Headlines today. A discussion of usled airstrikes in syria. Developments at the white house. We begin with yang yang and word that ebola cases could reach 1. 5 million by midjanuary. That covers just two countries. That is right. Sierra, just post he does estimates that without better containment of the Ebola Outbreak, there could be as many in the twoion cases west african countries by january. The third country hit hard by the virus was not included because the number of cases there has fluctuated too much to make modeling valid. The model estimates 550,000 cases on the lower end. The reason why the range is so large is because Officials Say they believe the cases to be significantly underreported by a factor of 2. 5. The latest tally from the World Health Organization shows 2800 asths and 5800 total cases of monday. To give you an idea of scale, 1. 4 million would be 240 times the current case number. Also today, the World Health Organization released a separate that predicted there
Tonight in the week ahead, how oil prices have economic and political impacts around the world. We begin with live pictures from brooklyn new york, where theres a growing memorial for two Police Officers killed in the line of duty yesterday. The aunts of one of the murdered officers faced the camera expressing gratitude to the public for their outreach. I would like to thank all those that shared sympathy and support for our beloved Family Member rafael ramos. Who will always be loved and missed. Rafael ramos and wenjian liu were shot dead execution style as they sat in their patrol guard. The lone gunman linked their killing to the unrest surrounding the deaths of eric garner and Michael Brown. All this brings little comfort it Police Officers who ensured public criticism. Reporter we are used to flowers and candles at christmas time, not like this. They are not bad, they are human beings, they have families, children. Its wrong all around. It has to stop. Reporter cell phone video sh
We start with breaking developments in iraq where the u. S. Has teard carried out air strikes to beat back islamic extremists whove unleashed a campaign of terror. Fighters of the group that calls itself the Islamic State made lightning advances capturing large parts of Northern Iraq and forcing thousands of iraqis to flee in fear of being massacred. The measures are stoking fears of genocide and regional instability, triggering president obama to give the goahead for u. S. Military action. Well go live to the city close to where the air strikes have hit as well as to washington. First, this report u. S. Bombs are again falling on iraq. Fighter jets struck artillery belonging to the i. S. Militant group a short distance from erbil. For weeks, Kurdish Security forces have been trying to stop the militant advance. Thats thought theyre joined by other kurdish groups from turkey, iran and syria but they havent been able to turn back the i. S. Onslaught. Erbil is a base for u. S. Diplomats
The Amnesty International report are absolutely true and there are many more that we havent even heard yet. There are thousands of women affected by the situation. But how many women are still in during this and girls are still in during this Inhumane Treatment . The vast majority of women that were kidnapped in the first place are still in captivity. Only a small fraction of that number of women have actually escaped. A few hundred have escaped, but there are thousands that are still in captivity. They were located at several areas in the group of volunteers i work with have pushed for months to have a case for action to free those women. That window of opportunity closed prior to this military operation that is happening right now. Most of those women were moved into syria and iraq into areas where it is very difficult to rescue them. It appears that the system of abduction and rape of these women has become a central part of the socalled Islamic State groups policy. This is not some
Here are the big stories were watching China Central bank cutting the bench mark interest point. The move giving stocks a boost in asia today. And then this one is deep. A big deal. Check this out. Nxp, andrew is buying free scale. Check out the nxp price. Its in cash and stock about 12 billion is what they said. No premium initially because it closed at 36. 11 free scale did. And theyre paying 36. 14 in cash and stock. Look what happened to the acquiring company nxp is up 14 or 15 . So the tieup between the two companies are getting more valuable by the second. But its more than 40 billion. Both make a lot of things for cars. You know, some mobile stuff but i think free scale was mostly microcontrollers and nxp has recently gotten into stuff for payments, too. Which is getting both have been in private equity hands and come out. Freescale used to be motorolas semiconductor and nxp was part of philips. You know this . I did. Did you really . Youre acting like everything im telling you