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I dont know, im busy right now. I havent thought a lot about it. Thats today, wednesday, october 16th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Remember 24 hours ago when it seemed we might get a deal. There was optimism in the senate but that was so yesterday. Overnight everything came to a screeching halt. And the deadline is looming ever closer. Thats right. This race to end the shutdown is todays top story. Lets get right to Peter Alexander at the white house. Peter, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning to you. Most ame ....
The senate plans to vote on the minimum wage increase on wednesday this week. Workers are voicing their opinions. Joining me now is one of the the organize. She is the cofounder of rock united. Thank you so much for joining us today. I want to ask you, youre talking about a lot of Different Things in this protest. Income inequality, minimum wage, Corporate Tax breaks. Who is paying their fair share. Seems like youre all over the place. What are you focusing on . Well, tomorrowings is the annual lobbying days of the National Restaurant association and so one of the key focus areas of todays rally is the fact that the National Restaurant association, which has been named the 10th most powerful lobbying group in congress, has lobbied against some things incl ....
Melissa so the herbalife battle continues. Carl icahn, gaining three additional seats on the companys board. The stock is up on news today. Does it hurt or help shareholders in the long run though . Here now are very own Charlie Gasparino. Jo ling kent from the wall street journal. We have James Freeman as well. What is ackmans next move . This is pretty powerful. Five seats on the board. Icahn or ackman . Melissa ackman. How does he respond . Icahn, start with carl. Carl now will be, will push management to be more aggressive to, addressing his concerns, what ackman has raised, that this is a illegal ponzi scheme and raised it enough where he has got, the ftc looking at it. Melissa right. Possibly state ags looking at it. I think you see much more concerted, tougher Defense Strategy out of herbalife right now which ....
Black box stops pinging. Melissa apple on a downward slide. An internal memo says the worse may be yet to come. Consumers want larger models with cheaper price tags than the iphone. Facebook and google are snapping up companies, apples giant war chest lies dormant of. We have Charlie Gasparino and marketing expert bruce turkel with us. This is a feignful memo to come out in the midst of the samsung trial. They basically made a full screen to show to the whole company, Consumers Want what we dont have and theyre talking about phones less than 300 with screens bigger than four inches. How embarrassing is this. This is embarrassing but if you watched fox business since last year this is what apple is worried about over the past year. We reported exclusively that apples board was worried about the pace of technological advavancnce in the company a innovation and whether tim co ....