bezos says the first rockets built by blue origin will be launched before the end of the decade. rockets will be built nearby. but no one is saying exactly what those rockets will be carrying. >>> okay. i'm constructing my mug here. where are you at? >> i'm just starting. >> we'll go to the next piece. facebook users are about to get something they really, really wanted. a way to express support for friends' troubles without saying they like it. >> the social network says it's about to start testing a solution. abc's david wright with more. >> reporter: facebook has always been relentlessly positive. but the founder himself suggested that's about to change. >> people have asked about the dislike button for many years, and today's the day where i actually get to say we're working on it. >> now they're adding the dislike button. >> good. >> and the question is what would you want to dislike? >> everyone who's getting married and having babies and i'm single. >> reporter: until now twitter has been the place for disliking things. all those mean tweets on "jimmy kimmel live." >> how

from jeff bezos before we get -- the next best thing from jeff bezos before we get delivery jones?50 ise hard to compete with but the question is do people want to buy amazon tablet and doesn't make sense if you don't have amazon prime? they're also offering tablets for a price of $41 if you buy a sixpack of them. it is so interesting they're trying to sell it in bulk, it just makes me question how well amazon tablets are selling overall. they also already have an eight inch tablet and a 10 inch tablet and a seven inch kids edition so a lot of different products out there. it's interesting they're going after a consumer market where with apple, we see them pursuant enterprise market. -- pursue an enterprise market. appletainly seems like tacklinge there the business market. what is the thought process here? what is the angle of the $50 tablet? emily: it looks like they're trying to drive amazon prime. if you have one of these and you have amazon prime come it easy to access all of this amazon original content. they also came out with a new updated fire tv. unclear how well it is se

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bezo strks bezos is building a facility by nasa kennedy space center. the company will be called blue origin. it will compete against space x owned by fellow tech billionaire elon musk. >>> a new ceo was told to take it easy after he fainted during a presentation. he was at an auto show and the scary moment was caught on video. [ speaking foreign language ] >> ceo harold krueger stumbled and fell backward five minutes into his speech today. staffers had to help him off the stage. bmw says his condition is not serious. krueger had been traveling a lot and wasn't feeling well but decided to go ahead with that presentation. doctors think he'll be fine after getting a little rest. >>> a pizza shop in colorado used to keep its front door propped open, but not anymore. a bear cub wandered in yesterday afternoon during business hours. the bear headed straight for the kitchen and prep room and began snacking on containers of icing. workers and customers captured the unusual visit on their cell phones. >> i asked what was up, and they said that there was a bear

amazon bounder jeff bezos is moving his space business from west texas to florida.blue origin company will build and launch rockets from cape canaveral. he says the first launch will happen by the end of the decade. he plans to launch satellites first and then people. >>> retail giant target is testing a grocery delivery service. the pilot program is under way in minneapolis. target is partnering with the grocery delivery service instacart. customers can order groceries, household items and cosmetic and pet items online. delivery fees depend on the size and speed of the order and target says it may offer that service in other cities. >>> the cofounder of the sandwich chain subway passed was he. fred deluca died on monday, two years after being diagnosed with leukemia. he opened his first sandwich shop in 1968 when he was 17! to help pay for college. today, subway is the world's largest restaurant chain with more than 44,000 locations. he was 67 years old. >> subway company has been having a tough few months. >>> jill, before you go, what is this we are hearing about

jeff bezos is fourth. year is microsoft co-founder bill gates. the forbe's 400 list is the new story in the issue of "forbes" the assistant managing editor of wealth, good morning. >> how are you? thank you for having me. >> look at you feeding drumpb's ego. >> it was quite a battle. we couldn't resist, though, in fairness, we have been battling with donald for 33 years. we actually did a time line talking over the years what he said his worth was and what we said our worth was. >> this is so talented, people said where can i read how much he is really worth? how much is he worth? >> that's what the article goes into. we have a photo spread of every one of his assets, listing them, giving much more information that we've ever revealed about somebody's assets. >> he says he is worth $10 billion. >> he actually says now more than $10 billion. we say 4.5 billion which is a record for him. >> do you have an act rat picture of his ownership assets? >> we they that we do. frankly, all of this is pretty tough to

if on and sherry are looking at jeff bezos and his plans to emulate elon musk. exciting news.nnounced that their exploration company, blue origin, announcing they will put $200 million into the new facility at cape canaveral. we are looking at the flagship rocket called shepherd that they test launched back in april. stephen: they are facing competition. we have boeing as well. they opened a facility in cape canaveral two weeks ago. today -- two doors down from elon musk. one person commented on twitter, entrepreneurs. origin seen #321 blue trending on social media. user is talking about the excitement. happy to see another rocket company is making its way out to space. shery: #jobs because they will create 130 jobs. yvonne: back to you. rishaad: stay tuned, asia edge is coming up. ,ur guest on today's show regional chief investment officer for ubs wealth management for the southern asia pacific. mark: i am mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann. "with all due respect" to mark cuban, you are no longer the biggest character in dallas. ♪ >> good boy. happy belated rosh hashanah

tim cook and jeff bezos was there. the message from the u.s.rom the commerce secretary at the forum, was that china needs to do so much more, john, on protecting u.s. interests in china. particularly in the high tech industry. giving u.s. more market access and a level playing field and stop hacking. stop cyber hacking and piracy. xi jinping, for his part, is saying we do hear your concerns. we will move to get things better for u.s. companies. china feels it has the upper hand here. the world needs china more than the world needs china. he at least is saying he hears the complaints and he says china stands by and is going to try to do something about market access. he has said clearly that china, at least the chinese government is not a hacker. it is not involved in hacking. that is an issue that is sure to come up with president obama. >> indeed. the u.s. disagrees with that. it is interesting to see how full and frank the discussions are. andrew stevens, thank you. >>> and hank paulson organized the meeting. he has the longest bench of knowl

amazon.com founder jeff bezos is fourth.onsecutive year, microsoft co-founder bill gates. the list is the cover story in the new issue of "forbes." alyssa kroll is the assistant managing editor of wealth. good morning. how are you? >> thank you for having me. >> look at you feeding donald trump's ego. >> it was quite a battle. we couldn't resist, though. in fairness we have been battling with donald for 33 years. we actually -- the timeline talking about, like, over the years what he said his worth was and what he -- we said our worths with. >> this is so timely. someone said where can i read how much he's really worth? how much is he worth? >> that's what the article goes into and we actually have a photo spread of every single one of his assets and listing them and giving much more information than we have ever revealed about somebody's assets. >> he said he's worth $10 billion, you said he's worth -- >> he says much more than $10 billion. we say $4.5 billion, which is a record for him. >> how do you think you got an act f

and it's unusual because bezo's never talks.want to see what he's building, we have a short video of that right now. watch it real quick. >> our next speaker is a native floridian -- >> it is a reusable launch vehicle and rocket completely reusable that will go straight up to the edge of the atmosphere, stay there for three minutes and land back, kind of vertically on the surface of the earth again. he's planning it for tourists and maybe for some research projects. it's not to carry cargo or take crew to the space station. it's his first effort to get something up and down. also working on the enjoin. this is big because bezo's never talks about blue origin. it's very secretive. we have no idea how much money he has invested in it today he's announcing a $200 million investment in the state of florida. he will be launching from the cape. >> what is the aim here? what is his dream? what is he trying to do? >> he's trying to build a space company. he won't reveal where he wants to go with it. he revealed there's a second space ve

bezos. what do you think? >> i think this is huge debt for jeff bezos and his company, blue origin. a launch sight. neil: right at cape canaveral. >> right at cape canaveral. legacy of human and unmanned launches in our country. they have a lot of expertise they can draw on. 300 plus jobs they will create there. they are investing 200 million in the new facility. neil: how is it different, difference from what elon musk is doing from any of these guys? >> in the background blue origin have been building and designing rockets. they have no site but they have a design but no site. that brings them up to where elon musk and spacex are. they are launching out of the same air force station, cape canaveral since 2010. they also have a launch site across the pond at kennedy space center for their next rocket, the falcon heavy. this brings blue origin to that level. they have a site where they will launch from. neil: they're a little bit different. jeff seems like democratizing space travel, right? elon musk, what? >> with we know from blue origin and jeff bezos said in the past, they're no

he spoke before representatives including tim cook, jeff bezos, and warren buffett.: joe biden has not said whether he will run for president, but he is getting support from democrats. according to a new poll, 25% of democrats say that biden is their top choice, who but leads with 33% and bernie sanders is at 24%. instagram has surpasses 400 million monthly users, that is more than twitter. many are outside the u.s., the growing growth is from brazil and indonesia and japan. the last part of our series on capital markets and power in the oil market. joe: things are deciding how much money to loan to companies based on reserves. alix: at the same time, investors are running away from energy debt. they snapped up more than $37 million worth of bonds in the first six months of this year. only 5.9 million has been raised. joe: what happens next? joining us on the phone is the at -- global energy group. what do you expect in the coming determination? >> you will see what the banks have used, they have come down. that is going down from that that will not go down from 100

tech leaders like tim cook, satya nadella, and jeff bezos.resident obama has hinted at new sanctions on cyberattacks, while they are looking to strike a potentially groundbreaking cyber arms deal. joining me is cyber security expert with me from sanford, -- from stanford, glenn solomon, an active investor in china. what will actually happen at this meeting? we know more about the names that will be there. what do you think will actually be accomplished at a meeting like this? >> i think it is an indication of the interest amongst the tech companies in silicon valley in china, that anybody who is -- everybody that is anybody will be at this meeting. i think the dialogue will be somewhat substantive in that people will be given the opportunity to talk about their aspiration china and develop relationships with members of who are important entering china. but i think you will also following this meeting more activity from what we have already begun to see, whether or airbnb, certainly apple and google. be seenpanies will entering the chinese mar

are watching we today, jeff bezos unveiled plans for his startup to build a rocket manufacturing plante company is spending more than $200 million on the project. eventually blue origin will be competing against the joint venture of lockheed martin and boeing and spacex for commercial rocket launches. scott kelly is officially halfway through his one-year mission on the space station. it is a record-setting project that will help nasa understand long-term effects of space on the human body. joining me now for a status update on the mission, dr. julie robinson. she's with me from houston. thank you for being here. how is it going six months in? how is he doing? missing ♪ --eak angry commission going so far. some of thes that different psychological issues and challenges of seeing locked in a can for a year are going to take lace. he is a grace periods and he is working hard on his research. you are also studying his twin, mark, on earth. what are the surprising things that you are learning about the both of them? one of the things, if the but what it is like when you visit your doctor,

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afternoon there's also a meeting at microsoft involving chinese and american tech leaders, big hitters, bezos from amazon, cook from apple, howard schulz, et cetera, the list goes on and on. big hitters, not much for likes of us, we're sort of outside the room with our ear on the wall hearing what's coming out of this stuff. >> i suspect everybody in those that room doesn't want you to hear. that's for our show today. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> it's a week of big visits. the leader of one fifth of the world's people, xi jinping has arrived on the world trade center, and the leader of one fifth of the world's people, pope francis, is on the east coast. we'll look west to east, and america's complicated relationship with an ambitious wo

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afternoon there's also a meeting at microsoft involving chinese and american tech leaders, big hitters, bezos from amazon, cook from apple, howard schulz, et cetera, the list goes on and on. big hitters, not much for likes of us, we're sort of outside the room with our ear on the wall hearing what's coming out of this stuff. >> i suspect everybody in thoset room doesn't want you to hear. that's for our show today. news continues on al jazeera america, thank you for joining us. >> papal debut. pope francis mixes faith and politics wading into a depaid bathe on climate change and immigration. on day 1 of his visit.

i would love to have a conversation with jeff bezos about the self-destructive nature of this particular strategy. emily: amazon is arguing that books must be cheaper in this environment where there are so many media distractions. do you have any sympathy for their argument? malcolm: complete sympathy for it. i just don't understand why, in order to get to that preferred outcome, they have chosen to screw over the people who bring revenue to their business and customers to their site. emily: do you need a traditional publisher for your next book? is there another way? malcolm: is this an industry that is going to be disrupted, the answer is absolutely. will i have the same arrangement for my next book that i had for this one? unlikely. but the arrangement i had for "david and goliath" is better than the arrangment i had for books that came before it. i can imagine a world without traditional publishers, but i can't imagine a world without traditional bookstores. i would like to see a revision of the publishing environment in a way that ensures the continued success of the physical bookst

another story we are watching today, jeff bezos unveiled plans for his space start up, blue origin, to rocket manufacturing plant. the launch site will be in florida near the kennedy space center. the company is spending more than $200 million on the project. eventually blue origin will be competing against the joint venture of lockheed martin and boeing and spacex for commercial rocket launches. staying in space today, astronaut scott kelly is officially halfway through his one-year mission on the space station. it is a record-setting project that will help nasa understand long-term effects of space on the human body. something we need to know before we can send humans to mars. joining me now for a status update on the mission, dr. julie robinson. she's with me from houston. thank you for being here. how is it going six months in? how is he doing? >> it is a great mission going so far. scott is doing great. he recognizes that this mid-point from here is where the different psychological issues and challenges of the locked up in a can for a year are going to take place. emily: you are

afternoon there's also a meeting at microsoft involving chinese and american tech leaders, big hitters, bezos from amazon, cook from apple, howard schulz, et cetera, the list goes on and on. big hitters, not much for likes of us, we're sort of outside the room with our ear on the wall hearing what's coming out of this stuff. >> i suspect everybody in those that room doesn't want you to hear. that's for our show today. > >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to the newshour - coming up, more than 300 worshippers in saudi arabia have been killed following a stampede whilst performing hajj rituals. >> two explosions at a mosque in the yemeni capital sanaa kill at least 25 people. >>> german chancellor angela merkel calls plans to deal with the refugee crisis

maryland, 195 and 2015198 >>> jeff baybay-bezos is uppings stakes and his company is planning to build a $2 million rocket assembly center in florida florida, adjacent to the kennedy space center. it hasn't been used in a long time. >> the pad has stood silent more than 10 years. too long! we can't wait to fix that. >> blue origin will compete with a hand full of other space start-ups backed by billionaire entreprene entrepreneurs. the new vehicle will launch by 2020 and at some point take p paying tourists along. >>> tomorrow, the wizards and d.c. major muriel bowser will announce a new practice facility in washington. the $55 million project will stand on the campus of the former st. elizabeth hospital near the metro station. some are concerned because there are high crime neighborhoods nearby. supporters of the project say it will reduce crime and bring much needed jobs to the district's poorest areas. >>> your commute will look a lot different tomorrow starting at noon tomorrow afternoon vdot will flip the switch to the so-called smart highway all the way to gainesville on i-66. re

business and media on the cover wearing the trademark gray t-shirt and jeans beating out amazon's jeff bezosailor sandberg for the honor. zuckerberg made deals with major news outhealths to publish articles and has ambitions to connect every single person on the planet. it is hot. it will be hot today. >> san jose, 87 at shark tank. richmond is 95, a record high. 93 in oakland airport the record high. 98 in mountain view beats the record of 97. livermore and san francisco and san rafael a couple of degrees short of a record. walnut creek could have poor air quality today. tomorrow. and through friday. the south bay, too, and the north bay tomorrow and tomorrow. 100s influence the central valley and palm springs and a few thunderstorms around san diego and los angeles. leyla? >> we found out from c.h.p. what happened on 205 in the single digits at eight miles per hour at 205 memorialing with 580. there was early debris in the lanes which was cleared but this is residual backup making the drive an hour, or more, from tracy to dublin. mass transit is the way to go, bart has training running on

amazon ceo jeff bezos going to visit cape canaveral, fla., as expected to announce new plans for blue origen, his private space company to build and launch rockets from air force base. the rocket itself and the capsule all reusable but it has the competition from elon musk and space x who want to launch from the same spot. maria: elon musk has said space travel could be just a few years away. >> he is working on manned space missions to show schematics for going to the international space station. the competition is here but what is interesting, with all these private projects, blue origen, washington post, going into infinity in new mexico, all these projects are so moving towards innovation, it shows that spirit goes beyond amazon. >> does he have the money to do that? united states alliance, which is the main group that watches all the rockets may be bought out. jay haas will bid came out friday. that could be bad for jeff bezos. great ideas but you got to pay for these ideas. maria: thanks so much. celebrity apprentice catch phrase you a

you mentioned, the likes of dell as well, likes of the bosses of other big tech companies including bezos and tim cook, as well, they want intellectual property rights recognized in china, as well. and president xi was saying, look, we will recognize those rights as well and we will also guarantee more market access as well. president xi talking very positively about u.s./chinese relations as well. that comes at the same time i'm afraid that there's been another development in the opm, office of personal management hack from the summer, where it now seems 5.6 million fingerprints were stolen in the cyber attack. that is five times as many as previously thought. no one is officially from a government point of view blaming the chinese but unofficially some people around the intelligence community perhaps looking at china as a source of that cyber attack. >> a lot of news there. steve sedgwick live from london. thank you. >>> despite bitter divisions, european leaders agreed on new measures to alleviate the continent's migrant crisis at an emergency summit early this morning in brussels. lea

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jeff bezos is making a big bet on outer space.illion to make florida it's base of operations. the company will launch a rough -- a rocket later this decade. a reminder, we are 48 hours per or we the fed decision p will have special coverage for you starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern. we will bring you janet yellen's press conference life. -- live. ♪ . . betty: still a lot of inferences san francisco, 1:00 in hong kong. mark: "bloomberg market day." this is the "bloomberg market day." . details on manufacturing our out ahead of the fed's betty: meeting. of .8ty: the rate hike percentages. mark: thousands refugees are stranded is hungry seals off its border with serbia. get the latest on the crisis with the eu commissioner for migration. betty: good afternoon. i betty liu. mark: i am mark crumpton. thanks for joining us on "bloomberg market day." up, the leading index -- the dow industrial is up over 1%. the two-day fed meeting begins this week and lots of people want to know -- is the fed going to move on interest rates? .8%.&p is up th

jeff bezos envisions people living in orbit one day.announced his exploration company will put $200 million and new rocket assembly launch sites in cape canaveral, florida. jeff: there are no shortcuts to space. you put one foot in front of the other. you make progress. up next, how technology is changing who invests in art and how. stay with us. ♪ francine: welcome that -- welcome back to "the pulse." investing in our used to be the reserve of the rich. caroline hyde has been finding out more. art, an investment opportunity for the well-off and well-informed. a startup is striving to make it accessible to the masses through crowdfunding. can become a patron of contemporary art with as little or as much as they want. caroline: pick a piece you like and pledge from as little as $10. >> it allows you to discover new talent. it is a new model of patronage. artists are attracted to the model. they get cash fast. >> this makes it affordable to everyone. at the same time, it supports the artist. caroline: the creator can sell the art for 40%

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warren buffett and jeff bezos as mary barra are expected to attend.hose are just some of the top stories we are following for you ahead of the fed announcement today. coming up in the next hour, highlights from tom keene and michael mckee's exclusive lastrsation with ray dalio night. plus, stay tuned for the acquisitionltice's of cablevision. new yorkers may finally get a better choice of cable. the second republican debate left note weston's about what many candidates think about the iran nuclear deal. we will hear from bill cohen. those stories and more are ahead on the bloomberg market day. for the faton day after nearly a decade of historically low interest rates. today could be the day the chair yellen announces it could be time to start normalizing. aboutst guest says it is time. he joins me with a look at why he thinks a rate hike would be good for markets. would be a surprise, wouldn't it? right, we are about 25%-20 8% in favor. , the expectation for a rate rise will be much higher. if you go back a couple of months, the bond market will refle

>> jeff bezos basically had background plan to build rockets but didn't have a launch site.ite of cape canaveral air force station. home port for u.s. launches. will revitalize it into private facility for new orbital rocket he says will be reusable. kind of a big leap for his program. bill: why is it so significant? why is it a leap? >> basically what blue origin has been doing is building private rockets but haven't had a big launch site for them. this is big missing piece of infrastructure they need. access to the space coast where we have been launching rockets for the last five decades, and at the same time, access to, you know, a really kind of clean pad that they need. bill: is this revolutionary or this is just more of what we're starting to see elsewhere? >> i think what you see is this whole private commercial space era is really becoming real. bill: real? >> yes. in the we've seen last week boeing announced a new cargo facility in florida for its launch pad. spacex has launchpads in kennedy space center and same place where blue origin picked too and on the west c

techd a message for the ceos which included tim cook and jeff bezos. >> china has more than 600 millionnternet users and more than 1.2 billion mobile phone users. this has brought opportunities andamazon, cisco, apple other companies in this field. >> today, xi jinping pfister washington and will meet with president obama tomorrow. there has never been a day like this on capitol hill. pope francis is expected to address some of the issues. his mission on climate change, property and cuba will notpope e liberals happy. 10:00 a.m.begins at eastern time on bloomberg television. over 100 are dead after a stampede near mecca. officials say 115 were heard. more than 2 million pilgrims were taking part in the pilgrimage. similar disasters have occurred in the past including a stampede nine years ago. in a war thatnd lasted five decades. the government of colombia and marxist rebels have agreed to sign a peace treaty. willebels known as farc start to disarm. the fighting in colombia has led to 200,000 deaths. to cut oiloving prices. norway is western europe's biggest oil producer and the slump

jeff bezos will visit cape canaveral where he's expected to announce his private space company's role in a rocket program. now in a race to develop commercial space flight. it's tuesday, september 15th, i think that's like the mid -- is it a tax day? it's some kind of tax day? it is. and squawk box begins right now. >> live from new york where business never sleeps this is squawk box. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. i'm becky quick with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. at this point there look to be red arrow. dow futures down continuing declines from yesterday in the market. first, two developing

amazon's jeff bezos planted his company's flag this month promising like blue origin will build the capsule and launch passengers to space within a few years, while delivering hundreds of well-paying jobs, by 2020, spacex, boeing and united launch alliance should be launching people and cargo from the cape and further down the road, nasa's orion capsule could send people to mars. the space coast economic development commission said it's lured 7,000 jobs since the loss of the space shuttle. >> they shop, they buy cars, they buy houses, you see it happens as we speak. literally this phenomena is taking place around us. it's helping us as a nation be more competitively globally. >> nasa has contracted with boeing and space kpchb to launch our astronauts and replace having to rely on the russians, by the year 2017. brett. >>. phil, thank you. >>> stocks closed today mixed. the dow gained 47. the s&p 500 was up 2. the nasdaq lost 27. a blistering report on the obama administration's failure to keep americans from joining isis. we'll discuss all the foreign policy today. with the panel, comrie. >

another investor is amazon founder jeff bezos. mountain is debuting its soda machine after six years and more than a million them backing from coca-cola. they are pricing the machine at three and $69. they hope that this will revive k-cup sales, a rival that soda is facing. tobacco has agreed to sell its american spirits to japan for $5 billion. the group does not include the brand's u.s. operations. tobacco has been buying that overseas to offset a stagnating smoking rate at home. more on the pulse wagon admissions scandal. a dutch importer has suspended the sale of vw's at the center of the controversy. in spain, vw's with the software insult -- installed will no longer be sold. in the united states, lawyers expect hundred of lawsuits to be filed. christmas is 90 days away, but l.l. bean is facing the same predicament as the previous holiday season. some styles of the most popular duck boots are on backorder. the shoemaker short of its manufacturing operations of that would not happen again, but it is happening again. the backlo

it is jeff bezos's plan to cover everything in your life. this is just being the latest. dangerous for being in impulse shopper/ . i will be joining you at the top of the hour. we have a very exciting guest -- and was. -- ed morse. betty: he has never been one to mince words about the oil markets. he has been warning about this decline in oil and he says we are not going to shake the output levels that we are seeing until we get to around $30 a barrel. we are in the 30's here and he says there is a possibility we might see oil in the 20's before finally something gets done on output and we start seeing a slow and gradual and possibly rocky rebound. alix: i love his writing and i'm really excited we are talking 10. in the meantime, it is time for today's options inside. let us get right to matt miller. matt: let us take a quick look at how the major averages are doing right now after the big drop we had yesterday. the worst beginning to september and 13 years. we are coming back a bit -- a gain of half a percent on the s&p gives the dow jones industrial average of 117 poin

tim cook of apple and jeff bezos of amazon.e as were the big leaders of the chinese companies. alibaba and others. the key topic here, john, the u.s. complaining through the commerce secretary, who was also at the meetings, complaining about lack of access and intellectual property rights and pirating and allowing u.s. companies to compete on a level playing field. president xi did hear a lot of this. he did say he wanted to ease restrictions for u.s. companies moving into china. he did say a lot of the right sounding words, but the proof of the pudding is in people looking forward. and remember, at the meeting in washington, there are sanctions on the table from the u.s. to impose against chinese companies who are hacking. >> the tone and some whispering will be interesting to see. andrew stevens, thank you. >> that is a $1 trillion who's who in seattle. you look at the value of the companies. the cream of the crop there. wow. i don't think i can count the value of those companies. >> more than $10. >>> how do lower medical bi

. >>> also just a short time ago, billionaire amazon founder jeff bezos announcing plans for his spacear the kennedy space center. >> today, we're thrilled to be coming to the sunshine state for a new era of exploration. >> bezos is a miami guy. he isn't the only billionaire with his eye to the sky. that brings us to today's five things billionaire space race. sir richard branson plans to provide suborbital flights to space tourists. elon musk is working on a manned mission to mars as well as a space elevator. three, microsoft co-founder paul allen is behind a company which is working on several different types of launch vehicles. four, billionaire from russia, yuri milner. in july he announced a $100 million proj e ject to search s for signs of intelligent life. google moguls larry paige to send spacecraft to mines already nearby asteroids for minerals. is anyone asking the x thbeingst live on those asteroids if they want their minerals stolen? >>> "news nation" with tamron hall is up next. i'll see you tomorrow. 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nig

from the tech sector, you got tim cook, jeff bezos, satya nadella. howard schultz, not so much tech but one of those seattle companies, west coast. why is it so important for these guys to be talking to him today? >> they're doing robust business in china even though there is a slowdown right now. you have companies like boeing, announced a huge new deal. 300 planes will be sold to the chinese now. that is $3 billion, plus they're now investing in a new plant. boeing has never done that outside of the u.s. before. so it is a really big move. but i caution you to also think about who is not there among the tech titans. ceo of google is not there. ceo of facebook. interrim ceo of twitter. all not in attendance because their services are largely if not completely blocked in china. they're not able to do business there. that is coming on heels of president xi in a dinner with howard schultz that foreign companies are welcome to do business in china. there has been a lot of mixed messages -- trish: welcome to do business in china so long as, theresa, okay