Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of all my colleagues, i want to welcome you to todays event, the president s daily brief, delivering intelligence to president s nixon and ford. My name is joe lambert. Im the director of Information Management at eia. Events like this take a lot of work and i want to acknowledge the efforts of the cia officers who reviewed and declassified these 28,000 pages over the last year. They are assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one in particular deserves special thanks, the National Security agency. Todays event marks the cias 25th major declassification and 2007. E event since we are very fortunate once again to have two people with us who probably know more about the daily brief than anybody i can think of. That is the director of the cia, torn brennan, and dinnerec of National Intelligence, jim clyburn. Director clapper has instituted intelligence transparency council. It fits nicely with the goals of that counsel. Events like today would
You. Well show you how you can save big. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening, the Clinton Campaign is vowing to release more information about her health as they face questions of whether they were trying to keep hur diagnosis with a case of pneumonia a secret. The revelation came hours after clinton appeared unsteady on her feet after she was the 9 11 memorial in new york. The campaign which first attributed her illness to the heat, is now admitting they were slow to publicly disclose her condition. Tonight shes off the campaign trail resting at home and our Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Reporter tonight, Hillary Clinton out of sight, recovering from pneumonia. Cancelling a california trip. After that video showing her nearly collapsing, leaning on secret Service Agents after abruptly leaving the 9 11 memorial they did not give the public enough information about her condition and will disclose more. We could have gotten more information out and thats on the staff. We regret
October 2011 that the s p 500 has rallied at least 1 in three consecutive sessions. U. S. Equity futures at this hour, the dow opening higher. S p would open about five points higher. Among our other top stories this morning, were watching oil prices very closely. Brent has been above 35 a bar reversal. Wti above 31. That, of course, as we know can change depending on whatever these ministers that are participating in opec like to say. The late etc. Development, iran said it would support joint efforts by Top Oil Producers to stabilize prices. The market had been waiting to see where iran would come down on that. It did stop sort of committing to those output curbs. St. Louis fed president making headlines. Hes been a prominent advocate of higher Interest Rates. In a speech yesterday, he said it would be unwise to move any further, citing weak inflation and global volatility. Bullard said he wouldnt be comfortable with further hikes until the downward inflation trend reverses. Hes a Vo
Isis. Also hearing the combat veteran has been in talks about leaving the post for weeks. As for a successor, the decision we hear will be made quickly but hagel will stay on the job until a replacement is confirmed. The president is expected to speak in less than ten. We will bring it to you. There is more news. Just as angie mentioned, the president is going to speak about this announcement, and well bring it to you live. This morning, the district is remembering marion barry. Flags are flying at halfstaff. D. C. Leaders are preparing a Memorial Service for the former mayor. Weve not learned yet when bar y ba will be. The medical examiner says he died of complications from kidneys deceaisease and proble with his heart. The d. C. Council is returning to work without one of its longest serving members. He served in ward eight for 40 years. News 4s megan mcgrath. Reporter certainly a difficult day for people to work here at the Wilson Building, especially his staff. Theyre not offering
But a couple of light showers and sprinkles to start the morning through college park just east of laurel, these are not too big of a deal. A couple more showers as you head off to the west. Notice where it is a little bit colder you could see a couple of wet flakes or even a little bit of sleet and that will be possible again later on tonight as the last bit of precipitation heads on out and temperatures fall a little bit. Count on a lot more rain headed your way for this afternoon and into the evening. For now temperatures up into the 30s. 39 for college park. Temperatures stay in the mid 40s and it will be drier and breezy. A cup of stray showers until this afternoon when more rain heads your way. 44 by 5 00. Beverly time for timesaver traffic. A couple of issues. A problem on the green line, a power issue for metro rail commuters. Between branch avenue and naylor road. New crash 95 at bw parkway. That is tying up the right lane. Quite a jam up. As far as the maryland beltway is con