Their health plans. Secretary of state john kerry traveled to the west bank and meted with palestinian president mahmood abbas. Part of efforts to broker a palestinianisraeli peace deal. As many in south sudan try to find a safe haven from the fighting, americans are told to leave the country. More than a thousand people have died in three weeks of fighting. Real money is next with David Shuster, who is in for ali velshi. This is al jazeera america. A new report shows sales reach a sixyear high. Well take a look at the road for consumers. And raising the price of natural gas. What will that mean for millions of americans who use gas to heat their homes. And an historic gamble on football. The impact could be huge. Im David Shuster in for ali velshi, and this is real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show. Join us atwittering, and also facebook. Facebook. Weve seen sales near in the slow lane. Cold weather may have kept crowds from the auto lots, neve
Join us atwittering, and also facebook. Facebook. Weve seen sales near in the slow lane. Cold weather may have kept crowds from the auto lots, nevertheless they have the strongest sales in years. Gm sales jumped as well as ford and chrysler. Over all it rose more than 8 to 18. 6 million vehicles sold. And exports grew 9 compared to the same period in 2012. The Auto Industry put the last traces of the recession in the rear view mirror. Its worth remembering that five years ago americas recession hit car sales and detroit very hard. The federal government stepped in and bailed out g. M. To the tune of 51 million. Five years later the government is out of both companies, g. M. Is leaner and meaner, and chrysler will soon be wholly owned by italys fiat. Ford, which never took bailout money, is in a much stronger position. The Treasury Department estimated the big three have added 341,000 new jobs to the economy since 2009. And car manufacturing is now one of the leading sectors benefiting
Welcome the team home. Fox 5 morning news continues right now. Live look outside right now over washington, d. C. A very chilly start to your week. Weve already got some snow flurries that have happened over the weekend. And in some school districts, they are already having some issues. Well tell you about that in just a second. Good morning. Happy monday. Im wisdom martin. Im sarah simmons. It sure was a thriller last night and a long one at that. This years big game last the four hours and 14 minutes. The longest super bowl ever. Didnt realize. With the power outage. There you go. Now it makes sense. Thanks in part to a power outage that delayed the game over half an hour. There is your problem. We could have watched had it not been for that. As we look to the weather, we have one School Closing to pass along. Garrett county, maryland schools are closed today as people out there deal with some snow. All right. Okay. We have Tucker Barnes sitting over here. Youre not wasting any time.
To protect peoples data, and if we cant do that, then we dont deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. So our responsible now is to make sure this doesnt happen again. Cnns Laurie Segall joins me now. Laurie, terrific, compelling interview. Well done. We saw contrition there. I think the question this morning is exactly what was the contrition for. Reporter look, i think its been a really rough year for facebook, and i think in the last week this has been a crisis for the company. I actually asked mark, i said we look at this company in the last year, we look at the weaponization of the platform for political gain, and can we trust that you guys are making sure we are protected as we go into the midterm elections and looking back, did you do enough . Take a listen. I think whats clear is that in 2016 we were not as on top of a number of issues as we should have been, whether it was russian interference or fake news. This isnt rocket science. Theres a lot of hard work that we ne
And a School Bus Driver takes off with a students backpack caught in the door. While the teens mom says it was intentional and racist. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im christine romans, it is 4 00 a. M. In the east, 4 00 p. M. In beijing, and today is the day, tariff day, the Trump Administration raising tariffs on 200 billion of chinese goods. That is thousands of different items, including dish washers, frozen fish, baseball caps. Tariffs hit roughly half of the products that china sells to the United States. How did we get here. Thats thanks to three rounds of tariffs last year starting with march, starting with the u. S. Hitting all steel and aluminum, including from china. The u. S. Then singled out beijing in july 2018 hitting 50 billion of chinese goods. Thats mostly hightech goods and then it goes on, china retaliated with tariffs on 50 billion u. S. Goods, mainly ag products which have big markets in china, and cemeseptember, 200 billion in chin