Were live in Gramercy Park this evening, back over to you. Steve thanks, liz. Also developing at 5 00, a tsunami advisory has been lifted in southern japan after the island nation was rocked by a second strong earthquake in a little more than 24 hours. Dari Lidia Curanaj joining us from the newsroom with the latest on the rescue and recovery. Reporter not only was the area hit with an earthquake 24 hours ago, but they also suffered through more than 100 aftershocks in the interim. Todays quake struck eight miles south of where thursdays quake hit. This latest quake was extremely powerful, with a preliminary magnitude of 7. 1. The quake shook the region at 1 25 saturday. Several aftershocks followed, some as strong as 5. 3 magnitude. Japanese media is showing collapsed streets, crumbling buildings and homes. The number of dead is unknown. There are many reports of people being trapped inside their homes because the earthquake was its technically a foreshock. Dramatic video has surfaced
Reports from boca raton, florida. Reporter it started with a handshake, but the friendliness ended there. President barack obama and mitt romney spent the next 90 minutes to both outwit and outmaneuver each other. Obama highlighted the Foreign Policy achievements of his administration over the past four years. We ended the war in iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9 11. And were now able to transition out of afghanistan in a responsible way, making sure that afghans take responsibility for their own security. And that allows us also to rebuild alliances and make friends around the world to combat future threats. Reporter on the other hand, romney accused obama of making the United States appear weak immediately after taking office. The president began what ive called an apology tour of going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. I think they looked at that and saw weakness. In those nations and on arabic you said that america had b
We begin with the very latest developments in the crisis in syria. Secretary of state john kerry went on all five sunday network talk shows today to say that preliminary tests prove deadly sarin gas was used to kill more than 1400 people in damascus. The arab league, a group of Foreign Ministers from several gulf countries, ended their meeting in cairo with a call for International Effort to end the violence against the syrian people. Meanwhile in washington, congressional leaders will hold hearings in the days ahead on president obamas request to launch a military attack. No votes are expected before september 9th. Syrias Opposition Coalition says dictatorships like iran and north korea are watching closely to see how the free world responds. Weve got more on all of this from al jazeeras Jeanne Meserve in washington. Reporter syrian president Bashar Al Assad meaning with a prominent member of the Iranian Parliament says his country is cable of confronting external aggression from the
Thats whats being put through a little bit of processing come easily removed, but the rest of it has to be stored in tanks, okay. So theres a couple sources of leakage here, of contamination. We have these trenches that were between the building, reactor buildings and the ocean, okay. Those have contamination in them and thats one possible source. But you had some leakage of these tanks. These tanks were bolted together. They were not welded, okay. And some of them have leaked. One has a late a significant amount, and a couple others, a Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority sent out a report last week saying that one tank leaked approximate 300 tons of water, a lot. And they were relatively high readings of radiation that came out up some of those tanks. Whether that radiation actually makes it into the sea i dont know. That was the last surface radiation. The monitoring that the japanese have been doing, the radiation monitoring that theyve been doing of the sea, you know, near the ou
There are a few names squeezing out some names. There is a lot going on, of course. Apply existing home sales rose 6. 5 . You can see it remains a mixed bag. We should also note that Toll Brothers came out with their fiscal order profit. It fell 24 . There are a lot of buyers that rushed in. You can see it is up about a half right now. Our next guest says we are in for some turbulence. Do not worry just yet, we see some great buying opportunity. Joining us to talk about all of that is scott wren. We are in a dip now. You would expect that we would reverse that. I think so, adam. Pullbacks are opportunities. It is the same thing we are telling them now. So far, not big on a percentage basis. It is an opportunity. I would like to see a little bit more. We want them prepared for the next year and a half. I think it will overall be good for the market. Adam do you think that the worst is over for them . The backtoschool season has not been very good. These retailers have been putting out a