bezos 76, buffet at 75. these numbers according to bloomberg billionaires index found the past year alone, bezos added 22 billion to his fortune. that worked out to $66 million a day or $42,000 per minute. it's been a bit of a long rides for bezos to get here. he made his debut in 1998 after a net worth of 1.6 become. at 2013, his net worth was $27 become. all right. so what would it take for bezos to be number one in the world? assuming that microsoft stock remains constant, amazon stock would have to increase 13% for bezos to top gates' 86 billion. bill gates has held the title of the richest man for 18 of the last 23 years. for "nightly business report," i'm robert frank. >> that is it for "nightly business report" i'm sue herrera. >> tyler mathieson, have a great evening, everybody, we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ announcer: this is "bbc world news america." funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation. newman's own foundation, giving all profits from newman's own to charity and purs

you are seeing jeff bezos expand to paying customers. there is a great story on bloomberg about taxpayers and how much they might be on the hook. is this something you think is becoming known by the general public, or is this something private companies should look to themselves? >> the launch industry as an industry is familiar with mishaps, and whenever a rocket explodes, it is a setback for the industry because images of burning rockets don't do anyone any good. the insurance question is interesting. often times there is dual insurance, the deals tend to be different for each provider, but what you will see going forward is bigger, heavier, more powerful rockets capable of launching heavier and grander payloads. if you are a satellite company, you have more options. so for the satellite industry, this is great for them because they have more options and there is more competition, which will lower the cost for everyone. caroline: great for satellites. what about great for the consumer desperate to get into space? do you have any time f

what does jeff bezos hope to achieve?ter: they are similar in that they are both tech billionaires who made their fortunes in the internet, and immediately piled those fortunes into private space companies. jeff bezos started blue origin 15 years ago with the millions he earned as amazon ceo. they were relatively quiet until recently. his vision is similar, he wants to have millions of people living and working in space. caroline: dana hull, covering all things satellite. still to come, gopro shares edge up slightly after hitting a record low, but how can the company recover with analysts piling on the fresh downgrade? check us out on the radio. listen on the bloomberg radio app, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> it is 1:30 in hong kong. the february data out of china had delivered a surprise first deficit in three years. 45% increase in exports. exports to the u.s. rose 12%. american imports raised 41%. that was a trade surplus worth $52 billion. foreign affairs made headlines in beijin

lea: biased amazon cto jeff bezos. lauren: the oklahoma thunder to an overtime win over the event of magic. blues clinch a playoff spot with a win with a winner for the arizona coyotes. lewis highlights. lea: is 5:01 a.m. here in new york. welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. good morning. lauren: good morning, everybody. a federal judge in hawaii decides to extend his order blocking president trumps revise spin. the temporary order is extended until the state lawsuit is resolved. hawaii's attorney general says the judges decision affirms affirms values of religious freedom. >> the point that is making on the core premise that you could be looking at the document. lauren: to revise travel ban for six muslim countries mentoring the u.s. for 90 days. the next step for the administration would be an appeal to the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco. lea: north carolina's democratic governor and lawmakers reaching an agreement to end the controversial bathroom bill. the gop

what does jeff bezos hope to achieve?orter: they are similar in that they are both tech billionaires who made their fortunes in the internet, and immediately piled those fortunes into private space companies. jeff bezos started blue origin 15 years ago with the millions he earned as amazon ceo. they were relatively quiet until recently. his vision is similar, he wants to have millions of people living and working in space. dana hull, covering all things satellite. edge to come, gopro shares up slightly after hitting a record low, but how can the company recover with analysts piling on the fresh downgrade? check us out on the radio. listen on the bloomberg radio app, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i am mark crumpton. you are watching "bloomberg technology." house speaker paul ryan expects to have the necessary votes to pass a replacement of the affordable care law. the speaker held a press briefing with reporters a short time ago. >> obamacare is collapsing. obamacare isn't staying.

>>> speaking of jeff bezos, he's on the list.ew survey bears out the saying the rich gets richer. bill gates of microsoft topped the list of the world's wealthy for the fourth straight year with $86 billion. he's followed by investor warren buffett. and amazon's jeff bezos, amancio ortega and mark zuckerberg of facebook. only two women cracked the top 20, lilian betancourt of l'oreal. and alice walton the daughter of sam walton. and donald trump dropped more than 200 places on the list to number 554. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," brexit gets a start date. and an artist is seeing red over the iconic bulls jill wag fler is at the new york stock exchange and more. >> good morning, anne-marie. a lackluster day on wall street. stocks started lower. the dow lost eight points, nasdaq lost 4. >>> britain will start its exit from the european union on march 29th. that's when prime minister theresa may will notify that britain is article 50. that gives them to 2019 on britain's withdrawal and try to come to a new relationship. the two new c

what does jeff bezos hope to achieve? they are similar guys in that they are both tech billionaires who made their fortunes in the internet and then immediately plowed those fortunes into private space companies. s startedtarted -- bezo blue origin 15 years ago with the income he earned as amazon's his vision is similar in that he wants people living and working in space. caroline: that was bloombergs dana hull in washington. more headaches for samsung. according to documents released by wikileaks, samsung smart tvs could be used to spy on their users. the claim is that samsung smart tvs have a microphone designed to take voice commands which can pick up information while the device appears to be switched off. samsung says it is aware of the wikileaks reports and is urgently looking into the matter. the south korean tech giant is already hurting from other recent debacles which has jay y. lee preparing to stand charges for embezzlement. computingere many devices that were mentioned in that report from wikileaks from apple

we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, jeff bezos channeled his inner "iron man" over the weekend..donning a 14-foot tall mechanical robot suit. bezos tweeted a photo of himself >>> amazon's ceo channeled his inner ironman over the weekend donning a 14-foot-tall mechanical robot suit. >> jeff bezos did it at the mars conference that focuses on machine learning and home automation. wow. >> where are we going? hm. man. >> thank you for watching tonight at 5:00. allen and veronica will be back in just about 30 minutes. ♪[ music ] ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs an >> pelley: the ban expands. britain joins the u.s. in banning laptops and other electronics on some flights, in response to a terror threat. m so tonight, a ruling from the supreme court nominee. y nobody is above the law in this country, and that includes ie president of the united states. >> pelley: the president takes ealtbattle for his health care bill to the capitol... >> president trump was here to do what he does best, and that is to close the deal. >> pelley: ...while his daughter takes an office in the white house. a

you can file a claim via the caltrans website or by phone. >>> amazon boss jeff bezos is setting his sights very high, all the way to the moon. he's trying to sell nasa and the trump administration on the idea of establishing a settlement on the moon. the amazon ceo jeff bezos also owns a space company called blue origin, is making plans to launch a spacecraft that would shuttle goods and eventually humans to and from the moon beginning as early as july of 2020. everything is going to space now. >> it might be a little tough to do the two-day prime service. >> it may cost extra. >> maybe. >>> oakland has made the list of the coolest small and medium size cities to visit on expedia's website. >> oakland ranked 15th out of 21 cities across the united states. among the criteria, interesting festivals, a thriving arts scene, young demographics and a hunger for hipper things in life, from food districts to contemporary galleries. >>> austin, texas, taumd the list, followed by madison, wisconsin. >>> from oakland to new york, the warriors take on the knicks sunday on madison square garden.

by the way, amazon's chief, jeff bezos, just bumping warren buffett out so that bezos is now the second the world. he has gained $10 billion just this calendar year because amazon has gone straight up this calendar year. he is worth 75 billion. microsoft is up today. i think it is pretty close to its all-time high. look at that, a half percent higher. 65.81. yes i do own -- ♪ on track for a record close, ladies and gentleman. play those trumpets consistently please. >>> look at the homebuilder stocks. we're getting latest read on mortgage rates. liz: down from. it was 3.7% a year ago. new home sales are beating expectations. the pending home sales, the second highest clip in a decade. we haven't seen pending home sales, meaning contracts to buy existing. so people are rushing in, oh, rates are going to go up. now we have a turnaround in mortgage rates as the he's-- u.s. treasury yield went down. stuart: i see that as positive for the housing market and positive for consumers. liz: it is. stuart: we have a presidential tweet this morning. look at this, that is our president, president tr

. >>> billionaire jeff bezos will unveil tut for space travel today.head, his vision for millions of people to leave earth. and how his plans could heat up the >>> planned parenthood refuses to stop providing abortions in exchange for a promise of continued federal funding. >> ahead, how the group is standing up to the white house that could eventually lose $500 million in government money. >> you're watching "cbs this morning." well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor. she said... symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye prob

thing that peel like jeff bezos has been able to do. he has a set-up. you can build the long term value of your company and you have a lot more privacy. when you go public, your next door neighbor can look up your salary. and not everybody is interested in that. >> let's talk a little about the capital side of the business. if you own a private company, and let's say you can't raise capital any other way to expand or build a factory, i can see the issue of shares will be very helpful. >> so that's what pushes you to go public even if you don't want to. it had something to do with capital. you need new capital to grow because you've outgrown your present sources of capital. or you want to acquire a big company and you don't want to use all cash. or the people who put capital in want their capital back. people like vent you are capital funds don't stay with you forever. they need the cash back. sometimes they're pushing you. sometime you're getting push asked doing it even though this is not what you want to do. it is like your friends pushing you into th

>>> speaking of jeff bezos, he's on the lower.ow lost eight points, nasdaq lost 4. >>> britain will start its exit from the european union on march 29th. that's when prime minister theresa may will notify that britain is article 50. that gives them to 2019 on britain's withdrawal and try to come to a new relationship. the two new classes are sure to get involved in tense discussions. >>> the u.s. output and u.s. stockpiles that for now is countering production costs agreed to by opec members. u.s. west texas crude is trading below $49 a barrel. u.s. drillers have added 14 rig this week. >>> youtube said it would fix it's lgbt modes. lets parents schools and others block content that in appropriate for users under 18. youtube admits, though, the filter is not work the way it should and said filtering out it with mature content was a mistake. >>> and the artist who sculpted the raging bull statue is raising concerns over the girl statue. the bull sculpture said the girl statue is actually an advertising trick that makes his bull see

you mentioned jeff bezos.t the pope has been on there and so has jeff bezos by putting the fear of god onto any others. >> it was puppy love at first sight, mixed metaphor. ahead the connection between a fluffy golden redriver and vice president joe biden and psychedelic art that appears to go on forever. it spells out minutes. you're watching "cbs this morning." for millions of baby boomers there's a serious virus out there that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and it's not tested for in routine blood work. the cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us it's time to get tested. ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. it's the only way to know for sure. >>> former vice president joe biden has an adorable new friend, a puppy also called biden. he instantly bonded with the golden retriever yesterday. when they met on the steps of the capitol hill building. the former vice president and his n

. >>> plus, the space race between billionaire jeff bezos and elon musk.s ready to announce new plans. and michelle dockery stops by the studio. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. can a filet, or a new york strip ever be topped? well, no. but for our new delmonico ribeye, perhaps we can make more room at the top. you can't fake steak and the juicy new york strip. longho and for lunch, try our steakhouse burger or any steakhouse lunch combo. only at longhorn. >>> litsch from the doctor. bs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >>> mob mayhem. more than 100 teenagers cause chaos outside of city hall. we'll tell you just how many were arrested and what will happen to them now. >>> and cab driver in the hospital after being shot during attempted robbery in west philadelphia overnight. we'll tell you about the moment thinks he is call ate dollars. >> a day care work is her fired and arrested after a video appears to show her pushing a child down some stairs. we'll tell you how the child is doin

as bezos gets ready to announce new plans for his space company.about interest michelle dockery stops by the studio. that's the "morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ,,,, i'm michelle griego. and i'm anne makovec. time is 4xx here's roberta gonzales with a check of weather. >>> good -- >> good -- [ laughter ] >> good morning, i'm michelle griego. >> i'm anne makovec taking michelle's line this morning. >> you can't do that! >> coming out gunning at the beginning of the broadcast! it's tuesday, march 8. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm anne makovec. >> how is everyone? >> good. >> why don't you guys keep going. the remote isn't working. [ laughter ] >> did we all, like, like plan this situation? >> we did not. >> but it worked out. >> i ruined the plan. i was going to wear red and we were trying to coordinate this and -- >> and we all turned out blue. >> i know. >> i did lines. i changed my mine. >> she changed her mind. she stepped on my line. >> just how the day is going to go! [ laughter ] >> tha

jeff bezos goes where no billionaire has gone before.e origin is unveiling the pod that could take you up to space. the hometown of crust yoon -- cristiano ronaldo. wanted to go public with information about russia meddling last summer, but he was blocked by officials within the obama administration. according to newsweek, comey try today publish an op-ed in the allegations against russia months before the election. joining us right now politics and strategy cairon, good to see you. >> good morning. >> my first thought is this is becoming a full-time job trying to understand the various contours against russians. the top intelligence officer in the country would want to reveal what seems to have been still a story in progress through opinion essay in a newspaper which would have further confused the already highly contentious presidential race and would have made him and his research on the russians part of the narrative in a way that we would -- dee we would not hav been able to overcome in the presidential. second, the whole thought of

so what would it take for bezos to become number one? have to increase 13% to a share price of $990 bucks per share for bezpos to top gate's 96 something. gates has been the top man, maybe it's time for a change. >> that's pretty amazing. >> i think if it happens, bezos crosses, first of all, he might say, congratulations, when will you give yours away? that's the other distinction that gates had to. >> for buffet, too, by the way, he is under pressure to be more philanthropic. the stock is at 91% at one point from 2000 to 2001 his net worth would have been down 90% at some point. >> be i the way, robert, the fact is, so here's what i'm trying to say, amazon right now is still a growing, flourishing company with many chapters ready on the written. is that common? >> we live in a day. people can become very wealthy, making unprecedented shorter and shorter in time. i think it will be a race not between him, but zuckerberg. they will be number one and number two. they hold so much of these companies. it appears, anyway, at early stages of

♪ [laughter] >> tom: amazon ceo jeff bezos had a decent year last year.e by $27 billion, thanks largely to an early investment in the big mouth billy bass. he got in early on that one. he is now the third richest in the world behind bill gates and warren buffett. i think power is going to his head. here he is inside a 13-foot mechanical robot known as the method two. he was demonstrating the armor at an annual robotics conference, let's see him in action. [laughter] >> why do i feel so much like sigourney weaver? >> tom: he was occurring to this classic sigourney weaver seen. >> are you the key master? >> not that i know of. >> tom: love that movie. bezos, do you think he should cool it on the killer robots? >> terrifying. i think i've been on the show and we've talked about robots before and how scary they are, artificial intelligence, people are going way too far and getting too excited, this is a little too "transformers" for me. he has so much power and money, he doesn't need to be a robot, too. >> tom: i like the robot, i want to get in it myself but

jeff bezos, by the way, announcing the first satellite customer from origin.r from bezos, as well. getting some news from the commerce department. according to a source, china's zte agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a case involving the alleged sale of u.s. technology to iran. zte buys components from u.s. companies and had been accused of reselling the goods to iran. commerce secretary wilbur ross last week told cnbc the white house would be focusing on enforcing existing trade laws. we expect an official announcement later on this morning. then we'll talk to the commerce secretary around 11:45 eastern time. >> i thought it was great when he said that. there are a lot of news in the books and we don't pursue the laws. also, another thing we don't talk a lot about. the globalization polity. it is not like every company feels it has been beaten to death because of our relationship with globalization. the vast majority love it. >> they do. did you read the editorial from navarro yesterday? he doesn't see the world that way. >> he doesn't. the key trade adviser

yes, jeff bezos, that means you.ergy, anyone betting on a recovery of oil and grass stocks have been let down big time. the s&p sector is down 6% this year. should you expect a touch around? the bell tolls for us. nina, oil is back above 50 today. do you think we'll get a rebound in oil and gas stocks? >> well, remember that the energy slump that we saw really was about natural gas, not about oil. because oil was actually doing reasonably well. we had a very high compliance within opec. so everybody was reasonably positive on oil stocks while natural gas got hit by the double wham my may went into the huge winter stock piles. we had very low demand. that's what killed the energy sector. however, going into q2, we are probably going to sew a leg down, because we are starting to see rig counts going up in the u.s. so if you look, for example, at the end of february, we're up 85% from the lows in 2016 for rig counts in the u.s. so we're probably going to sew an uptick in production. that more likely going to drive oil s

, the founder of amazon, has overta ken bezos, the founder of amazon, has overtaken warren buffet asou nts bloomberg's billionaires' index counts these things. he is now worth a cool $75.6 billion. hejumped into second place yesterday because amazon stock hit a record high. he still has a way to go before he gets top spot. bill gates has been there for awhile. his value is put at $86 billion. some of the latest business stories on outside source. stay with me. if you have any questions, i will be back in a couple of minutes. hello. your next uk forecast in half an hour. at this time of the evening we go beyond our shores and look at some of the main weather stories around the world. we have been talking about cyclone debbie and australia. this is the view for thursday. what's left of the system is moving away, but it is still producing a lot of rain. some spots had another 200 millimetres. another 100 millimetres in brisbane. although the rain is about to stop, the flood threat continues. all of this water is feeding through the river systems and it's still very windy going into frid

how much jeff bezos is worth.ill ahead. >> and the market just opened up about 10 minutes ago. not much change. dow down about 1. coming up we'll get an update from kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks. ,, ,, to re-launch and re-land a used falcon-9 rocket booster for the first time. the booster was first fired off.. in april of 2016. today's attempt is highly you. >>> today, spacex will try to relaunch and reland a used falcon 9 rocket booster for the first time. it was first fired in april 2016. today's attempt is highly unusual since usually rocket parts crash into the ocean following a launch and then sink to the bottom. a booster can cost tens of millions of dollars. if today is a success, experts say it could radically lower the cost of launching things into space. spacex tweeted a photos early interventionier this week showing the static fire test was completed and today is the launch date. >>> amazon's ceo has just been ranked the second richest man in the world. jeff bezos has taken warren buffett

when i went to jeff bezos' facility they were building the same rocket for $30 million.did once do thing that were never done before. after russia launched a satellite our president said this. >> our nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. >> we are carrying that infrastructure with us today. nasa spend $18 billion of taxpayer money per year. half of that goes for the infrastructure that was built for apollo. they only have a third of the buying power so they can't do as much with the rest of it. john: most of the rockets going up now are private companies. >> space has been privatized. john: they are planning to go to mars. >> probably $50 billion by the time it's built. we have no money to do anything beyond that. the soonest we would go to mars would be the mid 20s and 3. i just don't think that that's going to be the way we get there. elon musk announced he's going to mars in 2018. not with people. but should he do that near the range with the heavy-lift vehicle. it wi

jeff bezos is the white line.et worth on paper is now at billion..6 he has surpassed warren buffett and ortega. warren buffett is in blue. buteaked in late february, has been drifting down a little bit. , he is at about $74.3 billion. this comes a day after amazon announced that it is buying a dubai-based online retailer. on the rich bloomberg. it's a great resource for how the rich are doing. so farzos, number two, this year, he has seen an increase in his net worth of $10.2 billion. if we click on the chart section, you can see how he stacks up against the koch's. overall for the three-month average, his net worth is about $72 billion. the high was about $75.6 billion, which is where he is at now we spoke with brad stone, who points out that jeff bezos not only has done very well with early, but he's also an investor in airbnb, google, and uber. it looks like he's got the midas touch when he thinks like a vc as well. joe: you are doing pretty well when you have your own chart on the ticker, your online. --

. >>> jeff bezos is the second richest person in the world at $75.6 billion that was enough to take down the number two guy warren buffet. bill gates remains at the top of the list. >> 4:53 a.m., students are caught bringing guns to school in two separate incidents in the area. details at 5:00 p.m. >>> john legend surprises ordinary people at a london train station that's next. >> new no this morning, republicans in north carolina have reached a deal to repeal the state bathroom bill where transgendered people use bathrooms that correspond birth certificate. north carolina lawmakers will take up the bill this morning. it is unclear if it will pass. >>> singer john legend thrilled fans have a song at a london train station. he seized a piano before heading to a waiting vehicle. >>> 9-year-old trevor leaves for augusta, georgia only one in 80 in the nation to quaff for the drive putt championship at the augustaolf club. >>> the masters tournament begins at augusta one week from today. >> we show you the terrifying moferlts when a cyclist -- we'll show you the terrifying moments when a cycl

according to the index, bezos has a net worth of $75.6 billion.ing up, brexit is officially underway. the man at the helm of u.k. tech is the heavyweight. he joins us next with his outlook for tech startups in the country. this friday on bloomberg television, we will hear from two federal reserve presidents. they will sit down with mike mckee. catch both exclusive conversations. this is bloomberg. ♪ show me academy of country music awards. thank you so much for that down home welcome. show me female vocalist of the year. thank you so much. thank you so much acm's, i appreciate it. show me acm best moments. i could never have wished for, asked for and dreamt of anything more than this. catch your favorite moments from the acm awards and an exclusive encore performance by kelsea ballerini following the show on xfinity x1. the acm awards. live on sunday, april 2nd 8/7 central on cbs. >> it's 11:29 a.m. in hong kong and 11:29 p.m. in new york. say a $14 billion deal will reduce competition but creating it effective monopoly in many areas. it thwarts e

bezos plans to create a family of reusable rockets. they'll be used to take space tours on suborbital trips. they can also send space ships in to orbit. there's plans for a rocket booster that's half as powerful as the apollo. spacex is owned by tesla founder elon musk. >>> rain, hail, and even reports of snow. up next, the wild weather across the bay area that has many people talking this morning. >> also, president trump's new travel ban is due out today. up next, how it's expected to be different from his last executive order. >>> good morning. hail, and a lot of it. this was the scene overnight around the bay area. we'll tell you more about the wild weather and how long it's expected to be around. >> an explosive allegation from president trump, accusing former president obama of tapping his phones during the presidential election. how former president obama's people are responding. this and more ahead on mornings on 2. >>> what a cold monday morning it is. march 6th. good morning. i'm gasia mikaelian. >> good morning. i'm dave cla

amazon's jeff bezos and tesla's elon musk both want to put you on the moon. chip reid has the story from the washington, d.c. convention center. >> reporter: more than 14,000 space engineers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts are gathering here to discuss the future of space and they'll be watching a fierce competition. not between two nations but between two billionaires. in less than a year, space company blue origin has successfully launched and landed its rocket, the new shepherd, five times. but now the company appears to be shifting its focus to a familiar target, the moon. blue origin is reportedly circulating a seven-page white paper to nasa and the trump administration, outlining its plan to develop a new spacecraft to help it establish human settlements on the moon. >> what it really wants to do is to land this lunar to bring cargo, supplies, equipment, science experiments. >> reporter: the target isn't just earth's nearest neighbor, he's also aiming at elon musk and spacex. to make its shipments, blue origin could use its newest rocket, the new glenn,

according to the index, bezos has a net worth of $75.6 billion.g up, brexit is officially underway. the man at the helm of u.k. tech is the heavyweight. he joins us next with his outlook for tech startups in the country. this friday on bloomberg television, we will hear from two federal reserve presidents. they will sit down with mike mckee. catch both exclusive conversations. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i'm alisa parenti, and you are watching "bloomberg technology." british prime minister theresa marked the end of britain's 44 year membership in the eu. candidatesidential marine le pen was told by the french national treasure three years ago that her party would have to plu its deficitg with eu money. she was informed that her spending was spiraling out of control. the party is being investigated for potential misuse of parliament funds. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says the organization is partnering with a, quote, corrupt government in congo. she supports a massive cut in the world's largest peacekeeping mission there. her comments came a day af

. - with bezos he's somebody who'd never owned a newspaper before. we knew don graham, our beloved former publisher had chosen him so he must have been good. but he's done things like when jason rezaian our reporter, was imprisoned in iran, when the iranians finally let him go, bezos went over there to get him. got him on his private jet and said where do you want to go? and rezaian was like, i want to go to key west. so they flew him straight to key west from the army hospital. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation and hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy and by klru's producers circle ensuring local programming that reflects the character and interests of the greater austin, texas community

this is the company founded by jeff bezos.e "wall street journal," the company announced customers and new initiatives. jeff bezos is slated to speak tuesday in washington. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." you can always follow us live streaming on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: revised travel ban exempting green cardholders. we had to the middle east for reaction. the presidential candidate wins support from the republican party after calls for him to step aside a miss any criminal probes. anna: carmichael's and the new world order. the trump trade and breakfast. brexit. ♪

on abc7 mornings. >>> move over warren buffett. >> billionaires index, bez bezos, beat buffet by 700grand. bill gates still the richest person, $86 billion, but who is counting? >> apparently bloomberg. >> that's true. >>> a disturbing story out of richmond coming up, and after the break see what happened to a police officer that tried to help a man he thought was drunk. >>> state lawmakers taking action after questions are raised about election results. >>> jerry brown in concord today pitching a tax that will affect every single person that drives on bay area roads. >>> i am tracking a cold front. check out the winds blowing on top of mount tam. 28 miles per hour. look at the drop compared to yesterday. it will be temporary. we have a warmer weekend coming up. >>> and looking at tahoe right now, and we have a live look at >>> and looking at tahoe right now, and we have a live look at >>> good morning, everyone. it's thursday, march 30th. natasha is off, which means i get to it is a little closer to you, mike. >> how are you? >> alexis in the same spot today. >> still at the end. >>

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the "washington post" is owned by jeff bezos, the co-founder of amazon. what we're looking at now is the aftermath of the golf course after that vandalism that occurred. i think "the washington post" has destroyed its reputation as a major news -- viable outlet. what say you? >> i don't agree with that. i will take issues with some of the stories in the past and major issue with this one. i led my column with it. it's so revolting to see that this could -- this act of breaking the law and vandalism and defacing private property, which happens to be owned by the current president of the united states could be describe almost in glowing terms. well, they stuck it to him. defining act of defiance. a daring act of defiance. just says something about the mindset in news rooms. i don't want to go global and say that the post doesn't do something good reporting or jeff bezos fault and say it was a mistake made by some young reporter and corrected with the editor's note. >> i don't think editorials should bleed over into the news arena. that's what -- we'll agree

jeff bezos says he wants to give you the chance.he has a huge announcement coming up this week. we'll talk space race with kennedy. that's next. >> this week, we'll parentally get a look at upcoming plans in the new space race from jeff bezos, the amazon chairman and owner of the space company blue origin. that's according to the "wall street journal." last week elon musk, his competitor, announced his space company, space x, plans to send two paying customers around the moon in an automated space ship by the end of next year. kennedy will be hosting "kennedy" at 8:00 eastern. what do you think of this. >> it's fantastic. a private space race is something that you couldn't have anticipated in the 60s. it's governments competing against each other. now you have these billionaires, self-proclaimed space geeks want to be the first to have the most powerful rockets to shoot it as far as possible. they're getting money from nasa and government contracts, but they're accelerating the space race faster than government s could. they're crea

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jeff bezos ambitious new plan for space exploration including a lunar delivery system.h 6th, 2017. you're watching "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. fire ♪ >>> good morning and a very warm welcome to "worldwide exchange" here on cnbc. i'm wilfred ross along with courtney reagan, in for sara today. good morning again. >> katy perry theme, carried over from the last break. >> using katy perry again? there we go. this is pink, apparently. >> oh, this is pink. totally wrong. shoot. >> i wasn't able to correct you naturally. i only got a prompt in my ear to tell you that. but anyway, let's get straight to the market action. >> take a look at futures under a little bit of pressure as we started off the show, and that's likely here continuing, but just around the same levels we saw earlier. and this is after all three major averages posted only the slightest of gains on friday. the dow is up three points, the s&p up one and the nasdaq up 9 1/2. so, that's sort of the action that will begin from the u.s., the carry-through over the weekend when we open up markets today, but that's

connell: talk about jeff bezos and a high-tech puppet? melissa: huh? connell: don't worry about it. in just a moment. hello? ♪ ♪ >> ceos new best friend amazon jeff bezos manning a 13-foot robot in front of a crowd at the company's exclusive conference. >> appears to be enjoying himself while manning the giant bot. >> that is actually pretty cool. >> alien film reference. no comment from the robot, however. >> wow. that was pretty cool. >> it was kind of cool. >> all right. risk and reward starts right now. liz: president trump about to depart the white house on another major speech on health care, this time in louisville, kentucky tonight. this after fbi director james comey hammered on the hill today over trump tower wiretap claims and russia's meddling in the election. plus the supreme court nominee neil gorsuch giving his opening statement. we will bring you what's breaking in all three of these stories tonight. welcome to risk and reward i'm liz macdonald in for deirdre bolton. first up, president trump to leave the white house where health care is expected to

>> jeff bezos.y. >> the story that we have to watch closely what is interesting about this we are banning electronics on airplanes from some american allies, so people coming from saudi arabia from turkey, i wondered what backlash the trump administration could get from that. maria: i wonder why they feel that somebody could place a bomb or a trigger a bomb from inside a laptop? >> new information have they uncovered. dagen: chatter no specific threat but chatter. maria: a short break we get back to grilling gorsuch democrats setting sights on supreme court nominee day two of confirmation hearing we are all over that next cracking the case of missing jersey how investigators believe tom brady stolen super bowl memorabilia wound up south of the border in mexico. back in a minute. ( ♪ ) upstate new york is a good place to pursue your dreams. at vicarious visions, i get to be creative, work with awesome people, and we get to make great games. ( ♪ ) what i like about the area, feels like everybody knows

other kalorama family, and jeff bezos, the founder of amazon.com. theilly weekend, to say least, and will continue. josh knight is in the weather center with a forecast. josh: for a lot of us, this will be one of the coldest mornings we have had in a while. clear skies all day long, still clear tonight, allowing temperatures to drop quickly. a nice shot of the capital, looking nice most of the day. the big reason for the chilly temperatures, the clear skies the rest of the night. at least it will still be clear tomorrow. we will get all of the sunshine back. in temperatures, once we add the breeze, 24 degrees d.c., 26 quantico, 21 winchester right now. tomorrow morning, waking up with many of us actually in the teens. theting off around 23 in district, 30 degrees at 10:00, still below freezing. about 43 degrees a high temperature. a lot like it was today. the one nice thing, a much bigger improvement from today, less of a breeze. we had very windy weather today. tomorrow it is much lighter, so it should feel better. we are warming into the 50's and

"forbes" is out there with the 2017 bibi gates, warren buffet, bezos, gakeerg rounding out the top five ten have a combined net worth, can i get a drumroll here, $612 billion. all the way down the list you're going to find donald trump. he dropped 208 spots to num 544 earning $1 billion less since becoming president. that's another digit. what's another zero whench? do they even feel? >> i don't think so. >> couldn't relate. wouldn't know. >>> wha had high hiking with his crush decided to river. a croch serious arm injuries but he says it was all wshe's beautiful, ca. it was a croc dare. just done it for sophie. >> sophie has agreed to go on a date with him buts far from imp stunt. >> i'd have to be quite twisted to be impressed by that. i think he's very brave to be in sucherhat happened but not impressed by somebody risking their life, you know, in such a way. >> quite twisted. hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec® and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. sticwith zyrtec®. muddle no more®. try rhinocort® aller