Brunch. The author Robert Kuttner. Hes a Award Winning and bestselling author who covers the intersection of economics politics and social justice. Youve seen his writings everywhere from the New York Times, new york book review to the Atlantic Harpers new yorker, dissent, foreign affairs, columbia journalism review, Political Science quarterly, and, of course, the Harvard Business review. Bob is cofounder and coeditor of the american prospect magazine, cofounder of the Economic Policy institute, which, believe me, a major, major player in the economics scene in washington. He currently serves on their board as a long time columnist for business week and the boston globe. Hes academic post at boston university, harvard, among other institutions. He currently teaches at brandeis university. Bob was also a staff writer and a columnist for the washington post. Chief investigator for the Senate Banking committee. Executive director of president carters National Commission on neighborhoods.
Community to bear. Reporter oakland councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan sits on the air quality district board. She wants the district to look at Health Impacts before issuing a permit. She gave us this graphic. The crematorium is here. East oakland is highlighted in red. This shows that we have the highest pollution levels, the greatest cancer risk and risk of other diseases for this community right around this crematorium. Reporter aside from air pollution, four asian workers at the business across the street quit their job saying its bad funshwa. In areas that are affluent and where there are more white residents this would never happen. Reporter the air quality district puts the blame on the city of oakland. Thats because even though the city Council Voted down the crematorium, the Planning Department actually gave a land use permit to the company before that vote and a judge says this council cannot backtrack. By the way, the workers inside did not want to talk on camera. Also the Houston
Opec meeting, psych cyber monday today. The benchmark yield around 2. 33. Our road map begins with the holiday return of the consumer black friday sales topped 5 billion. Cyber monday expected to set online records. Retailers are in the spotlight. Futures flat ahead of the first full trading day ahead of thanksgiving. And the Koch Brothers making a big bet on magazines, backing a meredith bid to buy time inc. Adob bee analysts expects consumers to spend 6. 6 billion this cyber monday. That would be up more than 16 from a year ago and bigger number than the 5 billion adobe says was spent online on friday. We talked about colder weather, and lean er inconvenienventorie reports that in store traffic was down maybe a percent, maybe a little more, but not dramatically. Thats a good test of exactly how low expectations had been for basically physical scores. They dont look like they will broadly give back the pop they had on friday. So many things working in the background in favor of having
Ukjoining us hello and welcome to viewers in the uk joining us for this special coverage as we wait for donald trump to make the announcement to break with decades of us policy by recognising jerusalem as the capital of israel. He is due to speak about the highly controversial decision in the highly controversial decision in the next few minutes. He is also expected to approve plans to move us presidency embassy tojerusalem. The plans have sparked protest from global capitals and warnings that the move will destroy any hope of progress on peace. Live now to the white house. It is all set up, the podium is there, thejournalists white house. It is all set up, the podium is there, the journalists are there to hear that key announcement from the president. He said it was a big decisionjust a from the president. He said it was a big Decision Just a few minutes ago. So we can go to thatjust a while ago, speaking at a meeting of his cabinet. Saying the decision was long overdue. We have a big
Hello im Barbara Sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us our news today dominated by one story u. S. President donald trump confirms he has to recognize drew slim as israels capital the announcement is due imminently. A lot of people have said we have to do something and they didnt do it so well be talking about that something at one oclock. Palestinians have been protesting against the move which would mean the u. S. Embassy rather kates to the disputed city there has been a global condemnation of the jordanian king and turkish president among those warning that the move will fuel extremism. The u. S. President is due to announce his highly controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital and move the American Embassy there from tel aviv israel claims the whole city as its capital but this has never been recognized by any major player internationally until now the move has drawn early condemnation palestinian leaders in the occupied west b