Safe. Tonight is the night talk show icon David Lettermans last show, what is on tap for his final episode and extra sweet good bye from bill murray, last night. A perfect ending. Yes indeed. Getting close this is it, last she. But first lets get our forecast, good morning. Good morning. We are starting to see a quiet stretch of weather settle in over our area. A couple of hiccups which we will discuss but since we have a Holiday Weekend coming up it bodes well for our area for now things are nice, clear quiet for our region. We have a clear sky over ben franklin bridge and things are tranquil say for the the fact that you will see a hint of the breeze kick nothing here and as it does show that will be noticeable with time. Other thing how much cooler it is, how much more comfortable and we will keep that sunshine. We will start off on a good note and we have a nice stretch of days. We will have full tea tails straight ahead. Well, it is down to two in philadelphias race for mayor. Jim
Forever. And superstar entertainer dolly parton. She dishes on her legendary career and the novel way that she is launching her new music album. But first, lets launch into headlines with my radio could he host cohost. Thank you very much. Ford out with its earnings today. The automakers First Quarter net income coming in just below 1 billion. The number represents a 39 drop from a year ago and less than analysts were looking for. Ford shares falling on that news. Russias sovereign debt rating cut to the lowest investment grade. The Credit Agency saying further downgrades are possible. Russia responded by raising its benchmark Interest Rates from 7 to 7. 5 . And the nasdaq tumbling today, the most in two weeks. The index retreated nearly 2 as amazon slowed the most since january. Thats a look at some of the top headlines at this hour. Thanks very much. For more on todays market decline i want to bring in joe. Hes the founder and the chairman of macalindon research partners. Tell me abo
The battle for French Company alstom is heating up. The biggestuld be tugofwar for a french Industrial Company ever. Matt campbell broke the story. Who has the upper hand between siemens and ge . It seems ge is ahead of the curve. Good morning. On the merits, you are right, ge is more advanced. They made a binding offer. It is something that has been in the works for weeks, if not months. Coming up with something that is much more informal and would need more time to become very serious. Now, that said, there is a degree of political pressure in france of in favor of at least seen this siemens offer considered, which would be a socalled european solution, which might be more acceptable to some portions of the government. Over the last 24 hours we have seen the government backing off of its initial support for siemens. They seem to be walking that back. The smart money would be on ge getting this done one way or another but it would be a bumpy ride. Why is the french government backing
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Important contributions of senior negotiators on both sides. Particularly both of whom released the and stood strong in the face of criticism at home and whose unwavering commitment may belong to these talks possible. I look forward to beginning work with them tonight. Going forward its no secret that this is a difficult process. Its no secret that many difficult choices lie ahead for the leaders in the negotiators as we seek reasonable compromises on very tough and complicated and emotional and volatile issues. I think reasonable compromises have to be an effort and another negotiations will be tough, but i also know that the consequences of not time could be worse. To help the parties navigate the path and avoid its many pitfalls, we are very fortunate to have on our team on a daytoday basis and at this crucial time as the u. S. Special envoy for israeli and palestinian negotiations, insisting martin indyk will be important. It will be, as his deputy, and as a mere advisor to me, it