a new survey by msn finds that more than a third of people believe their march madness bracket bets will have a better percentage return than their 401(k), so we thought, wow, that's a headline we need to get more data on for. is it your ncaa or your 401(k)? >> i think it's the 401(k)s or i could spend a couple dollars on a bracket and win some money. 45% in the msn survey said the improving economy says they'll gamble at least as much as last year and as you said 35% say march madness bets will outperform their 401(k). i asked people on twitter how much do you spend on bracket wagers. i thought it would be slanted to more under $10, i was surprised at more than 20% over $50 there. and then we kind of looked in to -- this is also from msn -- how many people will take off, 6% of people say that they'll take the first few days off, of course, that's tomorrow and friday when games start at 12:00 and there's four games at the same time. and 30% will spend three or more hours during work following their teams. now, challenger gray and christmas always comes out with this study, and they said

it could be conceived that you go on a conditional msn and give too want heart of the room and don't give to the other part of the room, it is difficult. a suggestion had been made to go with a waiver. i think this is a rather intriguing proposal, but the other issue if we are stacked with our principal is either we get the countries on board or we have to do something on a bilateral basis and this is europe delegation in town today is trying to launch a bilateral agreement whereby you would fully eliminate industrial tariffs and that would also be a possibility. >> any questions? i see you over there. how do you see relation with poor lateral negotiation of goods? >> it is very difficult as a practical matter and legal matter. the choices that you have are up front at the outset of the negotiation to obtain the membership of the entire wto that something would be applied on a non- msn basis. or you negotiate with the understanding that it will be applied which represents the huge free rider problem which has been discussed. on the good side, there is a fundamental difficulty and we

msn and msnbc sprang from microsoft. rupert murdoch, for all the criticism he gets, is invested in the media and innovation. mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily pu

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and to some degree the other portals like msn and aol where it comes from traditional wire services. so the starting point for a lot of political information in this culture is still the traditional media coming from reporters who operate under the traditional cannon and ethics and guideposts of journalism. there are more political voices talking about politics. sometimes they're not pumping original facts into the system, but they're definitely having the conversation around which facts are gaining meaning. so i think you're right that there's a multi-step flow to how people process information. it starts with maybe a traditional news organization, but then they turn to their favorite friends or favorite bloggers or favorite more partisan sources to figure out what meaning this has for my team. i mean, a lot of people approach the news as partisans. they care about one particular candidate or they care about one particular party or one particular policy, and they read the news with that as sort of filter. did my favorite idea or my favorite candidate do well yesterday, or did the op

with your industries go for that or would you actually try to look at ways to indeed not apply the msn principle which could be very challenging in the wto. maybe you could clarify a little on this point which i think is central if we want to move forward on the second negotiations of wto. >> i would like to come back to what robert has said. i thought it was quite interesting because he thought terrorists only serve the government and if it is so let's abolish them because they are supposed to protect the industry but if the industry considers the date doesn't need protection any longer, and i would really go for the argument, let's go for at coming back to the idea you see the idea of the unilateral kamarck, but the traditional view of the unilateral use this part of the room goes to zero and gives a gift to the other part of the room based on the other side. i could be conceived that to go on a conditional part of the room and don't give to the cover part of the room. it's a little difficult. a suggestion has been made by gary to go for yell models with a waiver. i think this is a r

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one thing michelle wie said on msn b.c. where we had this continuing focus on education nation and we are in our third year that you participated. she said we doubled what we spend in the last decade on public school education and testing shows it has not improved. >> we spend double, 18 odd thousand. >> what do we have to show for it? >> you got to step back. it is not just in america. repetitive job the getting automated out of existence and jobs where you don't have to be by your supplier or your customer move to the lowest priced part of the world and so we have to find ways to not only get people to stay in school and get degrees but make those degrees and skills they learn more relevant, not what the jobs used to be but what the jobs are going to be down a road. that is an enormous challenge and the conventional way government works is we throw money at all problems. what legislators do is vote money. they don't run anything. what they want to go to their constituents and say i got a computer for the kid in the class.

an msn survey shows 86% of people who plan to watch the games say they will check scores at work. 25%k hours. 20% for three to five hours. 11% will check more than that. unemployment consulting firms say employers could pay $175 million in wages while they are preoccupied today and tomorrow. >> look out! >> wouldwoo-hoo! >> yeah, cal gets slammed. cal was held to just 36% shooting for the game. so they are finished. but st. mary's is still alive. sni understand that president obama -- sni understand that president obama has -- >>> i understand that president obama has picked california to win. >>> let's take a look at the commute now. traffic has been improlinging this morning -- improving. but 880 is very slow. also looking at the commute on the san mateo bridge. that's better today than yesterday. it's moving well enough to the bayshore freeway. 17, the santa cruz mountains. this freeway has been terrible. very slow. this is the biggest traffic story so far. it's been slow almost all the way across the mountains. >> let's go to mark. >> hi, sal. we have plenty of cloud cover out the

the only play i found was raised in msn. they said it's cool. just look around and pick him to do but put a dress on him. so i wrote a play and we were rehearsing it with some of the black residents than an to the rehearsal comes the leader of the latino crew and his right hand. and these are some tough brothers. they killed to cover prisoners since they had been in jail and a con man said, we'll think they left their turf. what are we here to do? and the leader, rafael is looking like he's really upset and getting madder and madder after 10 minutes he looks and points right at me and it's like your essay, let me speak to you. i'm a kerry comes. and if this is a bad idea. he said we heard a rumor about what you're doing. i'm going to tell you something. you listening you listen to. that guy you're working with, he's not killing us. very. [laughter] i said rafael khaleda chu comment? he got in and he was great. another black history month play became a latin month history play. so white guy, 220 pounds, bodybuilder, but out comes up and comes bac

. >>> let's get more of the headlines out from msn nbc's thomas roberts. >> good morning, everybody. we start with the sold wloer who killed 17 afghan civilians. he's going to get a psychiatric examination. john robert brown to represents bales made the announcement friday. he also accused the government of hiding details from the defense team. they say he left his base and went on two shoots rampages on march 11. >>> more questions are being asked in the disappearance of a utah woman. investigators found susan powell's blood in the family home. there was also a hand-written note in which she expressed fear about her husband. this raises questions as to why he was never charged in d disappearance. he killed himself and his two sons at an estate in february. we'll have more coming up. >>> new jersey police are investigating whether the parent suicide of a 15-year-old boy is linked to reports that he was bullied at school. he died in his home by hanging himself on wednesday. hundreds of people gathered at a prayer service on friday afternoon to remember baldwin. >>> a cruise ship with

that we have not had anything like the mark of inflation that we would've had if our problems were msncoming to eyes grew monetary mechanisms in so-called effective or aggregate demand. second of all referrers to a ton of mr. word, which i haven't seen, which shows the importance of government expenditures for employment. i can't help but have the feeling that there is a bit of trading here on the obvious. sure, if someone the public sector, someone fires, somebody gets fired, the world is full of frictions and that person goes into the unemployment pool. it doesn't instantaneously get employed by the economy as a whole thinks tucson miraculous auctioneer who somehow has been able to figure out who should go where thanks to some auctioneer. so of course there are short run effects when there is a contraction of government expenditures. the loss of us in the economic expection hot models, not every day, not exclusively, but lots of us to have models that don't have money and then. and you know what? 's government expenditure drops, there's at least momentarily an increase of unemploymen

and i remember that trip giving me a sense of just how msn have grant this country was and how diverses and watching folks digging for clams in puget sound and watching ranchers and seeing our first americans guide me through a canyon in arizona. it gave you a sense of just what it is that make america special. and so when i went back to yellowstone with ken and my daughters, that was the first time they had been there and i'm standing there. i'm thinking not only about them and the first time they are seeing this but i'm also remembering back to when my grandmother and my mother had shown me this amazing country so many years before. and that is part of what we have to fight for. that is what is critical, making sure that we are always there to bequeath that gives the next-generation. [applause] and if you will work with me, if you will work with me i promise i will do everything i can. [applause] i will do everything i can to help protect our economy but also protect this amazing planet that we love and this great country that we have been blessed with. thank you very much everybody.

if you listen to msn dbc, you have to listen with the text.asically we are to look at is why is this law in effect? it is because of failed liberal policies have created an environment where people feel they have to pick up a gun and defend themselves. they will sit back and act like me? i did this? it turns into a war on women. it is clear evidence this is what it is. it is always a bigger picture. as i said, i have heard audio and believed the man did step out of bounds. he was wrong, but let's look at the bigger picture. to go in other news this morning, the front page of "the vegas review." the new york times says this about the tour. the president will be traveling to oklahoma to talk about approvals for a section of the keystone xl pipeline. going on the defensive of gas and health-care with a poll that shows with a question -- on the issue of gas prices from, post" hasshington this headline. back on the keystone pipeline, "the washington times" has this headline -- we will turn into that in our last half hour or so of today's washington

so let me tell you about brackets, the business of brackets. 85% of people in an msn poll say that the they're going to hmm gamble as much as last year. now, the reason for that is, obviously, they look at a 410 (k) and it's gone up three to five percent. they say i'll put five bucks in and i can win 500. i asked people on twitter how much do you spend and one in five actually said more than a hundred dollars. pretty interesting there. you know, under 10, 10-25, both the same. so people spending a lot of money. by the way, the odds of a perfect bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion. 6% say they're going to take the first few days off while 30% will spend thee or four hours doing work following the teams. employers will pay distracted employees 175 milli$175 million the first two days of the tournament. that assumes that every hour i'm working is an efficient hour. what happens if i watch the games, i'm excited. >> i sit right next to you, you are distracted all of the time. what they're paying you -- >> i haven't been fired yet. >> well, that's because they may not be paying attention becau

like you said, my name is felicia willems msn ethan was up with me a moment ago. i want to especially thank leader pelosi for giving me the opportunity to come out today and share our story with you and let you know how the affordable care act has helped our family. in 2006, my husband and i were very excited parents to be. he was a law student and as a manager for a major department store. we were newlyweds. we had just bought first home on the phone like we were prepared to start a family. i was going to continue working while my husband continued law school, but all of our plans changed when our son was born. ethan was born with a vascular tumor that required chemotherapy. at just six weeks old, he was put on oral steroids and tylenol with codeine. because he was so small, the doctors had to do surgery to insert an external cord into his heart to administer the chemo. the court had to be monitored constantly to avoid infection. ethan had three surgeries in multiple rounds of chemotherapy before he was one years old. he said needed around-the-clock care and i ha

what became clear at aol and yahoo and msn is that it is not that easy to rationally connect an internet service with somebody new makes movies, tv shows, magazines. it is not clear what that connection is. >> that deal is behind you. you are still a major magazine publisher. what is the future of magazines in the era of technology? why are you still in the magazine business? >> you hopefully read these every day. that is the content business. it is some entertainment. think of style and celebrity magazines. we have news at time to people with celebrity. all of those are strong with readership. magazine readership is holding up. it is migrating to the web. it is migrating to your tablet. if you pick up in the tablet in you canm and you click, read your magazine for free because you paid for it on that tablet. we put all of our magazines in that format and we were the first publishing company to do that. we see the future of magazines not just as printed words on the screens and in print, but also moving pictures. if you go to the sports illustrated app or the people app and look for the