Madeline albright. Black stones president , tone know james, and well cap it off with dpaer white along with Actor Matt Damon. So we have a lot to do today. Lets talking about breaking news overnight. American fighter jets going into syria and bombing isis targets. The u. S. Did warn american fighters in advance. Five arab partners are involved. The pentagon confirms they went after 20 targets. Fuel depots, weapons spots and traini ining sites. Israel shot down a fighter jet after it entered air space. Oil prices are rising. Joining us now, retires u. S. Army current jack jacob is here. On the set with us, chief washington correspondent john harwood. Colonel, i will start with you. The implications of this coming much kicker than i think some people expected, no . Yes. Its developing relatively quickly. The problem with syria is the entire armed force system has been under pressure that it is totally incorporate nated. It is possible the syrian aircraft lost its way. It doesnt make a l
Now the roads, what does do with color therapy but the maybe bay bridge is a sea of lights. 101 to 580, a few brake lights and more traffic to the Golden Gate Bridge. At the san mateo bridge, that traffic is building right now under some haziness and there is fog making it across the water but headed along in the eastbound direction watch out off of the bridge you may find an accident a solo crash that does not appear to be causing too much slowing. We are seeing red and gold and silver and black and today and tomorrow the 49ers and the raiders will introduce their new head coaches and we are at levi stadium. There is a new man of the hour. A disappointing season for 49ers and the raiders fans are excited and like the new copes would have strong connections to the bay area. The new 49ers coach, someone who knows the team and the stadium very well. Jim tomsula is expected to be normally announced as the new coach of San Francisco later today and he is with the t since 2007 as defensive
Bailout fallout, needs to be dealt with immediately. This government is not seeking some extra european solution to what is a european problem. Anna apple launches its first new gadget under ceo tim cook but will customers go for the smart watch . Samsung lancets come back with its debut of the galaxy s6. We get our hands on both gadgets. Mark welcome to countdown. Caroline coming up, we get an up close look at a shoemaker to the stars. He has worked with kanye west lady gaga, it is now teaming up with beyonce. We will show you how this dream collaboration came about. Mark gains and losses today after a 15 year high, briefly trading above the 20,000 mark. Lets get over to stephen. Is this a trend that could continue . Stephen good morning. The traders we spoke to think that the nikkeis rise above 20,000 for the First Time Since april of 2000 is a trend that could continue even though there are speculators. The nikkei 225 is up fractionally right now. Earlier, it touched 20,006 the high
Near 70 jump in profit after turning around its customer image. The cfo tells cnbc digital is key to the strategy. Theres a new mobile website coming out in the autumn. That will help us get to know our customers a lot better which will help drive it. So were listening to the customers. Signed and sealed. Charter communications ended a 55 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable. Sending altice lower in holland. A very good morning to you. Lets get straight to markets after a holiday for a lot of markets yesterday. Including the u. K. Germany and the u. S. We opened up this Tuesday Morning in the red. We open slightly in the green but you can see its just sold off over the last hour or so. Were down 0. 34 . Last week was a positive week for european equities. We just corrected as the weeks kicked off. Yesterday the markets were meaningfully down. Lets look as you can see pretty much the same. Ftse 100 down 0. 7. Germany down more than that and france down less than that and italy down 0.
Bouncing back from profit warnings saying it will cut spending and step up asset sales this year. Spains economic continues to pick up the pace. Good news in germany where the jobless numbers fall faster than expected. And hanging up on hand sets, google gets out of the business of making smartphones, selling its money, using the motorola unit to lenovo for nearly 3 billion. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. A very good morning to you. We concluded the feds last meeting. Ben bernanke as expected was a 10 billion taper once again. And not a huge amount of deception from the fomc. Equities following asia and the u. S. Lower, the dow down 189 points. Down to lows we havent seen since november 7th. The s p down to december 9th lows. Its a huge number of individual stocks to look at. How does that translate into the indices . The ftse 100 was down some 28 points. Its down another 28 points today. Xetra dax off 0. 4 . The cac 40 of