is just said that the government is showing no mercy and this is something that coombs opened up right away and said the argument by the government today is interested in one thing and one thing only and that is punishment and coombs said that the. should take several things into consideration when they do deliver this sentence and one of those things is manning needs twenty one years old at the time when he was deployed in iraq had limited experience he cited of failures of his superiors to act to step in and notice red flags that manning perhaps was in an unstable emotional state and somebody should have stepped in and help and he should not have continued to be in the. position that he was in at the time as an intelligence analyst working with classified information they also said that you know what the information that manning leaked wasn't all that destructive if anything was temporary in nature and that any long term damaging impacts to the united states is speculative at best according to coombs he also said that manning he is accepted responsibility he has accepted guilt and an

says that the battle is not over yet coombs is now in the process of requesting a presidential pardon or at the very least reducing the wiki leak or sentence to time served last night hordes of supporters gathered in front of the white house to protest army judge denise lynn sentencing decision here are some of the sights and sounds of those demonstrations. where they barely say that was the case it is or is it crazy that the reverend wright a group they read it three ways you could have if you're trying to bait the right people articles report here for every where they. are you raise the brow for bradley where they. are to correspond to lose wall has been reporting to fort meade each day to watch the manning's court martial play out she was there when prosecutor showed the collateral murder video and when manning apologized here's a behind the scenes look at what it was like to cover this trial. this is the last glimpse of manning the public may see for a long time it was moments before the military judge sentenced manning to thirty five years for one of the largest leaks of classifi

this just over the government's is showing no mercy and this is something that coombs opened up right away and said the argument by the government today is interested in one thing and one thing only and that is punishment and coombs said that the judge. should take several things into consideration when they do deliver this sentence and one of those things is manning is twenty one years old at the time when he was deployed in iraq had limited experience he cited of failures of his superior. that was our t. correspondent was wall now what is the first thing that comes to mind when i mention the country somalia is it poverty or violence or famine war lords child soldiers drone strikes well whatever your initial thoughts about the country are chances are that they aren't good and chances are that they are inaccurate as well while some of all of these elements do exist in the country the fact is that somalia is also the home of beautiful beaches business opportunities and oil riches the u.s. is becoming more and more involved in the horn of africa with drone strikes covert cia operations

bertha coombs has the final installment in our series how to navigate long-term care with a look how to secure coverage when securing insurance is not an option. >> that is your b 12. >> reporter: 82-year-old nancy meadows can't care for herself but she still has good days. >> she just seems to really enjoy her life. >> reporter: by the time her son chuck tried to help her get long-term care insurance, she had already shown signs of dementia. >> they won't just write the insurance on that. >> reporter: he moved in to care for her and managed her pension and savings to pay for her home health aid while he's away at work. >> i try to be as judicious with my mother's financial assets as i can. we consider carefully when we have to spend money on anything. >> reporter: home health aids are the most affordable option founder of nurse next door. >> 40% of the clients across north america require less than ten how weres a week of service, which equates to less than a thousand dollars a month. >> reporter: with his mom's house paid for, chuck expects the equity could serve as a source of pun

bert bertha coombs takes a look. >> reporter: spreading the word about enrolling. job one is ensuring residents the state's online exchange will be ready. >> we're tested every week. new elements, not only what we do but how do we relate to the federal hub and the tests are going well. >> reporter: the federal hub is the obama's clearing house that will connect state online marketplaces to systems at irs and the center for medicare and medicaid. for applicant income verification and eligibility for subsides. but according to an inspector general report, the hub's final security certification won't happen until the day before exchanges are due to open. >> it's cutting the margin close. if it does actually come through on september 30th, there would be no problem. the next day they would be open for enrollment. the problem would come if it went past that deadline. >> obama officials made progress on the hub and will be ready. if not, lee says california will delay online enrollment. >> we wopt go live if we can't ensure secure information. >> reporter: they will star

bertha coombs has the story. >> reporter: in health policy circles, they are called young invincibles. 20 something-year-olds don't buy insurance. a new report shows otherwise. >> affordability is really the key reason why young adults don't enroll in health plans. >> reporter: two thirds of 19 to 29-year-olds they surveyed take up insurance when offered at work. >> among those who don't, 22% say that they couldn't afford the policy and only 5% said they didn't sign up because they didn't need it. >> reporter: 15 million young adults in early 20s are coverered under the obama plan. >> i plan on using my mom's insurance as long as i can. >> i'll stay under it until i'm 25 or 26. >> reporter: while it remains controversial, the survey found politics don't enter into commonwealth choices. 26 of those who identified themselves as republicans were covered under insurance plans, up from 54% in 2011 that compares to 45 percent of self-described democrats. >> what it says is this a long-term problem for all families, regardless of political affiliation. coming under the parents' policy benefi

bertha coombs has the second in nbr series on how to navigate long-term care on an industry in transition. >>> long-term care insurers paid out over $6.5 billion in benefits in 2012 to a quarter of a million customers according to an industry study with on going claims topping seven figures. >> the largest claim that's still open is from a woman. she's been on claim for 15 years. her insurance policy has paid out 1. $8 million to date and continues to pay. she only paid $881 for three years before her claim began. >> reporter: it's an extreme case of unprofitable under writing but reflects the problems, which have rocked the industry over the last several years leading major plan providers to stop selling individual policies. >> there are a lot of reasons for these market exists. the most important of which is companies had a very difficult time hitting profit objectives. >> reporter: result income a virtual perfect storm with long-term care costs rising faster than expected, the rate of clients letting policies lapse much lower than estimated and investment expectations too aggressive. b

bertha coombs reports. >> i knew that i would need long-term care. >> reporter: philis douglas bought long-term care insurance when she turned 70. it costs her $140 a month with a lifetime cap of $100,000. >> the only thing i could get was limited because of my physical conditions. >> reporter: she paid $20,000 in premiums over 12 years. now it's paying for a private aid at the assisted living facility where the 85-year-old live since 2010. >> i didn't want the kids to take care of me that way if they didn't have to. they do anyway. >> reporter: her son fred enrolled for long-term coverage at work after seeing how his mom's plan has helped. >> it's prolonging the point at which that money will get consumed at the high rate that she's paying out because she's paying for facilities. >> reporter: strategy reporter says to enroll in 50s. >> the premiums can be pricey but there are different policies that will allow you to change different features of the policies and make it more affordable. >> reporter: individual plan premiums can start at $2,000 a year for healthy individuals in their

the judge to be lenient they did not require an exact number of years but manning's attorney david coombs asked the judge to take several factors into consideration in order to give manning a fair sentence these factors include manning is a young age who was twenty one years old at the time that he was deployed in iraq manning's troubled mental state was highlighted during the sentencing phase military mental health professionals testified that manning suffered from anxiety and a gender identity crisis who has also said manning had good intentions when he leaked u.s. secrets that he was he thought that he could spark a national debate possibly bring an end to the wars in iraq and afghanistan coombs asked the judge to allow manning a chance at life and becoming a productive member of society the judge is now and deliberations here in maryland liz wall. a wall broadly about it could become america's first leaker languishing behind bars for the rest of his life the obama administration does have a history of silencing whistleblowers. and offering just more of what exactly he did forget exact

relationships now the defense did not request an exact number of years but manning's attorney david coombs asked the judge to take several factors into consideration in order to give manning a fair sentence these factors include manning's young age he was twenty one years old at the time that he was deployed in iraq manning's trouble mental state was highlighted during the sentencing phase military mental health professionals testified that at the time manning was struggling with being a gay man in the military and dealing with a gender identity crisis coombs also said manning is a good candidate for rehabilitation and he asked the judge to allow manning a chance at life and becoming a productive member of society many have spent more than three years behind bars so far he will be credited the one thousand two hundred ninety three days he has already spent in confinement the judge is now in deliberations she says she'll be ready to announce the sentence tomorrow morning here in fort meade maryland liz wall r t well the guardian newspaper is upping the ante in its standoff with the british

. >>> i'm coombs coombs bertha coombs with your cnbc market wrap.lunging 225 points today. the s&p 500 was off by 24, and the nasdaq down 63. unemployment claims dropped by 15,000 last week to a six-year low. the drop is a sign that companies are cutting fewer workers. unfortunately, that good news was bad news. a lot of folks worried that now the fed will cut back on its stimulus program sooner rather than later. consumer prices edged up 0.2% in july, this as gas prices rose more slowly. walmart shares down after the world's largest retailer reported a sales drop in its quarterly earnings. that's it from cnbc. we're first business worldwide. now back to "hardball." >>> so the question is not whether we need to act. the overwhelming judgment of science, of chemistry and physics and millions of measurements, has put all that to rest. 97% of scientists, including, by the way, some who originally disputed the data, have now put that to rest. they've acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it. so the question now is whet

reports from the afghan and iraq wars as dr worsley fielded questions from defense attorney david coombs this morning he went into great detail about the handful of meetings that he had with private manning from december two thousand and nine into may two thousand and ten during those meetings he said private manning explained that he didn't really have much of a support group whether back home in the united states or in iraq when it was the prosecution's term to cross-examine dr worsley they tried to portray manning as someone who had the opportunity to reach out to his fellow children soldiers but chose not to the prosecution wants portray private manning as a narcissistic know it all someone who's hyper intelligent who sees himself better as his other soldiers the defense on the other hand they want to portray private manning as more of a humanist someone who cared so much so deeply about his fellow soldier that he didn't put himself above them in fact he just wanted to better the world and thought he could do that by releasing material to wiki leaks now dr worsley talked about how at

let's go down to the nasdaq market site and bertha coombs for more. bertha?mon, we're not getting any update from the nasdaq as to either the cause of this apparent glitch or when they will be reopening trading. we did get a message on the nasdaq trader site that was disseminated that they were getting closer to reopening, and when they reopened they would have a five-minute-only quote period beforehand. they will try to sort of match up the orders. they said at a time to be determined, and we're now 41 minutes since that message was posted and still don't have a sense of what time that will happen. traders that i talked to here, what they've done is pull back their orders and they will reenter them at that point when we do start getting that quote system to get a better idea. but with the sip -- that's the initials for basically what the quoting system is -- unable to get information on what your quote is going to be, you cannot trade right now. what's interesting is the knock-on effects here. with no nasdaq securities able to trade, that also impacts etfs,

. >> joking aside, former prosecutor loni coombs says a d.n.a. test is a good idea.uld make sure you are the father of the child. >> host nick cannon looking forward to having a new baby around. t will be crazy. wearing v-necked shirts, chest all out. cowell cowell's kid

former prosecutor loni coombs weighs in. >> a parent can go if and ask for a change if there is a patternt think usher would do anything to put his children in dange intentionally. >> a video vogue bieber in the mill of of a melee. investigation ordered his bodyguards to do a saltalacchia down beat dean on a patron. abby wambach offered this tongue-in-cheekdvice. >> that would be so you're a nice boy. pull your troicers up. >> we have seen on-camera clashes on have you view. >> i asked you a question. >> now there is a rumored blow up between whoopi and barbara. what is going on, a.j.? >> you know how everyone likes to stir up drama. the ladies of the view are clearing the air. >> some idiot reporter i can't wait until she retires, and what the hell, and you know. >> you didn't tell me that. >> well, that is pause it didn't happen. >> she wanted to know what everyone really thinks of her. >> two more days here. have it, go ahead. tell

bertha coombs, thank you. of the nasdaq for three hours time more of what we just heard as well, the first officially from the nasdaq and as we head to the break let's look at the nasdaq's parent company stock a couple of minutes after the trading was tough. could it be another tough day for them? we'll talk about it coming up. (announcer) at scottrade, our clients are always learning more to make their money do more. (ann) to help me plan my next move i take scottrade's free, in-branch seminars... plus, their live webinars. i use daily market commentary to improve my strategy. and my local scottrade office guides my learning every step of the way. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) scottrade... ranked "highest in customer loyalty for brokerage and investment companies." i h av e low testosterone. there, i said it. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive but not energy or even my mood. that's when i talked with my doctor. he gave me some blo

coombs, said the fight is not over.o what are the options, assuming that a pardon is not easily gettable? >> well, the next step is that the so-called convening authority, the general that runs the military di of washington, will have to review the sentence. he has the ability to accept it as is or to reduce it but not to add to it. so that's the first opportunity for clemency, if you will. then it will be automatically appealed to the first stage of review by the army criminal court of appeals. several levels all the try these defense team wants to keep fighting that fight. savage, thanks so much. >> thank you for having me. >> suarez: now to new revelations about government surveillance of internet traffic throughout the u.s. margaret warner has the story. >> warner: the nation's top intelligence official today declassified documents showing that for three years, the national security agency, or n.s.a., collected more than 50,000 emails a year between americans with no connection to terrorism. the foreign intelligence

>>> we turn to cnbc's bertha coombs for your first look at business. >> toyota is recalling 342,000 tacoma pickup trucks to fix a seat belt issue. it affects models made between 2004 and 2011. no injuries have been reported. the salsburger family says "the new york times" is not for sale. that declaration comes after the graham family decided to sell t"the washington post" to amazo founder jeff bezos. >>> the social networking company is testing a trending topics feature with a small group of users on its mobile website. so far i haven't seen any so i guess i'm not in the elite group. back to you. >> you'll be trending soon enough, bertha. thank you. >>> first up, sexy lingerie for the 1%. new designs are made with, get this, 24 karat gold thread. i didn't even know they made that. each bra and panties starts out with between 10 and 20 grams of gold and prices range from $1500 to a whopping 6,000 bucks. >>> and new crash test out this morning by the insurance institute for highway safety found the honda civic to be the best performer among small cars. the nissan centra, kia soul and kia fo

here to discuss it it a former loni ting and author, coombs and a criminal defense corner. >> they didn't for years. but the prosecution is claiming that they hid the money that they made from their show. >> can't do that. >> teresa never admits to fault for anything, much less something as horrendous as this. >> i didn't do nothing to you and you know it. >> i've been hearing that her husband could be deported back to italy. >> these are crimes of moral terpitude and it is a deportable events. >> let's move on to the gia allemand suicide. >> when someone hangs themselves, they're not trying to cry out for help. >> i remember gia from the season she was on tv. she was so beautiful and so sweet, but almost like a fragile hummingbird, very tender. >> what do you make of it? >> this is every parents' worst nice mayor. here is a man they trusted for year and suddenly he commits murder and kidnaps her? it's unheard of. >> do you think he would have harmed her? >> i don't think he would have. he did apparently love her. >> i'm not sure he wouldn't have harmed her. this was a man who expressed v

bertha coombs live at cnbc headquarters. a look at how the futures are trading.ood wednesday morning. >> good wednesday morn to-ing you. futures trading lower, stocks falling yesterday on comments from fed officials who say the central bank cut trim purchases of treasury bonds next month. some folks thought they'd put it off after the jobs number. that policy helped keep interest rates low. we'll be getting data on consumer credit and earnings. out from time warner, look good. disney's earnings disappointing. the lone ranger was a lone ranger at the box office. they'll take a charge for that. dow dropping 93 points. the nasdaq ending its five-day winning streak, losing 27. yahoo! getting a new look. new logo in nearly two decades coming next month. over the next 30 days it's going to showcase 30 different logos on the home page. september 4th, they'll tell us one that is going to stick to replace the purple logo. yahoo! has chosen which it will be. the company wants to display the new look, all of the different looks, as part of its renaissance under marisa meyer

now for business and cnbc's bertha coombs. good morning, bertha. >> good morning, richard. two years ago today that s&p cut the u.s.' aaa rating after congress failed to raise the debt ceiling. stocks plunged back then with the dow dropping 634 points in response. here we are two years later and the markets have more than recovered to record levels with the dow now up 45%. >>> jetblue goes upscale. "the wall street journal" reports the low-cost carrier will unveil premium seats starting today in the front of the cabin that fold down to lie flat beds. jetblue won't say how much those new seats will cost but the seats will likely be on flights between new york and l.a. and san francisco starting next spring. >>> the cbs/time warner cable blackout enters its fourth day with no end in sight to their dispute over programming fees. both companies can't even agree whether they are still in talks. really tough for fans of dexter and ray donovan. back to you. >> yeah, bertha. a lot of folks saying, where are my programs? >>> carfax, the company that supplies vehicle history reports

. >>> for an early look at business, we turn to bertha coombs. good morning, bertha. >> good morning, richard. amazon's ceo jeff bezos is buying the "washington post" publishing business, including its namesake paper for $250 million. bezos says this is a personal acquisition and "the post" will remain separate from amazon. he tells the post readers he'll strive protect the journalistic tradition. >>> gm is knock $5,000 off the price of the chevy volt. automakers have been forced to cut prices on electric cars to move them off the lots. >>> and christie's has been hired by detroit to appraise the value of the city's vast art collection as it tries to pay down its massive debt. they'll explore various options such as leasing works to other museums to avoid an all-out sale. richard? >> either way it goes. >>> if you are a parent paying for college tuition, listen to this one. the money you are shelling out could be going to more than just a university education. the princeton review surveyed 126,000 college students nationwide. they found the top p

. >> al coombs, was now part of the single achievement.al was on the team responsible for the rocket propulsion for apollo 11:00's lunar lander, the vehicle that ultimately got neil armstrong and buzz aldrin to the moon but more importantly for al, got them off of it as well. >> i'm almost blue in the face holding my bret for the moment where it actually would lift off. >> until our interview, al admits he never quite put together his special place in history, his connection to the high and the low. his message to the rest of us, never forget either. >> the darkest day in the 20th century should be and must be preserved just as the greatest day. >> al has one more message for the rest of us, to reinvest in our space program and get americans excited about exploration the way they were in the '60s, and '70s. >> i think that unless you get out there and explore areas that you think you know, that you haven't been to, you really don't understand what's out there. >> how this man got off the beaten track right outside his front door and how he

. >>> a check of facebook trading with bertha coombs at cnbc world headquarters. >> good morning, scott. we have the futures pointing to a lower start this morning. stocks did manage to stop a three-day losing streak. markets have been spooked this week by comments from several fed officials who seem to say that the central bank will start pulling back on its massive stimulus bond buying perhaps as early as next month if the economic data holds up. the dow is poised for its first weekly drop in the past seven weeks. the nasdaq and s&p 500 are on pace for their worst weekly decline since late june t. dow rising 27 points yesterday to 15,498. the nasdaq up 15 to 3,669. one thing we're watching, scott, is whether there will be any resolution in the time warner and cbs feud. they're apparently back to talking, but a lot of golf fans are really upset in new york and l.a. because, with the pga championship on this week and tyinger in the hunt, they could miss it on sunday if they're looking on time warner. >> bertha coombs, thank you very much. it's 5:15. silicon valley full of young people w