9 00 in london. Good morning. You are watching the pulse. Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is not here today. She will be back on monday. We are speaking on ifo, but right now im going to bring you the numbers. Hans will be able to break them down. Ifo confidence may number at 108. 5. Median forecast 108. 3. The Current Assessment index 114 point i think we are seeing a slight dip. Essentially, fairly stable numbers being generated. At the moment, what youre seeing is while you are seeing a reduction in things like pmi and maybe headline gdp numbers what you are starting to see is a pickup in investment again. We will break that down further in a moment. Lets talk about greece. Lets talk about what has been happening over the last 24 hours. Speaking in riga, Angela Merkel has reiterated their is still a lot to do regarding talks with greece. I will have some bilateral talks and have already spoken last night with the french president and the greek Prime Minister. It was a very friendly
Good morning and thank you for joining us. And lets get things started with a look at the weather forecast. This a live look. Plenty of sunshine this morning. It is a quiet morgue. And were dealing with it is chilly out there. Look at temperatures. Freezing and 34. And 30s and fairfield. We expect a cool afternoon. Sunny and mild. Were going to talk about rain coming up. And the naacp the three white students accused of hate crimes should get stiffer charges. They support the felony charges and instead of the misdemeanors. And false imprisonment should be added. The three 18 year olds placed a lock around the neck of a Freshman Student, calling him racial name 3 leash 5 and hanging a Confederate Flag in the room. A fourth student was suspended on friday. Some in the way area are reaching out to help those hit by the typhoon in the philippines. They were gathering donations to send to the victims in the philippines. This week the center shipped supplies off to the victims. We expect mor
Insurance to avoid a penalty, enrollment under the Affordable Care act ends at midnight tonight, and it looks like there are plenty of folks who have waited until the last day. People have been lining up at some of the popup locations where they can get the paperwork started. Thats on top of the people who have been signing up online the last couple of days. David shuster joins us. The Health Care Website received over 4 million visits over the weekend and that doesnt include a very heavy search today. By noon today the call centers designed to help people had registered more than 400,000 calls. It does appear that the program is going to be close or perhaps blow by the initial signup goals. Either way, the health care into state and federal years. Enrollment results, 9. 5 Million People that previously did not have coverage gained coverage. 45 to 48 million haas year to between 35. 5 and. 5 million today. This is 38. 5 million today. Polling by gallup, going into march the percentage
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World cup excitement hitting a new high around the globe. A do or die with belgium is just about 48 hours away. Natalie live in brazil with all of the action for us today. Sunday, june 29th, 2014. This is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. Im lester holt alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. There is a lot more to go in the world cup but anybody that watched chile felt like it was the game. Brazil, the home country, the tension and the crowd. It comes down to a shootout. Specially because you know there will be no more ties, one team will win and one will lose. That is what we love and hate about sports all in one. I feel like a shootout is kind of these guys have played their hearts out. I feel like somehow we are on. Or we would probably still be watching the game. Its fun walking through new york city, because you you hear the roar of the crowd in the park. Somebody has scored. We are going to check with