[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
About our federal government which generations of americans have fought and bled and died to create and protect and preserve when the real problem i think is not the government. But it is infiltration by corporate forces. I think if we could get those corporate forces where the Founding Fathers thought they should be which is out of election and out of politics, everybodys frustration with government could decline a lot. Just sort of wanted to go way back to your beginnings and you went to. Your dad was a diplomat in service and thailand. Just tell me a little bit about your upbringing and your world view and how you think through the process of, you know, living through the experiences that you live through you sort of developed that. Well, growing up in the foreign service, i saw two things. One, we were always in pretty dangerous and impoverished places soy saw around me everywhere American Families who had chosen to go where if their kid was seriously hurt there was not a good hosp
Rupert harrison joins us for the hour and in less than 15 minutes we speak to the Banca Popolare di milano ceo. Weekso look ahead to the Big Bank Earnings headlined by Goldman Sachs. Bank of america is coming up. The first thing we have to do is check the markets. A little bit of volatility, 16. 84 gaining from 0. 5. Overall european stocks a little bit down. There was movement after we heard from janet yellen that she would not mind a u. S. Economy that is a little heated up. That would help with growth and she believes that would help with consolidation of the labor market. Banks, i have put those in the cross asset check because we are speaking to the ceo of dpm. The european impetus is getting a little bit of left desk lift. Lift. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. U. K. Economye the has been more resilient than expected since the brexit vote may be lulling people into a false sense of security according to a report. Concerns that written could lose its access to the Single
How far hes come. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Just as Health Officials and others have warned, homegrown desk ca in florida has now popped up outside the known infection zones. Today five new florida cases reported include one infect patient in the tampa bay area, hours away on the other side of the state. Tonight as officials try to get ahead of the spread, they are reminding anxious residents that zika infections can be prevented. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is in florida again tonight with the latest. Reporter on floridas gulf coast in pinellas county, Mosquito Control teams today picked up their fight. Floridas governor is not declaring a new zika zone just yet. Just because we here doesnt mean we have local transmissions. Reporter active transition still in the declared zika zone. Today adding four new case. Six miles away on miami beach, no additional cases. Now authorities