Are you sloppy . Yeah. Are you this is horrible. Why did i even rush here . Oh, shut up, dave. Hes from nebraska hes a war hero. Hes from nebraska thats a qualification . All that matters. New orleans hosts a big party. On cbs this morning. Some say their favorite part of the super bowl game is the commercials. Ooh that really targets their key demographic. 14yearold boys making 500,000 a year. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning from super bowl park at Jackson Square new orleans. We want to get right to some breaking news from ankara turkey. As you were sleeping in the west, a suicide bomber set off an explosion outside the American Embassy, killing himself and one other person. Mark phillips is in london. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning, norah, charlie. The attack is said to have been by a suicide bomber and took place at one of the Security Guards to the Embassy Building. The actual attack was captured in this cell phone footage. The bomber seems to have s
Drop box. Were going to look at what woodsides hire means for drop box. He is a long time google veteran. Google is famous railroad mapping the earth but its satellite images can be as old as three years old. Were going to look at the startups trying to change that. The two biggest Cable Operators in the country are joining forces in a deal ha is nothing short of shocking. Comcast agreed to buy time. Rner cable for 45. 2 billion this faces a length thay approval process. Fit goes through comcast will have sealed its dominance turnover industry. Weve got a great round table of guests to talk about this today. Jon erlichman is with us from l. A. Peter cook is in washington, d. C. With the regular tear angle. Understand new york alex sherman joining us. John, im going to start with you, how did this happen . We know that there has been reported a lot on this. This enter from chart tore get bigger. In a world where people have a lot of options outside traditional cable. Facebook, any big p
Instead. Welcome to Market Makers. Im stephanie ruhle. I am matt miller in for air schatzker. Lucky me on this friday. I hope things dont get too out of hand. Usually the day i will not say go off the rails, but it gets a little cray cray. If olivia shows up, things will go bonkers. Breaking news to keep us grounded. New home sales are out. You guys are a right on this friday. Breaking news as it pertains to new home sales for the month of , just belowsing estimates of 470,000 from analysts we surveyed at bloomberg. August whichf the was a sixyear high. August newmont sales revised down by 7. 5 . New home sales for last month down just a tad compared to the analyst figures coming in at 457,000. 467,000. Lets bring in the guy who knows the difference. For more on new home sales, lets bring michael mckee. Give us the real deal. News because it is kind of bad news. We thought we would have a big decline in new home sales, and we did not. The reason is new home sales back to july were revi
Opener, your world in 90 seconds. Its a big effort to make sure the game is as safe as it can be. New orleans goes into lockdown ahead of super bowl xlvii. New orleans has added more agents and 200 troopers and coast guard ships will be on the Lower Mississippi river. Can i get in there with a gun . No. Can i get in there with a bomb . No. The plane made an Emergency Landing in portland. He is sitting in the seat and hes very aware. Last i heard he was on oxygen. In alabama, the hostage standoff is entering its fourth day. The gunman and the 5yearold boy he kidnapped remain in an underground bunker. Why this shooter wont release this young boy is hard for me to understand. New york has lost an icon, threeterm mayor ed koch from 1978 until 1989. I did not feel comfortable taking a risk. It was about the president and the inauguration. The brave any questions . Manhunt in texas after a prosecutor was fatally shot outside this courthouse. The search is on for two gunmen. Breaking news fro
Host also joining us for the conversation, ted gotsch of telecommunications report, serves as senior editor. Senator smith, could you start by talking to us about how people watch television in the current day as say even opposed to fife years ago five years ago . Guest well, clearly, a lot is happening in telecommunications generally, and broadcasting is affected by that. Were sort of the original wireless, but we remain highly relevant because what we do tends, it is local, and as to those who want to get it the oldfashioned way, it is free. And yet you have satellite, you have cable, and now you have the internet through hulu and netflix and others that are other ways for people to access television. So television remains highly relevant to the future because when you look at the top hundred programs that are watched, 90 of them are broadcast content. And so i think the future of broadcast television is very bright, indeed. Host what are the challenges then looking forward and the f