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Not only would it of course have been politically more difficult and causing pain potentially unnecessarily because voters we still hope will pass prop 30. Reporter there you have it. You know, in politics we often dekraai, why wasnt some other alternative given up or why wasnt there another solution . Politics is ultimately about choices. We choose the legislators. They made their decision in sacramento. Now its back to us for us to decide. What happens remains to be seen. The governor remains ...

Ah ah hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered on people about washingtons unipolar moment, ended years ago, unfortunately, and dangerously. The Foreign Policy blob has refused to come to grips with this new reality. This explains the increase tensions in europe, middle east, and asia, and the biggest loser is the west. Ah. To discuss these issues and more, im joined by my guest, glenn, these and in oslo. Hes a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as t...

The dow plunging 180 at the open and rebounding at the close. There was nothing normal about the trading session. Investors dumped stocks from europe about the Financial Health of a big but relatively little known bank in portugal. It missed some debt payments that stirred up worries of a repeat of the european banking crisis from a few years ago. But then, comments from many market pros here in the u. S. All day long reassured investors the fundamentals had not really changed and stocks made a ...

And it could mean getting from los angeles to San Francisco in under 30 minutes. We have that story and more tonight for monday august 12th. Good evening, everyone. Remember when the blackberry was the must have device for executives . Everyone wanted one, and if you had one, you couldnt put it down. Not any more. Blackberry has been passed by other phones, from apple, samsung and more. Today the blackberry waived the white flag. Its exploring socalled strategic alternatives, that includes partn...

Overcame a drop in revenue to report profits of 5. 3 billion. Mortgage originations were way off, down 58 as refinancing basically dried up but profits were helped by stronger lending overall, Securities Trading and lower loan loss reserves. Still, investors pushed down the stock of the nations most valuable bank. It closed about a half percent lower as analyst pointed to rising ex spen rising expenses. A look at the banks that may post earnings next week. Reporter wells fargo reported profits t...

Week of freezing temperatures around bay area. I think we can finally see the end in sight though. But this morning, you headed out weve got some very cold temperatures. Clear skies that arctic air continues to sit overhead. Temperatures down the 25 degrees to 2 degrees in concord. 25degrees in concord. Even look at that our temperature is frozen so darn cold out there. Very cold temperatures around the bay area at this hour. Looks like by the afternoon temperatures going to moderate a little bi...

With that has come incredible demands on bandwidth. The kids were telling us stories about how they would hit enter, and if it was simultaneously, everything would choke. Okay . They were telling us about taking their computers and Walking Around the room until they could get, you know, a good signal. Ask, you know, the president and, you know, the president has said, he said back in june that we need to connect 99 of the schools within five years to at least 100 meg per thousand students going ...

There was nothing normal about the trading session. Investors dumped stocks from europe about the Financial Health of a big but relatively little known bank in portugal. It missed some debt payments that stirred up worries of a repeat of the european banking crisis from a few years ago. But then, comments from many market pros here in the u. S. All day long reassured investors the fundamentals had not really changed and stocks made a uturn. By the end of the day the dow lost 70, nasdaq off 22 an...

Report profits of 5. 3 billion. Mortgage originations were way off, down 58 as refinancing basically dried up but profits were helped by stronger lending overall, Securities Trading and lower loan loss reserves. Still, investors pushed down the stock of the nations most valuable bank. It closed about a half percent lower as analyst pointed to rising ex spen rising expenses. A look at the banks that may post earnings next week. Reporter wells fargo reported profits that matched and sales that bea...

The city once called rangoon is often said to be frozen in time. Thats changing and quickly. The key question is how to preserve something of the past while moving into a 21s 21st century future. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and dedication show in everything we do; from Electronics Systems to intelligence analysis and cyber operations; from combat vehicles and wea...