and mark johnson's new venture in space. our reporters, michelle quinn of the san jose mercury news, and quentin hardy of "the new york times" this week on "press: here." >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. when i heard serial entrepreneur mark johnson was using government satellites to spy on plants, i assumed he was trying to figure out what the chinese factories were up to or maybe he was somehow involved in the iran nuclear deal, but it turns out he's really looking at plants. his latest company is actually looking at plants from outer space. wheat and corn and soybeans, trying to figure out what grows where and why. mark is incredibly well thought of in the world of inventors and entrepreneurs. when elon musk can only invite a few friends to a rocket launch, mark is one of them. joined by quentin hardy of "the new york times" and michelle quinn of "the mercury news." let me ask you the question everybody asks you. that's, why are you looking at wheat plants? they don't seem like they do anything interesting. >

mark johnson helps to keep them out of this kind of trouble says resources and help are spread th thinly, too. >> the educational system and support system and programs don't have nowhere to go. they hang in the because there's nothing here and nowhere for them to go. >> reporter: derrick ward, news4. >> we're getting new information from d.c. police about the progress they say they've been making against gun violence. each police district in the city has a crime suppression team. since june, officers on those teams have made 788 arrests, recovered 79 guns and 23 all-terrain vehicles which have been linked to crime in the district. officers on the suppression teams have also seized hundreds of pounds of drugs since june. police want to remind that you can bring up concerns about crime in your neighborhood at monthly citizens advisory council meetings. >>> breaking news out of texas tonight. a man is under arrest for killing a sheriff's deputy at a gas station near houston last night. the harris county sheriff's office just made that announcement. they hsuehshan non miles you saw there wa

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mark: cory johnson joining us live from senator scott. k you so much. -- live from san francisco. betty: i still need to get mark crumpton on twitter. a good time for me to leave. mark: coming up in the next half hour, we will take a look at how the nasdaq is entering the pre-ipo market. ♪ mark: welcome back to the bloomberg market day. i am mark crumpton in york, thank you for staying with us. let's get straight to your top headlines at this hour. scott, who has been overseeing george soros is orton for the last four years will leave at the end of the year two start his own hedge fund firm. -- overseeing george soros's fortune for the last four years. that will make his firm one of the largest hedge fund startups ever. he will continue to advise the soros family after he leaves the investment strategy and asset allocation will be managed by the existing committees of robert soros. john kerry is in singapore where he called for the countries negotiating a major pacific rim trade deal to overcome their differences. he said that the so-calle

mark: cory johnson joining us here in studio from san francisco here thank you. look at some of the top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal at this hour. the obama administration is drafting nations into omniscient china and other countries for hacking computer networks are the measures have not and finalized. there is concern sanctions could lead to more online attacks. to itsnomy plunged lowest level since 2001. they fell more than 26%, blamed on a widening corruption crackdown by the chinese government. puerto rico recovers from a tropical storm. heavy rain and high wind on friday. advisors were scheduled to give the governor a restructuring plan yesterday. he is now giving them until continue witho the postal. $72 billion. now to politics, a new poll shows bernie sanders has narrowed a gap with hillary clinton in iowa. bernie sanders trails clinton 37 to 30% now among likely cost go -- likely goers. bernie sanders spoke about his growing momentum on cnn. mr. sanders: we are generating enormous enthusiasm or people do not understand why the middle-class of

mark: cory johnson joins us. you are here in studio.lf driving cars, are these maps the key? the battle over maps is important beyond the self driving cars. it's a crucial piece of the deciding factor. what you see with car companies and the extraordinary alliance bmween bmw and audi and spending money on mapping is they feel they have to have over maps and not use what's being offered to them for free from google and apple. on fact that they will spend something that consumers want -- might -- what consumers might want to sit down and have your favorite iphone experience on whatever, the fact that the carmakers are trying to imagine a different future that will cost them literally more than a billion dollars says to me that they are worried about losing business to google and they are worried about losing business to apple. they don't trust those companies as partners. mark: if they are concerned about losing business, does that mean we will see more of these map consortiums? cory: there aren't that many out there. google has there's a

. >> how, mark, did lyndon johnson amass this -- this encyclopedic knowledge of the congress?ow it worked?

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. >> how, mark, did lyndon johnson amass this -- this encyclopedic knowledge of the congress? how it worked? he knew how the senate worked. he knew each and every member. he knew what they needed. he knew what they didn't want anybody to know. the part that i find just wonder russ is how in a day could he do what he did and how did he come to know so much about each and every member? >> you nailed it. he had this encyclopedic knowledge of not only the legislative process, but of the people around it. hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. he could read you. he knew it moerveated you. he knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. he got that. and he used it. he exploited it. there's an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. and you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. there was no doubt who was applying it. johnson was the master of that and he used

bust -- "fromm to which is the way you change the headline by adding the question mark at the end. cory johnsonr editor at large on the west coast. we will take a quick break. the alleged ringmaster of the libor rigging scandal found guilty of eight counts of conspiracy to manipulate that rate. 14 years in prison is his sentence. ♪ matt: the first trader tried in the libor rigging scandal was found guilty today. tom hayes was convicted in the u.k. of eight counts of benchmark to rig the rate and sentenced to 14 years of prison. susie joins us from london. today, onege day that we've been waiting for about six or seven years now. the libor scandal was one of the big scandals of the crisis. the library was really the start of all of this. and tom hayes has become synonymous with the wrongdoing that emerged. he was found guilty today and to get 14 years in prison was a real indication for the regulators and prosecutors who have been pursuing this case. pimm: are there any others that will stand trial? are others. it cannot say much about them because of restrictions. that the a to say prosecutors

. >> rose: next thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of president lyndon johnson's signing of theg rights act. doris kearns goodwin knew johnson well. her biography of the president, "lyndon johnson and the american dream," has been just reissued as an ebook. we talked this week about the passage of the law and about the president she knew. >> their cause must be our cause, too. because it's not just negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. >> how i wish he had been alive now because i think what america is finally realizing, you listen to the speech, you know what produced the voting rights act, medicare 50th anniversary, app latch cha, he created the foundation of our social and economic life today and people are realizing it and he's not alive to hear it? what kind of america did he want to make? >> i think from the time he was young, you know, he taught at this mexican school in cotula, texas, and speaks about it in the voting rights statement, and he saw kids, he said, who can feel in their faces the prejudice they we

secretary johnson: it has been, and in my view, it continues to be a black mark on what this countryould be about and we want to close it. but in addition to that, the numbers are getting so low, it really does not make fiscal sense to keep this usually expensive facility opening keep this hugely expensive facility open in cuba. we ought to have a plan for transferring the remaining detainees to the united states with the appropriate protections consistent with law, and those that can be prosecuted being prosecuted. we should continue with that. eventually, those that can be transferred should betray them's appropriate assurances. it is -- should be transferred with appropriate assurances. it is an issue we have to grapple with. it is costing us aliens of dollars to house these people in cuba. -- it is costing us millions of dollars to house these people in cuba. i know this president is committed to closing guantanamo bay, and does not want to leave that to his successor, whomever that may be. steve shapiro: thank you, mr. secretary. steve shapiro. many people here know that i work

cory johnson and san francisco. mark, that is it for me. the the company cashed in on yesterday's market swing, doug joins us coming up in the next half hour. ♪ mark: welcome back to the "bloomberg market day," i am mark crumpton in new york. thanks for staying with us. to the top stories. stocks are on the mend today after monday's global selloff that raised $2.7 trillion -- erased $2.7 trillion for the value of worldwide equities. more pain could still be on the horizon. spoke with mike mobius. >> we had a down more because people are so pessimistic and so much money has been withdrawn from the market that sellers are forced to sell. people are running funds, being forced to sell into this foreign market except those who are sitting on cash. we probably have more to go before we see stabilization. volatility is tremendous. commodities, and emerging-market guarantees all expanded gains after china's decision to cut interest rates. more signs of growth in the u.s. housing market. the case-shiller s&p index says home prices in 20 american ci

mark: i will see you at the bar. cory johnson from san francisco.p on the bloomberg market day, history is made on the shores of lake michigan as jason day wins the pga championship in record-breaking fashion. betty: it was not an easy journey for him to the top of the golf world. his hard-working story is next. -- his heartbreaking story is next. ♪ betty: after a string of near misses, jason dakin finally call himself a major pga championship. par setting ar new record for the lowest score ever in a golf major. mark: it has not been an easy road for jason day. we look at this weekend's championship. talk to us about some of the challenges jason day faced. >> he is not what you consider to be a typical golfer. he did not come up through the e kata mays was not classically trained. he came from a rough and tumble beginning. he said they grew up kind of poor and his father died when he was 12 years old of cancer. jason himself said that threw him off the rails. 12 anddrinking at age getting into fights and basically getting into trouble and then he fo

johnson robb. larry levenson and mark uptegrove on the battle to pass medicare and medicaid. and why are president johnson succeeded where others failed. after that, recordings between lbj and his aids who talk about the politics and strategy behind the bill. at 10:00 p.m., the medicare bill signing at the harry s truman presidential library in independence, missouri. including remarks from president johnson. and former president truman. all of this tonight on american history tv on c-span 3. the c-span cities tour visits literary and historic sites across the nation to hear from local historians and civic leaders every other weekend. this month with congress on its summer recess, the city's tour is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. lincoln nebraska where we'll look at the design of the state capit capitol, the past and present of the first people's of the plains and we'll talk with petic aree c rickets. that starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> wendy davis spoke for more than 10 hours during a 2013 filibuster opposing a texas law on abortion clinics. she was the

cory johnson in san francisco on cisco. i'm signing off. markl about the emerging markets given the ramifications in china. china. to circle back to will the international monetary fund snub the yuan? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage, all of taylor swift's music videos, interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. mark: welcome back to the bloomberg market day. let's go straight to your top headlines at this hour. two of the biggest european banks may pay tens of millions of dollars to settle u.s. investigations into so-called dark pools. credit squeeze in talks with the alleged -- over alleged wrongdoing. t suisse.s wee macy's will look for the discount shopper, opening off-price stores called macy's backstage. we will have macy's backstage a separate company, a separate business. we will all be buying off-price merchandise and taking discontinued merchandise and transferring it to these stores. we are opening six this fall season to compete with nordstrom rack

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this thursday marks the 50th anniversary of president johnson signing a landmark voting rights act.ne has a right to vote. there's a battle still raging in the halls of congress over this legislation. after the supreme court gutted key provisions of the fact 2013. democrats are now using the anniversary to push several bills they say restore key protections. let's turn to perry bacon. perry, thanks so much for being on. when the supreme court gutted this, they said, well, you know what? congress can fix this now. congress can sort of flex their muscle, if you will. the house-led gop has not moved on it. there are republican members some quite conservative like jim sensenbrenner that want to move to restore the basic protections in the voting rights act. what is the issue at hand and how do you see it playing through congress? >> i don't see this moving through congress, luke. we have had now two years since section 5 of the voting rights struck down and congress has not moved. you mentioned sensenbrenner. he is pretty much alone. particularly in the senate. there are very few republ

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johnson. >>> japan marks 70 years since the end of world war ii. was commemorated during a silent moment in tokyt. they paused to remember the service members and thousands kills during that war. later today, japanese politicians delivered an offering the at a tokyo shrine honoring the dead. >>> new threats out of north korea this morning. the country says it will attack the united states if the u.s. decides to conduct military drills with south korea on monday. kathy yo novak is in seoul following this story. there is bluster out of pa. >> these ones are known as freedom guardian, a north korea state tv says that they are provocative act of war and is demanding they not go ahead. take a listen. >> translator: the united states should and the if the freedom god is executed, then the mainland won't be safe. we are not the same military force from before. we have become stronger and we were able to fight against united states. if united states wants their mainland to be safe, then the freedom guardian should stop immediately. >> reporter: what is ult

johnson is in the white house. there are a lot of people in sell marks alabama and elsewhere that are trying to get things pushed. it's that pressure from the bottom up. king is like the pressure valve. he is the thing that johnson goes through where that mass pressure comes up. it is that pressure really driving this voting rights thing. and linden johnson is pushing it from washington and he's being pushed along i think, gladly. not necessarily how the things occur. he's very concerned about violence because he doesn't want to send in the army but he's willing to send in the army, if necessary. host: let's go forward to when he has to get this through the legislature. a quick snapshot of lbj's relationship with congress. mr. germany: there are a lot of conservative democrats that do not want voting rights or civil rights act. to get this passed, he need a lot of republicans to support it. so whatever bill comes through, got to have the support of republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. we will listen to everett dirksen later on. it is johnson's ability to know who does what in congress that gets

question with myself, should i go question mark as i redid my time and a lot of people in my class, my peer group who were very supportive of president johnson and they were all for it, but let the other guy go but that really did something to me and as a hospital corpsman, i had a comradely with the marine corps under ticonderoga and i put all these things together and on top of that i met a young woman, and we decided to get married. that's patty. we decided to get married, it it was a question of waiting for me to come back with patty possibly be in the widow at age 22 and we talked about that, we had a lot of pro and con discussion about it with friends and family and we made the decision. i got married in my dress

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. >>> thursday marked the 50th anniversary of president lyndon johnson signing the voting rights actf joining president owe pa ma, congressman john lewis and attorney general lynch in commemorating the anniversary. before the president spoke about the vra he shared some words about congressman lewis who was brutal ooised on the edmund pettis bridge in 1955, at the civil rights event we now know as bloody sunday. >> i love john lewis. and i don't know where he gets the energy, where he gets the drive what stores of passion, he's still labeled to muster. after fighting the good fight for so long. >> lewis' leadership was pivotal on that brimming. his contributions did not cease in 1965. jon lewis is not some icon. he's an active, accountability and engaged today as he was five decades ago. during the '70s lewis registered millions of voters and in 1981 he was elected to the city council and since 1986, lewis represented georgia's fifth congressional district in congress. he's a "new york times" best selling author and subjected to brutal physical violence in an effort to access the mos

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>>mark: he arrived in sacramento last report joined by his parents a fellow americans hope take down a man carrying a handgun and an ak-47 on sunshine last friday sacrum and mayor kevin johnson a homecoming parade for the three american heroes. >>mark: he is undergoing treatment for a military hospital in germany because of the attacks. >>darya: do not use your bacon until you see this story more than 2 million lbs. of turkey is in recall economic people sick will say which products are affected does the customer is the sick after eating at a chipotle in southern california will tell you exactly where happen. >>mark: body was recovered over weekend is not and is the seventh person to die hard to fault of the lawn of the northern california coast 57 year-old was to cover saturday at the coast the pleasanton man was reported missing by the drive and park on friday. >>darya: dozens of customers complain they got sick the restaurant where happened is in simi valley was closed for one day after the opera which was last week about 60 customers and some 10 employees said the concept some workers are still not been met with to get back to work. >>michelle apon: these temperatures re

question with myself, should i go question mark as i redid my time and a lot of people in my class, my peer group who were very supportive of president johnson and they were all for it, but let the other guy go but that really did something to me and as a hospital corpsman, i had a comradely with the marine corps under ticonderoga and i put all these things together and on top of that i met a young woman, and we decided to get married. that's patty. we decided to get married, it it was a question of waiting for me to come back with patty possibly be in the widow at age 22 and we talked about that, we had a lot of pro and con discussion about it with friends and family and we made the decision. i got married in my dress blues. >> frank mcadams were you supportive of the war when you volunteered in the marine corps question. >> i was very supportive of it, so were the members of my class, the 42nd officer candidate class. mike class lost 44 killed over there. i often wondered what some of those young men could've done for their lives how they survive. >> how long were you over there. >> 12 months and 23 days days. >> what did you learn? >> i l

>> sreenivasan: pbs marks the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act this week by premiering a new film: "jfk and lbj: a time for greatness." >> back in washington, lyndon johnsonathered all those who would fight for the bill in congress and they took their lead from lbj. don't accept amendments that will weaken the bill, stand the way all the way through. it will be jack kennedy's civil rights bill or no bill at all. tune in this tune in this tuesday at 9:00 pm. >> sreenivasan: the largest wildfire burning across drought- stricken california has doubled in size in the past 24 hours. the fire in lake county, north of san francisco, has burned 47,000 acres, destroyed 24 homes, and threatens 5,000 more. the fire is only five percent contained, with almost 2,000 firefighters still battling the flames. italy's coast guard has rescued another 1,800 migrants from africa and syria crossing the mediterranean sea. rescue crews found five dead passengers on the over-crowded boats. italy has received 90,000 mediterranean migrants this year. in france last night, 200 migrants hoping to cross into the u.k. broke through security fences at the entrance of the eurotunnel. fre

it's time to savor >>> on august 6, 1965, president lyndon johnson signed into law the voting rights act markinge greatest triumphs of the civil rights movement. finally there was a law to combat the poll taxes and procedural twists used to bar minorities from our democracy. the victory wasn't the end of voting discrimination. 50 years later lawmakers are finding new ways to keep people from the polls through voter i.d. laws, reduction of early voting hours, and voter role purges. it's been half a century and the fight is far from over. reporter at "the nation questions and author of "give us the ballot." i love the book. you know this because i think it's very important -- >> the first blurb in. >> i read it cover to cover. help us through the book here so folks know what is the current landscape, the world of voting look like for americans right now? >> well, it's deeply unnerving that 50 years after the passage of the voting rights actuary having a new debate about voting rights and voting rights are under attack. you look at the last four years following obama's election and all these states

[applause] >> president obama on thursday marking the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. president lyndon johnson signing the voting rights act into law on august 6, 1965, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. today on c-span, we would like you to tell us what you think about the voting rights act. is it still needed 50 years later? should be updated as the president suggests it be considering some of the state's voter id laws and the supreme court decision from a couple of years ago? the numbers are on your screen. let us know what you think about the voting rights act today. of course, you can always tweet us and you can join the conversation on facebook. many of the calls to update the voting rights act come from the various states attempting to an active voter id laws here it -- laws. in 2013, the supreme court effectively striking down what am said was the heart of the voting rights act of 1965 that freed up nine states, mostly in the south, to change their election laws without advanced federal approval. that was the part of the voting rights act that the supreme court acted on. this

the votings rights act was signed into law by president lyndon johnson days before the riots in 1965. that law had been gutted. 1965 marked significant steps toward immigration reform. immigration reform which opened the doors to an influx of immigrants from latin america and asia that has to answer formed california and the nation as a whole. >> we saw those racial tensions arise in the 1992 los angeles riots. thank you for your perspective on this important historical moment. >> attorney general loretta lynch will be in pittsburgh as part of a national community policing tour intended to highlight innovations in policing to create trust between officers and their communities. >> saudi arabia's foreign minister meets his russian counterpart in misco to discuss the ran nuclear deal and war in syria. >> a meteor shower tonight, it will be visible for the next few days. the best time to see it is right before the sun comes up. >> unrest in ferguson, affecting businesses. we're live with how they're dealing with the protest. >> millions of gallons of write orange water filled with chemicals in colorado now spreading to other

>>mark: was joined by his parents the spencer's on a balanced lotto's pelted down manicuring handgun and ak-47 on the french high-speed train last week said lemaire kevin johnson's is planning on coming parade of all three americans and one treatment for injuries he suffered in the attack. >>mark: a suspect in the train attack is not been charged with terrorism the prosecutor said 26 year-old was charged overnight he has denied terrorism plans the system upon of babel weapons and decided to allow passengers to the prosecutor said the suspect was a video of himself from the small was before the attack and even though he claims he was homeless he used a first- class ticket. >>darya: victim is from thailand was icing on lombard street when to muggers stole his camera one of the shot him in the shoulder and the other two or red sedan and the car was spotted a some time later merging eastbound on to the bay bridge police and the chp follow the car across the bridge and into emeryville the chase eventually ended in 1000 block of 16th street in oakland sits the arrested one suspect immediately the other was taken into custody about an hour later word of the attack spre

johnson called the right to vote "the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice." president obama markedthe occasion today by hosting civil rights leaders, including attorney general loretta lynch and congressman john lewis, at the white house. half a century later, he said, voting rights are still at risk. he singled out a 2013 supreme court decision that allows 15 previously-monitored states to change their election laws without federal approval. >> in practice, we've still got problems. on the ground, there are still too many ways in which people are discouraged from voting. some of the protections that had been enshrined in the voting rights act itself have been weakened as a consequence of court decisions and >> ifill: for more on the significance of today's anniversary, we are joined by kareem crayton, a voting rights scholar and consultant, zoltan hajnal, professor of political science at the university of california, san diego. he's co-author of a recent report on voter participation. and, imani clark. she is a student at prairie view a&m university, a historically black college

this week marks the 50th anniversary about a landmark achievement of the civil rights movement. it was on august 6, 1965 when president lyndon johnsoned into law the voting rights act as reverend martin luther king rosa parks, and now 14-term congressman john lewis looked on. this is an excerpt from johnson's address to congress that day. >> this act flows from a clear and simple wrong. it's only purpose is to right that wrong. millions of americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. this law will ensure them the right to vote. the wrong is one which no american in his heart can justify. the right is one which no american true to our principles can deny. amyjuan: president lyndon johnson speaking 50 years ago on august 6, 1965, just before he signed the voting rights act into law. the law has been under constant attack ever since. just two years ago, the supreme court struck down parts of the measure in a case called shelby county, alabama v. holder when it ruled states with histories of voting-related racial discrimination no longer had to pre-clear changes to their voting laws with the federal government. one mon

lyndon johnson called it a triumph for freedom. and marked the end of poll taxes and literacy tests. they be voting and everything else. if you don't stop them and i think you ought to be paying social security to be a citizen. if you are getting jobs on the side and not paying in social security i don't think you ought to be able to vote. that's my opinion. host: thank you very much for the call. another viewer saying, what i did see was organized groups trying to stop people from voting by challenging their status. we covered one of them as a processor from indiana university said he weighed in on the issue. part of c-span's video library. here are his thoughts. >> there are surveys of non voters that have been done. the problem is finding causation between lack of a photo id and not going to cast the ballot of the because people will say, well, i didn't vote because i didn't have an id but i also wasn't registered. is that a person who is not voting because they weren't registered or not voting because they don't have an id. even if you gi

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johnson. this is from washington journal. it's an hour. >> in july medicare marked its 50th anniversary. here to discuss that, gale wolinski. served from 1990 to 1992. and dr. robert barrenson. served from 2000 to 2001. thank you both for being here. i want to show viewers and you what the president lyndon johnson had to say 5 years ago when he signed this legislation into law. take a look. >> there are more than 18 million americans over age of 65. most of them have low income. most of them are threatened by illness and medical expenses that they cannot afford. until this new law, mr. president, every citizen will be able in his productive years when he's earned to ensure sim hefl against illness in his old age. this insurance will help pay for care in hospitals and nursing homes or in the home. and under a separate plan it will help meet the fees of the doctors. now here's how the plan will effect you. during your working years the people of america you will contribute to the social security program a total amount each pay day for hospital insurance protection. for example, the average

mark: votes on the third bailout today while colleagues in germany dragged their heels. welcome to "countdown," i'm guy johnson. caroline: we have to talk through what the market did yesterday because we started to see a little bit of relief. guy: let's show you what's happening with the s&p overnight. quite a nice return to form. we have had a couple of difficult days, factoring in the chinese story, and the s&p has been knocked pretty hard. at 1/10 of 1% i don't feel does justice. atwere down really sharply one point and then we bounced back quite strongly. you can see it here -- this is the recovery we saw yesterday on the s&p 500. you can see it's lower as a result of what's been happening in china. equities back in form. the chinese devaluation is a storm in a teacup. veryine: central banks, rarely do they come out and have a press conference. or briefing that they were stepping in when the market is distorted, they say. an amazing quote the deputy governor. he says, "trust the market, respect the market, here the market, and follow the market." how much should the market now be fearing this chinese marke

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. >>> today marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the voting rights act by president lyndon johnsonong those in attendance. the act banned racial discrimination that prevented minorities from voting. quite a historic day. that is the cnbc news update. back to you, brian, i believe. right? jackie? >> 50% -- i guess 33% chance of being correct. you got it as always. >> i wasn't sure whether i was going to jackie or whether you were going to jackie. i can be jackie but that would be develop unfortunate for the viewers. >> no don't do that. >> let's go down to jackie deangelis at the nymex. where is the price of oil right now? >> good afternoon, brian. oil closing at $44.66. down about 50 cents on the day, so under that critical level of $45 a barrel. brent crude under $50 as wale. these are key technical levels that traders have been watching. they think downside pressure is going to continue even speedespite the weaker dollar today. something a trader pointed out to me saudi arabia issuing $27 billion in debt. when we talk about saudi winning the price war or having sustainability to

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marks ten years since hurricane katrina slammed into the gulf coast. and a writer for the "chicago tribune" is facing backlash for using the tragedy to make a point. whur's troy johnsonning us with the talk around town. columnist kristen mcclearly wrote an op ed saying katrina-type event could help, in fact, save the city. and your listeners said, un-unh, this is not okay. >> yeah, there's a real feeling that ms. mccreary was out of touch, especially at a time we are talking about the tenth anniversary of this devastating storm that affect sod many people in the city of new orleans and along the gulf coast. so, a lot of people expressing disappointment with her. she said, even the national association of black journalists said her comments, you know, they lacked news judgment. so, here what's she wrote in her original op ed. >> and your listeners and many other people across the country think that this was absolutely insensitive. >> absolutely. i actually had an opportunity to talk to some folks who were disjointed from new orleans. one woman said she wanted to speak directly to what this woman had to say in her column. >> well, kristen, what you said was never mind