Covering the games will be covering that. Well go to kayla with some of the top stories. Dangerous element six weeks before the winter games are set to begin. Elsewhere in corporate america, apple is just saying no. The company urging shareholders to vote against carl icahns 50 billion stock buy back proposal. No word yet from the billionaire investor. Apple releasing details of tim can cooks pay. He took home 4. 25 million which is on par with what he made a year ago. He gave up 7100 shares tied to an annual performance award. That was based on august 2012 to 2013. The stock in that time lost a quarter of its value. Those options set to vest worth just about 4 million. So a drop in the bucket for tim cook but, nonetheless, there are some repercussions for the apple stock price. To anyone else thats money but chump change. He m us must have had a big payoff. 2004. Two waves, five years and ten years. He actually asked the board himself, can these vest on an annual basis equally and tha
He, i think, feels vindicated by the fact that there has been six months of very intensive attention to things he thought were worthy of attention. Ifill and in the forests of mexico, worries are growing about the shrinking number of monarch butterflies spending winter there. 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. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. Ifill Christmas Eve was marked by festivities and preparations around the world today. The faithful prepared for Midnight Services in places both traditional and unusual. Some of 2013s first Christmas Eve celebrations occurred in china, where guards and volunteers held back hundreds crowding into a
Six months of very intensive attention to things he thought were worthy of attention. Ifill and in the forests of mexico, worries are growing about the shrinking number of monarch butterflies spending winter there. 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. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. Ifill Christmas Eve was marked by festivities and preparations around the world today. The faithful prepared for Midnight Services in places both traditional and unusual. Some of 2013s first Christmas Eve celebrations occurred in china, where guards and volunteers held back hundreds crowding into a beijing cathedral for holiday services. translated so i say, c
The big question will we see more players kneeling after new tweets by the president. Out of prison, released from las vegas after serving nine years for robbery. What he faces on the outside. The president s visit two days from going to puerto rico. A trump tax plan a number of Administration Officials trying to defend what they call tax breaks for the wealthy. We begin with this breaking news. O. J. Simpson is a free man. The Nevada Department of corrections released a photograph just before his release. In july the nfl hall of famer served nine years of a 33 year sentence. Joe an early good morning to you. We knew simpson could be released this weekend just didnt know when, right . Thats right. We didnt know if it was going to be this weekend. A lot of talk was this would happen on monday at the earliest because typically the staff is not releasing someone on a weekend because in a normal situation he would have come back here to the vegas situation, gone to Parole Office here, sign
U. S. Now confirm new negotiations in coming weeks to deal with the conflict that has had major implications in both nations and ripple effects throughout the world. The effects of todays news made a lot of people a lot of money in the markets and at the end of the trading day today the dow was up 373. The s p 500 gained 38, and we will start there with chief White House Correspondent john roberts on the north lawn. For months now progress and lack thereof have taken the stock markets and retirement fortunes of millions of americans on a roller coaster ride. But now come up with tariffs beginning to bite deeply in china, new signs that the chinese may be willing to cut a deal. Another big update for the market as the u. S. And china announced they will hold another round of trade talks. The u. S. Trade Representatives Office is saying investor lighthouse or spoke with china regarding u. S. China trade talks. They agreed to hold meetings with the ministerial level in washington in the c