Span of only one hour. President obama delivering his year and News Conference to the White House Press corps end of his annual christmas vacation in hawaii. And on one point he even contradicted himself on the numbers in the same sentence. Take a listen. More than half a million american several through health care and the first three weeks of december quantify since october 1st more than 1 million americans have selected new healthinsurance plans to the federal and state marketplaces. So all told, millions of americans, despite the problems of the website, are now poised to be covered by quality, Affordable Health insurance come here stake. I now have a couple of Million People, maybe more who even have health care on january 1st. And that is a big deal. We have got several Million People were going to have health care that works. The first month and a half or lost because of problems of the website and about as bad a bunch of publicity as you could imagine. And yet you still have go
Profits at ubs stronger than analysts have been expecting. Analysts paying attention to questions hanging over the bank. Ubs has closed u. S. Probes into its dark pool alternative trading system. The companies cfo will join us live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Meantime, bp posting a big jump in its quarterly profits driven by Strong Production numbers. However, the oil giant is warning further western sanctions on russia might hurt its business there. Bp makes about a third of its crude oil output in russia. It is the single largest Foreign Investors in that country for its nearly 20 stake in state oil companies. And eu leaders are meeting to debate economic sanctions against russia. A new list of putin associations and businesses that will face tougher measures is expected tomorrow. Lets talk about a bit of other corporate news. U. S. Investors are knew suing barclays. The attorney general accused the bank of lying to customers regarding its electronic trading platform. The investor ar
A potential trip, saying that the u. S. Just wants to spread its power under with the use taiwan, they use that political major to the benefit of. So only pelosi will benefit from the elusive visit thats all with wherever youre catching the program from today across the world. Welcome to moscow on tuesdays global news. Rhonda, im unit oneal. Only one place to start today. Tensions are mounting. Ron taiwan, the head of a potential, they sit by the u. S. High speaker. China is ratcheting up military activity. Nancy pelosi proposed to land in taipei on tuesday night, despite warnings from beijing. The u. S. Cs, no issue with the potential touched on. But china has labeled to move a breach of its sovereignty when they say so if we would like to warn the u. S. Side, once again, that the chinese side is ready. The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army will never sit idly by and china will certainly take a resolute response and effective countermeasures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial
Also on todays agenda, we have key Economic Data. Last months reports show price gains slowing in 14 of the 20 cities that were surveyed. Chrysler filing paperwork for an ipo up to 100 million. The ipo will be underwritten by jpmorg jpmorgan, coming more than four years from the automaker emerging under management. Bill fight going on between the unions there which led to this. Well talk about that. Also, the Justice Department now reportedly preparing to sue jpmorgan in the mortgage bond it sold in the run up to the financial crisis. We should note, as we should whenever we talk about some of the mortgage related sales precrisis, some of that came from bear stearns and from Washington Mutual when they acquired. Bank of murk now must pay more than 2. 2 million for 1100 black job applicants. The decision awards back pay and interest to former candidates for teller and entry Level Administration and clerical positions in the banks hometown of charlotte, north carolina. Joe, over to you.
Delaware family pleads for help finding their loved ones coldblooded killer. Police are called after dangerous chemicals are found inside a philadelphia duplex. The story on action news this afternoon is a hot and steamy day that could turn stormy. Sky6 live hd looking at the center city skyline. Its a steamy after. The beaches in new jersey are a popular place to seek the relief from the heat and humidity. It could be a short day at the beach with the chance of storms moving in this afternoon. Meteorologist karen rogers is in for david this noon and joins us at the action news big board with the details from accuweather. Are. Reporter thats right, anybody outside today needs to keep an eye to the sky. We had a cell moving along the coastline, near route 72, chats worth we had a shower and we had a shower to the northwest, as well. Heres Storm Tracker 6 live double scan in 3d. Theres a lot more storms where they came from. We have frontal boundaries that will move their way through, we