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Weather as we start the new week. It is not raining now that this is an overview of the forecast today it looks like we will all see showers and perhaps a few rumbles of thunder today. Cloud cover increases this morning. The sun is up a few minutes after 7 00 a. M. If you will still be mainly dry at 9 00 a. M. Butt by noon 70 degrees and rain likely. Perhaps thunderstorms embedded in there. By evening things will start to clear. Our window of time will be from late morning into the afternoon. Including the time youll be picking the kids up from school and coming home from work. We are dry now because a lot of what weather to the west. This is what we are tracking the next few hours. Grab your umbrellas, i would have a windbreaker something of a raincoat today too. Lots of wet weather this morning as we are checking on check there for delays if you are flying from through chicago. And as we track future view watch of a chance for rain increases beyond 9 30 a. M. Maybe a few spotty showe ....
One clear sign of the reign of corporations over our government is that the key laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s that we use to curb corporate misbehavior would not even pass through congressional committees today. Planning ahead, multinational corporations shaped the world trade organizations autocratic and secretive governing procedures to undermine nontrade health, safety, and other Living Standard laws and proposals to do better. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves to ask to choose between lookalike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interests nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. Our elections have been put out for auction to the highest bidders. Public elections must be publicly financed and it can be done with wellpromoted voluntary checkoffs and free tv and radio time for ballotq ....
Disdain for allies, treaties and International Organizations alike. In doing so they would throw aside our nations role as the inspirational leader of the world the beacon of hope and justice in the interests of humankind. And instead, they would present our face to the world as a dominant power prepared to push aside any nation with which we do not agree. Our foreign and military policies must be about america leading the world, not america against the world. [applause] how did we come to this point . How is it that our leaders have abandoned our communities and repudiated our idealism and principles . When confronted with a dedicated band of right wing ideologues, too Many Americans have stopped participating, stopped voting, and stopped believing that they can change america. And we in politics have not given people a reason to vote or a reason to participate. ....
Enough for me to Want Health Care for my family but the obligation, and responsibility of every one of us as american citizens to insure that each one of us has health care for our families. An america where it is not enough for me to want good Public Schools and a better life for my children but an obligation, and a responsibility as citizens to insure that every child in america may go to a good Public School and have the opportunity of a better life. An america where it is not enough to protect my rights under the law but where it is a duty and an obligation for each of us as americans to make sure every american is equal under the law. If september 11, 2001 taught america anything, it is that we are stronger when we are holding to each other as a National Commu ....
Welcome to countdown. Anna coming up this morning another bloomberg exclusive, we will go live to paris and speak to the ceo of j. Crew as they open their first boutique in the country. Mark and cather Qatar Airways chief executive talks about his rival delta. Lets get to one of our top stories, Chinas National Peoples Congress continues today. As was widely expected the premier set out an Economic Growth plan of 7 . Rosalynn joins us from beijing with more. What do you know about this figure . Rosalynn it indicates theyre trying to project a slowdown and are encouraging innovation which includes the quality of growth. Here in china. He has said in the past that he will tolerate a lower level of growth as long as enough jobs were created. If you look at last year, the growth hits 7. 4 and there were 13 ....