Ever before. Ions you wrote in eros of equal opportunities is among the greatest stresses to our exceptionalism as a nation, but it also provides us with an exciting and opportunity up historic opportunity to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream. The millions trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource for america. Just think of what it would mean for our country to gain the full use of the talents and abilities of all people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives , help build the next Great American company. They would be doctors in our hospitals, scientist in our labs. Customers for our businesses and partners in our investments. Leaders in our government, pastors in our churches. We are a great country, despite the fact that we have over 40 Million People stuck in poverty. Imagine how much greater we would be if they were not. Imagine how much greater we would be if the dreams and talents of over 40 million human 40 million hu
Unnamed regulators. Restaurants are up 6 . Whys that . Clarence otis has agreed to step down by the end of this year. Investors have been unhappy with his turnaround. In the meantime, president obama may grant work permits as soon as next month to millions of undocumented immigrants, marking the first major action on immigration. Mattingly with more on this. What can the white house do on its own . What we have heard and seen behind the scenes, Top Obama Administration officials have been working to try and figure out what they can do to address some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants. What we know at this point in is two realre tracks they are considering. Work permits for undocumented immigrants, primarily those that are the parents of u. S. Citizens or guardians of u. S. Citizens. That is a couple million individuals there. They are considering the possibility of expanding a deferred action plan they put into place in 2012 for children brought to the u. S. That was a plan tha
Lets get straight to one of our top stories of the day. Volkswagen shares gaining this morning. Europes largest carmaker reported a Third Quarter profit that surged past estimates. Hans nichols has the details. These numbers are so good there can only be one explanation. Ths secretlyyourt learned to drive and are buying volkswagens on the sly. They are up 16 . You see a huge increase in analyst expectations. When you look at profit margin , it isvolkswagen brand 2. 3 . The goal is to get all the way to 6 . Last year, they were 2. 9 . They have high labor costs, especially in germany. Look at the cost per worker per hour. You see a huge difference, almost double in germany. Day in their biggest factory. We will have a look at that later on in the show. Im really looking forward to it. You talked about some of the brands. Ou mentioned audi n china andaudi i skoda as well. Part of this is a general recovery of the auto situation on the continent. Overall, it has been a pretty good story o
Or working with darpa as we are doing and with fda on this toxicity chip. Working on the brain initiative, a new effort which isugoing to be focused between nih and nsf and darpa and a number of private industries and philanthropies trying to make sure these kind of interdisciplinary efforts that jim was talking about are tapped into in every way. We are always looking at that. We are even looking at our peer review system to ask whether while we claim its the best in the world, are we sure about that . And are we sure our peer review system is reflecting the scientific opportunities of 2014 and not some earlier stage, and do we these to rethink about the way in which those peer review panels are established as far as what disciplines they represent. And we have the tools now with various kinds of text mining to really look and see what is going on in science that we might want to make adjustments for. So were pretty bullish about that. Another thing we are doing, again, this reflects
Unprecedented inauguration. Garth brooks will perform at the ceremony. His message for unity. Fox and friends first starts right now. The grounds will change neil you want to take the song tie in guests today by garth brooks at the inauguration, cant get anything has to me, producers. Shannon a genius in case you werent aware. You are watching fox and friends first tuesday morning. Neil Nations Capital on high alert that of the inauguration concerns in testifying as protesters may disguise themselves as american soldiers. Reporter good morning. In 24 hours this city is locked down in unprecedented ways never before seen. It has taken me an hour to get to this location to report for you and later today even more precautions which major bridges into the city will close later this afternoon in addition to the 25,000 National Guard troops the acting defense secretary chris miller said taking no chances including vetting the street saying, quote, as is normal for military support for large