According to people friendly with the matter, they have had discussions about a potential acquisition or joint venture. Verizon is interested in aol technology that deals with the automated buying and selling of ads online and wants to expand its mobile video offerings. New Republican Congress goes to work in washington today. First thing on the to do list, keeping the fight in the family. John faces the challenge to his leadership from two house republicans, one from texas and one from florida have announced they will run for speaker. Their chances are slim. They would need to find 30 republicans were willing to vote against john boehner. In florida, samesex marriages are now legal. The dan was originally set to expire today, but couples in miamidade council got an announcement when the judge cleared the way for samesex weddings to begin a day early. They are now legal in 36 states and the district of columbia. Katy perry is rehearsing for the super bowl starting today. You will be up
Fourth quarter. And we go to washington where peter cook has the latest on tighter sanctions on iran. Peter, good afternoon. Good afternoon mark. There is new developments, the Senate Voting on him posing imposing tougher sanctions on iran. That vote was 18 to four. This legislation was opposed by the Obama Administration because they worry any new sanctions against iran could jeopardize ongoing talks and undermine International Support for the negotiations. Several democrats said that they support this legislation. But they said they would not support bringing to the senate floor before the end of march to give the administration more time to work out a deal. That is where it stands right now. At the first action of the committee, chaired by richard shelby. The second time that you have the gavel in your hands. Thank you peter. Why was it important to move forward now, given what the white house says we could risk undermining the talks . It was obvious with an 18 to four vote, a lot o
Well as you look at those. The stocks have been beaten down to a certain extent, but a stronger dollar has helped them along. There they are. Back to you. Lori thank you, nicole p at a adam General Motors making changes in the Management Team at the government finished selling its stake in the auto market. Jeff. Jeff the headline, no more crappy cars. She has not done any interviews yet, the last time she did one was a few years ago, actually. She did say famously w cant mae crappy cars anymore. It is that simple. She boiled down a complicated dress code policy to two words, dress appropriately. Tape provided by General Motors. Todays gm is vibrant. We have been through a lot, we learned a lot of lessons but we have never lost our spirit of wanting to win. Jeff she has personally been through a lot. Started as an intern. She has done a number of jobs, she handled hr for a while. Other winners in all of this, lets take a look at them. A former ceo, the new nonexecutive chairman of the b
Is up nearly 27 this year, which is the best year we have seen since late 1998. We have a big deal today. Talking about the food company, u. S. Foods reached a deal to merge. The total enterprise of the transaction everything included is actually over 8 billion. Up 11. 5 . Back to you. Adam so, deal or no deal. Negotiators in the house and senate work to hammer out a budget deal before the house leaves for recess at the end of the week. Rich edson with the latest. They just got back to work, i thought. Lawmakers are not getting into town until tomorrow, much of it because of the weather. We have been hearing for the last week they have been close. One of the breakthrough is when democrats publicly started telling them they would not blow up the project just to increase or extend longterm Unemployment Benefits. Still, senior aides said they had not reached a top lines been a number. Trying to increase fees in certain areas, government workers but more workers into their pension accounts
Markets now and we have a lot coming up. We have big issues in a few minutes, we start with stocks and the markets pulling back a little bit from record highs that were set yesterday hanging above 16,000 on the dow. Nicole petallides on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Nicole the Dow Jones Industrials pulling back, 16,008 holding at 16,000 mark to the s p holding 18 under market, a record close for the s p 500, down two points, squeezing out a gain in the ticketing nasdaq, worth noting the s p is coming off of its 49 food record high, a stellar year for stocks and we are seeing stocks on track to break two session win streak. Named leading the dow include Goldman Sachs, jpmorgan, chief financials doing well on the heels of what we heard from the volcker rule, that was a unanimous vote and microsoft, pfizer and cocacola weigh in on the Dow Jones Industrials. Connell you talkedabout the fdic vote on the volcker rule and that is the story, the first of five regulators voting on the new ru