D. C. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to a beautiful Nations Capital today. I think its no exaggeration to say that today the biggest, most consequential decision, the one that will affect the most americans in the most immediate way is being made right here today in washington in the building behind me, the headquarters of the Federal Reserve where the men and women of the open Market Committee have been meeting. Mandy . Will today bring the first rate hike in nine years . That is the big question. In less than one hour from now the feds decision will drop. Where do policymakers stand right now headed into the big decision . Senior economics reporter steve laesm liesman is also in washington live. What are you hearing . I think its worthwhile to go back and say how did we get here . How do we go into a meeting of such consequence without really being sure whats going to happen. 50 50 on both sides. You heard at the top of the show some of the brightest minds are disagreeing. I
When, for a second year in a row, all of the performers nominated for an Academy Award are white. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. A little more than two weeks to go until the process of electing the next president begins with the iowa caucuses. That will be the first vote after more than six months of campaigning. Last night in south carolina, seven of the republican candidates took the debate stage. It was the Smallest Group of gop hopefuls yet, and it appears to be turning into a twoman race. The latest National Poll find donald trump with his strongest support of yet and he is followed by ted cruz and that set the table for tense moments between the two leaders. Weijia jiang is in North Charleston with more. Reporter donald trump and ted cruz shadow tood shouldertoshoulder on the the two leading candidates providing viewers with some of the nights most heated exchanges. If you become the nom
Arrives in china for a key visit with his biggest trading partner. Rival groups of soldiers in burundi are vying for control of the capitol. Pierre nkurunziza has condemned what he calls the coup plotters. But he says that he will forgive soldiers who surrender. There has been fighting around the state media compound heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard across the city, and independent media out lets have been closed. There is confusion, however. Al jazeeras malcolm webb is in the capitol. Reporter just a short while ago we heard very heavy fighting coming from over here from the area where the compound of the National Radio and national tv are. Understand that yesterday when the soldiers supporting the leader of the coup took key locations, they didnt force their way in they tried to negotiate their way in. But they failed to do that. So there has lately been heavy fighting there. There were forces loyal to the president who were heavily armed fighting back inside. The radio h
Arrived in rome. Hes meeting with pope francis in a few hours. What will be up for discussion for these two religious leaders. Aaron joins us now. Another tech Company Going public today. Its being described as the whats app of takeaway food. Just eat. Boy, have shares taken off. Heres a question. Is an online site really worth 2. 5 billion . Stay tuned . Were going to find out. Hello. Welcome to gmt. It is 2 00 p. M. In tripoli, lebanon, where the 1 millionth refugee from neighboring syria has been registered. It underlines the scale of the humanitarian crisis. Half of syrias population has been displaced in the war. Lebanon is shouldering the biggest burden. We are three years into this conflict and more and more are fleeing. 2. 5 million syrians have registered as refugees abroad. The actual known is unknown. It is thought to be much higher because many people havent registered. Many have fled to syrias neighbors. Lebanon have taken in the most. They have received only 14 of the fun
Cliff. Wall street, tripledigit gain, up 120 point on the industrial average. Banks in the lead, 13,353. Last trade in the Dow Jones Industrial average on volume which was modest. Nasdaq composite up and 3053 and the s p 500 picks up 16 points, better than 1 on the Standard Poors at 1446. Markets continuing higher at the close. Are there more gains ahead . We bring in right now Liz Ann Sanders from Charles Schwab and alan gael and eric steuben from russell investment, darryl pearl from epoch investments standing by who will give us a reaction to the oracle earnings once those numbers cross the wires. They should be coming out momentarily. Heres the number to look for, 61 cents a share on earnings is what were expecting on revenue of 9. 02 billion. As soon as we get the numbers well see how oracle is doing. Liz ann sanders, deal or no deal . Whats your take on all of this . Well have a deal. In the first step of the process and then whatever the makeup of the deal will become more impor