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Customers, facebook is finding out what it means to be a hardware company. Yes. On Major League Baseballs opening day and today as well, rob manfred will join us at post nine to discuss ticket prices and a lot to talk about. It will be a very interesting conversation. We want to start with tesla. Shares are popping today on reportedly strong early demand nor the mass market model three car. Phil lebeau has been following the figures from a tweet storm of elon musk. What do we know . A big three or four days for tesla and elon has been tweeting and giving us numbers on the amount of reservations placed for model 3. At the end of saturday night, 276,000 reservations, likely much bigger than that now but we havent gotten an update from tesla. The base price for model 3, 35,000. That means if they only sold 276,000 at the base price and we know they go for much more, they bring in 9. 6 billion when those sales were completed. By the way, model three deliveries start in 2017, by then it wil
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. The Justice Department says it will appeal. The decision coming after to federal Appeals Court ruled the president said executive action on immigration will remain on hold. That plan would have let millions of undocumented immigrants stay in the u. S. , that decision now leaving them in legal limbo. Mike viqueira is live in washington. This appears to be another Supreme Court showdown for the Obama Administration. Youre absolutely right and an issue that cannot be more volatile in a president ial year where the issue has played predominantly on the republican side as the debates continue leading to the nomination process. It appears if the Supreme Court decides to take the case and you are correct when you report that the department of justice announced early this morning that they are in fact going to appeal to the Supreme Court, but it is up to the Supreme Court to decide whether or not theyre going to hear the case. If they do, a de
Is getting scrubbed down. The white house says that president obama will sign a new 607 billion defense bill when it reaches his desk, even though it includes a key provision by the president. Passing a bill with language that specifically prevents detainees from guantanamo to the United States. Jamie mcintyre has more from the pentagon. Reporter the bill easily won final legislative approval, breezing through the senate with overwhelming support from both parties. The yeas are 91, the nays, 3, and the motion is passed. The white house said that hell sign it into law and then offer a plan to repeal the ban on transferring the gitmo detainees to u. S. Soil. [ audio difficulties ] the president cant close guantanamo because under article two of the constitution, in his capacity as commander in chief, he has the exclusive authority to make tactical decisions. Congress cannot make specific decisions in which detainees can be held and tried. [ audio difficulties ] there have been provision
This morning the Justice Department is trying to figure out what is next after a federal Appeals Court ruled the president s executive action on immigration will remain on hold. Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im dell walters and have undocumented immigrants stay in the u. S. But as we report it means millions of people in legal limbo. Reporter the Court Decision is not unexpected but a setback on president obamas Immigration Reform and has under taken circumventing congress and making them angry and the dream act where the president talked about deportation proceedings against young people brought to the country not of their own choice as children and deportation proceedings deferred against them and the parents of those who are already u. S. Citizens and the president announced after the mid term elections in 2014 when it became clear the republican leg congress is not going to move on Immigration Reform. Now earlier in february a texas judge in a lower court had