the contractor who was killed was working for the holland company. an investigation has already begun. the section of track was already closed for weekend track work. >> it's going to take all of us across the whole region to make the i have substantial investments to make the the the repairs that the system needs to be safe and grow. >> metro tells us the red line will be open in time for tomorrow's commute. >>> day six of the government shut down. no action tonight with both houses adjourned. john boehner says there are not enough votes to class a clean spending bill. the white house was quick to react with two advisers asking him to call for a vote and see. 21 republicans have come out no favor of a clean bill in the last few days. meanwhile, republicans continue to put pressure on the white house to negotiate. >> if he doesn't get 100% of his way, his way or the highway, then they won't do any spending bills that don't include everything three wants. that's him unwilling to negotiate. >> a shut down is harming people every day. i think we're seei

let's ask mike chairman of holland and company. >> thanks for having me. >> in my notes it says you see this bull market as the most comfortable bull market you've seen in a long time. what do you mean by that, and do you mean you would be comfortable yourself putting money into a broad s&p 500 index fund? >> one correction to what i said because sometimes i mumble, most uncomfortable bull market and the reason i said uncomfortable is because people from the beginning of this in 2008 and 2009 have been skeptical of the market and that's one reason the evaluations are so low and attractive as i find them still to be, and to answer your last question, i would absolutely if someone didn't want to pick individual stocks or didn't feel competent to do that or didn't have the time, i would absolutely talk about one of the index funds like van guard or someone like that. >> mike, let's talk about what dominic just reported. apple, would you buy, sale or hold the stock trading at $525. >> great question. in do m's report, i agree they have been under performer and out performer. you look at the

also include mike holland because he has 4 billion in assets under management as chairman of holland and company. want to first began with mike holland. you just heard what the bankers were saying. from my standpoint as we have the traders lining up to explain what they have seen, how serious would it be if we hit the debt ceiling? >> is serious. we will get through it, we always do. november 1995. i think it was the choice of lloyd blank fine to say that. the most important thing he could say because he knew how important it would be. it is important to the world market. liz: and here we are watching our markets. as i mentioned, at one point down more than one under 70 points. s&p down five. it is nothing to get hysterical about certainly, but what stress signs, what fractures are you seeing in the markets if anything right now? >> a little bit of decline in the s&p and dahlia immobile when you look at things like the nasdaq and the russell 2000, they continued to hit new highs. as been difficult to find things a little bit of rolling over momentum. you have not really seen any break technicall

happened as crews were welding a portion of the rail. 41-year-old harold ingram, an employee of holland companye hurt. this morning an investigation team led by metro's chief safety officer is working to figure out what happened here. very sad news this weekend. >>> three people have now been charged in connection to the violent road rage incident in new york city.nt accused of triggering the incident is arraigned on saul charges. reginald chance is held on $75,000 bail. e was among the dozens of bikers who stopped an s.u.v. on the highway. h >> he sped off with his wife and daughter in the vehicle. some others chased the family down and beat leeanne. >> they have tips on how to sta safe on the roads. >> you have some, what we call old hints around for a long time and new generations coming up. and they ride the faster bikes and they like to have fun. they also -- i just think they e bikers. >> one of the things you don't y want toou do is engage a motorcycle in a high-speedto pursuit if you can avoidrc it. there's obviously the danger to the public and also the danger to the rider. he may be!c

a contractor from holland welding company out of new jersey, 31-year-old harold ingram, was killed.estigators will be out here later today to try to figure out exactly what happened, what sparked this fire, and then caused this section of rail to move that many feet. but again, the ntsb, it would be pretty normal for them to be here after an incident like this. they say they cannot be here because of the shutdown. reporting live at union station, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thank you, john. this morning, most of the pentagon's 350,000 civilian workers will be back on the job. but congress and the white house where very far apart on a deal to officially reopen the government. house speaker john boehner says he sees no way out unless president obama is willing to negotiate. but the white house objects to republicans' demands to stall health care reform. so both sides need to come to an agreement on the debt ceiling as w that's a separate, but equally contentious argument. that date and deadline is october 17th. not doing so could result in a global financial disaster. >>> the suprem

a contractor from holland welding company, a 41-year-old man known as harold ingram he was killed inthis accident. metro investigators will be out here later today trying to figure out exactly what sparked that fire and then caused that section of rail to move striking the workers. but again the ntsb not coming out in about a half-hour we'll tell you exactly why the agency says it cannot be here today. reporting live at union station, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thank you, john. a new parking garage is now open at the twin brook metro station. we'll have a live look here at the metro west parking garage. it's got more than 420 spaces and officials say it provides better lighting and weather protection. >> the government shutdown is in its 7th day with no end in sight. house speaker john boehner says he sees no way out unless president obama is willing to negotiate. the white house objects to republicans' demands to stall health care reform for a year before they vote to fund federal agencies. and lockheed martin plans to furlough up to 3,000 workers today. >>> and the supreme court

okay, we have mike holland of holland and company talking about investing that money. i want to get to the cme and ira. give him that kudos. sandra talked about very specific things the traders are looking for right now, but you specifically, what are you watching in the next 12 hours? >> volume. sandra hit it right on the head. seeing of the traders come back the market and that is what you're looking for. we are seeing some of that in the energies, expects to see some coming into the metals as well. they do back away, unlike stock traders, they don't have to be invested all the time. much harder to move your portfolio trying to get a dividend rather if you will playing the futures market. the futures market traders watching the volume and very frankly w we're getting ready fr another event come january. it will be back to normal looking at day to day fundamentals, hopefully by the weekend. liz: january 15, that is part of the deal. a couple of calendar markers. we will keep the government running until then. okay. you take your victory lap. a buying opportunity. it h

so little companies found in holland, this will help $350 million speaker business go gung-ho.ications, the acoustic properties were very challenged, we can do that. >> bob olstein, noted value manager, comes on cnbc. he's been recommending your stock for a long time. he always said it's a growth stock but being valued -- do you think people recognize you have double-digit growth in these divisi divisions? >> i hope people realize that traditionally harman has been put in the bucket of traditional automotive axel, mechanical -- >> yeah. as if it's a, you know, guy that you make seeding or make doors. it's not like that. >> it's not like that. highly technology driven. 70% of work we do in software. all application engineering. all the modular software system. we're investing heavily in harman cloud. harman inside. so all the big data we can analyze in the cloud and give access to peer-to-peer in the car. so you're driving a car, i'm driving a car. we could be accessing realtime information and keep your systems current. so personalization in the car is the direction we are taki

hollande. the men were held for three years, and worked for a construction company. stay with al jazeera. >> kathleen sebelius on the hot seat, testifying this morning at a congressional hearing. >> there has not been a mass casualty here in the u.s. since 2001. that's not by luck. >> the head of the n.s.a. defiantly defending the spy agency. the general says gathering intelligence around the world is critical and helps to keep america safe from terrorists. >> the war raging in syria claiming some surprising new victims. children are being diagnosed with polio because they don't have access to adequate health

companies and have been held for three years. they've been thrown to an airbase in france and be greeted by an unpopular president francis hollande >> we are being invaded by aliens - not really. it's the 75th anniversary of orson wells radio adaptation of "war of the worlds" terrifying many people in 1988. we'll have a report from there later wednesday here on al jazeera. >> now, the 19th annual festival has kicked off in paris with a fashion show featuring masterpieces made of chocolate. they braced the catwalk, wearing designs by a world-famous chocolate maker. that's tonight's inside story. >> hello, i'm libby casey in washington. as the obama administration races to fix the healthcare.gov website, critics are turning up the heat. the latest issue, how many americans who have to pay for their own health insurance now

company. earlier the men arrived in the niger capital after being freed in northern mali. >> this freedom was accomplished in collaboration with president hollande. the kidnapping occurred three years ago and since then everything has been done to regain their freedom. >> the hostages describe their experience as a nightmare. at one point during their captivity they were filmed at gunpoint. their captors, al-qaida, accused france of stealing the region's uranium and demanded french troops leave afghanistan. by their primary demand was money. the hostages may owe their lives to the rebels' repotterre rerepd success. >> going to europe where roma are say they live in substandard homes. >> reporter: mariana likes to welcome guests with a coffee. but she's forced to serve it outdoors. inside the trailer she calls home there is barely space for her newborn twins. this is where she lives with her house and their four children. her hopes to be relocated to a housing apartment is quickly eroding away. >> they say housing is for italians, but i'm an italian citizen, too. it's not my fault that i was born a roma in a camp. i deserve a decent home. >> livi

hollande has announced the release on a state visit to slovakia. let's listen. >> i wish to express all my gratitude to the president who has succeeded in securing the release of our company. i am also thinking of the seven french hostages who were still being held. two are in --. one in nigeria. four in syria. i wish to say to them this simple message, do not give up hope. >> the french president also said the former hostages would return to france as soon as possible. the french foreign and defense ministers are to bring them home. speaking not long ago on french television, the grandfather of one of the hostages said they all seemed to be in good health. the men were abducted on september 16, 2010 in the town of our let. they were working for a nuclear giant. >> this was the home of danielle where they were kidnapped on september 16, 2010 by terrorists linked to al qaeda. five other people were kidnapped that night in the city. they all worked for nuclear giant areva. authorities say the companies could have done more to protect their employees. >> this kidnapping took place because employees were not protected. i am not criticizing, that is just a fact. >> the kidnapp

companies that transfer this data outside of the eu. >> looking at the divisions in europe. >> that is right. this is interesting, it is apparently if you go back to early this summer, francois hollande not want the agreement to go ahead. this was pending some sort of clarity, and apparently david cameron and angela merkel wanted those talks to go ahead, so they went ahead. this was interesting that "le monde" talked about that today. the other is how the nsa has chosen to respond. you are talking about 70 million french calls being recorded. collected is the term that the nsa is contesting. they are saying they did not collect 70 million phone calls. and they said they had a different definition of collection than other people, so i think they are getting down to semantics, and npr in the u.s. has been looking at this, and they are saying, look, it is the fight against terrorism. 54 attacks have been averted. it has been handed over to congress, but it is classified, and the nsa will not respond to requests from the national public radio in the u.s. or others when they ask for that. it is veiled in a cloak of secrecy. >> the nsa saying that they are not a very reliable source. >> th

company you have a budget. many households have a budget, you may not stick to it but they have a sense of how it's going. it is so remarkably boring, chris van holland has to talk about what they did. the president puts forward a budget every february, they're supposed to discuss this, it's so torturously boring, i had hair before this, when america's fiscal year begins, weird again, they are supposed to have a budget. that's the fascinating part, i will gives republicans the credit here, they have made this the sexiest topic, he's talking about procedure, unfortunately, the budget, this is a terrible thing showing the sausage being made on because it's so terrible. this is hard work. clearly you and i if we have to do a budget for america are going to disagree, and we have to figure out lots of coffee and chinese food ofigure out. that's what he says didn't map. >> let's hear from house speaker john boehner who spoke just a while ago. >> you've got employers all over the country who can't hire people who are cutting the hours of their workers is having a devastating impact. something has to be done. so my republican colleagues and i thought we shou

companies to keep the b.m.w.'s nd three-story mansions. let them cut out the pastries and put chris van holland in as speaker of the house. how does that sound? host: why do you think that would be a good move? caller: because he is level-headed. he's highly intelligent. and he does reach across the aisle and try to get things going. host: do you think that we'll see this again? we've had a couple of people say that we could see this again come early next year when those deadlines get, not only with the government opening or closing, potentially closing, and the debt limit as well, duppinge we'll see this kind of action again? caller: oh, yes, i do, unfortunately, because of the tight grip the young guns have in the republican party, unfortunately. but i agree about one thing. we can't keep living on a credit card. we can't keep living on the credit card. and the sooner we get this debt a d, the sooner that we have little more leverage and getting away from china. host: if you have to advise your legislator or the body at large, how would you make those changes? what would you like see happen s

that's right, this new american japanese company will be incorporated in holland. why are they moving to the netherlands? what's going on? let me read you part of that "new york times" article on the merger. reporter david gill it's writes -- quote -- "executives at applied materials highlighted a number of advantages announcing a merger recently with a smaller japanese rival. but an important one was barely mentioned, lower taxes. continuing quoting the "new york times," the mernlingsd company will save millions of dollars a year by moving not to one side of the pacific or another but by reincorporating in the netherlands. the article goes on to note that applied materials' tax rate twill will drop from 22% to 17% as a result of the merger. for a company with nearly $2 billion of profits in 2011 that amounts to a savings of about $100 million a year. mergers resulted in u.s. companies being owned by companies in tax haven jurisdictions like the islands, or the cayman islands are a new spin on the old inversion program and it's becoming an increasingly popular prac