Especially to those most in need. Show your mercy to the weakest among us, the children, the poor, the elderly, the homeless. And on this national day of prayer, may all your people be mindful among us. Send your spirit upon the members of this peoples house that they might be inspired to do what theyre able, to care for those whom you have favored from biblical times, the powerless and most vulnerable. Bless us this day and every day. May that is done be for your honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Kildee. Mr. Kildee i ask all present to join us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The spea
Begin. Ice cold in the snow. How could it be so . It came without thanks. It came without packages, boxes or bags. It look like the grinch stole christmas. Retail sales down 1 . Not having a positive impact on the stock market. Down 183 points. How about the price of oil. Where are we now . That is within shouting distance of a six year low. Here is the story. Commodity prices are falling. Copper is leading the way. The price of gas continues to fall. Down another penny overnight. 338 year ago. Down 128 gallons. Here is the key indicator. Interest rates. It bounced back. Historically, a very low level. Our go to guy on commodities. Eric, i want to stay away from technical details. What is your evidence that prices are falling . I am not claiming deflation is in play. Prices fall too hard, too fast. Hearing people talk about deflation. Leading in some air out of the bubble. That is a good thing. The grinch as the analogy. I look at it this way. The grinch comes around at the end of the
Total death toll now eight. Final individual pried from the first car just today. What do you make of this change . We understand this is the sum total of the deaths here . Does that surprise you . Surprising it is considering the speed of the train. Were very fortunate with that regard. Still it is eight too many. We have technology to prevent this and it just wasnt implemented. Gerri right. We talked about that a little bit last night, the positive train control that has been implemented in some parts of the track but not this particular stretch in that hard left turn that this train tried to negotiate and did not. Alan i understand we have you available now. This is the announcement today. So surprising. Theyre now eight deaths. Taken a while to get the total number together. What do you make of this news . Well, and that. David this kind of destruction i can understand how one of the bodies took a while to recover. Thank goodness we now know where everybody is. We have accounted fo
That. I was raised overseas. My father was with a. I. D. In east asia so actually grew up in asia. Really didnt spend any time in the state states until i can gea Good High School as a teenager. I think having, with that background, the idea of having a conventional career and based in the United States was little hard to imagine. With my brother, also, jon lee anderson. We both tried to figure it how we could get back overseas and stumbled into journalism as a way to do that. John lee and i get two books together, inside the league which sherman mentioned, and war zone which was an oral history from five different wars taking place around the world in the mid 1980s. And in the years since then, along with writing books, both nonfiction and novels, ive written i write primary for the New York Times magazine. Usually in war zones but almost always internationally. From the time i spent in the middle east, what comes up, when you of her have an insult conversation with somebody in the mi
Morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill. Many of you may be in mourning this morning for the twinkie. Or the snowball. Or the ding dong or the hoho. You know, they overlook snowball. That was your snack of choice . And . And, its good. Its like sugarized rubber. The point is it was fun. You havent had these recently until this morning . Not since i was 11. The memory was better. I didnt realize this was chocolate on the inside, actually. The company that made them is going iowa way. It is. A lot of people understandably very upset about that. Not sure whether all the twinkie jokes will have to go away as well. I think they can stay. Later, theres a lot of hard news to cover this morning, including whats happening in the middle east. Rockets are flying between gaza and israel, with israel expa expanding its air assaults targeting gazas infrastructure. Hamas is firing back with new longer range weapons, reaching jerusalem for the first time. Weve got reporters standing by live in tel