Three al jazeera reporters are granted a new trial. Ringing in 2015, the worlds biggest and best news celebration. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. While millions of people range in the new year peacefully, it was a trankic start to 2015 in shanghai. 35 people were killed, dozens more injured at a stampede at a celebration. Someone dropped coupons out of a window that looked like money when it started. A night of revelry quickly turned chaotic. This is the skean of what started as a news celebration. The injured lie on the ground, run down in a stampede on the waterfront district. It started just before midnight. Police are still investigating the cause. We were down stairs and those upstairs wanted to move down and those upstairs wanted to move up. We were pushed down. All those trying to move up fell down on the stairs. Witnesses reported seeing cue upons being throwing into the crowd that looked like dollar bills. Pictures of the coupons have appeared on social media. As
Response to the surprisingly high november jobs are words. And the road ahead for the department of justice in a series of civil rights investigations. Now to our top story, and it is the november jobs report. It was the biggest burst of hiring in three years, and the latest sign the u. S. Is outperforming other economies route the developed world. Experts summed it up in one word wow. My reaction was wow. This is probably one of the best years since the 1990s. Say onemists always months numbers do not tell you anything, and that is true, but this was really a good number. The Labor Department also said that 44 thousand additional jobs were added. Gained this year, putting 2014 to be the strongest year for hiring since 1999. Two discussed the jobs report, im joined by diane swonk, chief economist from Mesirow Financial. Good to see you. Good to see you, too, mark. Were strongerrs than the most optimistic projections. Did they surprise you as well . Definitely. There are based gains in
Than expected in october in germany, but the central bank has cut its forecast for Economic Growth. The bundesbank says it will grow 1 , half of what it called for in june. Two hours for not from now president obama will formally introduce his pick to be the next secretary of defense, former pentagon official Ashton Carter. For two years, he was the number two civilian officials at the Defense Department and the militarys top weapons fire. Protests are spreading against the grand jury decision in the eric garner case. Here in new york city, traffic was blocked. Similar protests are planned in other cities. Toew york grand jury refused indict a white Police Officer for killing eric garner, a black man, in staten island. Spacecraft the orion on an Unmanned Mission that will last four and a half hours. Theill make two orbits of earth before splashing down in the pacific ocean. Back to the top story, novembers labor report out in less than 30 minutes. We are counting down. We are joined by
Global markets are going now. Dont do it today, hitting that 118,000 mark, could tomorrows jobs number put us over the top . A closer look at what people are expecting tomorrow morning, when that allimportant report from the Labor Department is released, 8 30 a. M. Morelier Oil Prices Today as we showed here on closing bell yesterday. Some stations, look at that we did it, 1. 99 a gallon. Thats why a few politicians now from both sides to of the aisle are starting to talk about the possibility of raising the gasoline tax, which hasnt been done in about 20 years and use that money to help fix our crumbling infrastructure. We have a de bit on that. Our friends kudlow and frank will be joining us. That should be fun. Looking forward to that. Will have a chance to weigh in. Here is what we see on the markets, an hour to go in the session it is the oil names again which are weighing on the dow, off about 16 points. Seems like chevron off about 2 . Exxon down about half of 1 . The s p dividi
Players who become doctors and there are lots of people who go on to law school who were gymnasts. These are decisions that the student had to make. Its not easy. Its difficult, again from it gets into the whole issue of time commitment, and if its a tough balancing act, but whether or not the degree to which athletes are supported in their academic choices again gets into, its a school by School Situation but some athletes experience proved to be really fulfilling. Others not so much. There some question whether call it was talk about, those experiences are out there and theyre real and those things happen. Theyre not just happen in football and mens basketball. They happen in gymnastics, swimming track athletes come it happens across the board. Host mike from pennsylvania. The morning, go ahead. Caller okay. Earlier you had a call from another penn state alumni and abroad of the fairness issue of what happened to penn state. You didnt seem to have an opinion about the fairness issue,