Ashley president obama speaking from North Carolina in a few minutes on a new effort to boost manufacturing, hopefully create jobs. Rich edson with a preview. Rich ashley, this is part of a private initiative the president announced last year in his state of the union address. The white house is calling the president s year of action previewing the white house fighter saying he will be looking for areas of bipartisan cooperation but he wont be waiting on congress to act. He will use his executive authority his pen and his phone to work with anyone to get things done. On this republicans say they are skeptical. If he is truly serious about getting the economy back on track and creating jobs, he will do more than just talk about job creation. Or bipartisanship today. He will actually work with us on rail Bipartisan Solutions to get there. Rich this evening at 5 00 he will meet with Senate Democrats whwill come hit the white house. Back to you. Ashley rich edson, thank you much. Lori appl
Martha stewarts fabulous photos going viral. What she reveals about why she loves about her drone and how shes living with a good thing. Good morning, america. Well, now that martha has got one, we all got to get one. I was thinking she could send the drone to my house around thanksgiving with a fully prepared meal. Oh, yeah, delivery. Well hear more about martha, Martha Stewarts drone in a bit. We do have a lot to get to, though. Headlines overnight on that fastmoving Ebola Outbreak. New warnings out and many people wondering if it could trigger an even bigger epidemic. Latest numbers coming in. 1,323 cases right now. 729 deaths. Abcs bazi kanani is tracking it all from washington. Good morning, bazi. Reporter good morning, george. Stringent new measures this morning to contain the outbreak. In liberia, schools are now closed until further notice. And everyone is being ordered to stay home this friday while public facilities are disinfected. In west africa this morning, doctors screen
Happy. Food and dogs. Dennis christmas season, the tree over there. Dagen holiday tree. Connell i know. Iatollowing up. To start it off at the top of the hour at the Stock Exchange. Nicole good morning. Things are looking down again. The dow and the s p down four days in our row. We will s what hstapens between now and then, right now, down 56 points, thousand eight thirtythree. And the nasdaq composite down 9 points, a quarter of 1 . The big picture is everybody is moving to the fed. The fed keeper as soon as this month, there is a m ting this month and with economic news, better cdc dropped o begin tapering. The s p 500, apple a new high, cant leave that out. o i appen thank you. Connell the movement demanding a 15 an hour wage for fastfood workers which they organize these walk outs and stryes in a ht country and process activities in 100 more. Vid lee miller in brooklyn, new york with the latest. What is going on . Just about half an hours time the rally is expected to be held here
Connell markets now begins with the news that is breaking. Charlie gasparino joins us from the newsroom. Charlie the little bit bored. It may happen. It is about 4000 people combined. Mergers are never easy. There are always synergies to be found. Publicly, they have said nothing. Spokespeople will not comment. In past segments, they have talked about synergies. Spitzer is contemplating fairly significant cuts. The numbers he is going around are pretty significant. Clearly, job cuts are in the air over there. This is pretty interesting. The New York Stock Exchange keeps a pretty large workforce. Ice is pretty thin. The New York Stock Exchange has a lot of duplication. Twenty lawyers doing the same thing. It is that duplication that he tends to take out as this merger progresses. It is set to close in the fall. After it closes, that is when you can see these job cuts. Large cuts, largely done at the New York Stock Exchange side. The combined cuts could be about 30 of the 4000 people at
Do you think they have a case. Log on to the show, use the keeptalking. Fox friends starts right now. Bye. Good morning. It is thursday, july 31, 2014. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. The house gets the green light to sue the president for making his own laws, but the president just laughed it off. Stop being mad all the time. Stop just hating all the time. And today he plans another executive action. Surprise. And we now have the lois lerner email she wishes got lost as well, and they reveal why she may have been targeting conservatives. Because she thinks republicans are [bleep] and [bleep]. Were going to tell you what she was typing straight ahead. The video that just will make you happy. Good boy. Theres more to this. Another happy homecoming. A soldier and his dog join us live this hour. Mornings are better with friends. And squeeze and squeeze. Its richard simmons. The best exercise for your mind is fox friends. Hes our most bedazzled guest. Hes pretty fit. Usually fit people are pretty