The official statement has eased german citizens have the right across from east germany into west germany. Thousands,of the tens of thousands of east germans going west have had to pastor other communist nations, most of them passing through chaska czechoslovakia. Now they have the right to go directly to west germany. Dennis murphy is in berlin right now and has been following the events. What more do you know about this startling decision . Seriesy astonishing in a of events that have happened the last few days and hours. In the last five minutes on television here in west berlin and the eased, the germans east and west, speaking for the government, the Media Spokesman said are no more borders, that east germans may cross to the west over whatever existing border frontiers there are. That eliminates the route to czechoslovakia. We have been following to the last few days, the hundreds of thousands of east germans leaving via that route. That is no longer necessary. What we have here
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jungle. while you are running they are still shooting? they had identified people they wanted to kill. it is almost impossible to fathom, even now, more than 900 americans dead in the jungle at jonestown. you are telling me this man says drink this poison and they drink it? that s right. we take you inside the mission that observed the dangerous truth. the only video camera there to capture it all belonged to nbc news. he said i can never put this camera down. rare pictures and powerful details. my whole shirt was dripping with red blood. all of a sudden i was hit. a riveting look at the story that still haunts the whole world. whole world. and welcome to dateline. jim jones led nearly 1,000 americans hello and jim jones led nearly 1000 americans to a remote area in south america, promising a religious paradise. what followed was more like hell on earth. the horror almost too horrible to believe. you are about to hear from some eyewitnesses who lived t
In europe. And then finally a quick look at crude before we get to a couple of the big stories of the morning. Wti at 46. 57. That would have been a good move around the 40 handle couple of days ago. Here are the big stories were watching today. Amazon crushing earnings estimate, posting most profitable quarter ever. We asked yesterday are they still sewing . Or starting to reap . Looks like the reaping has been. Cloud computing business. I thought they sold books. No. They have changed apparently. Side things. Other things in the last few years. Helped the Online Retail giant pull off the beat and stock took off. Jeff bezos net worth went up estimated 6 billion dollars based on how much stock he owns. And other stocks on the move this morning as we check into earnings central. Pandora reporting a wider First Quarter loss. Although it wasnt as bad as analysts expect. The streaming Music Service is raising full year outlook thanks to higher ad sales. And baidu fell to lowest level. Chin
Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. And happy friday. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. Sharp declines. Over 1 in the dow. Expected to open slightly positively. Essentially we are flat in the pre market but called higher by 4 points. And the s p by 1 and the nasdaq by about 17 points. Lets look at the 10 year treasure note. Yields ranging around 1. 7 and 1. 9 over the last three weeks. Chinas central bank fixing its currency t yuan higher. In fact at the sharpest pace since 2005 when china removed its peg to the u. S. Dollar. There have been huge swings in currency all week long led by yesterdays massive jump in the yen. How did i miss that . A 3 move in the yen. Bank of japans surprise decision to do nothing and leave the Monetary Policy unchanged. And of course the big importance is the chinese currencys depreciation in the beginning of the year that was spooking markets and its gone the other way and that is calming. The dollar index, dollar br