People heard louisiana and throughout it had something to do with true detective. Where the initial scene was filmed yesterday. Grizzly, on a former plantation, cool looking. Cant wait for more, jim. Good morning to you. Futures off a touch as bull market officially turned five years old over the weekend. A light week for Economic Datas ahead but plenty of corporate news, including mcdonalds sales. Nikkei down 1 as japan revised q4 gdp lower. Oil, flat week but up more than 4 for the year. Asian marks, down big so far this morning. Selloff comes after a slew of Economic Data including a bad reading on export. If things are so bad overseas, why arent we seeing an impact in the u. S. . Mcdonalds samestore Sales Numbers falling last month. The retailer blaming severe winter weather. Numbers werent all bad. Well tell you some bright spots in a moment. A twist in the battle between ebay and carl icahn, after the Company Rejected his nominees to ebays board. Icahn doesnt take rejection well.
Consulates throughout the muslim world closed on sunday. The state department goes on high alert. An emergency warning. That includes diplomatic posts in tel aviv. Cbs news has learned that u. S. Intelligence picked up signs of a plot by al qaeda. A dramatic day in a cleveland courtroom as one of the women held for a decade in that house of horrors confronted her tormentor. Ariel castro got a life sentence plus 1,000 years. Most of the sex that went on in the house, practically all of it, was consensual. And snowdens waking up somewhere other than moscows main airport. Reports that talks between baseball and Alex Rodriguez to cut a deal have stalled. Major League Baseball said friday it will announce which players its penalizing for steroid use. So far, the rumor is all of them. The Labor Department saying Unemployment Rate has fallen to 7. 4 . That is the lowest level since december 08. Political battle turned into a physical brawl in one of taiwans parliaments, kicking, punching. All
Were not that far apart. Just a few more steps the president suggested and republicans would have a deal in hand to tame the deficit for a decade. That is a significant achievement for them. They should be proud of it. But they keep on finding ways to say no as opposed to finding ways to say yes. And i dont know how much of that has to do with it is very hard for them to say yes to me. Reporter there now appear to be two key sticking points republicans want the president to offer up deeper cuts in entitlement spending totaling several hundred billion dollars over ten years. In return the president is determined to get a longterm extension of the nations debt limit. Last year, the fight over raising the debt limit brought the country to the edge of default. But House Republicans see the debt limit as a crucial check on spending. I think they are very, very reluctant to give up this leverage what they consider to be the last leverage they may have next year on trying to get real entitlem
Just a few more steps the president suggested and republicans would have a deal in hand to tame the deficit for a decade. That is a significant achievement for them. They should be proud of it. But they keep on finding ways to say no as opposed to finding ways to say yes. And i dont know how much of that has to do with it is very hard for them to say yes to me. Reporter there now appear to be two key sticking points republicans want the president to offer up deeper cuts in entitlement spending totaling several hundred billion dollars over ten years. In return the president is determined to get a longterm extension of the nations debt limit. Last year, the fight over raising the debt limit brought the country to the edge of default. But House Republicans see the debt limit as a crucial check on spending. I think they are very, very reluctant to give up this leverage what they consider to be the last leverage they may have next year on trying to get real entitlement reform and i think th
Thinks the house will okay the package, trying to turn the heat up on president obama to steer clear of automatic tax hikes and Government Spending cuts due to take affect in 12 days. Still, as darren gersh reports, there are some signs the two sides are narrowing their differences. Reporter House Republicans say theyre still working on plan a a big agreement with the president to cut spending and raise revenues, but they were pushing plan b today a tax hike for those making more than a million dollars. Tomorrow the house will pass legislation to make permane tax relief for nearly every american. 99. 81 of the american people. Then the president will have a decision to make. He can call on the Senate Democrats to pass that bill or he can be responsible for the largest tax increase in american history. Reporter hours befe thee speaker issued his challenge, sidesresident said the tw were not that far apart. Just a few more steps the president suggested and republicans would have a deal i