Millions. Temperatures plunging up to 40 degrees. How long will this last . Ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Nice to see you. Breaking news this morning. Two new York City Police officers shot responding to a robbery call at a store in the bronx. Officers are hospitalized one in Critical Condition. Police are hunting for two gunmen with a 10,000 reward offered for information. The shooting comes among the back drop of high tension with mayor bill de blasio and nypd officers after the ambush murders of two Police Officers last month. The mayor criticized as disrespectful. Officers who have turned their backs on him on multiple occasions. The commissioner downplayed of low level arrests. This is raising concern of a work slowdown by nypd officers. We have Miguel Marquez with more on the story. Reporter this is a disturbing issue here with the shooting of two officers. Officers in plain clothes. Not targeted li
But selma was charged by critics to taking too much lightning in rewriting the relationship between Martin Luther king and others. They could have draped in olympic gold. Instead, two u. S. Skiers one just a teenager die in an avalanche of snow and rocks doing what they loved, how the story of these young men poised for victory became instead a tragedy. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. That closing bell. We begin today with the money lead. And stocks sliding down a fiscal hill. The dow taking another dip falling off more than 130 points. Thats a bit of a rebound. The dow was down nearly 200 points a couple of hours ago. This after it plummeted 330 points monday. Criminal Cristina Alesci is in new york. Oil prices keep on dropping and the dow right along with them. Reporter thats right. Its fallen too far and too fast causing a little bit of a shock to the system. There are three main systems why this is very bad. Major Oil Companies the most directly compa
Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. We saw something today we havent seen since the dependents of the great recession. The price of oil fell below 50 a barrel. It ended the day at 50. 04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. Have a look at this. Just since june of last year the price of oil has dropped by more than half. No one knows when the slide will end. On wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. The s p nearly 38. In both cases a loss of nearly 2 . Elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. Reporter today marked the worst drop in the dow and s p since october. Analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. Bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. Why are the markets tanking . Oil did breech a kind of psychological barier going below 50 a barrel. When you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a significant economi
Turning their backs on the mayor during the funeral of one of their own over the weekend. You know weve been reporting on this tensions between new yorks leader and new yorks finest seem to be worsening. How will this well take this News Conference against with the Police Commissioner and mayor live momentarily. Meantime just a short time ago the pentagon confirming u. S. Troops in iraq are under quoteunquote regular attack by isis. Remember as weve been reporting u. S. Troops they are there serving in advisory role not in this combat role. Weve heard that the president over and over clarifying that right . But in the wake of these attacks might that change . The attacks are happening there in the orange part of your screen Anbar Province al asad air business in western iraq. Lets go to barbara starr. What specifics do you have as far as what kinds of attacks are these . Reporter what we are hearing now it is specifically at Al Asad Air Base in western iraq a very remote area where the
Made up out of whole cloth, completely totally. Thanks for joining us, everyone. And with improved weather divers are back in the water, looking for any traces of airasia flight 8501. Search teams are combing a 45,000 square kilometer area in the java sea. Officials have displayed seats and other debris pulled out of that crash zone but so far theyve not found the planes main body or the flight data recorders, and so far today they have not found any more bodies though officials have identified six more of the bodies which were already found. 19 have been identified in total. Lets go to cnns anna coren joining us live from the Crisis Center in surabaya indonesia. It is just after 1 00 in the afternoon there. And despite the weather improving, there hasnt been much progress has there . Reporter yeah not much progress at all unfortunately, rosemary. We had been told by officials that drivers were in the water as of 6 00 this morning. Weve now heard that those divers did not go in the wat