deal here, john malone, the lib erty media chairman is now the leader of this 27% of charter, that weaspublicly need more consolidation in this industry in order to keep up with the times, to keep up with netflix, hulu, the satellite all been, they have stealing customers away from the cable industry. by getting bigger, you get a skirt -- you can exert more leverage. and was over programming, cbs wanted to raise the fees. the content companies have a lot of leverage over the pay-tv providers, and by getting figures, -- bigger, they can rebalance that. >> some big names involved, thank you as always. the potential deal with comcast, near a deal to buy some assets are charter -- from charter. hour, mark crumpton has all you need to know. >> let's get you caught up on where the markets are trading, we're seeing some moderation after that selloff at the start of last week. the big drop in stocks killed by -- madechinese economy by i slowing chinese economy. traders concerned about a slowdown, continuing to decline. ♪ ," whereis "money moves we focus on innovative alternative investments. th

and wea show before, went on at 7:30. they were supposed to go at 9:30. we went on until 9:26. i don't know. it is improv. my indian name is never shuts up, as you can tell. i am not concise. i tend to ramble. >> today's mystery meat? what other than meatloaf. ♪ ♪ >> it is 56 past the hour which means bloomberg television is on the markets. i am mark crumpton. let's get you checked up on what wall street did today. stocks rising today. they snapped the three-data client on the s&p 500 -- index.d on the s&p 500 dow jones industrial average up 90 points. 0.3%q composite index up 409 seven. rising consumer confidence higher than estimated, corporate earnings, helping to fuel the market today. 2013 marked a strong year for ipo's in the united's aides, from twitter to hilton worldwide joining the public markets. will that trend continue in 2014? our guest joins me in the newsroom. talk to me about the state of the market. >> looks pretty good. what i'm hearing from bankers is the pipeline looks even longer than it did last year at this time. we could see anoth

high, weas become so leave kids with $100,000 worth of debt.s are afraid of starting a family because of debt. >> you went to stanford. of also know the value higher education from an established institution like stanford. how you balance that? look at institution like stanford, they are wonderful institutions but they are small. there by choice very small. if you're small you can do things. is scale.ssing our students would make it to stanford. they would be left out. reaching people that would be left out of high-profile education can change the world. >> sebastian draughn at her next big thing summit. highlight wase seeing how tech can help the paralyzed walk again. we will see that next on bloomberg west. >> this is bloomberg west, i'm emily chang. another highlight from our next big thing summit was seeing how technology can make the impossible possible. xo bionics makes a robotic suit that helps paralyzed patients walk again. it is been on the market for over a year. it is rebuild dated patients. i spoke with their ambassador. he is paral

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and job opportunities for indigittous people, that will make a long term sustainable difference than weating a check. >> doing this for my family as well as myself as well as my people. >> reporter: people are split. >> we had a community based on family. now i haven't spoken to my aunties, uncles, cousins in the last four years. sad. >> reporter: meanwhile on the mine trucks operate 24 hours a day with no direct compensation going yet to those whose ancestors have lived here for centurcenturies before the crews arrived. >> now, one of the most popular cereal brands in the united states has given in to consumer pressure and removed genetically modified ingredients from its product. >> reporter: the self branded as america's favorite cereal, and cheerios is popular monday kids, soon it will be give another label, free of genetically modified organisms or gmos. general mills which makes cheerios has announced it's been making its best-selling cereal without gmos for the last several weeks. it will soon be available in american supermarkets. the company said it's a response to consumer dema

you know, barack obama, abut as weas -- about as well as anybody. is the core of the person who sits in the white house more like a de blasio than he has been able to show as president of the united states? >> i think that, he is some one who cares deeply about the issues that i raised earlier. if you go back to -- through out his political career. activities and rhetoric. how do we create an economy. people who are poor can work their way up. middle-class is growing, thriving. the central theme of his political career. i would argue he has done within the context. a lot within his presidency to promote this. health care reform itself is part of that expanding pell grants is part of that. refundable tax credits. child care tax credit. all part of that -- certainly. his push for minimum wage. early childhood. for prekindergarten. is part of that. so -- i don't think that, he, he, i don't think there is any hidden agenda there. he has been overt about it. now the question is, can, can he persuade the congress to go along. i think on some of the key is

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for more wea columnist for the washington times.'s break it down in terms of why these people are now going for obamacare -- or the folks who were already insured now they are switching to obamacare. why is it? are they going for -- are they getting better premiums and better coverage? why is it? >> for a a lot of them they have been dumped off their plans because the employers are realizing it is easier to go ahead and let the -- let them pay the fines. but also a lot of people, the plans that they have, even though for a lot of them they like the plans that they had. they don't meet the requirements that are set by the obama administration under obamacare. so they too are losing their plans. obviously over the past couple weeks and months we are seeing improvements in the computer, into the website sign up for a lot of people. in other places like oregon they still have yet to sign up a sing tbel person into -- a single person into the exchange there. so there is still a lot of problems. but more and more people are signing up. bu

so i recommend finding a jacket store at some point between now and that's a look at the wea >>> with 32 in the north bay, that's pretty chilly. but we'll see highs rebounding as north winds pick up. that will dry out the air and warm things up. but look out for patchy fog. printy thick up towards and mid 60s close to to san francisco. and we are headed up to minneapolis. the 19th annual ice fest and breezy point, minnesota. it comes from our affiliate kare-11. ice fest is everything you'd expect from ice, fishing to snow golfing and hockey tournament on pelican lake. i mean, i think they need a few more layers than that. remember to bundle up and bundle up again and one more time on top of that. >> that is video from the year it was warm and like 20. thanks. >>> with all of these brutally cold temperatures to expected to continue into tomorrow, you can understand why even die-hard fans like green bay packers fans would want to stay home and watch the game on tv. but they almost didn't even get that chance because of decade old nfl rule that would have caused a tv blackout in a lot of

i want to acknowledge the four weas that we have decided will focus on over the years. limiting the achievement gap as a goal. that is what these four guiding principles are meant to help us to address. when it should be we -- when it should be immense -- means to an end game that we should be focusing on. the whole objective or goal of having our kids prepared to compete in the global economy is getting lost in the moment. as we talk about these four areas, i ask you to think about those two guiding principles that i just shared with you. the first area that we want to focus on as a task force is to increase access to early childhood education. increase the number of high- .erforming seats keep kids on track to graduate and i will go into each of these in just a moment. better job of increasing access to postsecondary pathways. that was just discussed in the i want tottee meeting share with you, we heard the task force members on the phone during the conference call. they felt technology should be a part of one of the four pillars that we discussed. we absolutely agree

but wea large family, always had something to eat. roosevelt came down to get my he went to a then work,in nebraska to but he had a little land of our grandfather's, and we always had something to eat fro. runningre no deer around in those days. here in chillicothe, ohio, i married, and i live in ohio, i have been married for 40 years, and so the deer are running rampant in ohio. we cannot have a garden here because of the deer. poverty could be erased if the deer were eradicated or sold to the farmers. take half of what they cost to charity. backed when i will -- back when i moved to macarthur, the farmers got a great big sum of money to keep them from having crop on the ground. they took that money and they oflt themselves big mansions houses, they took the money is that their kids to college, and so they still are doing that. they get paid for not growing crops. host: gladys, thank you for the call from ohio. let's take her second point about the farm subsidy issue, which is part of the debate that lawmakers will undertake when the

but wea large family, always had something to eat.velt came down to get my he went to a then work,in nebraska to but he had a little land of our grandfather's, and we always had something to eat fro. runningre no deer around in those days. here in chillicothe, ohio, i married, and i live in ohio, i have been married for 40 years, and so the deer are running rampant in ohio. we cannot have a garden here because of the deer. poverty could be erased if the deer were eradicated or sold to the farmers. take half of what they cost to charity. backed when i will -- back when i moved to macarthur, the farmers got a great big sum of money to keep them from having crop on the ground. they took that money and they oflt themselves big mansions houses, they took the money is that their kids to college, and so they still are doing that. they get paid for not growing crops. host: gladys, thank you for the call from ohio. let's take her second point about the farm subsidy issue, which is part of the debate that lawmakers will undertake when they try

rain arrives as wea(i÷0l head throughout tonight at coast.xt couple of days and climb back up for the weekend. you can see that in mountain view. have a fantastic day. >>> that's your latest weather. i actually do collect antique meteorology books besides the ones i've started with. >> i don't have anything from college. i can't remember college. >> that's a whole other story. >> i know, i know. thank you very much. let's turn to our countdown to sochi, the winter olympic games just 29 days away. and news of lindsey vonn's withdrawal has made headlines. it doesn't mean the u.s. team is out of the race. with lindsey vonn out of competition, all eyes on the rest of team usa to see who will rule the mountains in sochi. >> make no mistake, the united states ski team won 21 of 37 medals in vancouver and lindsey vonn won two. where does that leave us? with a lot of talent and even newer talent that will bust out in sochi. >> athletes reach speeds of up to 90 miles an hour, competition is always surprising. julia mancuso who came up in the sport alo