Engagement. The black lives matter of Global Network shegs also the cofounder of supermajority an organization for womens 5c9 vism and serves as a strategy and Partnership Director and hosts the partnership and culture podcast called lady dont take no. And i just want to say, alicia, you have, like, seven jobs. Right there thats seven fulltime jobs that you are working object at any one time. And we are so grateful that you have joined us today. So thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Lets start a little bit by talking about just how this summer has been obviously as one of the cofounders of the black lives patter movement, you have been centering some of the issues all of the issues, really, that have kind taken even a bigger place and center stage in National Politics and also just sort of National Conversation more generally this summer. And how do you feel today . Today is september 3rd, so we are almost at the end of summer. How do you feel looking at the Political Landscap
All of this remember 32 Million People are in the path of a late season snowstorm today. The line of heaviest snow stretches from West Virginia up through new york. Some areas are looking for as much as a half a foot of snow. Oh good. We keep thinking were done with it but one more time. Hopefully this will actually be the last snowstorm. Spring is here eventually. It will be snowing at 6 45. Some of the heavier snow is coming. Oh, good. One more thing to look forward to. We have schools here dismissing earlier. Some of them at 12 30. Thank you for that too. As the for the markets this morning, take a look you saw what happened, down by triple digits for the dow yesterday. This morning were seeing a nice rebound with the dow futures you about 89 points and the nasdaq up by 17. 5. A Solar Eclipse is different than a lieuunar ellipse. Yeah. But they both involve the moon. Yes, because the Solar Eclipse is the moon block out. The earth is never blocking or is the earth in the path of the.
To more than 330 worldwide destinations. The deal, two years in the making the latist round began when they combined with american eagle, that was followed with delta and northwest in 2008, united and continental, and southwest in air tran in 2011. The latest merger now brings the number of major u. S. Carriers flying the skies from seven a decade ago, to just four today. Together, the four left take up an estimated 80 inflation fairs in real terms dropped by almost 1 . What has changed over the years though is the number of fees passengers now pay in addition to air fairs. Almost 9 over and above the base air fair, the record says that trend regarding fees is happening industry wide, and has little or nothing to do with airline consolidation. On twitter and facebook, we have been asking you, merged to create the Worlds Largest airline, will this help consumers, rob says fewer flights and higher fairs not at all, but it does create opportunity for other airline if they are smart. Nope,
Alone. President obama will sit down with Texas Governor rick perry to discuss the emergency. He will not be at the border or the influx contact where the influx continues, but he will be in dallas. He will not visit the border at all. White house correspondent Phil Mattingly has been covering the story. The white house made the request for emergency funding yesterday. Will that be enough and how are the democrats and the republicans reacting to it . Administration officials willingly acknowledge it is a shortterm solution to what has become a major problem. The 3. 7 million breaks down into four tracks. The first is the capacity track. They need money to fund places to put these kids. Assistanceso foreign , where you see the state department trying to work with guatemala, el salvador, honduras, trying to work on deterrence on that front. You also see money going to the Justice Department. Youll also see money going to customs and Border Patrol. There is an enforcement aspect to this.
Lawmakers are back on capitol hill. Congress has just a few days to vote on a laundry list of items including a new spending bill. The passage of this bill would help avoided another government shut down. A blast of Severe Weather causing big problems across the northeast is kevin just mentioned, power outages, car pileups and massive flight delays the National Weather service is forecasting another storm for the, i 95 corridor from washington, d. C. , to boston tomorrow. Real money, with david shooter is next. Plus what you dont know about and this is real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, so join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitter at a. J. Real money. For the airline industry, and all who fly, this is a very big merger monday. Tonight marked the official completion of American Airlines megamerger with a. Sir ways and it comes just as millions of passengers prepare for the normally busy Holiday Travel season. The new corpo