With a difference. Hello, Macedonian Police have allowed thousands to pass through their fence, they spent the night in the border town, ready to board at the crack of down on route to serbia. The small macedonian town saw a number rise trying to cross over into europe. Jonah hull has more. Reporter 48 hours after macedonia shut its border to refugees the gathering crowd makes a break for it. They didnt come this far to be held back. Hundreds do get through sprinting across open fields as Armed Police Units fire percussion grenades. This inthis case directly at a mother and her two children. Until thursday this was an open invisible border, towards serbia the eu and germany beyond it. Now, refugees have no idea why theyve been treated this way. Im not terrorist, this is not terrorists, we are humans, where is humanity, they are families. We dont need carlos, let us cross, i want to cross to germany. Among some those who have been sent back to macedonia. You say the police in macedonia
Good afternoon sara bloomquist is off. In the news penn states former president is among those learning the price he will pay for failing to and we begin with breaking news at this hour. From bucks county. Chopper 6 hd is over the scene here where firefighters in bensalem are battling a blaze at a Grocery Store here. The ac my Grocery Store near bristol road in bensalem. Are they are trying to hose down hot spots but the fire broke out at 11 30 this morning. Heavy flames reported from the ro no reports of injuries or how crowded the Grocery Store was at this hour. But again chopper 6 hd over the scene of an acme Grocery Store here in bucks county and firefighters are trying to tackle the flames we are not sure what part of the store the fire broke out in or how crowd tropical disturbance at the time. Well bring you the latest as more information becomes available from bensalem. Our other big story from chester where several big shooters where one that left a teenager dead forced a scho
To rescue americans being held by isis. Pentagon officials saying forces stormed a terrorist compound only to find the host aemgs werent there. Were going to have a live report from our nbc colleagues covering this in just a bit. Carl icahn is at it again. The activist investors revealing a nearly 89 stake in hertz, the rental car company. Icahn says he will pressure the company over pricing issues and operational failure and he may even seek a board seat. Shares of hertz plummeted over the last few days after the company withdrew its full year forecast. They are up slightly in after hours trading. As of yesterday, some hedge funds talked about potentially trying to replace current ceo mark viscora, as well. But this seems to be bit of a low hang fruit at this point. As of the last quarter. Late 2013 is when he originally took that stake. We know hertz and we like mark. But it is low hanging free fruit, i guess. The high on the tock is 31. 61, its alltime high. And its at 30. 33 and th
Tenyear continues to inch higher, now above 2. 11. The markets, two losing sessions in a row, but stocks edging higheren its a big day for the ecb, detailing stimulus plan. Draghi is speaking now. Costco beat the street and samestore sales stronger than expect. Shares are up in premarket. 21 billion zeal in biotech. Abbvie wins the war but the stock takes a dive. Jobless claims coming in higher than expected as more americans filed claims for unemployment benefits. Mario draghi speaking now in cypress, detailing the ecbs plan for stimulus. Euro strengthening after hitting 11year lows to 1. 10 but raising gdp for this year, i think, to 1. 5, right . 1. 9 and 1. 5 for next year . Its funny to see this is something that theyve been talking about, and now, as ive been saying, plants growing in europe. No longer green chutes but deflation versus inflation. Need so get some inflation, thats their plan. Theyll do. I also think this is going to bring the euro down to a dollar. You know theres
To cover your hineys. Not frying to cover. Stories that make you go, hmm. The president talked about the looming fiscal cliff and what he said at the white house got a lot of attention on wall street. Stocks sank because of fears there will not be a deal by end of the your to head off higher taxes and those steep spending cuts as well. The dow tumbled 185 points. Almost 1. 5 . Overseas markets are trending lower this morning. The thing is, you hear people in other situations say the president , because now he doesnt face reelection is more than willing this team to perhaps let the country go off the fiscal cliff much more than he was last time around. So a real potential that everyones taxes go up january 1. This is, theyre not bluffing as much this time around. Really could happen. Overseas now where israeli aircraft, tanks and knave gun boats are pounding the gaza strip for a second day. This follows the military strike yesterday that killed a top hamas leader. The report from tel av