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Talks, it seems alexis sip sisis cyprus the greek prime minister has bitten his lip and caved into creditors demands. hes asking for a three-year bailout and getting $96 billion. its the third bailout for greece in six years. but, carol, it wont be easy because greece has a lot to of work to do. a lot of belt tightening. theyll have to push more reforms through. more legislation through. in particular the v.a.t. as well as pension reforms which was a huge red line when he told the people here no...

Greek bailouts. europe insists that reforms become law this week before formal talks on a third bailout can begin. a leaked draft document estimates that greece needs as much as $96 billion over the next three years. mexicos president vows to recover joaquin guzman the boss of one of the worlds most powerful drug cartels. mexican authorities say that guzman escaped from a maximum security prison on saturday through a hole in his cell that led to a tunnel. investigators are questioning 18 priso...

Officials estimate greece needs $96 billion. for the latest on the last-minute deal lets go to elinda labroupouvu. >> reporter: a deal has been reached after 17 hours of talks in brussels. this is a deal that includes more austerity for greece. so despite the efforts of the greek prime minister and the greek people to avoid getting into a new austerity cycle, this new package includes plenty of it. what we have now is a deal to agree on a deal. in order for the talks to continue the greek parlia...

All right, checking our top stories, leaked documents show greece needs a third bailout from the eurozone of up to $96 billion over the next three years. european leaders in brussels have resumed their meeting and say they will not offer a bailout unless greece commits to deeper economic reforms. they have given greece a deadline of july 15th. and there are hopes the iran nuclear negotiations might be finished by tomorrow. the latest deadline in the talks. optimism for a deal has been quite th...

More crises and threats around the globe. never in his 50 years in the military and inintelligence. now is the time to make the cuts? if you go back, i remember an interview with bob gates in the summer of 2011. and gates at the time where the defense budget was a little over $550 billion, was saying that a cut of 10% would be in his words, catastrophic. well, what were looking at for fiscal year 2015 right now is a budget of $496 billion. thats below what gates was talking about just three year...

Entire military. 527 $billion is how much the pentagon wants to spend next year. $496 billion is the spending level congress approved but only $475 billion can actually be spent after imagineder to budget cuts. the bottom line, in the next two months, $21 billion in military spending must be slashed. thats $21 billion across the board. no flexibility in where the cuts are made. all the services warn of impending doom. >> we need to be mindful. as many as 100,000 professional jobs are at risk. >>...

Positive in the second quarter. its a good time to be king. "the new york times" says the average pay for the u.s. ceos rose 16% last year to $15 million. larry ellison tops the list. his pay jumped to $96 billion. there could be consolidation in the cable industry. liberty media is eyeing time warner cable, and may try to buy the company. a combined company would have 50 million subscribers. back to you. >> thank you. we are going to tell you what is leading the news, coming up. plus, the...

Now its time to start shaming obese as they cost us billions in medical care. where is this headed? government pays for the healthcare, they can decide who lives or dies based on what behavior they dislike. if you cant be penalized to lose weight, to quote the piece why not just let the health sinners die? annual healthcare cost are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for the obese, the government says. that is the big point. the government says. when everyone else pays for your car...

But its a bailout none the less. >> eric: and very dangerous. what you reference is the unfunded liability, right? >> yep. >> eric: give us a sense of illinois, $96 billion? >> 96 billion. >> eric: nationally? >> 300% in illinois since the late 1990s. nationally, the unfunded pension liability for state workers only is well over a trillion and mounting constantly. >> steve: we were speaking earlier in the break about how that bell, california fiasco where so many people were getting such rich pa...

Us. morning, adam. >> we are at the amazon.com facility, the fulfillment center here in phoenix, their largest out of 40 in the united states, 80 world side. 1.2million square feet. take a look, you can see the activity of the pickers, they are called. these people are unpackaging the items youve already ordered, they put them into bins that go into the other section of the fact free where other pickers put them into another bin where they get sorted into the box. ill show you. frank, come with ...