Using its 32 billion endowment to invest in firms fueling, change. Then, years of living dangerously. Everybody thinks Climate Change is about polar bears and melting glaciers. I think it is a big mistake. This is 100 of peoples story. Film maker James Cameron and other hollywood superstars like don cheadle, matt damon, and Harrison Ford have collaborated on a new series looking at the devastating impact of Climate Change around the world. Finally, imagine living in a socialist usa. People are completely ignorant about what socialism really is. Isy are just told that it evil, that it is antidemocratic. And i thought, we really need to tell them the truth. We will speak with editors Frances Goldin and michael smith. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A secret Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the cias torture program questions the programs underlying Legal Framework and accuses the agency of impeding
Best day of the year, the dow has to add more than 198 points. Its having no trouble doing that right now, bill, but as we know, the last hour this year and, in fact, part of last year as well has often been when we see the market pull back a little bit. Weve seen rumors again, reports actually, we just confirmed about perhaps some russian activity in the Southern Region near chechnya. The russians tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. But we apparently already knew that about. It was a test that was already scheduled. It went successful, it was a nonevent so we move on. And move up. The markets moved up on that news. And a reminder, here is where we stand. The dow adding 235 points, 1. 5 , same for the s p 500 at 1,873. Less than 2 from 1,900 and the nasdaq adding almost 75, 4,351 is the level there. Strong day. Yes, it is. Lets talk about it in our closing bell exchange. Gemma godfrey from london. We have amy wu, dick burrige. Tom carsten and our own Rick Santelli. Ji gemma,
The numbers are out. It could be good news for the white house. The congressional Budget Department says this could be lest than first thought. Libby casey is joining us from washington. Let the spending begin. What are the new numbers from the cbo . It expects lest numbers, when it deals with the obamacare, says the insurance cost provision are expelle expected t about 36 billion. 5 billion less than a few months ago. When we look at subsidies the cbo says theyre expected to cost lest than expected because the Insurance Companies are using tighter cost control. And are insurance premiums, how much you have to fork over, there was a real concern that premiums would skyrocket and americans would pay more out of pocket based on who was joining these health care exchanges. The cbo thinks it might go up slightly but perhaps 100 per year for standard plans and may go up in subsequent years, 2016, theyre talking about 6 but not the huge skyrocketing that was feared by many in the obama admin
Potter. In normandy ass the specter of ukraine hangs over the g7 meetings and the dday anniversary. We begin with matt miller and mary barra planning internal incompetence and negligence for the delayed recall. Addressingra today gms 200,000 employees in a town hall style meeting, public rebroadcast as well, saying she and her team had read the 300page report from an independent investigator hired by the company, the same one that help to deal with the bankruptcy of lehman brothers. As a result, she and her executive team have either fired or forced into retirement 15 workers either directly or indirectly responsible for the ignition switch failure and really the failure to report it to hire up executives of the company. Five employees are still with the company that have received some sort of disciplinary action. She was not very specific, did not give us names, but we know that at least one Senior Lawyer for General Motors has been let go, as well as a couple of engineers who were un
Unemployment, first friday of the month, that means jobs. Bloombergyrolls best for accuracy is with us today. Consumer credit will be coming out. A couple of earnings ash really just one. Joseph a bank. Go into the store, get one free. That is joseph a bank, right . Like by five, get one free. A serious note, today is the 70th anniversary of dday. President obama finished making the remarks at the ceremony. That is a live shot you are looking at. With so much to talk about. The cemetery started two days after that he 44, later on. You talk about on the unknown atd there are 307 unknown this american cemetery. One person from world war i, president roosevelts son is from world war i. Everyone else from world war ii. Have you been there . I have not been there. I did not get there. Michael mckee has been there twice. The United States of america, you see the beach in the distance it is remarkable. Rick atkinson will join us in the next hour. We are thrilled to bring the great author to y