As the Government Shutdown stalemate drags on both sides are doing a lot of talking, just not to each other. House speaking john boehner maybe another call for negotiations while democrats called for the house to vote. Wall street is watching as stocks rose 76 points. As traders are optimistic that lawmakers can reach a deal and reaching the nations debt limit. Furloughed employees rally outside of the nations capitol calling for an end of the shutdown. Those workers got a show from president obama and Vice President joe biden. They went out to launch at a restaurant that is hel helping furloughed employees. Lets go out to Mike Viqueira to see what is on the president s table, mike . Reporter what is not on the table is the president s trip to asia, an annual summit that was supposed to happen in indonesia next week. The president will have to skip it. He sent john kerry in his place and were still in the shouting stage. There is no movement. The shoutdown continues, and these sides ar
Performance that its seen in about two months. Energy and Technology Companies led the decline, many of 2013s strongest performers were down for the day. If youre taking a look this morning, youll see equities are indicated higher. Dow futures up by 26 points above fair value. S p up by close to two points. Oil looks to be a major market story. Yesterday there was a late day swoon triggered by the death cross. Thats when something you see the 50day average moving below the 200 day moving average. Its viewed as a bearish sign and you did see a big selloff. We saw wti crude falling all the way back down to 95 and change. This morning on, it is still down there, down another 17 cents to 95. 27. Had been close to 100 a barrel before. Also worth watching today, the 10 30 eastern report on natural gas inventories. Then we have the latest oil decline coming about a half hour later. On the economic agenda, we have the major automakers reporting. The number of vehicles that they sold in decembe
Official telling nbc news about 476,000 insurance applications have been filed through the obama care website. That figure is the number of people who have stopped on the site, not though purchased plans. Meantime, president obama expected to address problems with the website at a Health Care Event at the white house tomorrow. Treasury secretary jack lew talked about the glitches on meet the press. I think theres no one more frustrated than the president at the difficulty in the website. There are people working 24 hours a day, around the clock. Hhs has said its going to be putting out information on a monthly basis. Hhs has got plans to fix this, and it has to fix it. It has to be done right. Well, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and senator ted cruz rallied crowds at separate events on saturday. Cruz was the featured speaker at gatherings in austin and san antonio. Clinton spoke at rally. The whole country is watching this election. Watching to see whether the voters of vir
Change laws nationwide. The world cup reaches a fever pitch for americans, fans getting ready to cheer on team u. S. A. In a crucial game. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. The fight for control of iraq is heating up this morning. The International Community is pressing baghdad to form a new, more inclusive government as isil fighters ramp up their offensive. Those rebels saying to be heading to a major dam that is a major power source. They have taken control of the oil site near tikrit. Almalaki ordering parliament to meet july 1 to form a new government. Libby casey is in washington. The Prime Minister is saying that syrians have been attacking isil forces. What is the u. S. Reaction. There are concerns by the u. S. About anything that in secretary of state john kerrys words could exacerbate the condition and make it worse on the ground. Yesterday, the secretary of state warned that nothing should take place to heighten extremism or act as a flash point
Gerri our top story, new momentum to put a kill switch on all cell phones. Its a way to permanently that is disable them so they are useless to thieves. Congress now taking up the issue. Smartphone theft counts for a third of all robberies in the u. S. According to the fcc take a look at these surveillance tapes. Phones snatched, people assaulted, beaten for their phones. Some victims, even killed, with me now, paul whose daughter meagan was shot and killed for the iphone. With us meagans sister. They are behind this new effort to make sure no family goes through what they went through. Welcome to you both. Great to have you here. Youre on set with me. I want you to tell me what happened to your sister. Well, my sister was walking to her car and at the time she was in st. Louis. My family lives in chicago. She was traveling there to the weekend and visit friends and play in alumni volleyball game at st. Louis university where she played volleyball. She was walking to the car calling my