carol: i am carol massar.an also catch us on the radio in new york, boston, washington, d.c., and the bay area. oliver: and in london and in asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. carol: in the politics and policy section, germany has a lot of stake in the upcoming french presidential election. oliver: and emmanuel macron may be the candidate that angela merkel wants to win. >> the top three candidates are marine le pen, emmanuel macron, and francois fillon. marine le pen and macron are essentially tied for the first round vote, which means they are likely to go on and face each other in the second round. then polls show that macron should win by a large margin, but it is always difficult to get the psychology of a second round vote when you are not there yet. carol: that outcome of how the french elections might ultimately result in macron winning, that would be a good thing for angela merkel? >> i think we can say that would be a good thing for europe. we are talking populism here. the thing to understand is

carol: i am carol massar.an also listen to us on the him radio. oliver: and in london, and in asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. and the politics and policy section, the netherlands has been a center for global trade. carol: the forces of protectionism and nationalism have gained a whole there, especially rotterdam. >> i find this fascinating. until 2004, it was the world's largest port, and it provides 130,000 jobs in a city of 600,000. the city is dependent on it, and yet it is the city where this populist movement and the netherlands grew up. you have this juxtaposition that eight face value is difficult understand. carol: we kind of know what the pushback against globalization looks like in the united states and how it has affected our elections. what does nationalism look like in the netherlands? >> it is a little bit different. the netherlands is in a way the starting place of liberalism. for hundreds of years, this was a place where if you were religiously persecuted in europe, you would go to the ne

her name was carol jean meyer. low she was carol lubahn when all this happened back in march, 1981. the night of the slam doors, the harsh words, the car roaring away. and it's an old story anyway. pretty girl gets pregnant at 15, marries the guy. pretty soon she's 20 something with two 20 and a hankering to live, really live for a change. and this particular pretty girl -- >> she was fun, she was outgoing. she had a lot of friends. >> reporter: she had these two sisters. terri was the younger one, gail the older. >> we were very close and made each other laugh all the time. >> reporter: but carol wasn't laughing at the end of march, '81. for one thing, she wanted to be somebody, her own somebody. >> i know that carol wanted to complete school and further her career. that's when she went back to study architecture. >> reporter: sure, her husband was a nice kid and she loved him once with all the intensity of first love. the handsome high school football player who would hang around on her front porch. >> his friends would come over. i thought that was kind of cool. all these footbal

carol: i am carol massar.lso listen to us on the radio on series radio channel 119. 99.1 fm in washington dc and a.m. 960 in the bay area. in the focus on retirement section, why you may want to think twice before putting extra cash into your ira or 401(k). >> last year i paid off my student debt and was celebrating and reading a book by a guy called the value of debt. he is somebody i have talked to before for other stories. i was surprised by the advice he was giving me in the book, so i asked him about it. the takeaway i had was that i was doing it wrong. i was putting a lot of money into my retirement accounts instead of putting more of my money in cash. his whole idea is that we need liquidity as we move through our careers. his main argument and what i read about in businessweek is that so many people end up locking up their money, pay down their mortgage, put their money in an ira or 401(k) and instead of having that cash available when there is an emergency, when there is an emergency, they panic and h

i am carol massar. i am carol massar. carol: i am carol massar. it differently than any secretary of state of the modern era. a corporateng mentality into the job and diplomacy where everything happens behind closed doors. negotiations are kept secret. the press has no utility. they are a nuisance to be cut out rather than being used as a messaging tool. that cuts especially when compared to john kerry, who never met a camera he did not like. rex tillerson is the anti-john kerry. he made some references to john kerry and soccer. oliver: that's right. john kerry was gregarious and love the press and had a habit a soccer ballund on the tarmac of what ever airport he found himself with the press. saidillerson spokesperson the days of kicking around a soccer ball on the tarmac are over. that speaks mimes about how rex tillerson and how his slim staff sees the job versus their predecessors. carol: that's interesting. this is story points out that or pastor state department, secretaries of state, have been part diplomat and part public relations person.

saw carol's car driving away. >> see taillights. >> yes dresser drawers after carol lef. as he sat re morelaborate. right inside the door so if ppe. >> baby powder. anything else? >> ike i did that james bond thing with the paper on the okay. >> by now detective delsigne was wallace and deputy djo >> do yowhatmeou thought? >> memory had grown in areas where he shodeceuld beion. >> sure. >> but the mind plays tricks. believe them as strenuously as t>> that's an interesting theo. i don't think it's really supported. but memories don't increase in y don't increase in different details. and that's a sign of what we call a lie. >> his version of what happened. >> and whyld to the cold case team it seemed obvious. >> he killed her that night. she stopped living that night. everything else that's going if you know it's a lie, then it all lines up. talk to them three more times of his own free will. very friendly, without an he even let the prosecutor take a crack at him. in my position, tell me what you would think. >> probably what you're thinking. >> well, mike, i can tell you

carol: it will. it is simple math.mething comes in with a tax on it, it will cost more. >> here is the trick of the and economic theory that says if you do this, the dollar will appreciate over time. , increase theet buying power basically of u.s. consumers and offset all of the ups and downs and even things out. that will take years. oliver: it will chip away on what the exporters make. >> without a doubt. it would disadvantage the competitiveness of u.s. goods overseas if the dollar is stronger. this idea that the dollar will rise and everything will even out is pure economic theory. europe, avat taxes in border adjustment tax has never been done in the real world. talked to and midsize company that makes luggage and imports a lot of material from overseas. they say they would have to spend years to get suppliers to lower their costs. would not be advantaged by a stronger dollar, and if i would be, it would be years and i would be profitless until then. the politics and policy section, the tort reforms pushed by pro-

♪ carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick.arol: one day trader who loves wearing a wire for the fbi. oliver: dilbert's creator has strange and controversial viewpoints. carol: the shockingly bad safety record for auto-parts makers in the american south. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief megan murphy. you look at china, specifically an economist who is trying to shed light on the chinese economy. megan: this is a story about an economist who ran into trouble with the authorities in 2012 because he did a study on inequality and found that was much higher than economists had forecast and was visited by several members of the administration at the time. what he is trying to do is do this complicated survey of china's wealth, and particularly china's people's wealth. how much holdings do people have in real estate, agriculture, what their farms are like, what the agricultural productivity is like in order to generate wealth. in china, a huge swath of the country is agrari

carol: take us inside the company.s i understand in terms of developing switch, it was more software guys, not hardware guys. they brought in a younger team of developers to work on the rogers said they kind of could get right at the audience who would hopefully be buying it. >> correct. a lot of the nintendo lifers who had been principal developers had been kind of sidelined when they turned the keys over to some of their earlier veterans of 3-d graphics development and of those people brought in a couple dozen mostly game designers in their 20's and 30's to throw ideas on the wall and figure out how they would use it in what capacity in the living room, and to translate that experience outdoors. and like with previous couple iterations of nintendo consoles, the hardware is not quite what you would expect as a fan of playstation or xbox. they are counting heavily on the games themselves, the software to be the big differentiator to make people want to keep playing with each other. oliver: "bloomberg businessweek" is a

. >> paige, this is carol. what's going on? i hope you're all right. >> reporter: close friend and babysitter carol linderholm remembers becoming increasingly concerned. >> at first i thought, well, she's probably really busy, and then i kept calling her and there was no response. >> it's carol. where the heck are you? >> she said it was completely out of character to abandon her kids. >> she always created costumes for her kids and had dance classes for the toddlers. her life was centered around the children. >> reporter: so the children were really attached to paige? >> definitely so. >> reporter: by saturday, it's a full panic. a family friend walks daughter jess, the oldest of three, into the mesa county sheriff's department to file a missing persons report. they gave her father the news -- she has vanished. >> i thought this isn't someone who wouldn't come home. there's a crime here. >> frank doesn't waste a minute. he jumps in the car and drives the 200 miles from denver to grand junction. >> when my dad called me to tell

joyce carol oates, always an honor to have you on.r stopping by to see us. >> thank you. >> my great pleasure. that's my show for tonight from l.a. keeping watch and keep the faith. >> for more information on the show visit tavissmiley pbs.org. >> join me with conversations with dr. saltz and jacob collier. that's next time. see you then. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ steves: this region's breathtaking coastline is traversed by three coastal routes -- the low, middle, and high corniche. the low corniche strings ports, beaches, and villages together. it was built in the 1860s, along with the train line, to bring people to the casino in nearby monte carlo. the middle corniche comes with views of impressive villas, and the grande corniche caps the cliffs with staggering mediterranean vistas. while hailed as napoleon's crowning road construction achievement, it actually sits upon the via aurelia, a road built by the ancient romans as they conquered the west. a towering roman ruin ce

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carol. good morning.rth of scotla nd real peppering in the north of scotland and the risk of ice on untreated surfaces and a fair bit of sunshine. wintry showers in the southern uplands and in northern ireland, your showers are rain showers with some sleet. similar in the north of england. a lot of dry weather across both england and wales this morning, a lot of sunshine as well but still the risk of ice. then we run into the rain coming in across the isles of scilly, cornwall and pushing across devon towards somerset and the channel islands. through the course of the day that will continue going east and north and it will be breezy around it as well but move away from that and not a bad day for the first day of spring. it's also ash wednesday, the first day of lent and saint davids day so a lot going on today. a lot of dry weather, feeling cool as we go further north but temperatures back into double figures as we go to the south—east. later on in the afternoon the wind really starts to strengthen and es

carol: because?ng to do the best fundraiser in the next couple of months that will allow us to be as aggressive as we want and take our time considering the public markets. carol: next year? >> maybe. carol: i read something about a $10 billion valuation in five years. is that real? >> i would be disappointed if that were not real. it starts to be on the order of magnitude of what we are seeing with the opportunity. i think that is on the low side of where we see the business going in the next five or 10 years. caroline: you can catch the full interview this saturday on "the best of bloomberg technology," along with more of our best conversations of the week. coming up, we head to beijing for an exclusive conversation with the baidu c.e.o. how it is attracting international talent and how it plans to commercialize a.i. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ caroline: the c.e.o. of china's largest internet search engines as the country is more open to global talent than ever. robin li spoke to tom macke

carol. hey! chuck: ohh. i sent you to the store for candy, not to mooch off the baxters. well, i was hoping vanessa would answer. now i wish i'd gone to the store. still time. come on in. sit down. oh, hey. i'll get you some candy. no, no need. i shut off our porch lights. you know, the costumes were lame this year. i just saw a kid dressed like a rock. he is a lump of coal, and there are clean ways to burn him, if the e.p.a. would just get off my ass! my wife's a little tense tonight. chuck: my wife's tense, too. it -- it's this election. yeah. oh, i can't wait till it's over. [ chuckles ] the election, i mean. not my marriage. although either one would solve it. on the school board -- ugh -- we've been campaigning hard for measure "c." i don't know if you're familiar with it. oh, as a certified election official, i most certainly am. so, measure "c" is the one that's between measures "b" and "d." she's been working really hard on her alphabet. she used to have to sing that. measure "c" is

joining us is carol lee who is on the story byline. what have you learned that michael flynn has offered to the fbi and others? >> well, we've learned that through his lawyer, he has had conversations to achieve some sort of immunity in exchange for his testimony. or for cooperation in terms of the fbi. those discussions our understanding have happened in recent days there is a statement now out from michael flynn's lawyer who is saying that he would agree to testify under certain circumstances, and that they have had these conversations. and his lawyers are saying that their concern is not so much that michael flynn has something to hide. they're saying he doesn't, or that he has something that he should be concerned about. but that in this political environment, he would not be treated fairly. so he is asking for he's asking for immunity from any prosecution to be able to give his testimony and cooperate and not have any consequences should something arise that could be criminally prosecuted. >> and i think, in your story, you cited

carol walker, our political correspondent was watching and listening to that and, carol, the home secretaryof london, sadiq khan, with equally defiant messages saying that terrorism will not win. amber rudd said terrorism will not win, we will defeat terrorism. real defiance there as well as poignancy and dignity in that vigil at trafalgar square. yes indeed. the vigil, those words reflecting the mood and the sentiment we have had expressed throughout the day really at westminster. trafalgar square just the other end of whitehall from where the attack took place. you can see many people still gathering there the three candles burning in memory of the three who died in the attack. amber rudd, the home secretary, saying there that are thoughts, of course, were with the family in particular of keith palmer, the policeman, who was stabbed and died in that attack. she described him as courageous, brave, doing his duty and she expressed her thanks to all the police and others in the emergency services for the risks they take to keep others save. terrorism will not defeat us, she said, we will def

thank you, carol! and good morning, everybody, welcome to bournville gardens, i'm in the residence area now but look over the side, you can see where we are. —— residents. this is a retirement village with 300 residents, we have been chatting to some of them this morning and we will through the morning, there a hairdressers, there's a village hall where they put on events, a gym, it suite, a well—being centre, a landscape garden out the back and a greenhouse where they can tend to the plants and fruit and veg. it is certainly a busy place, but the whole point is to make in later life have more independence and more community. the rent is something like £135 a week but if you're on benefits it can go down to £35 a week. it's about bringing people with different backgrounds together but all of those in later life, the post—war baby boomers and beyond and that's who we are focused on today, talking to them about what they want to hear from the chancellor. tim muffet went to see some of them at a walking c

. ♪ ♪ carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick.ader who loves wearing a wire for the fbi. oliver: dilbert's creator has strange and controversial viewpoints. carol: the shockingly bad safety record for auto-parts makers in the american south. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief megan murphy. you look at china, specifically an economist who is trying to shed light on the chinese economy.

i like what carol says. the question is, as you provide this universal coverage, how do you pay for it in a manner that is long-term sustainable for the nation? the gdp right now is outstripped by our current debt. every single american, if every single enterprise were to stop paying mortgages and work solely toward paying off the debt, it would take well over a year to do that. in the meantime, we would starve, etc. i think we agree on the ends, it is a path to the ends. how do you do it in a sustainable manner? that is why this is not easy. host: as house leadership reached out to you specifically? guest: sure. host: what is the conversation like? guest: i undstand what they are tryingo do. maybe i is naÏvetÉ and don't have layers of cynicism heaped on. it is the art of the possible, what can we get down? i'll bless them because i do think we need to change the paradigm to have something that is long-term sustainable to serve the american people well. having said that, i think we can do it better. we under

carol: el 26 de enero los agentes de migraciÓn entraron al lugar equivocado del complejo de viviendasmiedo. carol: por eso es organizaciÓn de viviendas asequibles publicÓ los 36 edificios de la carta que le informa a los agentes de la ley que no tienen permiso de ingresar, sin antes hablar con un gerente de la propiedad. estamos pidiendo que vayan a nuestras oficinas centrales para que verifiquemos el documento que estÁn presentando ellos. la propiedad de nosotros es propiedad privada. tenemos derecho de pedir que respeten eso. >> anunciÓ que ahora llega de pasa mÁs de 1600 residentes. >> estÁ bastante bien porque habemos muchas personas que da temor, verdad? pero, con ese rÓtulo, nos sentimos mÁs confianza. carol: verificamos con una abogada de migraciÓn del peso legal que tiene una carta como esta. >> agentes de migraciÓn no podrÁn ser permitidos entrar? >> muy buena pregunta, bÁsicamente lo que hemos visto es si sabemos nuestros derechos, tenemos mucho mÁs poder. entonces, si negamos la entrada que un oficial de ice quiere, entonces, muchas veces ellos deciden no perseguir con su d

she was as carol put it, the glue that, you know, brought the two families together.here is a service in new jersey that is public for danielle on saturday. and we are going to be following michael's recovery. i also want to add, the family has set up a fund-raising account for michael's medical bills, also for danielle's services, that are going to be this saturday. i will posts that information on the facebook page. i heard about this story, and i was just so sad nor couple. you know, they were manning to spend up the rest of their lives together, and from my understanding, i believe michael has children soon the family to keep the fight going so he could be there for them. >> as wonderful as it is going to be. for him, percent hi, knowing his fiance passed a away, that is going to be a setback in there ry. it is incredibly tough journey for him. >> at what point do you tell him his fiance passed baits is a big part of the recovery,who is fighting for,who will he get well snore your partner definds a big chunk of you who are. i cannot maim gin going going a day with

carol, thank you very much. found that four out of five trusts need to improve patient safety. but more than 90% were judged to be good or outstanding for the caring attitude of staff. here's our health editor hugh pym. it's the first wide—ranging snapshot of the state of england's major hospitals. the regulator the care quality commission spent nearly three years carrying out inspections following the mid staffordshire patient care scandal. this is the first annual report on all of them. one of the key findings is the wide variation in the quality of services. across the major hospital trusts in england, 68% have been rated as inadequate or requiring improvement. 81% of trusts are said to need to improve safety. but 93% were rated as good or outstanding for the caring attitude of staff. there is variation between trusts, there's variation within trusts, you can get a very good service within a trust that's struggling or you can get an individual service that's not doing so well in an otherwise good trust. prais

. ♪ ♪ ♪ carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick.trader who loves wearing a wire for the fbi. oliver: dilbert's creator has strange and controversial viewpoints. carol: the shockingly bad safety record for auto-parts makers in the american south. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief megan murphy. you look at china, specifically an economist who is trying to

. ♪ carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek" i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick.e one ready for takeoff. someo's does soul-searching and comes up with a new recipe for success. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek". ♪ carol: we are with the editor in .hief megan murphy you guys look at korea. there is a lot going on in south and north korea. megan: we have seen

can this actually be sold to the country, carol? that is going to be the big challenge, because what you saw was the president -- you know, when he's engaging in the country, he's doing it in front of big supportive crowds. the other issue is that, you know, even if they do pass something, and the way it's phased in, there will be hiccups. there's going to be -- after that, there's going to be political blowback. so that's all kind of set up to happen in a very tight space of time in which thi this president will probably be running for re-election and these members will certainly be running for their re-election. so i don't know. >> thank you, everybody. appreciate it. the senate confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee neil gorsuch begin monday. the pbs newshour will be streaming those hearings. you can find that at pbs.org slash news hour. we will talk about the latest legal challenges to the trump administration's travel ban. will the white house take their case to the supreme court? you can find it at pbs.org/washingtonw

. ♪ carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek". i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick.ceo lead the u.s. state department? the odds for and against rex tillerson success. and how did one of the most liberal and welcoming places in europe become a hot head for anti-globalization. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek". ♪ carol: we are here with editor and in chief.

carol lee among them. she joins us by telephone tonight. what is it exactly you were able to report? >> it's good to be with you. thanks for having me on. what we learned is that in recent days general flynn, through his lawyer, has had discussions with house and senate intelligence committee folks and the fbi about granting him immunity were he to cooperate and give testimony in these investigations. we don't know exactly what he has said he would talk about, and so far no one has taken him up on this as far as we can tell and his lawyer in his statement suggested that these conversations are ongoing, but they clearly -- either way if you step back and break it down, in minimum what he's saying is he will take the fifth if he is called on to testify unless he gets something out of it that he -- something that protects him from being prosecuted or being part of any criminal charges after he were to testify. so it's a pretty remarkable thing for a president's former national security adviser, as you said in your lead in. it was just a month

carol: small, big? all sizes, all industries. mlp's are coming back. energy has been backlog.has been slow in energy. the backlog is building. all types -- it is really open for all industries. retail will be adjusting. carol: when you say retail will be interesting, we spend a lot of time --everyone is bloomberg takes a look at retail. there is so much pressure on the retail sector. look at sears news this week. sales have retail pressure, but there are diamonds -- a lot of them are online businesses -- that is how they started. brick-and-mortar, starting online -- they are getting into brick-and-mortar as well. keep an eye out for those once. cory: how does the calendar look -- we are here in mid-march, already think about when deals have to get out, when a slimmer slowdown might have to occur. last year all your was slow. i wonder what you expect for this calendar year. jackie: typical, ipo's are cyclical. they tend to be heavy periods between late march and early june, and also right after labor day. then the rest of them sprinkled in, and brand names can take advantage of

carol crist was appointed to the position today. she's the first woman to serve as cal's chancellor. the university of california regents unanimously approved the appointment of crist today. leighanne melendez tell us what challenges the new chancellor faces. >> reporter: it's the first time that uc berkeley has a woman at the helm, the former president of smith college had come out of retirement to return to cal in 2015 as an administrator, and now to lead the university. >> enthusiastically and unanimous lay prove the appointment of carol crist as our new chancellor. >> reporter: she first came to uc berkeley in 1970 as an assistant proveor. the 72-year-old will receive the same compensation as her predecessor nearly $532,000, including housing. >> brkly transformed me and it transformed my understanding of higher education. >> reporter: yet she's quick to point out the university faces tough times ahead. crist believes it's time to reimagine the school's financial model, which relies on two bloc grants, tuition dollars and what t

my panel, vivian and carol, thank you for being here. carol, to you, let's stick with the idea comey was over on the hill. what do we make of this? >> he's under a lot of pressure. he has lawmakers who are saying on one hand they're not getting enough information. there's pressure for him to address the president's accusations of president obama. so i think you're seeing him trying to kind of manage the pressure points coming at him. it's really -- it's only going to get more intense. then we'll see him testify perhaps later this month. >> march 20th. >> march 20th, invited to do that. >> he's trying to manage all of this. from the white house, capitol hill. and that's what part of this was. >> the president does not want to talk about this. the press secretary does not want to address this again. continuing to kick it over to congress. these allegations the president made a week ago saturday. >> that's absolutely right. the only thing the white house really wanted to address were sort of stories that they said were false about this situ

westminster getting thunderstorm activity now and central and western sections of carol county there. that's good rain. loud too as it moves across. we've watched one storm move across the river to montgomery count more likes like it's starting to refire through northern western section of loudoun county. and all this activity is moving north and northwest and right now there's another storm about to cross over the river into charles county. and this could continue to get stronger and stronger too and that may eventually become a thunderstorm as well. just to show your temperatures. 61 in town. again outside of the city it's cooler. annapolis is 53 chilly. and winchester 5 2 hagerstown 52 and frederick thunderstorm activity there. 54. headed to the upper 60s and low 70s for highs today. there's the forecast vlingt here's erin como with a look at traffic on tuesday morning. >> 5:07 looking at metro their service kicked in 5 a.m. and we're dealing with safe track surge 13. single train yellow line between braddock and huntington vandoren. you know the drill for this watch for delays and

northern portions of loudoun county through frederick county maryland and carol country. here at d.c. they pulled back wepter storm warning during the 4:00 hour and replaced with winter weather add voosry but extended that winter weather add voosry until 6 p.m. tonight due to threat for snow showers and snow squalls as we roll through the afternoon hours. even as the storm passes off north and east. there is your storm system. still well off south at we're walking fine line of rain, snow, sleet mix and more snow further north an west you go here. here are temperatures. again north and west of town temps are in the 20s. big times certain later on this afternoon we may see a little sun with temperatures staying in 30s though later this afternoon. >> let's check the forecast. sending it to erin como with a check of the roads. >> 5:26 new crash alert for you on 395 northbound norm of duke street see flashing lights crash walking right shoulder and lane traffic moving slow because of slick conditions and as we forward cameras we've been telling you about another crash shilling

here's carol with a look at this morning's weather.ss many area, but as we go through the day and this set of fronts coming in from the atlantic advance eastwards, well you will find the cloud will continue to build. we have another weatherfront playing the northern isles. you will see rain. but in between this, a fine, dry and bright start to the day, with just a fine, dry and bright start to the day, withjust a little bit fine, dry and bright start to the day, with just a little bit of drizzle which will continue to fizzle out. through the day the rain coming into the south—west will be fairly patchy in nature. it will be windy particularly so in the west. even into the afternoon, that is the scenario. so this afternoon in scotland, a mixture of bright spells, sunshine, and just a few showers, but still this rain across the northern isles. temperature wise we are looking at highs of eight celsius in edinburgh. by the afternoon we will see patchy rain across northern ireland, but for much of england and through central and eastern par

so great to have you on the show, carol. >> thank you.ople remember to treat their dogs with great respect. dogs really emphasize with us, we need to return the favor. >> they're soloff recall. need to love them back. >> luke for luna and joey today at fishtown and all of the other areas. >> thank you, carol. that's it for "eyewitness news" at 7:00. here's what we have coming up for you at 8:00. >> just like that, so beautiful, and it was, so beautiful. >> joy on display in a philadelphia hospital room. a patient and a pup snuggled up, the purpose of the visit and why it was such a special surprise for one little local girl. >> and it is the last full day of winter. what can we expect for the start of spring? justin is back with the eyewitness weather forecast. that's next. ♪

lovely, carol, thank you.been waiting longer than they normally would for trains and some had to get railway replacement buses and when i spoke to northern rail they told me around 40% of the services will be running today. big disruptions on that line which is an important one for lots of commuters getting around this part of the country in the north—east today. if you look at what‘s going on in the north—west as well, with merseyrail, they say they have trains running every half an hour, instead of every 15 minutes, but having spoken to them, they say fewer people managed to cross the picket line so they are not running as frequently as they hoped. more disruptions expected at merseyrail and southern rail they say 90% of their services are running as normal. so some of them affected. it is clearly up in the north and the north—west and the north—east where things are hardest hit today. this is all to do with the strike by the rmt. you can see the guys on the picket line. we can talk to sean who is from the r

kevin and carol are back. this is the holy grail, the ever-evasive government will be more efficient. we'll find a way. it will be less ludicrous and make more sense. i don't know, do you have any hope for this one? >> i actually do have hope for this despite all the bureaucrats are trying to protect their jobs. one reason why the gao came out with a report, that the defense department is using computers from the '70s as well as floppy disk for our nuclear arsenal. melissa: right. >> this post will focus on technology and data. we could use it to the defense department to upgrade the systems. use it for the va as well to reduce waiting lines. this is great. bring a lot of technology leaders. that is where we start making the government more efficient. i would like us to focus on those type of things. mark ben ioff will be there. melissa: carol, it is all-stars. stephen schwartzman to everyone out of silicon valley. on one hand imagine president trump in there looking at these things, being like how in the worl

if hill, pete williams and plus two other reporters behind today's bombshell reports here with us, carol lee and on the set, matteo gold and msnbc contributor jeremy peters of the "the new york times." lots to discuss. hans, first to you. start with what the white house and what the president is saying about these overnight developments related to the guy he basically fired six weeks ago, mike flynn. >> reporter: the question is how kindly did he fire him. if there's any distance, any dilating between president donald trump and michael flynn, well michael flynn will have a chance to exact some revenge or set the record straight. that's why we see this tweet overnight from president obama clearly telegraphs that we wants to say friendly, friends with michael flynn. here's what he said mike flynn should ask for immunity and this is a witch hunt by media and dems. that seems to me like an attempt by the president to let michael flynn know that they are still friends and that michael flynn should be friendly if he offers any testimony under immunity. >> hans nichols there. it's interesting b