Medicaid is a huge program. A 4. 2 billion dollar staterun program. Hundreds of thousands of iowans benefit from it, and at this point its on track to change hands in 13 days. Amerigroup, amerihealth, united healthcare. Iowa is only days away from these three Companies Taking over medicaid and the Hawki Program which insures kids. Letters went out to families asking them to make their decision by february 17th about which company they want to use. But theres a major hiccups for people who have to make this choice their healthcare provider, whether thats a doctor, pharmacist, a clinic, a pediatrician, or case manager might not be signed up with one of the companies. Acccording to the department of human services. fs only 60 percent of providers in the state have signed contracts with all three of the private companies. 70 percent have signed with two. And 90 percent have signed with just one of the companies. cms website thats a major concern of cms the federal group that has to give it
This morning the u. S. Is said to be considering boosting security at a number of overseas airports as consensus grows that a bomb took down a russian jet in egypt and welcome to your world this morning and im in for stephanie sy. Im del walters and reports out of the uk this morning saying Electronic Communications intercepted by spy agencies suggesting a bomb may have been carried on to the plane before it took off and president obama making his first comments about the crash. I think there is a possibility that there was a bomb on board and we are taking that very seriously. Reporter right now thousands of british tourists still stranded at the airport at Sharm Elsheikh and officials are not allowing its planes to fly into egypt and al jazeeras paul brennan is live from london and paul what do we know about easy jet trying to get its flights out of Sharm Elsheikh . Well, the statement that came out from easy jet just a couple hours del was pretty strong and said egyptian authorities
This is Aljazeera America live in new york city. There is big news on the jobs front. The latest numbers out of the government just hours ago showing unemployment now falling to a seven year low. October seeing a huge surge in hiring and wall street is reacting at this hour, the dow opening though lower. Al jazeeras patricia sobga has the numbers. This was a surprise. It was a big surprise, and it was a big, big headline number. 271,000 jobed ad, thats nearly 100,000 more jobs than wall street was expecting. The Unemployment Rate down to 5 , down for the right reason, because the Labor Force Participation rate measuring the number of people in work are actively looking for a job held steady. That rate went down for the right reasons. We had very strong job creation and in white collar jobs, really strong job creation in construction. Mining was an area of weakness, but that is overshadowed by the goose news in this report, including average hourly wages. Average hourly wages jumped 9 c
Domestic economy. Dramatic capital outflows everyone is pulling money out of china. It has been going on all summer but the reaction in the market on the losing of Monetary Policy is amazing. Across all Asset Classes, futures up across the board, a gain of 1. 5 on the nasdaq. Everything is gaining. Looking at the 10 year yield, rising as investors sell debt to buy riskier assets. Take a look at european stocks, up across the board. The dax is up 3 . The rest are following up. If you look at commodities, you see gains in copper right now. You see gains in gold right now. You see gains in oil right now and you see movement and currencies as well, the reaction has been global and swift and dramatic and its been across the board. David lets hear the first word vonnie area with begin with american airlines, the company had a better than expected thirdquarter. Earnings Beat Estimates. Says fuel prices helped. Jack dorsey sharing of wealth as he donates 1 3 his stock to employees at 200 milli
Seen in iowa, where carson has already taken the lead . Which the donald disputes sot trump i am number 2 in iowa. I said, i dont believe it. Campaign critics have been saying trump is out of touch after a monday town hall in which he described starting off his career with quote a small loan of 1million from his father. Expect that issue to be raised during tomorrows republican debate. Where contenders like marco rubio, jeb bush, and john kasich are trying to convince voters their government experience and demeanor is more befitting of the oval office. Kasich hitting trump on twitter after the businessman and reality star bragged that he made ford keep jobs in ushitting back with one word, nope. Stephanie donald trump is in iowa tonight. The rally starts at 6 oclock. Its at sioux city west high school. And well bring you a live report stephanie and that cnbc debate is tomorrow night at 7 in boulder, colorado. Look for a complete wrap up, including live analysis from our local five expe