Good morning and thank you for joining us. And lets get things started with a look at the weather forecast. This a live look. Plenty of sunshine this morning. It is a quiet morgue. And were dealing with it is chilly out there. Look at temperatures. Freezing and 34. And 30s and fairfield. We expect a cool afternoon. Sunny and mild. Were going to talk about rain coming up. And the naacp the three white students accused of hate crimes should get stiffer charges. They support the felony charges and instead of the misdemeanors. And false imprisonment should be added. The three 18 year olds placed a lock around the neck of a Freshman Student, calling him racial name 3 leash 5 and hanging a Confederate Flag in the room. A fourth student was suspended on friday. Some in the way area are reaching out to help those hit by the typhoon in the philippines. They were gathering donations to send to the victims in the philippines. This week the center shipped supplies off to the victims. We expect mor
Lets start at the New York Stock Exchange. Nicole good morning. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Lets talk about what we are seeing here on wall street. The Dow Jones Industrials are down 28 points. We see the nasdaq is managing to squeeze out a game. Johnson johnson, walmart, boeing, procter and gamble are weighed on the dow. We are also keeping an eye on mcdonalds. They came out with quarterly numbers. The comp sales abroad were weaker. Mcdonalds has a down arrow right now. Back to you. Connell thank you very much. Dagen president obama expected to speak about 25 minutes from now. Connell rejected is that the white house today. Rich the president should be speaking about a half hour right now. They will not say how many people have actually signed up and got them through and been successful with this. We are not sure what ramifications will become of this. Now that the Government Shutdown is over, the issue of these Online Marketplaces are back at the forefront. The transparency or l
Correct . Around that time, sir. Okay. So for 3. 5 billion, we could keep the a10 in the inventory for a few more years and wouldnt have a gap. I would just say i think it would allow us to keep the a10 for that amount of money. It would be obviously up to them. Do both of you still believe that military commanders should bear the responsibility for dealing with Sexual Harassment problems in the military . Absolutely, senator. Absolutely. John, do you think were on the right track of getting a handle on this problem . I think as we look at the kinds of indicators that we normally used to track these reports, particularly have grown significantly. We view that as positive, as an personal to that, a good number of those reports are for years, where something happened before the soldier. Usually a female. But not always. The soldier even joined the military. That shows us they have increasing confidence. We obviously have a long ways to go. None of us are ready to declare victory. But we
Eastern time, italian unemployment 37year high and more signs of euro zone reflation. Shopper trak out with the first wide scale read on the Holiday Shopping season and its a mixed picture for november and december, instore foot traffic at the nations retailers fell 14. 6 compared to the year prior but instore sales grew at 2. 7 . Slightly hopper than what shoppertrak had forecast. The main reason for the traffic plunge they say is that. Shoers are making fewer store visits than in the past because most window shopping and browsing is done online ahead of time, so the shoppers that are making the Shopping Trips are going with intended purchases in mind. Black friday was indeed the strongest day for brick and mortar retailers both for sales and traffic. Then there was a large lull until the lastminute panic kicked in. The week ending december 28th accounted for four of the top ten sales and traffic days for the entire Holiday Season. When it comes to categories shoppertrak says electron