Claims at a fiveweek high bon employee bonuses of 1,000 at some places. Now on to the next total in washington the shutdown as the deadline approaches well go live to d. C. For the state of play. And the apple conspiracy theorists were right the company does slow down your old iphones and consumers are upset. Details on that, coming up first up, though, as the tax reform bill awaits the president presiden president s signature, Many Companies announcing bonuses, pay hikes and Capital Spending sn initiatives. At t will invest an additional 1 billion in the United States. Our own parent, comcast, says it will give 1,000 bonuses to more than 100,000 workers and spend more than 50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure boeing, 300 million in workforce training and facility enhancements for its employees both wells fargo and fifth third raising their minimum wages to 15. Fifth third also handing out bonuses to 15,000 workers. Kudlow a few moments ago on twitter said hes never se
Republican leaders of the house are behind closed doors trying to convert noes and neighbors on the health care redo. It is alive and kicking, but will it stand up . There are holdout members, we just got word of one republican who says not only am i not going to vote for the new one, my stance has gotten even tougher and harder. Fair and balanced Freedom Caucus member Mark Stanford and democratic congressman take us inside the closeddoor meetings happening on capitol hill. Lieutenant colonel ralph peters is here. The usf vincent is now within striking distance of north korea. Colonel peters on what the commanderinchief must order our military and our statesman to do next as leader kim jongun rattles his Nuclear Program saber. Bill gates favorite unicorn under attack by dc activists is a Smear Campaign underway . Or is airbnb disrupting the entire Housing Market in the nations capitol . And this controversy involves a questionable ad. Its a countdown exclusive you cant miss straight ah
At the moment we need to stress it is not 100 sure, in fact, not even 50 sure any of this is related to the deadly terrorist attacks on november 13th in paris. Amazing that its right there on the border between paris and belgium where there are checkpoints galore. You can only imagine how tense the situation is. Right there in that town it is actually where one of the ringleaders of the paris attacks is from. I want to get to Ashley Webster. Ashley, youve been grabbing headlines, what do we know right now . Reporter yes. Well, to your point, liz, very uncertain at this point. We do have a quote from french media, from a Police Officer on the scene who says he believes he is 9 9 sure this has nothing to do with the paris terrorist attacks, that its to do with a bank robbery, but these headlines change quickly, its a very fluid situation, so well keep an eye on it. There is, perhaps, a coincidence that it is happening in the same town as one of the believed bombmakers is originally from,
Facebook, yet another important Earnings Report. That stock is still about 40 below the 38 ipo price, incredibly. Wow. And the numbers are being watched closely, obviously, especially the mobility aspect. Julia boorstin will have the results with the best instant analysis, as well. She will speak with the cfo as well. On the heels of the detroit bankruptcy, Meredith Whitney is out with us, out with a dire call on municipalities. She said detroit is another of yet many big dominos to fall. Thats been a long time coming, that whole story coming. It could be the Death Penalty for allegedly ledge fund report, potential criminal charges coming imminently against the firm. This is separate now from those civil charges brought by the s. E. C. And despite the 616 million settlement for Insider Trading charges that the firm paid months ago. Former s. E. C. Head harvey pitt will be here. And past firms facing criminal charges have not done well. We want to get into the impact on s. A. C. And if
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