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To tell them initially that your glass sucks. but then corning said wait a minute, we have a solution for you. they worked on it. the people here in this factory worked on it. they managed to get it on the phone before the phone shipped with a very short deadline and as we have been walking around the factory the past day or so seeing the people that work here, being here in the community where corning is very large employer. very well established brand here. these people are passionate about wh...

Question. thank you for that. the august jobs report comes out at 8:30 a.m. today. its expected the summer jobs market slowed a little bit. congress estimated 158,000 jobs were added and they think the unemployment rate helped steady it at 3.7%. a few things to watch in this report, manufacturing. americas manufacturing powerhouse stumbled. an important fact on factory work is contracting. what president trump sought to favor is shrinking because of higher costs because of those tariffs and sl...

Joining us youre welcome robots are already taking away the drudgery of factory work now they could start stepping in way humans are more fallible like in monitoring our health but how intrusive should we allow machines to be. official intelligence office great potential for mobility and medicine using thousands of x. ray images researches at stanford university have trained their own homegrown ally to conduct diagnoses when you have to do is photograph and upload an x. ray and wait a couple of ...

Leland: and a fox news alert as we now know the identity of the five victims killed in over illinois manufacturing plant outside chicago. will take a minute and review the names. clayton parks, trevor -- russell -- and josh -- killed after factory work become one of their coworkers open fire. five police officers and one employee were also injured in the attack. police there said the officers are in stable condition. local police identified the government is a 45-year-old, gary martin. officials...

Facts first. the glory days of manufacturing here were in the late 70s. 20 million workers -- thats 25% of the working population then -- earned their paycheck from factory work. its been a fairly steady decline ever since. today only 12.8 million workers are in the industry. thats about 8.5% of that population. our manufacturing output is still huge compared to the rest of the world, but were not number one anymore. the key question is why. and the answer is not because the u.s. quit on manufac...

Factories in america. >> sounds good. facts first. the glory days of manufacturing here were in the late 70s. 20 million workers -- thats 25% of the working population then -- earned their paycheck from factory work. its been a fairly steady decline ever since. today only 12.8 million workers are in the industry. thats about 8.5% of that population. our manufacturing output is still huge compared to the rest of the world, but were not number one anymore. the key question is why. and the answer i...

About? >> well, its really advancing on three different fronts. broadly speaking, i would say machine intelligence is replacing a lot of human labor. some of that is in physical mobility, robots that can do factory work. some of it is in language and speech recognition. most of us now routinely talk to our smartphones and expect them to understand and carry out our instructions. not perfectly, but you can see were in the middle of a ten-year period where a lot of tasks can now be done by machine...

>> reporter: i saw you sneak a kiss on the lips with the president. >> i did. thats a rosy for you. >> reporter: do you feel honored now? >> yes, i do. my descend ants will know i was somebody. >> reporter: after all these years, lara spencer, abc news. washington. >> how sassy is that. >> incredible. >> between 1940 and 1945 female percentage of the u.s. workforce increased by 10%. by 1945 nearly 1 out of every 4 married women worked outside the home. >> amazing. in addition to factory work and...

Claiming credit for eight million new jobs -- well, thats the normal amount of jobs that would be created just with the churn of the economy, with people entering the work force. so its not a great thing. they were looking for any silver lining they could in describing the economy. but that is a tone of optimism and tone is important. i want to point out -- lets listen to his tribute to john boehner because it was graceful and it was uniting. and it seemed to be well-received. lets watch. >> i b...

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