the orthopedic specialist sven alston maya is an expert in nice surgery and arthritis osteoarthritis is a common complaint in germany more than one in four women and almost one in five men suffer from it their joints wear out too early and too quickly. as fan austin myers patient today also has arthritis in the right knee. the specialist is performing an arthroscopy. the cartilage is smoothed out and the joint is flush to clean it out. the problem is that statutory health insurance companies in germany don't pay for this surgery anymore. one of the companies commissioned a study and concluded that arthroscopy were ineffective. flushing out the joint was pointless its benefits a miss. how do orthopedic specialist feel about this decision the islands are some say it's an outrage on the say so what i've always done things differently anyway my quick count shoes as freely as we could in the ponds. for. as a result of patients who have stuck to your tree health insurance bought from the possibility of a useful thought. i. can tell people. it was here in cologne that the institute for qual

join now by alston and her family. you guys are bound for binghamton, new york, right? >> uh-huh. going upstate. >> what made you choose the bus? >> it seemed like the easiest commute for us. we don't always have an easy commute. we don't always take this route. >> reporter: did you realize today is possibly the busiest travel day of the thanksgiving season? >> no, not at all. we've dodged a lot of the busy commute because it's so early. we've been okay so far. >> reporter: what you want to do on a day like today, a busy travel day, start your route early like alston's have done here. that is what many people are trying to do today. of course, tomorrow leading up to thanksgiving. back to the studio. >> justin telling people when the busiest bay day to travel. >> it's 6:47. metro changes this week because of thanksgiving. on thursday, rail and bus service will operate on holiday schedule. the system will open at 8:00 a.m. and close at 11:00 p.m. parking will be free at all lots on black friday. beginning on saturday, there will be no red line service between silver spring and fort

two top executives the raid was related to an investigation into the income of works council chief alston or the chief workers' representative at the company earned as much as seven hundred fifty thousand euros prosecutors say that could amount to an illegal waste of corporate funds a form of tax evasion. cash strapped venezuela and russia signed a debt restructuring deal in easing the terms and conditions under which characterise must repay some three billion dollars it owes moscow the deal comes just a day after credit ratings agency standard and poor's and fitch declared the south american country to have partially defaulted on its stead the unwelcome status is bestowed on countries when they fail to or even more of their financial obligations. venezuela isn't paying its bills and is already in partial default now it's overdue a four hundred twenty million dollar interest payment the deal with russia will help fund that at least but the three billion dollar amount is nothing compared to the country's sixty billion in bond debt despite the rot in the domestic economy the country's centr

get it out to alston, jr. temple beats jefferson 70-60. >>> what's better than a world series ring?ston rapper paul wall bought these grills for the astros after winning the world championship this year. talk about bling. you got the ring and you got the grill. >> i'll be grilling, man. >> i know you will. serious stuff down there in h town. another rapper slim thug who likes all that stuff, too. but any way. when you win the world series, first one ever. >> put it on your teeth. >> you won't go through tsa checkpoint any time soon. you'll be setting that thing off. >> thanks for watching. >> we' hey, man. oh! nice man cave! nacho? [ train whistle blows ] what?! -stop it! -mm-hmm. we've been saving a lot of money ever since we switched to progressive. this bar is legit. and now we get an even bigger discount from bundling home and auto. i can get used to this. it might take a minute. -swing and a miss! -slam dunk! touchdown! together: sports! touchdown! >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11:00. >>> a trip to the dentist did not epidemic with a toothache

. >>> full steam ahead for alston. they rally on a solid set of profits and bullish outlook forward until 2020. >>> tesco can load booker into its trolley. the stocks trade near the top of the stoxx 600 after the uk regulator provisionally approves the 3.7 billion pound merger. >>> and default. that's s&p's judgment of venezuela setting up a clash between the struggling country and its worried bondholders even as president maduro promises to avoid default. >>> inflation data from the uk, surprisingly it held at 3% in the month of october versus expectations of a rise of 3.1%, which would have been a five-year high which would have triggered a letter from mr. carney, the boe governor to mr. hammond explaining why inflation deviates by more than 1% from the target of 2% we're not getting that letter. 3% for the month of october. seeing quite a bit reaction in the currency markets sterling/dollar down by 0.3% on the day after being unchanged before, given that the market got this pretty much wrong to be honest i know it's

two top executives the raid was related to an investigation into the income of works council chief alston or the chief work is representative of the company and as much as seven hundred fifty thousand euros prosecutors say that could amount to an illegal waste of corporate funds and a form of tax evasion all right for more on that let's cross over to. our financial correspondent in frankfurt mail so how is fox one holding up amid to this latest turmoil well it share price isn't holding up at all we've seen a decline of one percent on this news and now that drop could have possibly be even deeper if if the news was actually a surprise now prosecutors had already said as early as in may that they were looking into potential irregularities when it came to the compensation given out to the works council but has been quite vigorous and its defense saying that it hasn't broken any regulations but so investors don't seem to be cheered by this defense and quite personally i find it surprising that investors are still shaken up by bad headlines coming out of fox firing but i guess it is their prer

they have alston saying it just bought saying that it's going to be not great engines looks pretty goodmilitary orders look good. there's things in there, health care where john is come look good but divisions being sold, i want to know about oil and gas i understand -- i remember from the verbiage they couldn't just sell it. >> and they can't. they are restricted from starting to significantly eliminate their 63% ownership of baker hughes ge. ge baker hughes, whatever. >> it is repudiation of everything that happened in the last four years in the company and we have to accept that, that there were some suboptimal acquisitions. >> the question will be can this man who is a 30-year veteran of ge, truly turn it around with i would point out and perhaps even as importantly, a board of directors that's going to have a lot of new faces on it flannery and ed garden are new faces generally. they just joined the board and then you're going to nine members are going to leave and three new ones will come on. so you're going to go from 18 to 12 but a lot of those 12 are going to be new. >> there h

alston really is 10 times as many.hey find the results are overwhelmingly positive. ,here was a study last year incomes measured in per capita gdp goes up 2% in the long run. more immigrants of the high variety mean higher incomes, more opportunities for nativeborn americans. host: how does that compare? on skill depends level. we have a competitive labor market and an important reform is to make it easier for h-1b workers. that requires employers to be more competitive in offering salaries. that worker will go to another firm. that is the best job protection americans have. the evidences immigrants do not undercut wages of the vast majority of americans. host: where'd you draw that from? guest: there are a lot of studies. david card. research is overwhelmingly positive on the overall impact of immigration on the united states. there is a certain group of american workers, immigration can reduce your wages one or 2%. the best thing you should do their is get your ged. you get a 37% pay increase right there. host: the f