recorded a surplus of more than thirty six and a half billion euros according to the country's statistics agency that's the highest it's been since german reunification. europe's biggest economy also grew by around two point two percent and twenty seventeen and the federal government expects even higher growth this year. south korea has launched a complaint with the w t o against planned u.s. import duties on certain products made with steel and aluminum the european union also says it won't take new tariffs lying down the european commission has already threatened countermeasures on the table are possible duties on american products like motorcycles whiskey and produce e.u. representatives have repeatedly emphasized however that the bloc doesn't view the situation as a potential trade war. that greece continues to struggle to clear up a scandal involving pharma giant no vomitus prosecutors have been investigating the swiss company for over a year it stands accused of bribing high ranking politicians to smooth the way for expensive sales and fast approvals for its medicines in greece now the cou

european statistics agency eurostar says they used trade surplus with the united states rose a whopping seven percent to one hundred twenty one billion years donald trump has repeatedly criticized europe's high trade surplus with his country and in january he even accused the u.s. of using quote unfair practices saying you import tariffs in many sectors are higher than the u.s. counterparts. all right well are time to check in with wall street now also sharansky is standing by for us in new york sophie is that trade imbalance a real concern on the markets. well trade policy is one of trans favorite topics and it has been census companion in two thousand and sixteen because there's such a perfect fit to slam some other countries and make america a victim of unfair trade policies who has to react with terrorists and some more often come first talk and let me tell you one thing alan our wall street hates tariffs and protectionism as they are most likely being perceived as a big problem for to domestic companies and for the american economy in form of higher expenses for companies leading t

it prevents government agencies like the cdc from even researching statistics on guns violence. certainly the nra was in support of that. shouldn't that be repealed? is the gun lobby that powerful in washington? >> well, that's a whole separate study of how paufpl they lobby in washington. i'm fighting the oil right now and i feel like david and goliath. i don't know what this law is. i'm have to look into it. >> is there a reason that you can think of why any private citizen needs to own an ar-15 assault rifle? >> to be honest with you, i'm not sure. i think people should be able to use them in gun ranges if we want to rip off a lot of on caps if you will at a gun range. do they need to own them and take them out of the facility? i'm not sure. this thing here when a mentally deranged person can get a hold of an ar-15, we've got to deal with that. >> do you think you and your fellow republicans are going to agree to do something about gun control now? >> well, i certainly am. not necessarily for normal people, but i definitely think we need to tighten up background checks to mak

in the other corner are the statistics and we had these from the federal environment agency saying thatpeople die every yearjust from cardiovascular diseases linked to nitrogen dioxide emissions. there isa to nitrogen dioxide emissions. there is a huge lobby that says it is time to clean up the air in the cities. but at the same time, car—makers in germany talk about potential job losses if radical plans are implemented with regard to diesel cars. yes, and that is a headache for the german government as 800,000 people are employed by the car industry in germany. looking at the sales of diesel, they have slid dramatically ever since the volkswagen emissions scandal. down 45% to 33% of the market this year, so 45% to 33% of the market this year, so it's a huge problem for the manufacturers and another interesting statistic is that somebody survey german drivers about what they think of the car manufacturing industry and found 87% of germans simply don't trust car manufacturers to reduce emissions and that's one of the reasons why we are looking at the judgment today. many will say it is t

more statistics, if tech buses were a transportation agency they would be the seventh largest in the bay area. about the same size as cal train, the tech buses. these calls come from joint venture silicon valley. the speech about what's going on. i find these statistics fascinating. >> very much so. >> we are so very different. >> thanks a lot, scott. 6:16 right now. tug of war over short-term rental units is heating up. a recent town hall meeting reportedly drew such a massive crowd. that and they had to end the meeting early. full-time residents say the problem is getting out of hand. that is despite a new set of rules that took effect in december. residents say tourists and vacationers are leaving behind trash, crowding driveways, and they're complaining they're throwing loud and disruptive parties. now long-term residents are pushing for new ballot measure that would cut short-term rentals by 75%. >> take a minute and look at this new video showing a truck crashing into a bakery. it turns out the business owner does not hold a grudge here later taking a photo with the driver. it

from statistics i think it's one in 25 people, if not more. a spanish intelligence agencyypted letters from ferdinand ii, one of spain's most famous monarchs, and his top military commander. the documents, which consist of over 200 symbols, provide detailed instructions on military strategy at the time, including the struggle to take over the kingdom of naples. they've been a source of intrigue for historians for centuries. it tookjust one small fragment of code to break the key, but the letters still took nearly half a year to decipher. let's hear a little more about how they did it. translation: what they've done is to describe the text of letter by finding a letter onto texts where one is the transcription, the other is the text, like a rosetta stone riddle. i think they enjoyed it, didn't be? -- didn't i think they enjoyed it, didn't be? —— didn't they? let's get all the sport now. manchester city have been denied a win for a fourth time in the premier league this season, burnley recovered from a goal down to snatch a late draw. after a first half goal from danilo, it

i spent some time as the head of a federal agency, bureau of labor statistics. and the budget challenges there from not knowing the budget was not trivial. >> and what about your own ability to plan for this year and hire staff? >> that's an issue for us. we had some extra expenses last year. right now our continuing resolution is not what it needs to be. if we were to continue with this the rest of the year we would actually have to cut back on staff, training and things like that that would make it very difficult for us. >> thank you. also, my district is a district on the northern border of washington state, pretty diverse district yet everyone seems to agree that we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. we have farmers, business community, faith based community across law enforcement, across the board want to see comprehensive immigration reform and if your prepared testimony, you mentioned that the cbo will publish new reports in 2018, describing your processes for producing economic forecasts for major legislation affecting health insurance. i won

we don't want to just be another statistic and we don't want our town known for this. we want to be the agencye in that. i appreciate you being on. thanks very much. thanks for watching 360. we will be on from 9:00 to 11 and 8:00 to 10:00 tomorrow night. don lemon picks up coverage on cnn. >> this is cnn tonight. thoughts and prayers. you heard a lot of people offering thoughts and prayers for people who lost their lives. students and teachers shot to death by a 19-year-old who had been expelled. the 19-year-old who had absolutely no business having a gun. none whatsoever. we should all know better by now than to offer empty words about thoughts and prayers. i don't want you to misunderstand me at all. heart felt sympathy and prayers are powerful and we need them from time to time, but they need to turn into action and we need to do it now. we can't waste one more day waiting for a shooter to go in end the lives of more innocent

agencies that would then allow this particular individual, 30 sometimes , contacted on facebook the month before, to be totally ignored because they are to trying to skew just -- they're trying to skew statistics? thank you. host: you think the media should have been reporting on the 30 times the police went to his house before the shooting happened? i think we lost him. guest: i wasn't quite sure. i think the media would not have any way of knowing that the police went to this young man's home and they would not have any way of knowing about the basis of the expulsion from school. colleagues in the house told me it was based upon a violent act against a teacher in school is why he was expelled. there were multiple warnings about this individual on the ground in florida. there were two discrete warnings where citizens called into the fbi that were not followed through on and given to the local field office. i think we need to get to the bottom of those issues in this particular case. in the aftermath of any of these tragedies, the worse thing is when people rush to judgment and they know the answer to what we should be doing legislative or otherwise and seeking to gain political points in the

statistics. from what i was able to glean from the briefs was about 80% of the agents, of the union's dues are these agency fees that are sort of in play and there are maybe 5 million or so employees across the country who are currently subject to the requirements to pay these fees, and there's a great fear that if the fees are not required to be paid, then a lot of those folks are not going to become members of the union and they're not going to pay the fees and the overall funding is going to dry out and weaken public sectors across the country and so it's an important case. one final point. one thing that's interesting in this case, before stepping back from this in particular. it's the latest or one in a series of interesting cases that's been-- that have been brought by conservative leaning groups, public interest groups, with the conservative bent, using the first amendment as a way to-- to kind of perspective, in this case, it's, maybe it's economic interests. in other cases like master piece cake shop, sort of the rights of traditionalist-minded americans answers abortion or gay rights, but there's

understanding, and paul can correct me if he has better statistics but from what i was able to glean from the briefs, about 80% of the union's dues are these agency fees that are sort of in play. and there are maybe five million or so employees across the country who are currently subject to the requirement to pay these fees and there's a great here in if the fees are not required to be paid then a lot of those folks are not going to become members of the union, not pay the fees, the overall funding of the unions will dry up, it will weaken public-sector unions across the country, it will weaken labor generally and in the relationship with the government so it's a very important case. one final point, one thing that's interesting about this case, stepping back from this one in splar it's the latest or one in a series of interesting cases that's brought by conservative-leaning groups, public interest groups with a conservative bent using the first amendment as a way to kind of protect in this case its -- maybe its economic interests, in other cases like masterpiece cake shop in one of the abortion related cases coming out of california it's sort o

to statistics more south africans are living in poverty more than fifty percent their level of poverty has gone up and as you must have africa was downgraded to junk by international rating agencies and assume a state owned enterprises has collapsed eskom is we speak is bank trap so the question is not one may i ask is why has this man hunt on to power for such a long time so whatever happens here is one person like many who says that he's glad that this group zuma issue is coming to an end so that south africans can challenge the current economic structure of the country now if you're in south africa we would love to hear from you you can connect with us as always using the hash tag good or message me directly i'm at. will take you live. to kuwait city that is where a press conference is being held right now at the end of the iraq reconstruction conference let's listen in. and development today all saw so number of. meetings with the participation of one hundred and seven local regional and international n.g.o.s in addition to another workshop for the development funds . financial firms both. and internationally with the participation of fifty one development funds and internati

statistics and those are helpful about making new laws and budget as well. i think it is something that we need to point out as well not only in the voter registration agency. there's a lot more that we can -- [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >>> we do training and we try to -- we have human becomes at the polling places doing the work and sometimes that can be an issue and other times we are happy that they are there and they have the knowledge that they do so it's kind of a mixed bag sometimes. >> other questions from the audience. >> so dr. stewart you mentioned the difference between the qualitative and quantitative. i'd like you to talk about that as it relates to election officials conducting that type of analysis and mr. scarpello you mentioned -- you collected a lot of data and analyzed it, how would you encourage local election officials to analyze that data? how would they do that? how would they go about in analyzing the data? >> really quickly, well, look, the advantage of quantifying things is that it is an efficient way and mass way to identify problems and moving in a wholesale manner in management. the qualitative data by which i think the questi

and statistics manuel people use to diagnose people, you can diagnose 70% of the american population with mental issue. after all the horrible things we've seen go down with our government agenciesneil, do you want auditing your mental health records and that of your children? if for example, someone was on antidepressant once, maybe they were in a bad marriage, that woman who is maybe a single mom going never have access to a firearm to protect herself and her family from that abuser? we have to really carefully consider what works. while the assault weapons ban sound like a great idea. we tried it before. after it ended in 2004, the department of justice said they reviewed it and actually it had zero effect. so we want to do what works. we want to remember a killer is going to kill. for example, we have, you remember, i mean we had the truck bombing. we've had handgun killings. there was a stabbing in china killed more people were killed in this school. and so i think we just have to think about what works. i think the idea of funding military marshals, retire military in schools is ah. you mentioned the president. he is going to be meeting with some florida teachers and stude

agencies that would then allow this particular individual, 30 sometimes , contacted on facebook the month before, to be totally ignored because they are to trying to skew just -- they're trying to skew statisticsank you. host: you think the media should have been reporting on the 30 times the police went to his house before the shooting happened? i think we lost him. guest: i wasn't quite sure. i think the media would not have any way of knowing that the police went to this young man's home and they would not have any way of knowing about the basis of the expulsion from school. colleagues in the house told me it was based upon a violent act against a teacher in school is why he was expelled. there were multiple warnings about this individual on the ground in florida. there were two discrete warnings where citizens called into the fbi that were not followed through on and given to the local field office. i think we need to get to the bottom of those issues in this particular case. in the aftermath of any of these tragedies, the worse thing is when people rush to judgment and they know the answer to what we should be doing legislative or otherwise and seeking to gain political points in the afte