Futures this morning after those gains, youll see there are still green arrows indicating a higher open, as well. Dow futures indicated up by about 44 points. S p futures indicated up by close to 5 points and the nasdaq is up close to 14 points. An rue, ill send it back over to you. Lets talk about the deal of the morning. Facebook is now getting into the wearables market. The social media giant acquired a Company Called oculus vr for about 2 billion. They make Virtual Reality headsets. Their main product called the oculus rift is primarily used for gaming. Mark zuckerberg posting a statement on facebook saying after games, were going to make oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor or facetoface just by putting on goggles in your home. I know where i know. Youre waiting for the sound effects in the what has driven he ever what drives all of
Administration more on that later also a fan. There is any perth by him and watch im an irrigated youre wanting to hurt america. We did today with the latest in so many of the art speaks with a series on military way east. The us military is now strategizing ways to drive down the troops in afghanistan at the end of twenty fourteen but when the american person now isnt the only task at hand. After a decade of war pentagon officials are trying to figure out how to drive down billions of dollars in military equipment while he was looking and we are the pentagons spending went wrong. Art evening and lopez has more. When it comes to text you money. Snell agency knows how to spend it with earth and the us military the pentagon led to its own device will spend money on anything over the past decade defense spending has claimed they were part of the federal budget with aggression is ramping up first in afghanistan and then iraq. In fact the United States spends more money on defense than the
Ukrainian police crash proiranian demonstrators. We look at the catalyst behind the chaos. All that and more coming up. First, lets get the market. A mixed market with the dow just barely in market territory. The s p is up a quarter of a percent. A little bit of a rebound in the nasdaq up 7 10 of one percent. Up 25 points right now. Want to get to the big three. Stocks and watches as we had to the close. Olivia stearns is watching them for us. Lets start with amazon. It has been bearing the brunt of the selloff in the past couple of days. Facebook google also up high today. Investors are buying back into amazon. Amazon still has a price to earnings ratio about 578. A different story in biotech. Biotech is still down today. Leading and lowering the shares off about three percent. Come undernuing to pressure to lower its price tag of its 84,000 new pill to treat hepatitis c. Scripps came out saying, they will not reimmerse customers reimburse customers. This is an interesting story. A li
Robert gates on his new memoir and his criticism of president obama. Is it fair with u. S. Troops still in harms way . Well ask secretary gates in his first live interview about the book. And golden night. Big win for American Hustle and 12 years a slave, even a surprise award for one of the hosts. And the golden globe goes to amy poehler, parks and recreation. We have it all covered from the winners to the red carpet today, monday, january 13th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Golden Globes with matt lauer, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza, and Savannah Guthrie live from los angeles. And welcome to a special split edition of today on a monday morning, im matt lauer alongside Natalie Morales, Savannah Guthrie, al roker, and carson daly out in los angeles. Savannah, it seems just like hours ago i left you at table 212 at the golden globe awards. You know why, because it was just hours ago. Literally. And when you say good morning, matt. T
Reasonably said you are cutting out groups that may be forprofit and have a lot of capacity in the area. We sort of weighed that and from most of the outreach we did we landed on the side that the nonprofit requirement was on balance, a good thing to have in there. We had a good conversation with the park as license folks a few days ago and i hope they dont mind me saying that they are willing to explore with us an opportunity for the Parks Alliance to extend its nonprofit status to smaller groups that would have trouble getting the wherewithal to get the 501 c 3 . So we think there are groups that are already 501 c 3 and set up to do this to extend their umbrella around the steward groups and make us more comfortable that was the way to go with that. In response to your answer that would not prevent any company from forming 501 c 3 . We have hurdles a private Company Simply forms a 501 c 3 and putsn the board of directors their ceo, their treasurer and their something else, that is no