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Of japan was fully consulted on this and as a result check out currencies. The yen jumping to a threeweek high on that news. Lets take a look at europe. This point the european markets are in the red. Germany down. The cac in france is down 1. 25 . The ftse in london off by half a percent. Take a look at crude oil this morning. This was a huge story yesterday. Wti dipped below 40 a barrel. Ended up closing at 40. 06. This morning up about 26 cents to 41. 31. This is a key number here. This has b...

Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contribution rate. It is a fascinating story. You have to figure out the story. I think that is a great point. The way the public and the private sector hav...

[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barr...

Up next, we visit the smithsonian air and space museu. Jeremy kinney is a curator who shows us some of the museums prayer and oneofakind artifacts. Hello. Were going to go through a tour of some artifacts that really stand out in terms of the story of higher, faster, and farther. First, i would to talk about the museum overall. It has over 8 million visitors a year. Looking at the story of flight in the atmosphere, where i work in, we are looking at 500 aircraft and helicopters. About 67 are on ...

Take three months to start back in the old days. Even took two or three days when we first started doing it by air because they flew by day and then took the train at night and flew by day and took the train. So the range speed pay load and the capabilities and safety, safety is a really major portion of this entire program. Youre going to keep it for a few more minutes and then show our audience some of the artifacts and exhibits here at the museum but let me get a call joining us from oregon. ...

Where as Pete Zervakis reports improvements were called for. Participants at todays forum believe connecting people with Public Transportation is more important now than ever. We know the Transportation System isnt serving everyone organizers of this talk on transportation say thats because some cant afford cars. While others are elderly. And cant get to bus stations. Nats bus county executive paul farrow says the population continues to get older. The demographics of our population changing man...

Advertisers love that experience, so good for us. Next question . Im a student at columbia university. Going back to the nail salon story. It was available in more languages than english. While it was to target most likely the audience affected by the subject matter, i want to know to what extent mult multilingualism might become the future of the New York Times. This is for arthur. Im a writer at new york magazine. Hello, gabe. What world role do you hope son will play in the future . How is su...

Lot of people typically wearing dresses. But its not necessarily for style. Style. By wearing a dress we can hopefully raise awareness of human trafficking, not only in the rld but here locally. For 31 days, a dress a day is supposed to spark questions in an effort to educate. Educate. This is the official dressember dress. And its been working. Working. Often the response isis ivvnever heard of that and thats a great opportunity for myself to share about dressember. Dressember. People think its...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin tonight with iran. The wall street reported that president obama wrote a letter. In it, he stressed the country shared interest in fighting Islamic State in iraq in syria. He said cooperation could depend on reaching a nuclear deal. The newspaper comes as the u. N. The United States and other world powers is advised to reach a deal by november 24. The letter is the fourth he has written since he took office. A white house spokesma...

Thanks for the question. I think that the appropriate way to do this is pretty much whats being done right now actually, and such using airstrikes to limit the freedom of movement and the ability to move oil and smuggle it as easily as isil was able to be for the airstrikes started. Meanwhile, buying time for an advice and assist effort and Capacity Building effort to try to stand up in some cases local Security Forces or the iraqi army to conduct effective operations is insulated to push isil b...