wars and pressure from the political uncertainty. sears nearing a crucial deadline to determine if it survives. the clock is ticking. today is the deadline for potential buyers to buy assets. the only public bidder is a hedge fund controlled by eddie lambert. he is offering 4.6 billion dollabillion. sears could extend the deadline or plan to close the stores and liquida liquidate. close the doors any day now. disney and verizon arguing over programming fees and espn and abc caught in the middle. disney and verizon have in the 5:00 p.m. december 31st. if they don t, they will stop carrying disney channel. abc will be blocked for fios customers in new york and philadelphia. in a statement, espn said the
it was two years ago standard & poor s cut the u.s. s aaa rating after congress failed to raise the debt ceiling. stocks plunged, two years later the markets have more than recovered to record levels with the dow up 45%. jetblue goes upscale. the wall street journal reports the low cost carrier will unveil premium seats today in the front of the cabin that fold down to flatbeds. jetblue won t say how much the seats will cost but they will likely start on flights between new york, l.a. and san francisco starting next spring. the cbs time warner cable blackout enters its fourth day with no end in site to their dispute over programming fees. both companies at this point can t even agree as to whether they re still talking. no fun for fans who wanted to watch tiger woods this weekend. no fun for folks who wanted to see dexter, on and on and on.
peerspee pearson. stocks closed low are on monday. the fed begins a two-day meeting today with investors looking for more clarity on when interest rates may go up. we also get data on home prices and consumer confidence. if you blinked you missed it, time warner cable pulled cbs from its line-up in new york, l.a. and dallas this morning and quickly reversed the decision. the two sides are continuing in talks to resolve a dispute over programming fees. and twitter may be edging closer to an ipo. usa today reports the microblogging service posted an opening for a financial reporting manager who filed documents for a possible ipo. market watchers expect twitter to go public early next year. back to you. thanks so much, hampton. willy wonka reincarnated? the famous candy company founder will be played by billionaire warren buffett. he s auctions off an all you can
instead of this apartment. now what happens is the collection of evidence. authorities here want to go through his belongings and his computers and that sort of thing trying to find any kind of evidence that would help him explain how he prepared and what led to this massacre in aurora, colorado, so all of that work continues. we re seeing the local firefighters that were here starting to clean up the hoses that were brought in as a precaution, but all of the investigators and bomb technicians are still here. they say there still is several more hours of work to do inside that apartment and the material that they want to get out. they also want to begin assessing just exactly what james holmes put in there. they weren t exactly sure what kind of materials he had been using and they want to use a robot with cameras and now they can really get a sense of what they were up against. this could have been an incredibly tragic and more deadly situation with someone unsuspecting just
if that fund goes away, many of these stations will go dark immediately and even the larger stations, which might survive a bit longer without federal funding, will find that without the programming fees and other resources that come from the local stations for their programming, they, too, will find it very difficult to survive in the long run. patrick butler, president of the association of public television. thank you for joining us. big changes coming to broadway s most expensive show ever. coming up, the scoop on the major overhaul for spider-man. first a lot going on today. some of the thens that we thought you should know. newt gingrich says working too hard for his country led to an extra marital affair. in an interview with a christian broadcasting network, there is no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately i felt about this country that i worked far too