. >>> still ahead, rememberer worldcom's ebbers.hy he is seeking early release from prison. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> amazon plans to ptest the penguin award of a $10 billion cloud computing deal to microsoft. last night thess company exp concern that the decision was based on politics and not a fr contracting process. as we repted last month, microsoft beat out amazon for th joint enterprise defense infrastructure cloud project, otherwise known as sjedi. eaming serce hulu hiking price are to the second time in less tha a year from $44.99 port 54.99 per montan co says the new price brpt reflects the substantial value of the servist. month at&t raised the price of the tv nowexervice to $65. rts say it's the latest sign that providers are having trouble making money on discounted packages that rival cable. >>> and as cord cutting picks up steam, media companies have ao plan battle back. here is julia boorstin. >> media companies are pulling out all the stops to fight the growing cord cutting threat. paid tv subscber declines skrermted to 1.8 million

she has been arrested four times and once spent a night in jail >>> bernie ebbers exhibited in one ofe largest corporate scandals in u.s. history is asking a judge to shorten his 25-year prison sentence due to health problems. he has been in prison since 2006 his attorneys say he is legally blind and has several medical problems including a heart ailment. you are up to date that's the news update this hour back downtown to you >> sue, thank you very much. >>> the house permanent select committee on intelligence wrapping up an open hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into president trump >> that hearing with the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, lasted for about five hours and at times the testimony turned personal. democrats said that she was the target of a smear campaign that was conducted by president trump's associates and that led to her removal from her position over the spring. >> in my line of work, perhaps in your line of work as well, all we have is our reputation and so this has been a very painful period >> president trump attacked yovanovitch several

and said very specifically in her remarks at the sentencing that she knew it was a life sentence, ebbers that it was appropriate the understanding all along was that he was going to die in prison well, now she has softened that stance and clearly the family and his legal team and presumably ebbers himself feel he has been pun lishd in you have. >> we always draw the contrast, scott, with that era and the people who were sentenced and of course the financial crisis itself where virtually nobody was. >> that's right. it really is something you know, world com at the time was the largest bankruptcy in u.s. history only to be eclipsed in the financial crisis. you're right, nobody did any time to speak of in the financial crisis which in a lot of ways caused much, much more damage that we're still dealing with today. >> scott, thank you. >>> as we go to break, awfully close to session highs, dow is up 111, we are up to 3108 on the s&p on this day of record highs across the board i don't know what's going on. i've done all sorts of research, read earnings reports, looked at chart patterns. i'v

. >> reporter: the veteran climber credits her partner climb ebber.to help her. >> reporter: he became the first to climb el capitan without a roam. she was trying to reach the peak this time under 24 hours. three experienced climbers plunged to their death while climbing el capitan. >> the less than top 3% of climber can attempt the routes. >> preparing takes years. >> the mind set that goes into this climb, the planning that goes into this climb, all the details probably saved her life. >> reporter: harrington says that fall is not going to stop her from trying to conquer the 3200-foot climb once again. >> obviously, climbing is inherently dangerous and risky and we take risks when we do it. on i'm still going to do that. >>> a sad update out of the climbing world. one of the three men who successfully free climbed el capitan in a day died yesterday after rappeling off of his rope in mexico. brad goldbright was 31 years old. >>> marking >>> looking live to alcatraz island where the indigenous people gathering is about to get underway. this marks 50

you have mac or ebbers, the march on washington. they are invited onto the show that open mind. they published a book called in defense of southern segregation so the open mind has the idea to get these to sit across the table from each other. a friend and agents don't want him to do it but he thinks he has the duty to do it. it's important to note as they sit down to talk what is happening in the streets. in mississippi, the battle in ole ms. is taking place. the battle in mississippi is the scene of the battle. the veteran is trying to register and all hell breaks loose. the first thing he says just do you think there is a difference between the mobs and people like you that wear nice suits and bright fancy books. i'm here to tell you i hold you far more responsible than i hold those people. it's like a cross examining you claim to be a conservative but are you trying to conserve. you claim to care about western civilization ended up the judeo christian tradition. he says i accuse you of betraying the civilization. it's a complicated period keeps trying to figure out if he see

this was as well talking to bernie ebbers walking through his hometown unexpectedly when he joined uslly possibly be 16-plus years ago? it seems hard to imagine, but i think it is. >> amazing >> right before that big blackout hit the northeast but, jim, you look at what he got. >> that incredibly long sentence. >> yes >> oh my god and an enron, you go got it. >> nobody. >> nobody. >> angelo ma zillow, maybe he's watching i mention him out of so many executives >> tom west who is now the general council of uber did his best but they went after the money. >>> coming up, we'll talk about the business of cannabis take a look at canopy growth jim mechanintioned it in his ma dash we'll have an interview with the ceo. "squawk on the street" will be right back as a principal i can tell you this. when one student gets left behind, we all get left behind. this is a problem that affects each and every one of us. together with ibm, we created a whole new kind of school called p-tech. within six years, students can graduate with a high school diploma, a college degree, and a pathway to a competiti

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