New video of the moment the first shots were fired. And turning to sports clemson versus alabama in the championship game. They played last year with alabama winning 4540. Tonights game is on espn tonight starting at 8 p. M. Eastern. Those are the stop stories on this monday, january 9th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Were going to start this half hour overseas and the deadly attack against soldiers in jerusalem. A palestinian drove a truck into soldiers killing four and injuring nearly 20 others. The three female soldiers and one male were all in their 20s. Abcs molly hunter has more. Reporter the Surveillance Video showing that white truck barrelling into the group of soldiers crushing bodies. Young cadets on a sunday outing. I hear any soldiers shouting and screaming. Im just seeing a truck thats went on the sidewalk. Said side road and hitting the soldiers. Reporter you can see the tire tracks. This is where the truck hopped the curb, and ran from the crowd,
Walter isaacson will be with us. First were going to john harper. More companies are following in line, criticism from president elect trump. Our john harwood is in washington dc with more on that. In the age of trump, companies have learned very quickly if they want to get on the good side of a new president , they should tout those efforts and make them conspicuous and public. Very substantial investments. Now the Companies Say the investments were already planned. Trump was on twitter today saying the jobs announcements are making the case that even before taking office, he is doing what he calls big stuff for the company. He is hoping to build momentum. He could not avoid picking a moe money temperatu more money. House republicans want a border adjusted dax system for the Business Community that would tax imports but not tax exports. Donald trump says it is too complicated. He has a punitive tax on companies that take jobs overseas, and well have to see what the wrestling match is
Were going to see fits and starts trying to get through 20,000 when we eventually do we will pull back and try to make another assault and see if that holds, judge. I think the same pattern that weve seen playing out until now is going to continue to play out. And that is, buying dips, any significant dip, even fridays dip. If you buy the dip you get a chance to take profits quickly. The vix is still below 12 but they have been buying a ton of vix calls. Upside calls, in february though, at about this whats going to happen on friday, guys, but about where is the vix today . 1170. 1170 well call it. Lets call it 12. In february as you say, this is trade that weve just sort of gotten our eyes on. Investor have purchased 250,000 vix call options with the strike price of 21. Yep. So theyre looking at a double on the vix. They bout another 150,000 of those on friday last week. That it dont need it to double. As the vix was coming down. Right. But you get the point were trying to make. Its b
Inauguration for 2009. Still counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway stood by spicers landbasting of the media and his false claims about crowd size. Youre saying its a falsehood and theyre giving our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. Alternative facts are not facts. Theyre falsehoods. The chief of staff tried to explain why the administration is keeping up this fight. The point is not the crowd size. The point is that the attacks and the attempt to delegitimize this president. And one day. And were not going to sit around and take it. And despite his promises to release his tax returns after his audit, the white house says he will not make that information public. Donald trumps first week in office will include a face to face with britains prime minister. Theresa may arrives on thursday in the united states. Shell be attending a republican congressional retreat. Friday may meets with the president and reports say trump will work toward a new trade agreement with the
75, 52week highs, including stocks like alphabet, which well hear from later in the week. And including stocks like apple, which of course is in the dow. You take a look. Apple gets badmouthed a lot. They havent had the best run over the last several months, but looking at the past month, its about the fourth best performer on the dow, up better than 4 . Its doing okay today as well and just about at 52week highs. So despite the headlines about, oh, its over for apple, you know, whatever, peter i guess cant be right about everything every single day, at least not in terms of apples moves in the dow. Well, theres been so much focus today on materials and infrastructure, but tech is actually the second best performing sector this year, second to materials, but theres this sense in the market from traders that tech is the backbone of any infrastructure building that we could possibly get, perhaps besides roads and highway, and there is a question of which companies will stand to benefit w