Next tuesday is election day. Before going to the polls, voters want to understand the issues and know the candidates positions. Tonight, voters will have an opportunity to hear the Major Party Candidates for the presidency state their views on issues that affect us all. The league of women voters is proud to present this president ial debate, our moderator is howard smith. Thank you. The league of women voters is pleased to welcome to the cleveland, Ohio Convention center music hall president jimmy carter, the Democratic Partys candidate for reelection to the presidency, and governor Ronald Reagan of california, the Republican Partys candidate for the presidency. The candidates will debate questions onto mecca on domestic, economic, foreign policy, and National Security issues. The questions will be posed by a panel of distinguished journalists who are here with me. They are marvin stone, the editor of u. S. News world report, harold ellis, william hilliard, assistant managing editor
Vonnie in the united states, fractional gains for the s p, up about 0. 25 . 3. 3 two stocks, at t up on the news that elliott has taken quite a substantial , andion in the business part of that is that the stock rises by 50 , and that margins expand pretty rapidly. Up 3. 5 as well. It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow at the investor day. Investors looking for all sorts of answers, including whether les wexner continues to stay at the helm. Guy sticking with the markets and the Global Impact of trade and a long list of geopolitical concerns, we are joined now by mark redman, omers global head of private equity. Big canadian pension fund, so youve got a pretty clear view of what is happening around the world, and probably you and your colleagues invest into most of it. Lets talk about what you guys see in aggregate. Its been a very long economic cycle. Is it likely to come to an end . Mark thats a great question, and thanks for inviting omers onto the show. Much appreciat
Im john terrett in times square new york. Join me and a million other people as we all count down to 2014. New years celebrations in moscow went ahead as planned while those plans in st. Petersburg were canceled. The attackserthose responsible o attacks are still at large, and we have more now from volgograd. Reporter there was not much left on the trolley car when the am against arrived. Survivors were hanging on and volgograd hospital was less than ten minutes away. One of badly injured brought here. It felt like a huge electric shock. I didnt see anyone with a bomb. I was looking out the window, and i cant remember anything after that. Reporter for the second time in less than 24 hours the victims of another bombing, some with terrible burns. Dr. Alexander popoov said that they were carrying on several operations at a same type. Outside they posted casualty lists of those brought in by ambulance and where they were being treated. The relatives of injured scarcely able to believe tha
We have three people rolling joints for two days straight. Giving new meaning for Rocky Mountain high. Today smoking pot for fun is legal in colorado. [ music ] good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. On this january 1st, 2014. Im stephanie sy. After watching millions around the world celebrate the new year it was americas turn to ring in 2014 with midnight fireworks and festivities, the celebration on the west coast took place three hours ago. Thousands watched as the space needle went up. Further down the coast San Francisco had a 15 minute Fireworks Show over the bay and in chicago they brushed off a snow storm to view the fireworks over lake michigan. In new york more than a million packed into times square. Revellers packed in to see the ball drop. Supreme Court Justice so. Onya sotomyor returned to her home town, pressing the button that triggered the ball jot. She was at the center of a lastminute legal decision, hours before the Affordable Care act was set to take mect eff
In chicago, its tough to find some hopes for sale. Inventories are down about 30 compared to last year, and in some cases, bidding wars are breaking out on property. Reporter mark and kay home shopped for several months before final close on this threebedroom brick colonial. Our inventory was very low, and the places that were very nice or fit our needs go under contract very quickly. Reporter however, Rising Interest Rates could undermine the move. Affirm interest on a 30year fixed Rate Mortgage is 4 and a half percent, and thats a percent higher than a year ago. Real estate broker, scott newman, thinks that the prospect is prompting many of his clients to buy now, rather than wait. [ audio difficulties ] so here we are with a Million People, and there will be 150 americans watching on television, and about 1 billion people around the world, when they take all of the clips into account. Its a very very big, and rather cold event, john. And john, talk about the temperature out there. W