Hedge Fund Managers to keep the ultralow tax rate. It is called carried interest. Really a nice pay much less than you. Forgive me if i call it a racket. We reported these tax details yesterday the market rally at the value of all stocks have gone up 623 trillion since the election. As things move forward today, stocks inching higher again with just 414 points from dow 25,000. I will say it again, ive never seen anything like this before. We have seen Government Shutdowns before and another one is looming. Congress has until next friday to fix it. This is politics. Previous shutdowns have no impact on the economy or the markets. Thursday december 14th, 11 days until christmas. Do you know where your package is . Varney company is about to begin. You know, the president was not whispering. Hes not known to speak in a low voice. We lost the audio. Tens of millions of people get an increase in their paycheck in february next year. He was talking tax cuts right here. By the way, hes readin
Wow big change. Weather yes, definitely big change. Bad news is we will trend cooler for a couple of days. Good news is, today is not one of the cooler days. Today we are finally going to warm up. So take a look. Right now. 49 degrees. Some areas up toward low 50s. What is interesting is lake front right now. Burke lake front, 51 degrees. Which was the high yesterday. So as tabu ala50. Hopkins reporting 49. Cu north emsted. 49. And shaker heights. Brecksville 48. And i am also going to let you know that there is still a windchill in there. I know your feels like temperature in some areas, in mansfield where it is, upper 40s, you are five or 6 degrees off. You feel like 42. Today, it is an interesting weather day n glad if you live toward the west. Over the central. You will see more sunshine. To the east you will take time here. But we will be warmer today. By the of afternoon. Majority of the day in the 60s. We tapped out at 51 yesterday. We should be at 60. Technically you can see we
Documentary filmmaker james barrat talks about runaway Artificial Intelligence. Mr. Barrat argues we are headed into the future in which machines will be able able to outthink humans and may eventually view is in the same way we view lower life forms today. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] hi. I am james barrat and i want to thank mary and jenice for inviting me here and i would like to thank cspan for being here. I think this is such a great bookstore. It is good to remember when books really were sold in bookstores and this was kind of a miracle because it manages to me, kind of captures the wild and mysterious bookstores from when i was a kid. They were just a little bit spooky. [laughter] but very rich and fascinating. That is what this one is and obviously its also such a great Meeting Place for people. I want to thank them for inviting me. I have written a book about Artificial Intelligence but my usual job is it documentary film producer. Ive made a lot of films you mightve
The United States and around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. A Massive Media merger is one step closer to becoming reality. The wireless provider at t has reached a deal to buy time warner, also the Parent Company of cnn. Next up to government regulators to sign off on that 85 billion merger. If approved, at t would control entertainment leaders like hbo and Warner Brothers pictures. Our senior media correspondent Brian Stelter has more. This is shaping up to be one of the biggest media deals in history. Also the biggest merger of any kind in the u. S. At t, as it stands today, is a wireless company, one of the biggest Wireless Companies in the United States, providing phone and Internet Service to tens of millions of homes. Its also a satellite tv distribut distributor. It has the directv satellite network. What at t doesnt have is content, programming, entertainment and thats what its trying to gain through time warner.