Ginsburg made the political picture in washington significantly more complicated with some analysts saying the odds of another round of stimulus before the election falling sharply. Bank stocks are getting crushed today as well amid new report about major firms dealing in suspicious funds well have more on that in just a bit. We have 59 munz left left to goy volatile session still make for the worst day in a while. Percentage terms, were down 2. 2 as we stand ahead will be all over the selloff in the final hour of trade. Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz will join us with his take on todays plunge and whether he is buying any of the dips after three straight lease losing weeks and well speak with john kerry in an exclusive interview. Well get his take on the Supreme Court, on stimulus, on the election and that final month run in of campaigning which, of course, he knows so much about lets focus in on the big stories were watching on a very busy day of news mike san toll toli is track
And the gift of guns. One Police Departments valentines day suggestion, a firearm for that special someone. There have been plenty of headlines about the winter that just wont stop. Rain has been falling in some parts of california and that is big news but its not nearly enough rain to help desperate farmers teelg dealing with extreme drought. Theyre not the only ones struggling. We begin with melissa chan in californias Central Valley. The worst drought in her memory has her worried. It grabs you from down deep. And youre making me cry but when you see the soil and you touch it and you know that it may not be here for your next generation of family, thats thats big. Reporter she says she had hoped to plant pistachio trees this winter but without water, she will abandon that notion. Many afternoons assessing the effect of the drought. And it will be dry like this all year. All year. She takes us to stoneland farms. They left land fallow, because they dont have enough water. When were n
Is a look at a small slice of that, not full picture and so far it doesnt look like a catastrophic issue. The one to take on the second part of the . I agree with our questioner, whichever scenario look at, it usually comes out as the biggest potential contributor addressing Global Change concerns. Thats true whether its a developer or developing world. One of the sort of, the dilemmas are often struck ask lowhanging fruit. Suppose would these measures are, we would all be financially better off. Why doesnt it happen in practice . I think thats the big conundrum that we face. I think theres a number of different aspects your one this has been mentioned by howard which is pricing. Theres two sides to the. One is subsidized fossil fuels and the other have some kind of extra now the price is to convey the truth level cost of carbon. The other is pollution. The higher the return. I think the other issue is standards. We could be much more aggressive in requiring standards for efficient bui
And to show you an example of the problem we are faced with what like to talk to you a little bad about a problem that we have in chesterfield county. The last six months of so we have been fighting the import of fly ash that would be used to build burns, to augment our soil for products that we use on ground and over 250 people came to our county to complain about this, to complain about water being polluted by the toxic chemicals and nothing has been done about it. The apartment of Energy Quality decided that fly ash is not toxic and will not hurt us and will allow the company to continue to import this. The reason we have to ask ourselves, airways are flooded, newspapers are flooded with articles and commercials basically talking about the nonsense about Global Warming. If we had regulations where going to affect jobs, benefits. And there really isnt a way for a foundation, educating people about the dangers of the environment. The here these repeated over and over again. So i am he
Technical tips for creating stem cells that can be turned into any kind of tissue. Chinas biggest political event of the year is under way in beijing. President xi jinping and his administration are meeting delegates of the countrys legislature, the National Peoples congress. Reform is high on the agenda, as the leadership aims for longterm stability. Were bringing you extensive coverage of the npc this week in our series china road to reform. Nhk worlds raja pradhan was at the opening of the npc and he joins us now live. Raja . Hi, gene. Chinese premier li keqiang opened the annual gathering of the political elite by outlining plans for the year ahead. He addressed npc delegates announcing an Economic Growth target of around 7. 5 . And premier li also addressed complaints about corruption, pollution, and the gap between rich and poor. Delegates from across china gathered at the great hall of the people to hear the governments accomplishments, and goals for the year ahead. This is li k