0 first lady michelle obama speaking candidly about the health of our nation. even doing the dougie. when she participated in google plus hangout today. the first lady connected with kelly ripa and a bunch of other folks on google s video chat site. including one man who just lost a little bit more than 200 pounds. i just want to congratulate you on such a huge accomplishment. i know it s been a challenging journey. but you look amazing and, more importantly, i know you feel amazing. obviously, when my kids were little, they were, you know, weren t faced with the huge challenges you were faced with, but i never talked about weight in the household. we just started making changes. and we made changes in a way that didn t you know, it didn t make them feel badly about themselves. it didn t even make them feel any ownership over it, because truly kids that age can t control what they eat. first lady s first google hangout. now, let s look at the dow here. we re still flirting with t
south korea s president to re-affirm his commitment to korea s security and stability. when it comes to the payroll tax cut, it s one step forward and two steps back in congress. the house is expected to reject the senate s two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. house speaker john boehner says the house will be pushing a one-year extension. the idea the tax policy can be done two months at a time is a kind of activity that we see here in washington that really put our economy off its tracks. payroll tax cut along with emergency men fits will expire if congress does not act. the supreme court will set aside three days next spring to hear oral arguments on the federal health care law. proceedings will start march 26th with jurisdictional argument. on march 27th they ll discuss the individual mandate requiring people to purchase health insurance. on march 28th, they ll look at the issue of severability in other words, whether eliminating the individual mandate wou
clinton is just wrapping up a meeting with the japanese foreign minister at the department of state. a joint statement is expected to follow shortly. earlier president obama called south korea s president to re-affirm his commitment to korea s security and stability. when it comes to the payroll tax cut, it s one step forward and two steps back in congress. the house is expected to reject the senate s two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. house speaker john boehner says the house will be pushing a one-year extension. the idea the tax policy can be done two months at a time is a kind of activity that we see here in washington that really put our economy off its tracks. payroll tax cut along with emergency men fits will expire if congress does not act. the supreme court will set aside three days next spring to hear oral arguments on the federal health care law. proceedings will start march 26th with jurisdictional argument. on march 27th they ll discuss the indivi
fears of another meltdown spurring a frenzy. another brutal day for the dow. two brutal days in a row for a dow. the worst two days since 2008. live from london, at least stock futures this morning are stable. it s not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. what s happening? for the moment, it s not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadn t seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same here in europe. losses earlier on to today s session. firmly in the green for the moment. we ll, of course, have to see how the united states market bets trading, sort of dictate the trend heading towards the end of the week, christine. one of the reasons everybody s so worried or per
it s not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. what s happening? for the moment, it s not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadn t seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same here in europe. losses earlier on to today s session. firmly in the green for the moment. we ll, of course, have to see how the united states market bets trading, sort of dictate the trend heading towards the end of the week, christine. one of the reasons everybody s so worried or perhaps elated, on a positive note, we had the 23 the g-20 meeting. economists saying there seems to be a growing debt between what economists and the market says it should be and what politicians can realisticy d