot. Will update you as soon as the judges decision comes through. Makings making ends meet living paycheck to paycheck. Cost say they have to work more than one job to make enough. Raising the minimum wage to at least 10 per hour could help. Lets go back to the monsoon watch. Another look at the amazing video from the storm las
I was in abu dhabi when i said that Mack Thornberry was going to give a big announcement. I got back. It was three hours ago. The most important thing for me to do is get away from the stage quickly because i will make mistakes if i try to stay here. I cant resist. I wanted to say that i was in abu dhabi this last weekend, two weeks before that, i was in tokyo at a conference. And two weeks before that, in seoul. And every place, im hearing the same thing. It is what the hell are you doing to yourselves. They want america to be a global leader. They see what theyre doing, and theyre genuinely anxious, worried about what were doing. They say why why is this happening . I give them an explanation about very deep turmoil we have within our government about how do we establish priorities when our budget is so out of whack. And its this is going to be with us for a while. I tell them that, i say this is going to be a longer term problem. Were going to have this problem for a while. And you
Many of them also just quietly coming out of the conference room, shedding a tear, resigned to the reality that they lost their loved one but a portion not accepting t. Saying that they want concrete proof and they are certainly pointing the fingers at the malaysians at this time. Wolf . The Chinese Government not necessarily accepting the malaysian statement that everyone is dead. They issued a statement, david, as you know, saying they want more information, they want all of the information and they are anxious to get it. Clearly they are frustrated that they are not getting everything that they want. Reporter well, they are and they have pointed out several times over this twoweek period, wolf, that they are not happy with the way that this has been handled by the malaysians. Also, you have to consider that the Chinese Government is trying to point the finger to malaysia to deflect any criticism of themselves. So its all kind of creating this very unfortunate level of anger, frustra
And very low cloud cover. Were on the coast. Thats not even you know, its four hours out into the ocean where this search area would be. The Malaysian Airlines is now telling distraught and angry Family Members the horrible news that they will never see their loved ones again. Airline officials repeating this morning the sad news first delivered by the malaysian Prime Minister the night before. We must now accept the painful reality that the aircraft is now lost and that none of the passenger or crew on board survived. Reporter this morning, the Prime Minister defending his announcement telling parliament he only wanted to be fully transparent that the data from british satellites proved what had happened. And a decision to send a text message alerting families of the news. It was to ensure that the incredible short amount of Time Available to us, the families heard the tragic news before the world did. Reporter as for the search, todays Severe Weather has halted operations, even forci