Building is demanding changes. The day that sent stocks into a tumble we begin with calls for calm amid escalating tensions between saudi arabia and iran, a day after saudi arabia cut off ties with tehran, bahrain and sudan follow eld suit and downgraded its relationship. Tensions flair after demonstrators in iran set fire to the Saudi Arabian embassy after the saudis executed a shia cleric. Andrew simons reports. Reporter diplomats on their way home with their families, transiting here at dubai airport. Among them bay rain. Up to two days of demonstrations by protestors from a shia muslim majority. The gulf state that is closely allied to saudi arabia accused iran of blatant and dangerous interference in arab countries and support for terrorism. The actions followed the arson attack at the Saudi Embassy in tehran. Saudi arabia aaccused iran of doing nothing to prevent it. A war of words is escalating. We decided to cut off all diplomatic relations with iran and also all air traffic, c
After spending years calling on congress to take action today president obama is unveiling his plan to reduce gun violence using his executive powers to put the focus on background checks. Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im dell walters and part of a push for the final year in office to tackle what he is calling the most frustrating issue of his presidency and Al Jazeera Libby Casey is live for us in washington and libby there has already been republican push back ahead of announcements and what are politicians where you are saying . Immediate reaction dell from republicans both on the campaign trail and from washington lawmakers with House Speaker paul ryan calling this a dangerous level of executive over reach that americans wont stand for but the white house says these are common sense moves that are in line with existing law. And the president s executive actions are being called modest and small steps because without congress on board there is only so much he c
The crisis in the middle east. Usually oil spikeses when that happens. Not today. Thats a great point. Options pit. Com founder Mark Sebastian in the, in the pits of. Ashley webster on floor of the New York Stock Exchange with the selloff. Ashley, what happened . Interesting, melissa, just to davids point. Tells you what kind of day it was when the dow finishes down 270 points. Hey, nice comeback. We were down 400 points several times throughout the session. We knew it was coming. We saw a big selloff in china. Weak Economic Data out of china. That spread to europe. We knew at opening bell today we would kick off the new year on adown note. We were off 300 points literally five minutes into the trading session. Weve been down there throughout the day. At last i would say five to ten minutes we saw some people perhaps jumping back in to to up bargainsselling was broad based across the board. Financials and tech stocks particularly hurting. I want to mention oil, something david mentione
In a separate case, jamal dean has also received a 25year prison sentence after pleading guilty to attempted murder in the april 2013 shooting of a Sioux City Police officer. The brothers traveled together from nebraska to iowa and conspired to rob local drug dealers on two occasions in april 2013. Jenna a cherokee woman is being charged with attempted murder after police say she was drunk and drove into the path of an oncoming vehicle on purpose. The crash happened in Plymouth County back in september. Melissa ebert was driving on county road c38 with a passenger in the car, when she collided headon with an oncoming vehicle. Ebert, her passenger and the driver of the other vehicle were all seriously injured. Ebert is charged with two counts of attempt to commit murder and 2nd offense owi. Jenna americas most wanted teenager, ethan couch, the socalled he and and his mother are now in custody in mexico after weeks on the run. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has the latest. Liz intro investigators sa
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