After that, derek wall bank of bloomberg looks at a future trade legislation. Your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. Washington journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. My city in a tin can far above the world planet earth there is nothing left to do sunday night on cspan q a a veteran astronaut produced many activities on the International Space station as your scientific and personal aspects of life in space. The only time i for a shiver of fear go up my back was on the dark side of the earth looking at one side of eastern australia in the darkness and watching a shooting star come in between me and the earth. At first i have the standard reaction of wishing upon a star, but then i had the sobering realization that was a huge rock from the universe going who knows . It missed us. If it hit us, it was a big enough one you could see it. Sunday night at it 00 eastern and pacific on cspan q a. Leaders from the cable and Telecommunications Industries recently gathered for the a
[indiscernible] finishing up with former cia Deputy Director michael morell. We will air this again later in the program schedule, or you can watch it again shortly online at cspan. Org. We do have more life events coming up today. Joe manchin will be speaking at the Brookings Institution this afternoon. He will be talking about governing from the middle. Watch his remarks live at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan3. Later, its more from the road to the white house with Hillary Clinton. She would making her second appearance in iowa. She is talking about ideas to expand small business. You can see that live at 3 45 eastern also want cspan3. President obama is traveling today, he will be in new jersey this afternoon to talk about Community Policing here it he is expected to talk about a drawdown in the amount of military equipment being provided to Law Enforcement. That starts at 3 10 eastern. Youll be a watch it online at cspan. Org. The president is expected to acknowl
Capital. Developing story today. Of that of a 7. 9 magnitude earthquake in nepal. You see it on the map on the left there. The epicenter is in between, about hatchway in between po pokhara and katmandu. At least 50 reported trapped in a 19th Century Tower and tremorors felt as far away as new delhi and the capital of bangladesh. I want to start with nepals minister of information and communications on the line from cat katmandu. Thank you for taking time to talk to us at this time. Tell us about the rescue efforts at this moment. Were locating the people and asking the communities to help each other. The police and army has been mobilized and they have been instructured to provide any services thats needed to any civilian under the National Emergency relief and also we have people trapped in the rubble. The ministry the political sector is mobilizing this so people trabpped in the rubble can be rescued. Were trying to put our acts together. Were gathering in the center of the Cabinet M
Jumping. Wait until you see whats happening on the ground in iowa. Meanwhile, though we begin with the markets and those 1 gains or thereabouts. Lets get the trading action. Bob is live at the new york stock exchange, Bertha Coombs following the movers at nasdaq. Bob, you go first. Another big story on the floor today is avon. Whats going on with that one . We just had a wild morning here. This post was filled with almost 100 traders. They have halted three times on whats called a volatility halt. That is for unusual trading action. Apparently there was an erroneous and false report that they may have had a takeover offer. Now, were trying to sort all of this out. Again, it appears that it was erroneous and false but the important thing is that three times the stock was halted. The company did not make a clear statement down here so absent that, it couldnt be halted because the company had a statement to make. It could only be halted because we had circumstance breakers kick in as a re
The tech the tech and Telecom Industries agree on a few regulatory matters. The internet is not the telephone network, and you cannot apply the old rules of telecom to the knew rules of internet. Three weeks three weeks ago three regulators turned their back on that consensus i i believe the internet and its users will ultimately suffer for it. The debate illustrates the importance which makes it all the more amazing that congress has not reauthorized. Since then representative marks bill was passed a quarter century ago. The situation i i intend to rectifying this congress. Todays hearing marks the beginning of the commerce communitys efforts to write and pass legislation to reauthorize. Contentious matters like title to divide the membership of this committee reauthorization is an area where i believe we can and should Work Together. It should not be a partisan goal. Both sides of the aisle have common sense ideas to make the agency more responsive to the needs of consumers, congress