a greater risk to civilians. what u.s. intel is saying about how many are being used. and in about face for the former new york mayor. rudy giuliani backing down from testifying at his defamation trial. closing arguments underway as we speak. following these major developing stories and more all coming here to cnn news central. counterterror agencies have been on high alert in wake of the hamas attacks on october 7th and the ongoing war with israel. today, officials of several european countries have made terror-related arrests. details are still coming in, but here is what we know as of right now. german authorities say they have arrested long-standing hamas members for an alleged terror plot. officials in denmark have apparently made what they call unrelated terrorists. let s bring in cnn s fred pleitgen in berlin. there are so many moving parts here, it s a little confusing. tell us what we are learning from germany about all of this. reporter: first of all you
nasdaq and s & p also taking some big losses. man, it has been like a rollercoaster up and down. heather: so many different things impacting where the stocks are going up or down. it would be great to end the year on a high note, wouldn t it? especially the fact the dow zoomed from 18,000 to like 25,000 to 26,000 since the president took office. so we ll see what happens in 2019. a lot of predictions there could be a slowdown but not this morning. heather: don t want to make those predictions on the stock market now. that s dangerous territory. sparking some outrage. you could say among democrats after blaming them for the deaths of two migrant children from guatemala. an 8-year-old boy, 7-year-old girl died in border patrol custody in separate incidents this month. the president tweeting saturday any deaths of children or others at the border are strictly the fault of the democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can
my home, have some respect. president trump will visit the treasury department later today and there he will sign executive orders aimed at targeting the dodd/frank financial reform law. he ll redirect steve mnuchin to review regulator s authority on banks in trouble and also ask him to label some financial companies as risky. and he will direct man uch ipin to review tax regulations from last year. ahead of that meeting, the treasury secretary is giving reassurance about tax reform. at an event thursday, mnuchin said this. whether health care gets done or health care doesn t get done, we re gonna get tax reform done. we hope this won t take until the end of the year. it will be soon, very soon. oh, yes, wall street was happy to hear those words. the dow zoomed 174 points higher right after the comments. and holding on to the gains through the closing bell. the average is now positive for the week, recovering from two