Congress passed a twoweek funding bill ahead of the deadline. Later, we talked to a reporter about al frankens host good morning, it is friday december 8 are the headline, congress reels from resignations. Said on the floor yesterday that he would resign from his seat here it the house side, republican franks of arizona will also step down over allegations that he asked female subordinates to bear his child. ,epublican line guest 202 7481 ,emocrats line 202 7488000 and independents 202 7488002. Arizona line today for residents. 202 7488003 host many of you just listend to al franken on the floor yesterday. This is what he had to say that he came to noon eastern time. [video clip] statesing in the United Senate has been the great honor of my life. I know in my heart that nothing i have done as a senator, nothing has brought this honor on this institution. I am confident that the Ethics Committee would agree. Nevertheless, today i am announcing that in the coming weeks, i will be resigni
Won reelection. The labour party not. They likely will have to form some sort of Coalition Government with the Scottish National party. There he is. Arriving at 10 downing street as i mentioned, with his wife. He will be making further remarks on the future of the u. K. We will be hearing you any of his comments bring you any of his comments as soon as they cross. In the meantime mcdonalds april Sales Numbers back in the u. S. , just crossing. I want to get straight to the breaking desk with julie hyman for details. Julie these number are not as bad as analysts estimated, but the beat is coming from outside the United States. The company has not yet seen progress here in the u. S. Overall, the global samestore sales number was down half what analysts estimated. A drop of zero point 6 . In the u. S. , the decline was deeper down 2. 3 , exactly in line with what analysts predicted. Looking at the beach, it is coming from outside beat it is coming outside. Exley rising 1 . The estimate wa
Cameron called for unity. Pm cameron i would like to reclaim a mantle we should have never lost, a mantle of one nation, one United Kingdom. That is how i will govern if i unfortunate fortunate enough to hold a government in the coming days. Olivia it was a crushing defeat for labor leader ed miliband and raises questions about his political future. The Scottish National party won 56 of the 59 seats in scotland almost shutting out the other two major parties. We will know in 2. 5 hours from now whether marchs disappointing jobs report was more than a onetime event. Job figures at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time this morning. 235,000 jobs were raised and the jobless rate fell. 1 to 5. 4 . In march, employers hired the fewest workers in 15 months. President obama is in Portland Oregon today where he will push for the asian trade deal and have an appearance at nike headquarters. Nike announcing that if congress oks the trade deal, the company will increase manufacturing in the u. S. Nike says tha
Friday. You are watching Market Makers. Olivia i am Olivia Sterns in for Stephanie Ruhle. Erik we have some breaking economic news. Mike mckee is in the newsroom. Mike wholesale inventories up 1 10 of 1 . The forecast was for a 3 10 gain and this is why it matters. The Commerce Department assumed a big gain and inventories when it calculated gdp. This suggests we did not get it. The ford strike represented a lot of delayed imports coming in and they should come in wholesale inventories. They are not, and that may mean gdp in the First Quarter was even lower than we thought. The good news, they are set to build inventories and we may see accelerated not only imports but manufacturing. It is a number worth watching. It does tell us where the economy is. Olivia michael mckee, thank you so much. The labor market bounced back last month, adding 223,000 jobs in the month of april. The jobless rate falling by 1 10 of 1 to 5. 4 , the lowest level in seven years. All this after a march jobs rep
Still running while youre putting in a whole new system speed well, im that we have had discussions and i think thats one of the reasons that the epa gave us, among others, a consultative role is a plant needs more times to retrofit under the mat standard. Even if you give them more time to retrofit, there will be downtime during the retrofit. So going to issues of electrical generation not existing in certain areas. The gentlemans time has expired. Im very sorry to say, youre not going to be the last person to ask questions. [inaudible] mr. Chairman . May i make an inquiry a few . I didnt get asked everything i wanted to, but i did know what had already been asked. What you asked to leave the record over a couple of weeks if we may direct questions . Absolutely. Yeah, we will have about the natural gas sector and Electricity Sector that no thank you mr. Chairman. Ir we will have it open for ten days and work with you to get the questions to the commissioners. At this time i recognize