Certainly sit among a pantheon of this business. Many bay area comedians count letterman as a mentor. I sat down with one of them, will durst. Gray hairs are going away for the television and i blame hd. Thats what i blame. Because you can see every crease and crevice. Carson, nobody knew he was old. He had pancake. Joan rivers, you know . Nobody knew. She is still old. But yeah, its he is going to be missed. I blame hd, too. He also gave me one guess as to who might replace letish man. He said Chelsea Handler just wrapped up his contract with the enetwork and could be a replacement. He came to the bay area in 1996 and hosted a week of shows in San Francisco and some of the highlights were letterman riding a cable car, riding a skateboard down lombard with joe montana and it wouldnt be the letterman show without a top 10. Robin williams stopped by on a bicycle to help out with that. More of these letterman memories tonight at 6 00. Were following breaking news out of fairfield right no
Woodruff then, Margaret Warner samples the mood in Eastern Ukraine where pro and antimoscow sentiments rooted in the regions history run high following nearby crimeas reunion with russia. And its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the tonights pbs newshour. On major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff two weeks on and searchers today appeared no closer than ever to finding the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Hopes had be raised after a satellite spotted two large objects in a remote region of the southern indian ocean, more than 1,500 miles southwest of perth, australia. Search planes crisscrossed part of the area today and australias acting Prime Minist
You think that i am a racist no i do not. This is the picture that touched off the rant stiviano with former nba star magic johnson, today johnson said he might be interested in buying the clippers. The teams official position it;s not for sale. Reporter the nba has condemned statements and plan to make an announcement regards the investigation. He could be fined or cut tried to force him to sell the team or give up majority ownership catherine who is Donald Sterling . Suddenly a lot of people want to know more about the 81yearold billionaire. For starters this is not the first time hes been accused of being racist. Catherine he was sued twice by the federal government after refusing to rent apartments to minorities. In a 2005 case and a 2009 case, when he paid a 2 point7 Million Dollar fine discrimination case. Sterling had been accused of trying to keep black and hispanic tenants catherine from his Los Angeles Properties but he also set up the donald t. Sterling Charitable Foundation
Enrolling in the program as a result. A question about the physician spending projections. You mention that your projections included the 21 i think reduction thats coming april 1st. Actually, no. Im sorry. Ill let you finish. I just wanted to clarify. Sure. The 21 reduction is in current law and thats under the Sustainable Growth rate formula. But what our projections our projections are consistent with the projected baseline scenario in the Medicare Trustees report. And in that, payment rates are expected to grow at 0 for 2015, then. 6 through the remainder of the projection period, per year, on average. These projections do not include the cut under the Sustainable Growth rate formula. In terms of the couple times it came up, the increase in highcost specially drugs and a specific mention of the hepatitis treatments that are out there. Does this analysis include any offsetting factors for someone getting cured of hepatitis and therefore not having ongoing costs in the future as a re
Apple might be getting into mobile payments at just the right time because after the credit card breaches at target, pf changs, michaels, sallys beauty and supervalu, the latest home depot could apple put an end to Security Breaches . Theyre to weigh in, Richard Crone with crown consulting that working with retairs on payment technologies. Great to have you here, richard. Tell us how the iwall would work . No one knows for sure, but get an idea how apple might have it work you can go into the apple store today use somethg easy pay with the apple store app. It allows you to scan product, get information and pay using your itunes account. There has been speculation about the addition of mobile payment with every iphone. This time theyre anticipated to add s something known as a Near Field Communications chip that allows you to tap the phot the merchants point of sale and pay. Gerri that is what i want to talk to you about is near field technology. Can you explain to us in layms terms wha