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Nation changes. >> yeah but this is why even though partisan gerrymandering sounds technical, obscure, a little bit geeky, this is important because as these racial protections go away, partisan gerrymandering becomes important because it protects voters wherever they may be, white or black. its a way in which the north carolina legislators attempt to evade talk about racial jer gerrymanderi gerrymandering. they say were doing a partial jerry manneder. the legal protections are important going f...

Hurricane maria. even though this sounds technical, its become a very big issue, the jones act. assist long-standing law that allows only u.s. ships to transport goods within the united states. after hurricane irma and harvey, the government waived the act and the requirements and the restrictions there, making it cheaper and faster to get help to victims after those hurricanes. as far as we know, the department of homeland security says that they have not received a request to do the same for p...

Expected to rise to 99% by 2050. okay, we turn now to asia where the market began heading south. and theres some new economic data that reflects chinas shrinking productivity. all of that and more. lets go live to hong kong. we just got the pmi numbers measuring manufacturing activity. those numbers hit a three-year low. other markets specifically reacting to that or more so this idea that china may finally halt market intervention? >> reporter: weve already seen a pull back. we heard about th...

Expertise on this. on to another big story. today in the murder trial of ex-nfl star aaron hernandez. the jury got a crash course in semiautomatic weapons. the prosecution called a ballistics expert with the state police to discuss the .48 caliber bullets used in the shooting death of odin lloyd -- excuse me .45 caliber bullets. the gun that matched the bullets is not known where it is yet to be found. joining me now, cnns national correspondent susan candiotti who has been following this stor...

>> now, this all sounds technical. the board says it lacks the authority to prevent the team to continue to use the trademarks. this all comes after native americans launched an anti name redskins campaign. joining us is sports and entertainment attorney dominic romano. this all sounds so technical. im not an attorney. thank goodness you are. it seems to me if a team loses exclusivity over its trademark, it loses a lot of money which means its very unlikely the team would let this stick. >> the ...

Corporate board rooms where they dont pay their bills to small business to their suppliers for 60, 90, 120 days. >> i feel the outrage coming on. >> if this sounds technical, how do you hire people if they are not paying their bills. >>its not just the small businesses. its the new businesses. most jobs are created through new business formation. most new business tend to be small. really, it is getting you three together or the four of us together, we got this idea and well try to do this thing...

What happened at about 10 to 3:00 in the afternoon is procter & gamble was seeing very heavy sell orders on very heavy volume. typically when you see that kind of volume and selling, the new york stock exchange stops trading. thats exactly what it did with procter & gamble. it stopped trading for a total of 90 seconds. during that 90 seconds, whoever was trying to sell procter & gamble heavily went somewhere else, in this case to the electronic market, the nasdaq. they sold the stock sharply low...

What are we likely to hear from the speaker, and for me better yet, what do you want to know? >> reporter: well, i just came from outside a meeting where house democrats were discussing health care and it certainly sounds in talking to several house democratic leaders, tony, like things are moving. you mentioned that the president postponed his trip abroad next week. there is one specific reason for that and that is because house democrats im talking to say that they will need him for a final pu...