Will determine whether the democrats will wrest control in the senate. We have so much at stake. But what we found is that our politics need to evolve. That our political system how campaigns are run, who are the prime voters, what are the issues, how do we talk about and talk to our voters, how do we strategize to win as a Progressive Movement, all of those things are directly influenced by how dramatically our demographics have changed. And the fact that, elect orally andtorally speaking we saw that in the book brown is the new white by Steve Phillips that we actually have the numbers to win. We have the electoral majority, comprised of those who reelected president obama in 2012. And those who continue to move to the United States into a country that is majority people of color. That is the reality in seven states and will be the reality, in just a couple of decades, across the country. This new american majority, this multiracial, Progressive Electoral majority, will need new strat
Station. He got a job here at age 12. Here we have a vignette that shows edisons mother yelling at his teacher mr. Crawford for calling edison addled. I guess today we might say stupid, confused, mixed up. You can see here, it hurt his feelings, it angered her, and she said to mr. Crawford, look, he is a lot smarter than you are, mr. Crawford. If you cant teach him, i will. She took him home and homeschooled him. He always credited his mother for making him the vanity became, through her kindness and teaching, and a love of learning. He read and Read Everything that he could. Even in the evenings as a man, he would read the encyclopaedia britannica. If edison were in school today, he might have been on ritalin or other medicine for add or adhd. Hes had so much going on in his head that if you are particularly interested in the subject matter at hand, he did not want to pay attention. He would want to explore things in his own way. We are on a restored train from 1889, representing the
Oil prices. We have seen a emergingmarket currencies rise today. Looking at the shanghai composite, pretty flat at the moment. The latest pmi reading out of china showing some stabilization. An eighth consecutive month of contraction but it went better than economists forecasted. They took over from hsbc given the secondary manufacturing pmi. This one is mostly privatesector manufacturers, smaller than the official pmi that was out yesterday. Contraction, lets not try to confuse the fact here. 47. 6. Rvey was for but, it was better than expected. Some economists are saying perhaps we have seen the floor of this. In september, it was the worst reading for this gauge in 6. 5 years. Pmierday, the official coming in at 49. 8. But, it was the same as september. Economists saying they are seeing signs of stabilization. There is still deepening deflationary pressures in this economy and there is also weak for exports and export orders were down yet again. The Global Economy really weighing on
Despite the worst terror attack there in years. Saturday leftt close to 100 dead, prompting new against the ruling parties push to stay in power. And a new report today should confirm the flights that went down last year was brought on by a Russian Missile. Beer buyout. The two biggest brewers agreed to joint forces at a deal that is one of the biggest in history. Stephen will have the details in our business update. And as the migrants coming into europe this year top 700,000, some of them are giving back, the communities taking the men are being helped by their senior citizens. First we were go to israel we go to israel were near simultaneous attacks today. Palestinian men attacked with guns and knives near tel aviv. It is the latest surge of violence marking the most serious outbreak of clashes the first round of tension broke out. Inspoke to a taxidriver jerusalem. And i sawriving up, them at the bus stop office it opposite. I took out my gun, and i ran. I got in there were police
Little girl was fired by dante or the Police Officer. I know for the fact that he didnt shoot at no cop. I talked to him 10, 15 minutes before this happened. I know he didnt go outside and say im going to go shoot a cop. Reporter we understand from authorities that a gun has been recovered out here at the scene. At this point in time allen is recovering at the jerry shore medical center. We understand his mother is still trying to get into the room to talk to him about this incident. Anthony johnson, channel 7, Eyewitness News. Thank you, anthony. New at noon, police are investigating a deadly pedestrian accident in the bronx. A commercial truck struck a 55yearold woman as she was crossing the street at 8 30. The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital. Her identity has not been released yet. The driver remained at the scene and so far no charges have been filed. Also new at noon, a large the officers feeling insulted by the latest Contract Offer on the table. [screaming] screaming o