Hours most of them civilians and sure knows how to get our attention why billionaire along musk is sending a giant rockets with a sports car on top into space and its pretty basic but its saving lives in mogadishu and on the road to somalias a leak free Ambulance Service. In taiwan a six point four magnitude earthquake has hit the east coast of the island killing at least two people and injuring more than a hundred others the quake has brought down the hotel and at least three other buildings the United States Geological Survey says it struck near the North Eastern port city of wiley and several people off thought to be trapped inside the hotel its the latest in a string of quakes that have hit the region in recent days well george flying is a taiwanese journalist based in taipei she spoke to us about the impact of the earthquake. The earths core a magnitude six point zero has struck the eastern part of taiwan of folly c. T. And according to the latest confirmation from the national fa
A magnitude six point four earthquake rocks the east coast of taiwan two people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured Syrian Forces pound a socalled deescalation zone one hundred thirty eight people are killed in just forty eight hours. I. And lift off in florida the worlds most powerful rocket with a car as its payload takes off from Cape Canaveral care a billionaire in long months. And im Tatiana Sanchez with the latest sports news where three days ahead of the Winter Olympics clean russian athletes begin to arrive in youngstown others are still fighting for the right to compete ill have more on that story later. And tell you why a six point four magnitude earthquake has hit the east of the islands killing at least two people and injuring more than one hundred others the quake has brought down the hotel and at least three other buildings the United States Geological Survey says it struck near the north when eastern port city of wiley and several people are thought t
States has been taking a renewed interest. It is decision day at the south african high court. The ruling could decide the fate of the anc leadership race. Is 8 a. M. Across the emirates. 5 00 a. M. In london. Im yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Theet us take a look at Market Action here across the Asian Pacific where we can see yet fresh eyes again. Gmm is the function on your homework terminal. As you can see, equity indexes are they sickly in the green save for hong kong. A little bit more on that later. It really is about yen weakness against a stronger witness a stronger u. S. Dollar. The nikkei 225 climbing 1 higher. The broader index in japan is added to gains for three straight weight three straight days. The reason is wall street closing at a fresh record high. A lot of people were worried about Hurricane Irma coming onshore and doing a lot of damage. The damage was just a fraction of what the estimate was. But there are still a lot of people without power. The msci asianpacific r
I move the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blunt mr. President , were looking at an outline for tax reform that helps working families in ways that those families havent seen for almost a decade now, a decade of buying power that didnt go up, and obligations that did, a decade with more government requirements and less takehome pay. Were going to be here for the next few weeks talking about what to do to reverse that situation so that the opportunities for those families is reversed and that eventually weve also reversed our competitiveness so that were creating better jobs. There are two ways to get more takehome pay, and one is the government to take less out of it. Im for that. The other one is to do things in the tax code to make us more competitive so there are better jobs with better pay to start with. If you combine those two things better jobs and better pay and the government taking less out of that higher e in a way that drives toward a
Joining us. Good morning, everyone. Silicon valley stepping up opposition to the president S Immigration executive action. Microsoft, uber, twitter, facebook, apple and others submitting a joint brief asking the court to roll back parts of the order. They say the government should make a fundamental commitment to welcome immigrants while still boosting background checks to protect the country. From the brief the order inflicts significant harm on american business, innovation and growth and threatens ability to attract business and investment to the United States. This as Alibaba Ceo Jack Ma warns in no Uncertain Terms that if trade stops, war starts. Kara, were spending a good part of the morning dissecting who joined this letter and who did not. Your thoughts. Well, i think its just another in the ongoing sort of tech getting to these issues. For example, airbnb had an ad last night in the super bowl. Theyre all trying to speak up to the issue because it goes to the core of first of