Layed with 20 tons of goods and equipped with ors, sand and tow ropes the party left from winter camp on april 21, 1811 with sails set in a favorable wind. They hoped to reach the pacific in late summer or autumn. The second passage i am reading takes place as they are going up the river from their winter camp which was about 400 miles up river from st. Louis. And as i mentioned, they were to follow the lewis and clark trail that is going up the missouri, over the rockies and down the columbia. Thaws went up the missouri, the father they went the worse the stories got about the indians at the head water. The overland leader was a young new Jersey Business man named wilson price hunt who was known as a nice guy, serious minded, conscious, and liked to lead by c concensus but he had never been in the wilderness before. Astor knew that hunt would remain loyal to astor. But astor hired a lot of other scottish fur traders, french canadian voyagers. He was looking for the best and that happe
News. We want to take you live to washington, d. C. , now. Some great pictures coming to us from the commander in chiefs ball. This is one of the two inaugural balls for president obama, and you see the first lady there, Jennifer Hudson is singing, and a nice dance. Theyve been dancing the last few minutes. It looks like theyre just wrapping up. They got to this ball about 20 minutes ago. Its the commander in chiefs ball, open to anyone in the military, of course with an invitation, its open for you. Lets listen in briefly to the president and the first lady. A wonderful day and an amazing evening for both of them, and its been a long day for them. And from this commander in chiefs ball head out to the gnawi inaugural ball, the second of the evening, and our own political analyst Larry Gerston will be at that ball. The inauguration of president obama on this Martin Luther king day. Now mr. Obama sworn into office, as you know, for the second time and speaking to the nation with about h
Easy money will help the market any day. Are we too complacent on buying . Ill tell you, the way the fed is running the money this has a long way to run. This is the fed. The news out of europe, the stronger dollar, but at the end of the day without the cheap money from the fed this market goes flat. Its not about the sequester that could kick in a week from today, not about the elections in italy or the currency wars going on right now, its about the fed . At the end of the day, yes. Youll see little bumps in the road like the last two days but they will disappear like they did today. Up 115 points. Have a good weekend. You too. The market is going higher and higher, the dow up 115. Looks like it will go out positive and every friday this year. Thats it for the first hour. Stick around for the second hour closing bell with Maria Bartiromo. And it is 4 00 on wall street. Do you know where your money is . Welcome back to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo on the floor of the new york
First to Kristen Welker with the breaking news out of the white house. The release of this student. Walk us through the nuts and bolts here. I know this has just come out in the last few minutes. This is significant because we have seen all of those recent provocations by north korea. Let me tell you what the white house is saying at this hour. They just released a statement that says, at the direction of the president , the department of state has secured the release of otto warbeir from north korea. He is en route to the u. S. Where hell be reunited with his family. The department of state continues to have discussions with north korea regarding the three other american citizens who are detained there. Of course, that continues to be a focus of this administration, trying to get those three detained students freed. This all comes as something incredibly curious happened overnight, hallie, Dennis Rodman, former nba star, visiting north korea. I spoke with a white house official and sa