Resembling astronauts on the way to a fully fueled rocket, we donned special shoes and hard hats, then boarded a bus that would get us as close to the meltdowns as the laws of physics, and common sense, would allow us. And its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. Friends of the newshour. 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 this was a day of deepening crisis in crimea, amid growing signs of a possible bid to break away from ukraine. Ukrainian leaders accused russia of a military invasion and occupation of crimea. Newshour correspondent kwame holman has our report on the days events. Reporter the situation in crimea approached a d
Problems around the bay area. Rain everywhere. A lot of flooding. Airports effected as well. Its definitely the big story this morning. It is friday, february 28th im pam cook. Good morning, im dave clark. We will quickly go to steve paulson. We have a lot to talk about. I do. Yeah i know you do. I know you do as well. We have systems coming through. This is going to be now the main front that is going by. The wind advisory after that we will see some bans coming through. Gusts 50 miles an hour. Radar is it will up. A lot of that is near the radar site. San jose south that is moving north. It looks like morgan hill which got slammed not too long ago. They are moving up toward parts of the east bay. And santa rosa. You can see pockets where the yellow is well. Livermore just getting slammed. Even up into lake county and mendocino county. This is not a cold front. I will tell you this is good. Right there. That is impressive. Its at its maturity. The pressure is really low. Its been a lo
No one expects any change on rates. What will he say about the future . French markets are closed today because thats the way they do it in france. It is a 33 hour workweek. Nightent on twitter last about 1945. I cannot say enough about the Rick Atkinson book, the three volume. And then concentrate. Put it down and think about it. I read this about six months ago. George will did a great review of it. He is the only person ive ever known who can speak in paragraphs. Every time he opens his mouth moving on to Economic Data in the u. S. , it 8 30 a. M. Is the initial jobless claims, 9 45 a. M. , bloomberg and so bloomberg comfort index and earnings before the bell, wendys, dish, Liberty Media and after the bell, cbs, news a. M. , janet 930 yellen testifying today in the senate and yesterday was in the house. We will talk about that as well. We say good morning to all of you in london particularly at the london city airport. Congratulations to Maureen Maguire and all our team and bloomber
Have and havent made festival in tokyo. Somebody has to lead america are eyeing the Nasdaq Market products and ten. Readers of the g seven and austral as nations will discuss whether to expel russia from the group of eight as punishment for sanctions in crimea. They will hold talks in the hague on the sidelines of a Nuclear Security summit us president barack obama arrived in the netherlands he had called a meeting to consider the groups response to the crisis in ukraine the leaders are expected to discuss their support for the Ukrainian Government as well as possible for there are sanctions against russia over its annexation of crimea theyre expected to consider removing the country from the g eight and go back to the g seven framework. Europe and america. For united. Your support of the Ukrainian Government and the ukrainian people there were united as imposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. Ten European Countries that have strong economic ties with russia are conscious abo
Drive retail airlines out of business. Welcome to Market Makers. I am scarlet fu. Some breaking news. New home Sales Numbers are just coming out. Lets head out to mike mckee who is in our newsroom. What do you see . The expected in new home sales, they fell by 3. 2 . That was not different than what people thought. Is interesting that happened that january was about growth. It had been stronger than people thought going in. 455. T falls to the drop is a little less than it wouldve ordinarily been. Everybody is going to write that off to the weather. February, that a still stronger than what we saw last re wasnt a the weather problem. Rates may be more important than the weather. We may see a comeback. Tosumer confidence, we want follow this closely. If the weather had an effect, it might show up here. People get more concerned about confidencesumer rises more than expected. It is a big jump over the month. People think that things are going to get better. The Expectations Index increas