What are we all here for today . Money. Show me the money tonight on panorama who wants to be a bitcoin millionaire . Pounds, euros, dollars theyre all currencies that we know and we recognise. We might think that we could all do with a bit more, but at least we know what money is and how money works. We keep it in banks and we spend it. But now theres a new currency which has got everyone talking, and it is very different. Its called bitcoin. Have you heard of it . I dont really understand it. But yes, i have heard about it. I do and i wish i had got in on it about a decade ago. That would have been quite nice. I know some people are making a lot of money and some people arent. I do also think they are a load of crap and its just a con. Ive been following bitcoin for the past five years, and even now, theres still a lot of confusion about it. For one thing, it might be called bitcoin, but there arent actually any physical coins. Or notes. You cant hold it in your hand. Bitcoin is a ne
On cnbc. Im sara eisen im wilfred frost well get to the Global Market picture in just a moment and Hurricane Irma and todays agenda first overnight a powerful magnitude 8. 1 earthquake striking off mexicos surn coast ea Southern Coast this morning this triggered a tsunami warning. The epicenter hit about 70 miles off the coast of chiapas, mexico multiple aftershocks have been recorded we continue to follow details of that story a bit of a market reaction. Peso getting hit on that lets get an update on hurm machlt the most p Hurricane Irma its still a category 5. Wind speeds decreasing to 160 Miles Per Hour t is headed for miami. The death toll has reached 12. Forecasters say irma has peaked in intensity and it is supposed to weaken slowly, but even a slightly weaker irma is expected to do serious damage a full report coming up as florida, georgia and the carolinas all brace for irmas arrival. This is the front page of all the newspapers with florida expecting a direct hit this weekend.
Increase in services for the homeless down here. The shelter will be open in the mornings during the week from 9 until 1130. Thatll go until about midmarch. They will offer coffee and a light breakfast. Right now johnson homeless shelter, shelter house. But last year Service Providers started a temporary emergency overnight shelter. They served more than 100 different people last year. So when this day shelter opens there will be three shelters operating in the area. Continues to be a hot button issue particularly in iowa city. Two years ago there were Homeless People sleeping in city hall to stay warm. Since then weve really seen an up tick in services. And this new day shelter will really be a first of its kind. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Nearly four dozen Iowa National guard soldiers are back in the state after helping flood victims in missouri. They were in high ridge, just southwest of st. Louis, floodwaters contaminated a Water Treatment plant. The soldiers he
There. In basketball age. He has been playing since he was 18, went straight from high school, skipped college. Long time. And, sue, speaking of aging, boy, this shift will just kill you. It is 4 00 in the morning what are we doing up. Speaking of aging. Yes. Oh, come on, you are not talking about me. Arent we all, every day. I am 105 and i think i look pretty good. We are showing ultimate Doppler Radar and it is green. We will pink up to the the north, that is not to bother us though. Luckily warmer temperatures came with the rain and still raining in the jersey shore, delaware beaches, around wilmington, delaware getting a break around dover but philadelphia were seeing steady rain rolling in and maybe some icy conditions, way up to even the north of the pocono mountains, new york city getting rain, so is northern part of the jersey shore. You can see much more on the way. So the shore, advice is have the rain gear with you. We are a full 10 degrees warmer then we were yesterday with
Against fat cat bankers. We will break it all down for you. And also bill go an hour contributing editor will be joining us. But first, ending the year in an appropriate fashion, yes falling again. Intercept and down almost 2 in new york today, bringing the loss in 2014 to 46 for oil. It has not fallen this much since the financial crisis six years ago. Mean time, in the meantime and search crews have recovered more bodies and debris in the java sea from that crash. The airbus a320 crashed on its way from indonesia to singapore. Indonesias president spoke at a briefing. My deep condolences to the families of the passengers and crew. I am feeling their loss and i am and i pray that they are given all of the courage and strength to base this tragedy. Like they were 162 people on board there were 162 people on board. A couple of weeks ago the fbi said it had enough evidence to link the attack on sony to north korea. But every connection it looked that turned out to be a deadend. At least