Welcome to countdown. Coming up you will look ahead to the market open. Lets give you some of these breaking headlines. From europes second largest Insurance Company, net income rises 12 on the year. They were looking for 5. 1 billion, so just a little bit low on that. Operating profit of 7 . The ceo says they are on track to meet their target. That is about delivering a doubledigit emergingmarket operating profit for 2015. He will see whether he stands by that. They have had a positive currency effect in 2015. A positive impact from the u. S. Dollar, from the hong kong dollar, and from this the swiss franc. That is something we will be investigating when we speak. The dividend is where it gets a little interesting. Bloomberg had a view on where the dividend would be, . 91 was our consensus estimate. The dividend comes in at . 95 so operating profit rises. Dividend is up, and of the ceo says they are on track to meet their strict target by the end of 2015. More on axa later. Olivia mal
Reporter all sunshine we will see plan and some upper 70s ladies with mostly sunny skies. Michelle dont belong to cause these temperatures will continue to meander in the upper 50s this afternoon and will be dealing with clause across the coast for much of the day the rest of the day clouds and temperatures in the mid60s later on today and continues on a lot and you drive home after picking up some different airport will close out their flights laid on average 55 minutes keep that in my contact local airline if you have any issues. The 50s out there with isolated forties 48 daily city. 49 it warm from here and how much warmer we will get coming up with some checker and 74 cassettes of 15. George weve been watching this incident the bay bridge toll plaza a motorcycle accident and the motorcyclists here injured in this crash as you can see theyre doing a pretty good job here of clearing out lines and u. S. And fire trucks on the scene the touch up chp so pollo now as predicted that this
Series of demands. Meanwhile, republican infighting over the shutdown continued today. We have people in our party, the ted cruz wing of the party, i dont know if they are willing to make any concession other than defunding obama care. We want to see the government on shutdown and other is the Republican Leadership in the house that we dont go the way of the 30 or 40 people, they are going to disrupt whats going on. As this staredown continues, real people all across the country are feeling the effects of shutdown, in idaho, the family of a missing hiker issued an urgent plea for volunteers to continue the search after staff at craters of the Moon National monument were furloughed. A local tour company is losing 50,000 a day because of the shutdown of the uss arizona memorial in pearl harbor. While hundreds and thousands of furloughed workers wonder how theyll make ends meet. Right now, im terrified. Im terrified. They had to live on what most of us work at and live on, they couldnt ma
Accusations over moscows take over of crimea. And held against their will, more than 100 immigrants discovered at a house in texas. Australia says it found two objects in the southern indian ocean, that could be linked to the missing malaysian plane, flight mh370. Tony abbott, speaking in parliament, said the images were picked up on sat limit. Aircraft are satellite. An aircraft it searching the their, three more will arrive later. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search. Following specialist analysts of the satellite imagery two possible objects related to the search have been identified. We must keep this in mind. The task of locating these objects will be extremely di, and it may turn out that they are not related to the search for flight mh370. Well be live to malaysia in a moment. Nicole johns ston is there in kuala lumpur. First to Sydney Australia and speak to Andrew Thomas there. Tony ab
A troop surge in afghanistan, president obama was skeptical if not outright convinced that it would fail. And this continues the writing that i never doubted obamas support for the troops, only his support for the mission. And press secretary jay carney today and they said when asked by the president if we would send our troops into harms way without believing in the mission. Jay carney would not answer directly whether or not the claim is true. While seeming to hold that bill gates himself responsible for the final decision. You would not make decisions surging u. S. Troops without a thorough debate of the policy objectives in the options available to achieve those objectives and a third debate of the proper focus of the mission and what it ought to be. That produced a policy as others have said and secretary gates was one of the coauthors, if you will who did just that. Lou witnessing a shocking conversation between Hillary Clinton and the president. The two former senators allegedly