I dont think so, except to show that he supports her. His popularity is going up, as you know. In North Carolina i think it is 50 or higher now. So i think it helps her to be safe with him and it certainly he continues to have a lot of supporters here, particularly minorities and democrats and if he can excite them for her, that will help her get them to turn out in six months. As far as legislators, do we know of anybody here as far as the delegation thats going to be part of this event or attending or local legislators there . Yeah, im sure a lot of some of the delegation will be here. But more importantly for North Carolina politics, the democratic gubernatorial candidate, roy cooper, will be there, as well as the democratic u. S. Senate candidate deborah ross. I dont think either one of them was with secretary clinton when she was in raleigh a couple weeks ago. Literally a couple weeks ago. You know, incidentally, donald trump is in raleigh, North Carolina tonight. So its sort of a
If you missed any of what donald trump had to say this its noon, you can see in entirety on cspan. Org. News coming out of the white house. President obama is set to announce that the u. S. Hopes to keep 9,800 troops in afghanistan following the end of the war later this year. This is planned on is contimbent following the upcoming elections. President obama is expected to talk about this later at the white house. Hell be in the rose gardens. Well have those remarks at 2 45 eastern on cspan. Be sure to join us at 8 00 for a look at the financial crisis. Ben bernanke told a room full of congressional leaders, quote, unless you act in a matter of days, the Financial System and the world will be brought down. Chris dodd is joined by barney frank. Heres a brief look. We did something unpopular that staved off disaster. Heres the disadvantage politicians are at visavis economists. Economists can write articles and do analyses in which they invoke the counterfactual. They can talk about why
The Companies Based here say they need room to grow but some residents say that growth could hurt the city. It was party time for employees at coupons. Com. The Mountain View company had an ipo and went back bringing an 87 firstday pop to investors. Today is a great day. Reporter a few miles away, another part of Mountain View with Companies Like google a and linked in is talking about adding more buildings to the area, expecting 15,000 more jobs. Well have retail and smaller spaces per stateup if they want to be there and also be able to Additional Space for existing tenants, larger employees out there, too. That would be environmental, social and economic. Thats lenny seagol. He says Mountain View is growing too quickly. Too much growth could hurt the city. Making housing more expensive and scarce, increasing the Traffic Congestion locally and undermining the vitality of the workers themselves because they wouldnt have places to live. Reporter to be fair, we caught up with Mountain V
Lumpur headed to beijing. However, air Traffic Control lost communication with the jet and the crew about two hours after takeoff. The plane is believed to be somewhere in the waters off of vietnam. Lets bring in chase cane. Its saturday afternoon in southeast asia. Whats the latest . Reporter Airline Officials are saying despite the rules that the plane did crash, there are no signs of wreckage. Weve learned there were four americans on board, including a mother and her infant and now more than 12 hours have past since the plane went missing. There are military planes and ships and helicopters from three Different Countries searching the waters to try and find this malaysian jet. It went missing about two hours after takeoff from kuala lumpur. The airline says the plane would not have enough fuel to still be in the air. They say that no one has reported the plane landing anywhere, so it seems all indications that this plane has gone down somewhere. The airline says in total, there wer
The former executive editor len downie was in the newsroom as Katharine Grahams granddaughter announced jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, wasas buying the paper. She read a statement in which she made clear he strongngly subscribes to the journalistic values of the Washington Post. Lets take off the pundit hats. Give me your personal reaction. Lois, you wrote a fine piece for politico. Thank you. My first reaction was shock. I was home, working. I got in the car, and went back to the office. It was a little bit of sadness, and then i thought maybe this is a od thing. Maybehave tried everything. The model needs to be blown up and ybe jeff bezos will bring a fresh eye. Colby, who would have thought the grahams would give up the newspaper . I was the last person to think that. This is the second time the Washington Post rocked my world the first timime was in marc, 1954, when i reported to duty to deliver theewspaper and saw the times herald had been shockers one was a because of the pre