Over to tokyo. Sherry and is live. How bad the numbers were . Rish, it was quite surprising to see that revised gdp data out of japan today. The gdp shrinking an annualized 1. 9 and the third quarter. More than the initial breeding off contraction of 1. 6 first it. It was quite unexpected. Gave a the 24 economists figure that low. We had expected gdp data to be revised upwards. This figure showing the japanese economy is in a much deeper recession than originally thought. That will be a below to Prime Minister shinzo abe in the election season where we have less than a week to go to vote on sunday. Chari, lets discuss as he goes to the polls, he has a whole host of issues. Can you walk us through some of the key ones . Rish, a lot of Unfinished Business for the japanese Prime Minister. Three key issues. Lets get started with inflation, prices. Inflationary policies and not quite there. Rising only 0. 9 in october. When you strip the april sales tax hike. To carryay be forced out even m
Weakness in asia but again it looks like germany and france are turning things around at this point. Okay. Well talk about ebola this morning. The first case of a person contracting ebola on u. S. Soil has been confirmed. A Health Care Worker treating Thomas Eric Duncan who died last week contracted the deadly disease. We are joined this morning from dallas by meg tirrell. Meg . Reporter thats right. Good morning. This Health Care Worker was taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan. On friday she started to feel ill, went to the hospital to be assessed on saturday and tested positive. Yesterday the cdc confirmed it was ebola. Now we know that as of yesterday her condition was stable. One of her contacts has been proactively placed into isolation. The cdc director tom frieden said it is unknown exactly how the Health Care Worker was exposed. We dont know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. But at some point there was a breach of protocol and that bre
Global markets are going now. Dont do it today, hitting that 118,000 mark, could tomorrows jobs number put us over the top . A closer look at what people are expecting tomorrow morning, when that allimportant report from the Labor Department is released, 8 30 a. M. Morelier Oil Prices Today as we showed here on closing bell yesterday. Some stations, look at that we did it, 1. 99 a gallon. Thats why a few politicians now from both sides to of the aisle are starting to talk about the possibility of raising the gasoline tax, which hasnt been done in about 20 years and use that money to help fix our crumbling infrastructure. We have a de bit on that. Our friends kudlow and frank will be joining us. That should be fun. Looking forward to that. Will have a chance to weigh in. Here is what we see on the markets, an hour to go in the session it is the oil names again which are weighing on the dow, off about 16 points. Seems like chevron off about 2 . Exxon down about half of 1 . The s p dividi
Christian . Reporter yes, there are still remnants of a party. The police say a party happened last night here. You have a red cup here and this other one. The Police Believe the man was at the Party Last Night at the house but are staying tight lip how he might of died. The police say he is not a uc berkeley studient and does not live at the Fraternity House and he did not confirm and they did not confirm if the man knew anyone there. I spoke to a student who partied at this house before and this is his reaction. Oh my gosh, devastating to hear that someone died on it this beautiful campus. You know, it does not happen every day in this area, exactly, so, yes, devastating. Reporter the police did not answer questions if the body showed signs of alcohol poisoning or foul play. That still is under investigation but the police did say that it is being treated as a suspicious death. No arrests as of yet. But, we tried to knock on the door, got no answer earlier today. And right now we are
Ohio. The bridge fell on the tractortrailer and driver suffered minor injuries. Isis is demanding 200 million in exchange for the lives of two japanese hostages. President obama is expected to throw down the gauntlet on the sixth state of the Union Address. He doesnt understand the best economic stimulus is a job. The bomb threat at jfk airport forced the evacuation of two planes. I was nervous. The nfl is investigating if the patriots used deflated balls in the win over the colts. If this is true. Acts of people on motorcycles and dirt bikes wreaking havoc on miami streets. Heart stopping near miss on the new jersey turnpike as the tractortrailer skids out of control. No one was hurt. All that. You quit and run for president . Very likely. Let me tell you something. Go back and beg them for a job. And all that matters. And new England Patriots player being hailed a hero. Helping to take a lady out of her overturned car and to safety. It wasnt a big deal. Somebody needed help and i hel