Normally do, and then it will be up to you to ask questions and whatever you want to talk about. We found out about the cspan coverage this morning but apparently you guys knew about it earlier in the week, because this is a team out of austin that has come here. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could find santa anna on a map. And they have come to be with us this afternoon as part of that. It is taped. The idea, i think, is they will send a tape back to d. C. And it will be unfiltered, unedited, the way i prefer it. So whoever runs it, whoever is responsible for that, thank you for letting us have access to the facility again. It is terrific. I will talk about some things in d. C. , then get going. The only thing congress has to do year in and year out is fond of the government. We do that through the appropriations process. Today is october 7, today is the seventh day of the new fiscal year. We should have gotten everything done at least before the end of september, and we didnt.
learned about the deal.. yo neighborhood store.. and mo live from the cbs bay area studios. this is kpix5 news. safeway. it is being sold. tonight, what we just learned about the deal, your neighborhood store and more importantly, your grocery bill. betty yu tells us what is going on. reporter: customers should see lower prices and some stores may even be remodeled, but some experts are not so convinced. safeway is hooking up with albertsons. not because it wants to, but because it has to. safeway is pushed in the middle. reporter: santa clara university expert says this $9 billion deal was inevitable. safeway features growing competitions from wal-mart and whole foods and trader joes. it is not your number one destination. it doesn t have a brand. it is the other store you go to to kind of get what you didn t get anywhere else. reporter: albertson s parent company claims this consolidation will mean lower prices and better customer services and it doesn t exp
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kpix 5 s betty yu says there could be lower prices but some are not convinced. reporter: safeway is hooking up with albertsons not because it wants to but because it has to. safeway is pushed in the middle. reporter: santa clara university retail expert [ non- english language ] says this $9 billion deal was inevitable. safeway faces growing competition from discount stores like walmart and upscale chains. what safeway is not the number one destination. it doesn t have a brand. it s that other store you go to, to kind of get what you didn t get anywhere else. reporter: albertsons parent company says this consolidation will mean lower prices and better customer service. it doesn t expect to close any safeway stores. but there are going to be stores that are closed. i think there s going to be unfortunately jobs lost. reporter: and if that s the case, the traditional shopping center landscape could also change. safeway has been here a long time. i think a lot o
good friday morning. i m john muller. and i m marci gonzalez in for diana perez. we begin with that tense one-hour phone call between president obama and russian president vladimir putin. it is the second time in less than a week the two leaders have talked about the crisis in ukraine. president obama urged a diplomatic solution while proposing a pullback of russian troops. putin upped the ante saying ukraine s government is not lem and the conversation did little to quell the violent protests in ukraine. abc s tahman bradley live in washington with the latest. good morning. reporter: john and marci, good morning. this standoff has taken a dangerous turn. secretary of state kerry returns home without a solution as vladimir putin digs in. with the crisis in ukraine rapidly escalate the slightest miscalculation could see it spiral out of control. reporter: the united states is offering vladimir putin a diplomatic solution. president obama is proposing direct talks