Will the president elect deliver on elevated expectations . The pound tumbles and the chancellor Philip Hammond repairs to attend a conference with Angela Merkel today. How hard will the conversation the . Be . Than one half hour away from the european open. Lets look at futures. Outlierooking at a ftse once again. Yesterday we had the ftse close up, the dax closed down. Today we have ftse futures up of 1 . Hundredths unchanged there across the board. Not a lot of actions. A lot of news today though. Is interesting is the commodity space, what is happening with gold, what is happening with copper overnight. That is an interesting story. The dollar dipping a little bit and that is understandable, given what is happening. A bit of nervousness in advance to wednesday with donald trump. Hear from janet yellen thursday as well. That is something to bear in mind. The bloomberg dollar index down one 2 10 of 1 this morning. The euro is up, we like to see the swiss franc up just to make it more
A u. S. Think tank says china has nearly finished constructing buildings on artificial islands in the South China Sea that are intended to house missile systems. And premium premiere, japans government and Business Community launch a campaign to get workers out of the office and in the mood to spend. Malaysias police chief has made a major announcement in the investigation into the killing of kim jong nam. He says a toxic nerve agent was used to kill the halfbrother of the north korean leader. We confirm it, it is the vx nerve agent. Which is a chemical weapon. He said on friday that swabs taken from kims eyes and face tested positive for the substance. Vx is banned under international treaty. The police chief said investigators are trying to determine how the substance entered the country. Kim jong nam died last week after being assaulted in the kuala lumpur airport. Police have three people in custody. Two of them are women believed to have assaulted kim. The chief said one of them s
Authorities say three suicide, bombers blew them self up, is the international terminal. So far in one has claim responsibility for the attack. Cbs evening news with scott pelley will have much more on this developing story coming up at 6 30 right here on Eyewitness News at 6 00. Idea ace recalling tense of millions of dressers and chest being blamed for deaths of several young children. Our rahel solomon is live in ikea in south philadelphia with more on the action, that some say is coming a little too late. Industry experts say for years they have been urging ikea to get these products off of the shelves and out of peoples home. Now as they are calling them major, ikea did just that. Simulation is disturbing, the reality is even more so for at least three families who say their children were killed when a dresser fell and trapped toddlers underneath. Alan feldman represents family of local victim cure ran colas. They have a profitable item, they were selling millions of them and this
International terminal of airport and opened fire before blowing up themselves. I was in there and people were shooting. We all ran the other way. And then bombs went off. And people were start running the other way and there was more shooting. We came out and i think there was another bomb. Reporter First Responders arrived to find people running out of the airport. While inside, nervous passengers huddled together in stores. You can see total strangers cramped together for safety in this Instagram Post. Officials say two of the attackers struck inside the terminals after police started firing shots. A third blue himself up in the parking lot. According to information i have received at the entrance to the Airport International terminal terrorist first opened fire with and blue themselves up. Reporter in addition to the injured about three dozen people so far are reported dead. The death toll is expected to rise. Officials say all indications suggest the islam tick state group is behi
Better for you. Reads this tweet that i just posted. Oh, that appears to be trending. Lol. Right now new details in dead al tack at one europes busiest airports and the death toll keeps climbing. We do know three suicide bombers were suspected ties to isis target the the airport tonight. Leaving dozen dead. Good evening, im iain page. Im dawn timmeney in more lucy noland. It started with gunshots and ended with three explosions. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in our newsroom. Shawnette, none of these bombers got past security checks at the terminal. Reporter thats right, dawn. Heres what we can tell you. Officials say the attackers detonated those explosives at the entrance to the International Term nag which is actual particularly you enter the xray security check. So far we know 36 people are reported dead. Nearly 200 hurt. Including police officers. Total chaos in instant bull. Taxi drivers scoop up dozen wounded people and take them to the hospital. This after three suicide bombe