Welcome to countdown. Im caroline hyde. Im manus cranny. Coming up, another deal deadlock. Diplomats gave differing accounts on what is needed to reach an agreement before the selfimposed deadline. Campaigning for the u. K. General elections officially kicks off today. Prime minister David Cameron is expect it to visit the queen of buckingham palace. Anna edwards has the story. Really it begins without pomp with the pomp ceremony. Yes. The official start. The official start of campaigning. This is in the financial times. This is the advert the labour party has taken out. The threat of an eu exit. Really trying to rehabilitate the image of the labour party with the Business Community on capping energy prices. There is some work to be done to rehabilitate the image. Beyond that, we have that other details to show you what were going to hear a little bit later on. A vote on the eu would be a recipe for two years of uncertainty here there is the europe focus. That could play well with some
10 year. That seems to happen so frequently yet. 1. 9 is the yield youll get for loaning your u. S. Government the money for 10 years. Lets start with the road map and it starts with earnings. Mcdonalds, all out with stocks. Is a google Wireless Phone Service Launching today . A new report on the move that could maybe shake up the industry. How about the turn around . They plan for yahoo japan in the spotlight. The core business were going to talk more about it. Youre not paying much for it. Maybe theres a reason. Lets start with mcdonds as sales continue to slump, the fast food chain expects sales to come in negative for april. Mcdonds release initial details of its turn around plan next month. In the meantime, chipoltes being up 10. 4 were a bit below what the analyst were expecting. Yum brands were down 12 in a very important market for it yes, you can say it with me china. You want to start with mcdonalds . Yeah. Were missing it. The revenues were made. I was shocked. This was not
We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Gone as well. There was a transition. There is no excuse for the plethora of problems, and the transition should have been much better, but was not. Va demonstrated that they were finally listening. All i was hearing was nothing but stonewall until finally sloan walked into the hearing, pulled out a new rule to make the number of miles driven which i think everyone in this committee appreciates and agrees with. I believe we are satisfactorily working toward the care you need. It will happen in the
In income. So instead of standing in the corner and figuring out how to bring a trade bill to the floor they ought to be fixing equal pay for equal work, they ought to be fixing Student Loans for our students, they ought to be passing a highway bill, they ought to be increasing the minimum wage, and they ought to deal with currency fairness because our trading partners, they play with their currency in order to push forward their products. But oh, no. That is not on the agenda. We could have an agenda for a vibrant middle class but instead of that, we are moving toward a trade bill. Now, i know there are some who disagree with me, who come down this floor and say were going to create jobs with this trade bill its going to be great. Well let them explain how were not going to see some of the 12 million jobs that are manufacturing jobs in america not move to countries who pay 56 cents an hour. Another country 1. 19 an hour. I know theyll disagree with me. Theyre making all of these promi
This morning were Holding Hearing on continuing americas leadership realizing the promise of Precision Medicine. Well have an Opening Statement then introduce our witnesses, who are getting to be very familiar to us. Were very grateful to you for coming. After that, we will have time to ask five minute rounds of questions or two, depending how many senators are here. We are here today to discuss exciting new direction in our health care called Precision Medicine. What does that mean . Well, those of us in the room a good representation of the population, they estimate one in ten of us would have diabetes. If doctors could use Precision Medicine, that is if they could look at our individual dna and genetic, molecular makeup of disease, perhaps they could tailor treatments to each individual rather than to more general category of diabetes. I was visited this morning by the head of philadelphia Childrens Hospital who talked about their work in identifying a defective gene, mutated geneti