for decades, the chemical giant dupont hid information about the toxicity of this chemical, even as the company discharged it into the waterways around its manufacturing plant in parkersburg, west virginia. pfoa, or c8, has now been link to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancers. the chemical has been used so widely, it's now in the bloodstream of 99% of americans, even newborn babies. and the chemical is bio-resistant, meaning it does not break down. well, for more, we're jned by rob bilott, the leading environmental lawyer who represented 70,000 americans in lawsuits against the chemical giant dupont. he successfully won compensation for his clients, whose drinking water had been contaminad by toxic chemicals used to make teflon. rob bilott is a recipient of the 2017 right livelihood award. he was also the subject of a 2016 "new york times magazine" article headlined, "the lawyer who became dupont's worst nightmare." rob bilott is here at the university of california santa cruz for a gathering of the north american right livelihood laureates. welcome to democracy now! >

meanwhile dupont has handed over his data to the investigators they now have an overview of the structure of the international child pornography network including distribution channels customers and payment options. equals these very very young pianists and. their expectation is for me shocking even at the level for us an officer of it. for days officer to my own has been using a webcam to monitor a cybersex house the police will try to free the children from the house today. it's the first rate of its kind in the philippines. the police found twelve children here the youngest was a nine year old girl. all of them had appeared on webcams for western costumes most of the children had also been physically abused. police arrested the pimps and their accomplices and seized credit cards and computers. the boys and girls were taken to a children's home to help them get back to some semblance of normality. but who knows whether they will ever recover from their ordeal. which it will be much more difficult to track down and arrest the five suspects international customers the victims have testifi

pornography market in the philippines they're doing that with the help of belgian journalist peter dupont. here. we're now on our way to southeast asia. dupont has been doing research in the philippines for months and has managed to infiltrate various computer networks that cater to paedophiles. it's on dating sites like this one the people who are offering cyber sex are looking for customers. they know that it's a dangerous activity so it takes quite some time to gain their trust people offering you what they call a show and the show is sexual so they show you anything you want and if you're really ask more or wait then they will offer you a show with young meaning children. peter takes us to a slum in manila and explains how and why online abuse is turned into a thriving business here. internet access is cheap and many of the children speak at least a little english. that makes it easier for paedophiles to make contact. peter shows us a place where children are forced to appear in front of webcams. he goes online and claims to be someone who's looking for sex with children and he quickl

dow dupont now the chinese move raises concerns among the. those in the u.s. who fear that large scale agriculture production could also believed to be from the u.s. to china which has been acquiring massive holdings in water rich central africa and is on the verge of instituting advanced agribusiness if successful chinese does the mystic product production of ag commodities could replace u.s. exports to china in many instances china is the largest export market for u.s. commodities as we spoke about a moment ago including soybeans here discuss the spread kaufman the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred thank you for joining us let's get these basics done first we talk about gene splicing and people think it's you know this futuristic stuff but it's been done for years you know what are genetically modified organisms g m o's and how big a business is g.m.o. patterning do a little explainer for us. well thank you bart i mean you're absolutely right this technology in some way shape or form has been around for a while it's recom

dow dupont along with the big health the big health care needs ahead of that. your sutures are pointed to a higher open. don't 51 from s&p up six and three quarters. nasdaq up 12 and a quarter. gerri: stocks open under pressure amid trade tensions. taking a look at the mix here for the ftse of 22 points but the cac down 12. dax unchanged. cheryl: stocks in asia actually lower. in japan the market close for a two-day holiday but in hong kong, the big loser there, the hang seng down under 1%. gerri: tesla stock as the stock to watch dr. elon musk electric car company posted another loss and continues to burn through cash. "fbn:am" starts right now. 5:01 a.m. in new york. thursday, may 3rd. m. cheryl casone. gerri: and gerri willis in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: tesla vostok we're talking about later on. gerri: it was big and elon musk did not want to answer any of the questions coming from analysts. he said they were giving him a headache. cheryl: will talk about that later on this morning. right now we go overseas. the u.s. delegation led by treasury secretary

now, i mean, dupont. think people don't recognize how important that unit is i think it's going to be a fantastic for them. >> for fmc. >> right corn pricing, new high crop protection is good. i like this. i think people are underrating how important it is. sometimes when a justice department allows a deal to get done, they force a giveaway. and fmc got it. >> your friends at consolation brands are perhaps the poster child. >> could you be more right. >> i think people have to the recognize the company has a lot of optionalty. they should be focussing on the crop business not the lithium business, which is just not nearly as booming as crops. >> all right. >> all right. >> fmc up almost 3%. it. >> the most underappreciated story. >> at lot of stories to get to this morning including the shake up at xerox. they stop the deal with fuji we'll have an inghsit on that for you. i had a spanish teacher in high school who knew i could do more, and so she pushed me and pushed me and pushed me, and she was right. t

dow dupont now the chinese move raises concerns among those in the u.s. who fear that large scale agricultural production could also believed to be from the u.s. to china which has been acquiring massive holdings in water rich central africa and is on the verge of instituting advanced agribusiness if successful chinese does the mystic product production of ag commodities could replace u.s. exports to china in many instances china is the largest export market for us commodities as we spoke about a moment ago including soybeans here discuss the spread kaufman the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred thank you for joining us let's get these basics done first we talk about gene splicing and people think it's you know this futuristic stuff but it's been done for years you know what are genetically modified organisms g m o's and how big a business is g.m.o. patterning do a little explainer for us. well thank you bart i mean you're absolutely right this technology in some way shape or form has been around for a while it's recombinant d.n.a. and t

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we will put a pie chart up that relates to dell dupont. it -- dow dupont.u could tell us how much of the pie you are having and where the constituent parks are coming from -- parts are coming from. where do you fit in? jim: if you look at those segments called packaging and specialty plastics, industrial intermediates, and performance materials and coatings, that will be the new industrial sciences division and our plan is to launch it for ipo in the first quarter of 2019. that will be the most innovative material science division in the world. david: that is a lot of that pie that you just described. how big in revenue will it be? how many employees? 50,000, maybeout a little bit more employees, $50 billion in revenue. the materials division booked just over $12 billion of revenue, aided by a lot of new investments in our core businesses. that company will be the bellwether materials company in the sector, and that is what our target is, to be the best in class performer. david: you said you are the most innovative. what distinguishes you from your competi

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have to king louis the fifteenth famous mistress madame dupont by doing she's known to have had a love of war covering some examples can still be seen in the magnificent chambers of versailles palace. am the bombastic interiors of the baracoa an ideal inspiration for all twenty. which has revived a design technique that died out in the late eighteenth century this blossom may well be incorporated in a new pattern. we do get it was. the first i made very precise sketches of the blossoms. only then can it be drawn in the original scale for kubrick reform exhibited in the striking wallpapers of finding an increasing following in european interior design the longstanding german company founded abyss camp works with material such as metal silk. sand. vinyl. beads. crystal's. going to address from the korean war coverings is the english purveyor of the. room paper thin hand painted to go in a panels can cost the customer anywhere from five to twenty five thousand euros the house is founded takes pride in the exquisite craftsmanship of his products i don't think we should be calling them pape

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overseas department of france on tuesday he out back to five other finalists at the federation that dupont competitors were given six hours to make forty traditional french begets while complying with strict rules the baked goods were judged on their appearance smell i don't know actually their taste the fictive is held annually at paris's town hall. subjects of our next report have made themselves well known in the contemporary art world by attending every major opening for years but these aren't just any kind of museum goers if a daily are bald dressed and a married couple who claim to have landed in berlin in a time machine after the fall of the wall now instead of being the art opening crashers they have their own exhibition running here in berlin it focuses on their love for each other and the risks that they've taken with their chosen lifestyle. a living breathing artwork takes a tour of its own retrospective of paintings photographs videos and collectors items all devoted to a single theme the bubble gum pink world of eva and adele of the berlin artist duo have devoted their lives t

last december, in the amtrak train derailed in dupont, washington, killing three people and injuring 60. on the inaugural run of a new line. the engineer was speeding on a curved track nearly 50 miles per hour above the speed limit. in january, closer to home, members of congress were involved in a highway railroad-grade crossing crash. witnesses report that a truck entered the crossing when the gates were down. unfortunately, this type of accident occurred all too frequently. in february, another amtrak train collided with a sitting freight train in south carolina because it was diverted on to a track that hsh taken out of service. these three accidents illustrate the variety of challenges we face in improving the safety of the railroad. the rail industry safety record has improved in some areas with the number of derailments declining by 35% since 2008, despite increasing service levels. last year, however, the number of accidents and incidents actually increased compared to 2016. among these incidents were several serious collisions that led to fatalities that in some cases could

dupont again chemical name you don't hear about it. caterpillar coming out gate very is strong. at the s&p 500, a broader index doing extraordinarily as well pretty good start right here out of the gate then, of course, there's nasdaq, it is been a jugger not continuing to be up 25 points right here out the gate. joining us now elizabeth macdonald ashley webster jeff, and james freeman, we could actually now see eight session in a row with dow up. i say two days ago we made a turn that i'm jeff might have been near term aflexion point that takes us considerably higher. >> incredibly impressive is level of momentum but what i've been saying all along is that declines we're getting are not nearly declines that we will eventually get but once this gets momentum it is very difficult to reverse that momentum. >> and a test to ojai to retest that january 26th? >> i certainly think we're going to retest that high but i think once -- once market wins to absorb sort of concerns about trade and concern about rising interest rates and maybe some flaws in the five text stocks priced to perf

they decided the outcome in p and g and in dupont. companies management cares what retail investors think retail investors make up one third of the ownership of the u.s. market, the north american market one third. they are only voting at about 30% slightly less. their voice needs to be heard. technology is going to be the answer we invented telephone voting, w have online voting you can get your proxy here. it doesn't matter who your broker is. go to proxyvote.com and you can vote in three clicks. >> we had these big proxy fights and we have to get you to show people what to do. we have a huge number of retail investors and you are the only person coming on the show and show then the technology so they can play a role. >> absolutely. technology is the answer to everything we do at broadridge. >> i am stunned. it hit me. this is it when we have people who want to do these proxy ballots, and they don't know how to do it. and you do you can help them. >> there is an entire industry out there to cause confusion in these battles. at broad

coming up right now, dow dupont up the better part of 3% ge having a nice little run today. exxonmobil unsurprisingly doing well as are energy stocks more broadly. oil prices up 3% and merck up 2%. >>> but shares of planet fitness are under pressure after releasing earnings last night. diana olick has those details. >> they did beat by a penny. 27 cents on a revenue of $121 million. same store sales were up 11% it was lower than the previous quarter. that could be some reason for the weakness full year guidance did hold about 20% increase in revenue and eps up about 40% for the year in the release, the ceo said the company's growth was driven we t -- by the expansion that's kind of a slam at the high priced high intensity boutique model we're seeing so much of now. but we also continue to explore ways of our offering including utilizing technology to provide more immersive workout recommendations. so that's kind of if you can't beat them, join them now, planet fitness is also continuing its expansion to malls which are courting them a lot. trying to fill space vacated by tra

mcdonald's, dupont siscal. >>> now let's get a check on the bond market.i, rick. >> i'll tell you a fascinating day. we're getting back to a flattening mode after a really questionable report on employment. went from 245 back up to 250 -- up two on the day, up two on the week. looking at days of ten. we trade all the way down to 291. having settled below that since last week's wednesday 303 high yield close for 2018. right now it's unchanged on the day virtually unchanged on the week as you see on the ten-year term for one week. let's go to fed fund future for december. every contract rolls into the next. it's at 9681. that's the low of this cycle. the lower it goes the higher the probabilities which means that we haven't really changed anybody's opinion on the short end or the long end. it looked like it was nervous about growth and it snapped right back and finally one week of the dollar index. yes, it's been up to 92.90 today but here it sits at a whole penny. >>> we are just a day away from the 144th running of the kentucky derby, the company that owns

. >> dow, dupont is levered to the price of oil goes up when oil goes up what is your relation to feed our kmod advertised side of the business, 25% or so% of the earnings, the driver of profitability there is operating rate the operating rate of the commodity, styrene monomer drives profits not the price of oil on the other side generally we pass through feed stock. if we make a pellet for a synthetic sire we pass the commodity fluctuations through and we have fixed margin we have contracts that take the price of the inputs and add a margin to out. if the price dose up, the margin stays the same and vice versa. >> ppg is being squeezed they are producing paint that goes to a home depot you are not producing anything like that that's going to get squeezed. >> well, as i said, our customers generally we have contracts that say to them, if the raw material goes up, our margin stays the same but the price moves up according to the raw material and if it questions down for our business, for our customers, that's turned out to be a good holiday. >> how about capacity utilization. what if ib

nike, dow, dupont, verizon, jpmorgan, ge, chevron, shows finished with up arrows. that being said the fox, whole media merger talk was certainly a big story. you can see disney is to the downside. waiting on. earnings. that puts a deal with disney on the table. all three finished lower. fox hit a new high. last but not least, it is earnings season. dish network down 12%. the lowest lows we've seen since 2012. hearst down 18%. back to you. -- hertz. melissa: phil flynn down at cme. phil, talk to me. >> this was a well-telegraphed move by the trump administration. today we got weird headlines, they're in, they're out. we saw a lot of volatility. but at the end of the day the market was not surprised. european crudes, brent crude, they were a lot stronger, they would be impacted more directly by iranian potential loss of crude oil. we saw a lot of risk-on. 9 risk-on in oil goes back where we were years ago when we knew iran was trying to make a nuclear weapon. we may be back in that kind of mode. the markets could be very nervous. gold reacted to the announcement. we

last year they struck a land mark deal with due point they got the large part of dupont's crop protection business that they had to sell to get ready for the dow chemical merger. fmc gave them $1.2 billion along with their health and nutrition division fmc got insecticides and herbicides along with a research and development pipeline all for less than they would have had to pay if it weren't for the government that's one of the main reasons the stock caught fire last year. what went wrong earlier when the whole lithium group was poe laxed. everything lithium related was getting killed when the commodities were higher. agriculture was on fire. the 15% of the company that was lithium was enough to weigh the whole stock down can you believe that let's go over what happened with lithium. there is quimica it is a chill aian miner that's the world's largest source of law lithium. it struck a deal with the regulators in january that requires them to expand production when you increase supply that puts downward pressure on pricing. over the next four days, fmc lost 8% of its value frank mitch our

on the downside chevron, exxon, dow, dupont and general electric.ut this week, particularly on oil selling off with concerns of opec pumping more. ge has been on going on your show. back to you. liz: thank you very. would you bet your money on military members? three days out from memorial day, why not invest in america? tom lieden is here publisher of etf trend.com and global trends investment. how do we do this? i like this idea. >> happy friday, liz. it's a great idea especially talking about it before memorial day. ubs put together an index based on military friendly discretion over the underlying stocks within this index and it's all about companies that do a good job hiring veterans. now veterans as you know come out with a lot of skills. they work hard. they have a lot of technology skills. they're great leaders. some companies have done a great job of embracing this. so the insight patriotic, employees etf, ticker symbol, hon who are h off o-n-r. supporting companies that support veterans by hiring. liz: devon energy, humana, cvs. these are

home depot down, dupont, 3m among other laggard. retail is really big story this week in particular. so far we're watching some of these. we look at autozone and advanced auto parts. autozone talked about higher costs for labor. after the quarterly numbers down 9 1/2% for autozone. that is laggard for s&p 500. look at rest of retailers, tj maxx, parent, tjx. up 3.3%. kohl's despite a beat. all of them are to the downside. nordstrom, jcpenney, and jcpenney has a story in its own, ceo marvin ellison is leaving. he is going over to loews. stock is down 6%. a quick piece of news right out of the new york stock exchange. a new president entering the helm there. that is stacy cunningham. she is the first female president of the new york stock exchange. 226 years. she is the -- 67th president. she will take over friday. she started a long time ago in 1994 down here. david: good for her. nicole, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: president trump saying he is not satisfied with recent trade talks between the u.s. and china. the president

weekly chevron exxon dow, dupont was the laggards for the week the winners intel, boeing, microsoft, verizon and we did have a weekly win for the major averages. back to you. liz: great to see you nicole we're staying on the north korea story north korea now changing its tune about the summit with the u.s. on the same day that president trump also announced that deal with china on its telecom company zte. this is in action we'll show you the connections there, and the media, mocking president trump after he canceled a meeting with north korea, one media analyst said it's like a 13-year-old breakup letter that's how the whole thing for that person went down but will the dealmaker-in- chief have the last laugh we'll show you what's being said, that's next. how do you gauge the greatness of an suv? is it to carry cargo... or to carry on a legacy? its show of strength... or its sign of intelligence? in crossing harsh terrain... or breaking new ground? this is the mercedes-benz suv family. greatness comes in many forms. lease the glc300 for just $449 a month at your local mercedes-benz de

>> very creative >> earnings out from dow dupont.uarterly profit of 1.17, coming in 7 cents above estimates revenue beating the street forecast the company says it remains on track to split into three separate companies next year not much movement to these earnings >>> and the corporate buzz story of the morning, elon musk's unusual performance on the tesla conference call. phil lebeau joins us now with more see, phil? it pays off to do that stuff, sit around on conference calls, asking questions you were first to witness it was it bizarre >> bizarre is the perfect word for it strange, odd i'm looking at a slew of analyst reports this morning, almost all of them say the same thing, rbc capital, elon's defensiveness spoke volumes. adam jonas at morgan stanley says it is the most unusual call he's seen in 20 years. tony saccanachi said the call raised some more boring and not cool questions than it answered. that was a play on what elon musk said yesterday. let's talk about what news there is for investors that you want to look at and

we are also watching dupont right now and we're trying to get a premarket.oing to hear from kellogg today expected to report higher earnings per share and revenue from a year ago. two big names we are watching. we are also watching shares of tesla this morning. the stocks falling in the premarket drop 4.5%. trading is down more than 4%. concerns about the cash burn that tesla and upward moments when ceo elon musk oxen conference calls with analysts boring and dry and they started taking questions from youtube. the company burned through $277 million in the first quarter, but he does not plan to raise more capital. as for the earnings themselves, came in better than did revenue tops the forecast. expect a lot of static fours spotify today for the first earnings report of the publicly traded company came out. washington apparently wanted a lot more from the company. they want 4 million paid subscribers but most of its users are on a three adds support here. in total about 170 million monthly users. both results came out the high end the company's forecast. $16

the eighth amendment only applies to the states as opposed to the federal government through the dupont-- the due process clause. both the eighth and the 14th amendment were in play. >> the due process and equal protection clause arguments had been considered before in 1971. the court had been upheld. >> we are going to start by listening to 2 justices. we are talking about the definition of cruel and unusual and hear what they have to say. >> practices that were followed at the time of the founding. if cases like that arose, would you find likely that they are constitutional? >> constitutional and stupid. a lot of the things that are constitutional, an enormous amount of stuff, is stupid. >> the word in the constitution is cool and the word is unusual. it is possible that over time people have a different idea of what is cool. that doesn't mean that it isn't cool because someone in the 18th century thought it wasn't. >> the world hasn't changed. he talks as though it's a one- way street. we get more gentle over age, not more cool. but it's not a one-way street if you think whatever you

he remembered being invited to go to protest at the dupont factory in the midwest because they were creating napalm. 20 people showed up. this was in 1964, 1965, and he felt very demoralized. it was a tiny movement that grew out of civil rights. in the fall of 1965, a protest was caused in washington dc. she decided to go. there were 25,000 people there. that was the moment he said there could be a mass movement. we are not comparing that to 1968, which we will get to. it was small-scale, it was local, it didn't have a lot of press. it grew organically over time and it had to do with the changes in the draft and who was getting drafted as the war escalated. more young men and women who had brothers and boyfriends and friends felt this was going to touch them. the question of what we are fighting for became much more real and present. the movement grew. ask each of you about the names that came up as far as the protesting went. on our screen we're putting a picture of someone named norman morrison. explain to us who he was and what he was known for. lynn: his story i found absolutely devastat

invited toed being go to protest at the dupont factory in the midwest because they were creating napalm. 20 people showed up. this was a 96 to four and 65 and he felt very demoralized. and 65 and he felt very demoralized. as we began to ask what the troops on the ground in vietnam, a protest was caused in washington dc. there were 25,000 people there. that was the moment he said he felt that there could be a mass movement. it was small-scale, it was local, it didn't have a lot of press. it grew organically over time and it had to do with the changes in the draft and who was getting drafted as the war escalated. this is when more young men and women felt this was going to touch them. what we are of fighting for became much more real and present. the movement grew. paul: i want to do as you about some of the names that came up as far as the protesting went. on our screen we're putting a picture of someone named norman morrison. his story i found absolutely devastating. he was a quaker with a very strong belief in pacifism. reacted to something in 1953, buddhist monks protested the southea