Stock exchange. We await for a fed meeting to begin tomorrow. China slips 3. 5 overnight. Japan leaves policy unchanged. Back here, retail sales okay. July revised up. Good auto sales offset by lower spending at the gas stations. Ahead of the rate decision, former central bankers are out today with more pronouncement force the fed. Asia continues to suffer. Shanghai down 3 as the bank of japan holds on a rate move. An upgrade forfe fitbit. More data for the fed to digest ahead of the twoday policy meeting set to get underway tomorrow. Retail sales up 0. 2 . Last month stripped out auto sales up 0. 1, that marks six consecuticon seco consecutive months without a decline. How does this get digested at the table tomorrow . The areas that are strong in the economy are rate sensitive. Autos, housing. I know a lot of people say bring on the rate increase. But you just mentioned where the strength is. That strength can be taken away. It can be taken away by a belief that unless the statement
Lead and you know the list, like a quarter of the periodic table. Reporter the push to get one company to cleanup its act after contaminating 70 miles of a river. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, russias military making an aggression move in effort to take over crimea. The troops seized three Ukrainian Navy vessel in sevastopol and quickly changed the flag over the flag to russia colors and president obama is warning russia not to go further ni in, ukraine and they have close ties to russian president putin and he signs an agreement for closer ties with the eu and we have Team Coverage this morning and phil is in kiev but lets begin with Jennifer Glasse in sevastopol where the navy ships were seizeed and you have been following the take over of the vessel and what do we know at this point . Reporter well, you know, we noticed a lot of activity with ukraine navy yesterday, activity with the ships and blocked in the port for nearly three weeks but that is
vehicle bomb. there was roughly a 32-foot crater in the street that was about dead center of the block. investigators get the first big break. they learned that a rear axel housing that probably came from the truck bomb landed around 200 yards from the bomb site. i heard something coming from the air and i looked up and you can see this big object coming towards us. when it hit the car, it knocked it down to the sets of doors and i looked in front of my car and there was an axle laying there. i said there is a car bomb. early indications are the bomb was a half ton bomb made of fertilizer and fuel oil. fortunately the axle housing contains the truck s confidential vehicle identification number. using that number, we were able to trace the vehicle and identify it as a fort motor product made for ryder company. they re inform the fbi this