shows that it's important that we have these rules in place while congress and policymakers and the f.c.c. start to look at these more challenging topic. this is why you're getting pushed back from the broadband providers because they're worried about how title two impacts their broader services, not any potential violations which by in charge a few violations they lived under the past few decade. it's important we have the discussion about broadband policy but let he not give rid of it in order to have it. c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you by as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> a live picture from nashua, new hampshire for the final speaker coming up in the two-day republican leadership summit we've been covering in new hampshire yesterday and today. wisconsin governor scott walker will be that final speaker. we'll have his remarks here live on c-span and should be getting started shortly. we also should hear from the former governor of new hampshire and he'll speak first and then scott walker is expected to address

it is asking the f.c.c. to sell them. i-robot is running into fierce competition with as reason to merz. they are asking for the f.c.c. to block it saying i will interfere with telescopes. chinese smartphone maker turns 5 years old, xiaomi. it's number one after overtaking samsung. to celebrate the anniversary, it is launching a scale, a smart power strip, a smart tv, a smart home but not smartphones. is that the strategy for their global domination? joining us from beijing an early xiaomi investor. what is up? i thought they made phones. what about the phones? hans: cory, you know xiaomi is never about being a phone company. it's all about lifestyle. and i think emerge markets as well. you've seen a wave of new products coming out in the smartphone market will be users. cory: interesting that they would do this. i guess, again, this is selling hardware too. i thought that's what xiaomi have said is we're going to sell hardware with no margins. we will make it up by selling services and softwares later on. is that is port

that is seen as a sign the f.c.c. does not back the plan. yesterday five senators sent a letter asking the agencies to reject the merger. google is attempting to revolutionize the tech sector. the internet giant unveiled a new service called project thi. ordered through sprint and team mobile. google will charge $20 a month through features such as talk and text. and customers pay for the amount of data used every month. it can be used on any phone, tablet or laptop. >> president obama used his earth day platform to push for action on climate change. rising sea levels are threatening the see level and he spoke at the climate change small it. florida senator marco rubio questions the impact of humans on climate change a few shared by jed. >> this is not a problem for another generation. not any more. this is a problem now. it has serious implications for the way we live right now. stronger storms deeper droughts. longer wildfire seasons >>> the president said $25 million will be pumped into restoration projects at national parks, and every do

wireless service carriers are responsible for call routing and the f.c.c. is working with them to improve accuracy. this is part of a much larger conversation that is sure to continue. leon: now we are on storm watch tonight as scattered showers are heading our way for tomorrow. steve has a look at the time line. steve: you can see where all the action is located well to the west of the d.c. metro area. but this is going to be our big weather maker tomorrow. look across southern indiana and kent and ohio as this cold front approaches us, we are looking for thunderstorm as cross the immediate metro. it's not going to happen until the afternoon and evening hours tomorrow. look at the high temperature, once again the lower 70's. talk about the next seven days, a forecast you won't want to miss. alison: a utah tribal leader ousted after receiving gifts. she was removed from her post today. members of her tribal council say she improperly accepted a trip to the district and a signed football from the team. the red skin nasme has been a source of controversy and

frankly, my anticipation has been that you get the f.c.c. involved. as the first question i asked brian roberts when the deal was announced back in february 2014. nachlly, market power and broad band. market power and broad band. yes, the f.c.c. would they look at that? we knew they would. the d.o.j. they don't compete. >> they don't. what's amazing to me even during the time that the deal was announced, there's five more guys i can get programming from. hongsly, honestly, the events are overtaking the reason to block it. to me if it's justice and like the big bank deals, in the end it's the top guy at the d.o.j. and the top guy at comcast and everything else is a dance. >> the f.c.c. is more important. they were considering queening a hearing. by the way they never do that. they've got one guy on that whole hearing staff if the d.o.j. were the try you, they've got to get an injunction to stop st. deals unclear to me. we'll see, the point is there are certainly a lot of question marks around comcast to complete the transit actions. no break fee. of cou

that move means the f.c.c. n't think the deal is in the public's interest >>> the first project at its time take inmates and train them to be computer programmers, and do it with no access to the internet because it's against prison policy. jacob ward went behind bars for the story. >> reporter: this is home to some of the most violent criminals in the united states. san quentin holds serial killers, drug traffickers and 737 people sentenced to death. to get inside i signed a form that says if i'm taken hostage i will not rescue me. i gave up the cell phone. i got see something amazing. it's graduation day for a small group of prisoners, trying to join the technological resolution. the men serving 16 years for assault. >> and now return to a brand new world. a world full of apps and iphones and i don't know. >> perry, and 15 graduates is part of a first of its kind programme for the last mile. they learnt to make websites. there's one problem. >> this is a typical coding work station. but here is the thing. it's

i think the f.c.c. and d.o.j. have shown there are anachronisms when it comes to dealing with new technology and that kind of progress. mark: on wednesday, officials from the federal communications commission told both companies they were opposed saying the deal did not help consumers. they plan to call an administrative hearing which would have dragged the process out for months. the british trader blamed in the flash crash is still in jail. he has not come up with bail which was set at $7.5 million. we are learning more about the trader. in an e-mail last year to british regulators, he defended his rapidfire success has the benefit of a quick mind and that the trade secret we canceled were simply because he changed his mind not because he was engaging in illegal market manipulation. he has not spoken publicly since his arrest. but his former employer spoke to ryan chilcote in an exclusive interview. ryan filed this report about his conversation with the founder of the trading firm where he once worked. ryan: ther

alex: if the f.c.c. y are going to regulate internet companies, they've said us we're going to put off rate regulation to the side. but maybe the next f.c.c. says under title ii we can going to restrict how much you can charge for broadband. tom: are they rooting brian roberts? alex: depends who you ask. honestly, the big winner if this deal falls apart, there should be a ticker-tape parade for john malone. tom: who is the big loser besides mr. roberts? alex: time warner cable might be a loser. tom: what about disney and the rest of them? what do they have at stake here? alex: they're probably in the and winners. because the more distribution platforms -- this was your earlier point. netflix, hulu, amazon apple. they're all paying disney. they're all paying time warner. the more distribution platforms the more of these guys win. tom: and comcast loses? you can do this on monday. i actually learned something. brendan: he actually learned something and we couldn't get to google because tom was so fired up a

here in the u.s., the f.c.c. investigated google on similar complaints. it decided against taking any action. >> a new name in the race for president this morning. >> an american man said journey to the rain forest, why a song took him there and the people convinced him to stay. . >> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:51 eastern. another democratic has now entered the presidential race, former senator and rhode island governor lincoln chafey announced he is running for the white house. he is a former republican who became and independent and then a democratic. so far he faces hillary clinton for the nomination. >> china india and malaysia will double the area in the search for m.h.370 if the plane is not found by may. it's been missing since march of last year. we've been telling you about protests to raise the minimum wage. a seattle business owner is going far beyond $15 an hour, making the minute ma'am salary $70,000 a year. more than half of his employees will get a raise. we have more from seattle. >> it wasn't just another day at work at gravity

the f.c.c. has to sign off on it. >> they have to convince much more than just the skeptics. what might comcast do to try to rescue this deal? >> offer concessions, for example to shed comers or divest from key markets, for example such as new york or l.a. we don't know what concessions will be on the table. >> they might make it so they appear smaller to the justice department. what makes this different from any ordeal? >> it is the changing landscape. a lot of people are cutting the cord from cable and really the way people access content more and more people are getting streaming videos. the focus is on that broad band leverage. >> thank you. >> blue bell creameries is recalling all of its products over a listeria outbreak, saying the bacteria was found in ice cream made in two states. this recall follows a smaller one in march after contaminated ice cream was linked to the deaths of three people in kansas. >> looking for new ways to bring a fragile fruit to market. california is the nation's top strawberry producer. farmers are testing a robot they hope will make harvesti

the move had faced opposition from the federal communications commission. f.c.c. tom wheeler said in a statement today: the proposed merger would have posed an unacceptable risk to competition and innovation. comcast c.e.o. brian roberts responded in an interview on c.n.b.c. >> we respect their judgment even if, you know, we didn't get our case made the way we saw it and i do think it's best for us to move on and that's what we're doing today and we do it with, you know, genuine enthusiasm with the momentum of the company. >> woodruff: the deal would have put almost 30% of cable t.v. subscribers, and 55% of broadband subscribers under one corporate roof. and on wall street, stocks managed small gains. the dow jones industrial was up 21 points to close at 18,080. the nasdaq rose 36, and the s- and-p 500 added four. for the week, the dow gained nearly 1.5%, the nasdaq rose 3% and the s-and-p was up almost 2%. still to come on the newshour. the debate over using drones for counterterrorism; remembering the slaughter of up to 1.5 million armenians at the hands of the

policy issues that i think it's clear the real struggle and the conflict is overbroader authority of the f.c.cthat the rules are good and so it just shows that it's important that we have these rules in place while congress and policymakers and the f.c.c. start to look at these more challenging topic. this is why you're getting

in a statement today the department said the merger would have made comcast an unavoidable gatekeeper for internet-based services. and f.c.c. chief tom wheeler said it would have posedab un suprisk toivation. comcast, who spent $237 million to make this merger happen last year, walked away from it today, but another cable operator charter communications, is now reportedly in talks with time warner cable. >> pelley: anthony mason, thanks very much, anthony. next thursday marks 40 years since the frantic evacuation of the u.s. embassy in saigon. that ended the vietnam war for america, but to this very day vietnamese are still being killed by american bombs dropped long ago. we sent barry petersen to vietnam to find out more. >> reporter: these demolition experts are hunding leftover death, and they find it. a cluster bomb in a ditch another in a nearby field. america dropped three times as many bombs here as it did in world war ii. by some estimates as many as 10% didn't explode and are waiting to kill. duong tam showed us how dangerous it can be. "it's armed," he says. "if anyone picks it up, they can set it off." >> every