What happened in your christmas household . It was wonderful. At with my sister. And best gifts . You know, the usual what is the best gift that we could get, you know sf what is t best we could do at this point is that appropriate for Morning Television i got socks socks are good. I got some very thoughtful sweatpants i got some sweatpants how thoughtful could sweat pants be they were very comfortable. Did you get new yoga wear lululemon, yeah see, i knew that i was going to get you that, but i knew someone else would. We cant just all keep repeating. Okay. Anyway, im Andrew Ross Sorkin joe kernen is here, melissa lee is here. Becky happily has the day off. A quick look at futures. We have the dow looking like it would open down. A few days where we talk about things opening or at least looking like they will open in the red. Right now dow would be down about 32 points. Nasdaq off about 7 1 2 s p 500 off or rather up margma marginally bitcoin is rising, recovering from a selloff last
Cspan. Org landmark cases. Thursday morning were live in montgomery, alabama, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals to work. Alabama Senate President pro tempore del march will be our guest on the bus during washington journal. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Witnesses from facebook, youtube and twitter talk about what the companies are doing to prevent criminal activity by users and the tech sectors cooperation with Law Enforcement. The Senate Commerce and finance Committee Held a hearing last week. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I want to thank everyone for being a to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook and twitter among others help to connect people around the world, give
Next, ibm president and ceo talks about Workforce Skills and innovation at the National Governors Association Annual winter meeting in washington. She is interviewed by the nevada governor and nga chair, brian sandoval. This is just over one hour. Welcome, everyone, to the second day of the 2018 meeting of the nations governors. Yesterday, we had great discussions on how governors are working with our International Partners in australia to enhance their economies, enhancing the food and Agricultural Industries in their states, and tackling the opioid crisis, and i really do want to extend my thanks to our australian friends, or mates , as we affectionately call them, and the individual governors who led the sessions yesterday, i thought they were asked renee. I can speak for myself and the other governors that we have learned so much so far, and today promises to do the same. We also had a great evening last night, a bipartisan Relationship Building during the nj purple party. I hope e
Second day of the 2018 meeting of the nations governors. Yesterday, we had great discussions about how governors are working with our international partners. Advancing that Agricultural Industries in their states and tackling the opioid crisis. I do want to extend my thanks to our a strong and friends, our mates as we affectionately call them and the individual governors who led the sessions yesterday. They were extraordinary. I can speak for the other governors that we have learned so much so far and today promises to be the same. We had a great evening last night of teambuilding during the usa purple party. I hope everyone had a good time with that. We are privileged with attendance from our key domestic partners. Their presence is greatly officiated and we thank you for contribution to our meeting. I will ask some individuals to stand so we can recognize them. With regard to our former governors representing each state. , governor earnie fletcher. Maine governor john mccurn in. Harr
Families praying for a peace deal at talks in ethiopia. Syrian opposition activists have called government airstrikes on a rebelheld suburb of damascus a massacre, more than 100 people died in the main market in douma. Making it one of the bloodiest attacks by the military in syrias threeyear warm. 300 were injured. More air strikes happened as people rushed to help the wounded. Zeina khodr joins us now. We are hearing of yet more air strikes on this area this morning. Reporter yes. Accord to this syrian observatory for human rights, there were three air strikes targeting douma early this morning. There is still no word on casualties. The syrian observatory also reporting that the government targeted other areas in this region. Which is in the damascus countryside. Targeting areas. Now, this area really is a rebel strong hold. It has been a rebel strong hold for many years. And the government has not been able to recapture these territories. But over the years it has been targeting it.