captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. tom hudson is off tonight, jeff yastine joins us. treasury secretary timothy geithner delivered a pep talk today on the new rules to reform wall street and the banking system. speaking to business leaders at new york university, not far from wall street, geithner promised the reforms would not crimp innovation or competition, jeff. susie, the financial regulatory reforms were signed a few weeks ago by the president, and today geithner said the government will move quickly to put them in place and there won t be layers of red tape. susie: the treasury secretary also had a tip for wall street: don t wait for washington to draft every rule before you start changing how you do business. get out ahead of the process and out in front of your competitors. susie: also talking about the economy today, ben bernanke. echoing his testimony to congress last week. the federal reserve chairman told a legislative conference
friday riders an extra $8 a month. in northwest, jane watrel, news 4. wasn t it mild. the air conditioner didn t come on and stay on. it is a nice change. temperatures 5 degrees cooler than average. only made it up into the low 80s. today not bad by early august standards, but it will be warmer, but silver lining on the cloud. there will be more sunshine than yesterday as well. you ve got to take the good with the bad. outside on your tuesday morning, temperatures are in the mid and upper 60s out west in the blue ridge in the panhandle of west virginia. in town, temperatures thanks to a little extra cloud cover have held in the low to mid-70s. 75 in washington and 72 degrees in waldorf this morning, 72 degrees in manassas, 73 in sterling. no rain in our area but there are showers up across northwest ohio. we will have a slight chance of showers by later on this afternoon and this evening. can t completely rule one out around town as well. most of us will be dry today. the
by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. tom hudson is off tonight, jeff yastine joins us. treasury secretary timothy geithner delivered a pep talk today on the new rules to reform wall street and the banking system. speaking to business leaders at new york university, not far from wall street, geithner promised the reforms would not crimp innovation or competition, jeff. susie, the financial regulatory reforms were signed a few weeks ago by the president, and today geithner said the government will move quickly to put them in place and there won t be layers of red tape. susie: the treasury secretary also had a tip for wall street: don t wait for washington to draft every rule before you start changing how you do business. get out ahead of the process and out in front of your competitors. susie: also talking about the economy today, ben bernanke. echoing his testimony to congress
captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. tom hudson is off tonight, jeff yastine joins us. treasury secretary timothy geithner delivered a pep talk today on the new rules to reform wall street and the banking system. speaking to business leaders at new york university, not far from wall street, geithner promised the reforms would not crimp innovation or competition, jeff. susie, the financial regulatory reforms were signed a few weeks ago by the president, and today geithner said the government will move quickly to put them in place and there won t be layers of red tape. susie: the treasury secretary also had a tip for wall street: don t wait for washington to draft every rule before you start changing how you do business. get out ahead of the process and out in front of your competitors. susie: also talking about the economy today, ben bernanke. echoing his testimony to congress last week. the federal reserve chairman told a legislative conference
involve because it s not because it s newsweek but the state of our business, particularly the print aspect of our business would have to involve a commitment to only losing so much money as you buy this or any other enterprise. what do you think? yeah. well, i think a tough question that media reporters must ask sidney harman is will newsweek continue to be a money pick? do you have any plan to turn it around and without radical cuts in staff, i can tell you we know what stuff costs and with what newsweek is losing, there is no clear path back to profitability. but don graham had to sell his family jewel and so he wanted to do it with someone that he was comfortable with. it was more a matter of the optics of it than the numbers crunching. mike allen, we will see when that thing becomes official. good reporting on politico this morning. have a good week. ahead, michael bloomberg makes a statement about his political future and new numbers. how many americans are turning