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Plus putin, the russian president response to sanctions with fireworks. His Welcome Home Party for crimea and our response ahead. We will get to that in a minute, but as we had to the close of trading him to go out to julie hyman for the big three stocks we are watching. Apple is in talks with comcast to provide streaming content over a set top boxes, which are expected to be introduced next month. Apples shares are up, but we are seeing a sharp decline in shares of netflix and concern about com...

Take a look at europe. Whats happening across the pond this morning. More green than red right now. At well, you got about 3 1 2 hours or so before the european markets closed. And the roadmap starts with the markets. Stocks set to open higher this morning after posting a nice gain at the close yesterday but the one thing you really need to be watching this morning is the move in gold. Plus, earnings at nike beating the street but the stock slipping during trading thus far. Were going to break d...

Unemployment insurance extension. The house not in session today. Members return tomorrow at noon eastern for legislative business. Among the bills being considered under suspension of the rules, one that authorizes 150 million in aid for ukraine and expands sanctions imposed this month by the Obama Administration against certain russian and ukrainian officials. This bill passed the Senate Last Week by a voice vote. Votes tomorrow are post poped until 6 30 p. M. Eastern time. You can watch live ...

On not only literature but also scientific curriculum and you learned by doing. So not just reading from a book and standing up and reciting, but conducting experiments on your own. Learning to use the tools and push the frontiers of knowledge so you are adding something to the scientific knowledge of the whole. And so tappan really wanted to institute that here. And in the 1850s, astronomy and observations, observatories were fundamental to lots of other sciences. In part because the math is ju...

Here on American History tv on cspan3. All weekend long American History tv is featuring ann arbor, michigan, nicknamed tree town because of its dense forestation in parks and residential areas, hosted by our Comcast Cable partners, cspans local content vehicles recently traveled will to explore the areas rich history. Learn more about ann arbor, michigan, all weekend here on American History tv. Its ironic that this very important building and this very important foray into the sciences is an e...

Sway people to have an antislavery stance. And in order to do so, they felt they should have a newspaper because they could disseminate information which would convince them that slavery was a wrong and evil and it was actually hurting the country. Out of that meeting. And, remember, this is a year before michigan is actually a state. Out of that meeting came publication of a newspaper. And it was mostly led by two men. Theodore foster who came from new england. His father was a u. S. Senator. A...

Said a considerable period of time might be Something Like six months and what people wanted to know is a reflective discussion that the fed had, and it looks like not necessarily. Janet yellen gave a week or so ago what some people describe as the most dovish speech by a fed chair possibly ever. Right. So it took maybe a little bit longer for the message to get through to the markets. Well see how long this lasts, but its a pretty decent reaction to the stock market. And to your point she had a...

And really, a big reason why i wrote five days at memorial is i really feel that these questions, difficult, conundrums that arose during katrina are things that we all have as a public, should have a say if theyre not the purview of just small group of doctors on the front line and emergency, but something we should all think about before disaster ever happens. So well get into some of that, and ill just start with kind of summarizing the book is setting up some of those dilemmas all of it and ...

Getting a seat using your airline miles. Tell me about it. It really isnt. But now some good news for frequent flyers. First, though, lets check in with sue at the nyse. Hi, sue. Hi, ty. Day two of yellens testimony on capitol hill. So far the markets like, once again, what theyre hearing. The dow is up 88 points on the trading session. A bounceback for the battered nasdaq, which is up a half percent or about 21 points on the trading day. And were up 6 3 4 points on the s p 500. Bob pisani, Kenn...

Especially if they are using recycled water, i think i can smell the dead bodies. One of the reasons they took iwojima is they came in and fly 1,000 miles, bumpertobumper they had to go over iwojima to get to tokyo. Iwojima would forewarn them by radar and they had two planes that could shoot down the injured between them when we were returning. They got so bad that a friend of mine who was there, he told me that they had submarines every 50 miles between tokyo to pick up the flyers. The battle ...