Bit worried about Interest Rate has been in place almost 18 to 24 months now. Almost everyone is on board and understands it. Gold bounced hard an explosion rocks and exxon refinery today. Four workers were slightly hurt, but no signs of foul play. Get ready for the third auction of bitcoin from silk road. Bitcoin prices have fallen about 52 speaking the winners we now know who plunked down 300 grand for dinner. The winner was fisa ceo shane smith vice ceo shane smith. Two of the hottest Tech Startups around snapchat raising more money theyve been talking about raising funding revenue for a month. They are talking about 2. 8 billion. Heavy interest in this. Snapchat has a valuation of between 16 billion in 19 billion. How can a photo disappearing at have such a whopping valuation . What does it tell us about what snapchat actually is . You know it as the Smartphone App that lets you send photos to friends but then selfdestruct within 10 seconds. Founding in founded in 2011 at the start
Down the profitmaking machine. Shy is a newlyelected socialist in seattle. She tells machinists her radical opinion after the union turned down a contract that would guaranty 20,000 jobs in the area. Now boeing just might fly those jobs elsewhere. Here is seattle radio show host david bose. What do you think about this and what is the reaction there. Like a Christmas Gift to every other state trying to get work out of boeing. Here you have a woman saying she wants workers to take over the private property of the business. The business that is right now actively considering moving significant work to other states. Provides tens of thousands of jobs to washingtons economy. She is basically saying, we would like to steal everything you have. This is in addition to the machinist vote that said, a big no, a very colorful no, to the companys offer for extended contract. Meantime boeing has to be looking at this and asking themselves, is this really how the people of seattle feel . Melissa i
Together and blow, steve. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the United States moved closer today to new moves to rescue thousands of yazidi refugees in northern iraq. Theyre trapped on a mountain, surrounded by fighters of the Islamic State group. The u. S. Military is already airdropping supplies, and 130 american advisors have arrived to assess things. Today, Deputy National security advisor ben rhodes said the president is awaiting their recomm
Industrial average into positive territory for the year, up by a fraction but still on the plus side. But words of warning after the close from one of those dow stocks could temper the tone of trading tomorrow. Cisco systems is the closely watched tech bellwether company and on its earnings conference call, the ceo issued disappointing Earnings Guidance and announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs. As for its quarterly results, the computer networking equipment maker posted earnings of 55 cents a share, two cents more than estimates and revenues came in better than expected even though they were basically flat from a year ago as the Company Faces tough demand for its new line of highend switches and routers. Cisco shares initially rose but then reversed course on those comments from the conference call. Cisco along with several other u. S. Tech giants has always looked at china for feature growth but now doing business with beijing is becoming more difficult and one of ciscos biggest challeng
Tens of thousands of peoplew up for the final sunday blessing by Pope Benedict. Weather ad libs 01 00 21;09 swa. In vatic city, ts of thousands of people show up for the final sunday blessing by Pope Benedict xvi. And just in time for sunday breakfast, we have a forecast with nothing that is sunny side up. The entire forecast in a few minutes. And i call this murder suicide of critical Government Services and this is going to crash our economy. The blame game continues on capitol hill. Eric swallowwell sounds off on the sequester stalemate. Its a 30 sunday, february 24th. We have a lot of news to cover in the next hour. The questions about highspeed rail on the peninsula and a possible solution to a lot of neighborhoods concerns. State senator jerry hill joins us. And the latest d. C. Fiscal crisis, the quester situation that can happen on friday and. Some questions. What has sealions acting strangely . First, some other news from north nature. An earthquake shock up the freemont area