The latest legal battle between amppple and samsung begs today. A federal jury awarded apple about 1 billion earlier this year, but the judge tossed out 400 million in damages and ordered a new jury to recalculate damages for 13 samsung products that have been found to be infringing apples patent. In other technology news, the wall street journal reports that googles motorola unit is expected to unveil a low cost phone tomorrow. The announcement is said to come amid weak sales. Right now, lets get to the latest from typhoon haiyan. Sri joins us this morning from manila. We know the situation is dire. We wonder if theres any better insight that you can give us right now. Well, what i can tell you is that the relief operation is continuing. Its under way. But the distribution of goods and essential services, essential relief supplies, food, water and medical equipment is painfully and agonizingly slow. And thats leading to a lot of frustration, anxiety, and anger on the ground among the
Falling apart. We heard from andrew that apple was none too happy about that video. I bet. I bet. It was 3. 2 is what it was supposed to be. 200 million. 200 million for saying that. You get fined for talking. What i like about the deal is that everyone hates the deal. 3 billion for apple. Theyre streaming, theyre hip. Reconnect and restart the hipness of their music business. Which is what both of those guys can bring to apple. Right. In hindsight i dont understand why its such a big deal, especially when you have whatsapp out there for 19 billion. We overlook other things and then 3 billion maybe because they look cheap. Apple has always invented itself but tim cook pointed out himself, thats not the case. Weve made 17 acquisitions over the last couple of years. Weve had, you know, i dont know whether cheap is a good thing or not. Each of my kids has had two or three pairs of these. Were still on our first pair for each of them. You are . Yes. They want this pair for whatever reason.
Many times america will hear the Unemployment Rate go from seven percent to 6. 7 and would view as the country going in the right direction in regard to job creation and Economic Growth. But would you agree that actually the reduction in the Unemployment Rate is not an indicator of strong job growth like many of americans may think . I will unpack things a little bit. The decline in the unemployment , is somewhere around two thirds due to the decline in labor force participation. And about one third to job creation. Speaking, the employment and population ratio has essentially stayed about the same since late 2009. So that is problematic. But we have two different forces working on employment population. One is the demographic changes that would tend to depress participation just as baby boomers like myself age, the population genuinely getting older. We are getting into times we are more heavily weighted to parts of the parts of the occupation that participate less. Compensate for thi
Iraqs leaders to come together. And meeting with nouri almaliki, receiving criticism from u. S. Officials for not doing enough to stem differences. And parliament to meet by july 1 and there are growing calls formal for almaliki to step aside we are not making preconditions with respect to who can or cant take part. That is up to iraq. It was rapidfire as he met with almaliki, and the head of Iraqs Parliament and laterer that foreign miss interwho calls his visit very, very important. We need to do our work as iraqis, but this is a most welcomed guest. It couldnt come at a more critical time. President barack obama stayed if the leaders cannot put aside political differences, no amount of u. S. Military action will hold the nation together. Reporting life from washington, karen travers, channel 6 action news. And world news will have more. Tune in after that with jim gardner tonight. Breaking news out of philadelphias mayfair section, chopper 6 over the scene of a shooting on the 7100
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