And im wilfred frost. A good morning to you. We have it all covered for you coming up. Barclays latest numbers and restructuring plans, glencores rough results, a legal victory for apple, and so much more. Plus, well talk politics on this super tuesday. First, lets check on the market. S markets. Looking to recover after a lateday selloff, ending february in the red for the s p and the nasdaq. Dow eked out a gain for the month, though a loss for the day. Futures up this hour 84. Nasdaq futures up more than 25 after an upbeat done in asia after europe has managed to shrug off wall streets selloff yesterday. Absolutely right. Lets have a quick look at that asian trading session. Positive territory. A response to yesterdays rrr cut we discussed yesterday on the show. This first trading session since that happened. Also had Chinese Government data showing large factory activity contracted for the seventh straight month in february, falling short of estimates. Chinese pmi dropped but remain
Reporter some really good news. The concert here at the theater on the square raised 5,000 for the audrey potts foundation, which is trying to eliminate Cyber Bullying. [music] music with a message. Young performers on stage giving it their all. This rock for a reason concert is raising funds for the audrey audrey. Ott foundation, audrey was 15 after committing suicide after being sexually assaulted at a party after she passed out after drivenning alcohol. Photos of the assault were posted online. He later messages friends, my life is over. Three teenaged boys pled guilty. She talked to her friend. He familys Foundation Takes the message of antiCyber Bullying into schools. The message, speak out if you see it happening. To get behind an educational effort, starting in the middle schools. Into the high schools and just giving kids some different opportunities and some understanding of what is going on and to try to stop this national epidemic. Layer larry potts says his daughter loved m
Gregg harper to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Defazio, for five minutes. Mr. Defazio well, yesterday the republicans released a vague press release saying it constituted a counteroffer to the president s road map to avoid driving over the fiscal cliff. Now, the republican plan purports to cut 1. 3 trillion and raise 800 billion in new revenues. It did contain four specifics. Four. Cut medicare specific num
Seven and they would become household names. Sy carpenter, gordon cooper, john glen, grisham, sh era, shepherd and slaton. The story of the mercury seven would become a book and a movie both called the right stuff. John serela recapped his nasa career and his life. Reporter by the time allen shepherds space suit shimmered, the United States was behind. Garren had already become the first human in space. The u. S. Was losing the space race. It was up to shepherd. He carried the duty of carrying the american pride. Shepherd had been a navy pilot before being chosen as one of the seven original mercury astronauts. All wanted to be first in space. But it was shepherd who was flying now. Higher, faster and farther than any american had ever gone. They all came over and hook my hand. Congratulations and filed out of the room. And i didnt see any of the bars i visited on the way home. Reporter shepherd sub orbital flight went perfectly. It lasted all of 15 minutes and 20 seconds. What a beaut
We accept the risk. We choose to go to the moon and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard. We have a good many talented scientists but we didnt make an effort for many yores and were behind and paying the price of having the soviet union and mode the propaganda advantage of sputnik. I have marvin caul. Marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into the United States. Hes 27. Its a great historic sicientifc state. At that time, we didnt know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. He was something to the effect american proudness. Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great super powers. President , could you give us your view sir of the soviet achievement of putting a man in or