Failed. We ask, whether you support continued u. S. Military efforts in syria. If you do, give us a call. Tell us why. If not, give us a call. Also tell us why. You can catch up with us on social media, twitter, facebook or email. A good saturday morning to you. We are talking about the shift in strategy in syria, taking up headlines around the country today. Here is the front page of the financial times. U. S. Abandons project to create syrian rebels. Obamas options narrow in syria. The New York Times, the u. S. Ends effort, admission of failure, plan to provide weapons to groups fighting isis. The decision to scuttle a central piece of the strategy to confront extremists was made after mounting evidence of the Training Mission had resulted in no more than a handful of american coached fighters and comes amidst russias fourfold forceful entry into the syrian conflict, a move president Vladimir Putin we will be talking about it for the first 45 minutes of todays program. For more on th
Take us back 40 years ago and how we got here. Guest it is because critical commodities like oil pose unique National Security and economic challenges. The dynamics that created the ban 40 years ago are still relevant today. The fact of the matter is that it limits the ability to export u. S. Produced crude oil. What that does is ensures we have adequate supplies here at 9. 5. We still import Million Barrels of Petroleum Products every day. Even though we are producing record amounts of oil, we are still the largest importer of oil in the world. Would give huge profits to Oil Companies. Right now, the production discount, the production boom in the United States has resulted in a slight domestic price to scout for certain types of domestic produced oil. Right now, refiners are enjoying a discount and sharing that with in the form of water prices. What producers want is to export the discount overseas to china and india. That will raise gasoline prices for american drivers. Host do we c
Hawaiian islands are facing delays, cancellations and risk. Alec savage is at the airport. In two minutes he will tell us what folks flying out this morning are telling him. Good morning. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, i know you are focused on our weather. You are watching the big storm . We are, indeed. Hurricanes dont hit the Hawaiian Islands that often. September 11, 1992. The last one usually they go south or north. There is two of them. One is definitely taking aim at the big island. Thats iselle. Wind 90 Miles Per Hour so its category 1 and its heading south of helo. The second one is heading to the north. Now, again, it will weaken a little bit as it moves over the higher terrain. The mountain areas are going to get hammered with a lot of rain. There will be a foot of rain, probably mudslides, damaging wind as well. When it comes out on the kona side, if the path is correct, a storm watch for kawai. Tropical clouds moving on out as we say. The low cloud deck is def
The only real takeaway is that were nowhere near a deal. Hence why the market nose dived. Dow plummeting 185 points. Nasdaq falling 1. 29 . Why ticktock portfolio . Because its becoming evident that we dont have just one traumatic worry ahead of us, the fiscal cliff itself, but a second one, which is that times not on the side of the compromisers anymore. Theres just too much going on in washington to presume that even likeminded people can wrest the debate from the partisan extremists of either party, those who sink below and not rise above. Even if youre confident that a deal can be reached someday, you had to have your breath taken away by the first question from the press after the president gave an impassioned statement about the need to avert the cliff thats going to raise everybodys taxes and just cause such havoc. Thats because the question was about general petraeus. Not the financial time bomb facing us. Oh, no. Petraeus . Petraeus . Dont you know this is bigger than petraeus
The Opening Ceremony for the winter games in sochi is set for tomorrow, but security, the Homeland Security is issuing a warning of its own. Reporter more than 10,000 americans traveling to sochi for the olympics now face another security threat. New intelligent information shows terrorists may use toothpaste containers to try to smuggle on planes. It doesnt target specifically americans but to russia. President putin insists that the games are safe. Stationing soldiers around sochi. He expects even more terror warnings to come out surrounding the games, adding that it could be a hard balancing act for the u. S. Government. How much information you put out there so the public can be smart and wise, and at the same time, you dont want to tip your hand how much you know for the terrorists. I expect there will be more indicators like this, and its a very difficult thing for the department of Homeland Security. Nelson said with this particular threat, a form of explosives. We have seen in