And abdullah is meeting the family of the pilot who was burnt to death by Islamic State. They say the blood of Muath Al Kaseasbeh will not be shed in plane. Aaron looking at that big highstakes meeting between the greek and german government. Its very likely the germans will just say, nein to greeces wish and things ronlare only getting worse for the new greek government because last night the European Central bank says its cutting off its chief funding for the countrys banks. Its midday in london 7 00 a. M. In washington. And 1 00 p. M. In brussels where nato is expected to announce its biggest reinforcement since the end of the cold war. Up to 5,000 troops will make up a Rapid Reaction force, ready to deploy at two days notice. This is, of course a response to fighting in ukraine, which has killed more than 5,000 people. Nato says russia is sending troops into eastern ukraine. Thats something, though that russia denies. Lets take you straight over to brussels. We can join Jonathan Ma
The Berkshire Hathway giant is going to be investing in the form of preferred shares in that inversion trng. Berkshire is expected to provide about 25 of the financing of that action. He should say that they teamed up before with hiez. In that particular case, he had gotten a 9 coupon. We will see what they are going to be paying for the berkshire name. Sources telling me literally five minutes before we came on the show that the transaction, they were trying to sign that transaction up literally in the next couple of hours. So we will bring that news to you as it comes. We should tell you this morning, amazon buying Live Streaming Gaming Network twitch interactive for backside 970 million in cash. It is the largest in amazons 20year history. Twitch allows users to message other players during live play. The ecommerce giant hoping the acquisition will help it better compete with apple and going t in the fast growing space of Online Gaming. More than 70 of Online Google sales coming in
Trading at 2785. When has a new record for the dow or s p gotten any fan fare . Not lately. We were talking about this this morning. A producer whos been here through the ups and downs in the last decade used to be the case to hear cheers and applause punching but the benchmarks. This morning you werent be hearing much punching through 18,000 on the dow. More evidence as we have said for a while now. This is still the most unloved bull market we have seen in modern times with the dow up 97 points off the highs. S ps up 6 and enough for a record high. Technology, certain sectors, bio tech hit hard today and as you heard from the gang on street signs, some of the pharmaceuticals lower and nasdaq is down in todays rally. Yeah. Importantly. Lets get right to it with the closing bell exchange. John manly. Peter anderson. Susan fulton. She made it. I am here. Yeah. We werent worried about you but the technicals in place as you know. Rick santelli joins us from chicago. Rick, i hate to pick o
We all mourn together. Police on high alert after the murders of two nypd officers. Last night new yorkers gathered at the crime scene for a vigil. Two Police Officers were shot and killed as they sat in their patrol car in brooklyn. The gunman spoke to two bystanders before he opened fire. Theyll strike against the u. S. Pentagon and homeland. Saying aloha and going to hawaii is not the answer. Several people suffered minor injuries after a Lightning Strike near the tampa bay buccaneer stadium. Millions could with affected. A firefighter makes a Daring Rescue while dressed as santa claus. He displayed 99 balloons and launched them in the air. All that peterson tries to strip. It we have seen magic out of the seattle seahawks. And all that matters they say they need wonder in a year thats so screwy that topic a, b, c, and d is the seth rogan movie. Come on. You thought it was a joke to have james franco kill kim jongun, the man who almost singlehaddedly destroyed the oscars. Announcer
Vice President Joe Biden has wrapped up a twoday trip to lithuania and poland where he sought to reassure nato allies in a region that the u. S. Will defend them against any russian aggression. He told a pair of baltic leaders that we are in this with you together. He spoke after russias president to cleared ukraines Crimean Peninsula as part of russia and militiamen took over ukrainian headquarters in crimea. Ukraine is not part of nato. The United Nations Security Council is meeting today on the russian issue. Meanwhile, the European Union is considering economic sanctions. The eu meeting scheduled for tomorrow and friday in brussels. Take a look at our live coverage here in cspan at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. A Heritage Foundation discussion on the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy that will be followed by new Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen Holding her first meeting today as head of the fed open Market Committee and will talk to reporters after that meeting. That is scheduled to b