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This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. We are getting a new sense this hour of the extent of the destruction in Northern Illinois after tornadoed touched down. The governor says two people were kills dozens of homes destroyed. These images in fairdale tell the story, massive piles of debris everywhere. I signed a proximation a decoration this morning of state disaster decoration that allows us if we need to visit with the federal government about federal suppor...

Supports the right to bare arms whether any gun laws need to be changed . We begin this hour with what is shaping up to be major mie style in the relationship between the United States and cuba. On the heels of a telephone call between the two leaders, they are now expected to meet facetoface tomorrow. It will come at the sum milt of the americas conference in panama. This will be the first meeting since the Obama Administration in december moved to normalize ties. Mike viqueira is in washington...

Egypt. All the countries are part of this huge undertaking, but please allow me to be very clear. Either the tribes do this, or no one is going to do this. The only way to reach peace is for the tribes to accept that they are going toward stabilization and peace. And our work is that of looking for this to favor this at all levels so that this effort does indeed lead to peace. The diplomatic initiatives you are aware of are the ones we are doing and the once the Foreign Ministers are also trying...

One issue is even if there are no abuses the industry cannot handle having a best interest standard applied to these recommendations. Thats what the dol is doing. Its almost the standard that is applied to broker dealers under the suitability standard. The recommendation must be consistent and you look under the hood and it turns out these are some of the worst violations that you can find. In one case the court said this was egregious misconduct. These are cases if many if not most broker deals...

Chance of winning. We have the expense of millions worth of dollars worth of discovery. The news press is out there covering this. Depending on a law firm, you get to know, good friends in the press, and they will start this drumbeat and they will make it harder and harder for you not to say, this is stupid. I have had contentious cases. They said, wait until you see what will happen, i will tell you we have talked to these consumer advocate groups and this is what you will see next month and te...

Abducting and marrying a teenager for ten years. Its the battle for the big mac. Fast food workers say they deserve higher wages. Theyre expected to approve a 9. 5 million pay pact for the boss of the food giant. Hello. It is midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. Washington, 6 00 p. M. Bangkok where two days after imposing martial law, the army has carried out a coup. In the statement broadcast, the countrys army chief general announced the military had seized power to restore stability and power af...

All that and more over the next hour. First lets find out our headlines from our colleagues. Facebooks market value exceeded 200 billion today. Facebook rose to more than 77 per share. The companys stock has jumped more than 9 since late july when facebook reported secondquarter sales rose 61 thanks in large part to mobile ads. Twitter is testing a buy button. The consumer can purchase items directly. They are teaming to save a persons credit card information. Than shares climbed more 5 today. T...

Will justify the takeover. This is an opportunity to become the worlds number two player in the old index business. Mark carney is expected to unveil a host of measures to reign in lending now. And the latest ifo report forecast as growth stateside contracts more than expected. This as the two National Teams prepare to face off in todays highly anticipated world cup match. Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello. Hello, everybody. Welcome. Welco...

Headlines from our colleagues. Facebooks market value exceeded 200 billion today. Facebook rose to more than 77 per share. The companys stock has jumped more than 9 since late july when facebook reported secondquarter sales rose 61 thanks in large part to mobile ads. Twitter is testing a buy button. The consumer can purchase items directly. They are teaming to save a persons credit card information. Yahoo shares climbed more than 5 today. The company is set to get an 8 billion windfall from alib...

Carrot additionally. One of the things that we dont have enough of are programs or grants that encourage and inspire innovation and new practices and new knowledge about this issue when were placing all of our resources in enforcement and were not complementing that with innovation, then i think were creating a situation where we do have box checking instead of new thinking. I understand what youre saying. I guess what youre saying. One thing thats disappointing to me about this is that we depen...