Service steps down is the Security Breach over or just beginning. Behind the picture 35,000 walruses converged on a slither of land in alaska. What the image says about their plight and climate change. We begin this hong kong where the call for democracy is growing stronger. Its 11 oclock thursday morning there now. Protestors have given the chief executive of hong kong a deadline to resign, saying they want him out of office by thursday night, or theyll begin to occupy government buildings. Scott heidler is amidst the tents and umbrellas in hong kong. What are you seeing this morning where you are . What we are seeing is a little bit of a shift. Not many protesters have come down to where we are. We are in front of the chief Executives Office. The main protest area is down the street a little bit. Again, dozens of protesters, its 11 oclock in the morning. Before we see a peak in numbers of protesters, but dozens have come down here. This is something we havent seen for a couple of day
Service has resigned. That information copping in just about 45 minutes ago. And it comes amid several controversial Security Breaches involving the president , his family and the white house specifically. Mike viqueira join us live from the white house. Mike, how exactly did julia piersons resignation come about today . Were just learning after an interview that she characterizes her movement as, quote, the noble thing to do. The white house yesterday and as late as this morning was expressing full confidence in julia pi erson as director of the secret service. But recent and accumulating events, thats the phrase of the day, had led the president and director of Homeland Security jay johnson to believe that it was time to look for a new direction. Ms. Pierson had undergone a grilling by both republicans and democrats at capitol hill. She said she was outraged as well. Nanny pelosi, chuck schumer, elijah cummings, who led the hearing yesterday, and the hearing where julia was excoriate
And we begin tonight with a clail of responsibility for last weeks attack at Charlie Hebdo. The leader of the yemen branch of al qaeda said the massacre was quote vengeance for the prophet. The white house says the video is genuine but the claim may not be. A name that doesnt come up so often in the media but the man appears to be one of the most senior members of al qaeda in the asian arab aryan peninsula. Arabian peninsula. Gls l we laid out the plan and financed the operation and signed the order for a the attack. The order came from our leader, ayman al zawahri. 2011 was involved in the initial planning of the attacks. The u. S. Had accused him of recruiting western targets to attack western targets. The new al qaeda video is seen by some as nothing more than propaganda. This analyst says he has a hard time believing al qaedas statements. Wouldnt have taken this long to organize this type of attack. This is one of the reasons im skeptical. Im also skeptical because these two brothe
Vaccination fears cause a measle outbreak at disney theme parks . And we begin with the latest developments in france where police have arrested more than 50 people in the last week. Its being called a crackdown on hate speech. The arrests include a controversial muslim french comedian, du donay who condemned terrorism righting i feel like Charlie Coulibaly a reference to the man that led the attacks in a kosher deli an Al Qaeda Group in yemen today claimed responsibility for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo but responsibility for the attack that followed may reach beyond al qaeda. Reporter the details emerging about the violence of terrorists last week are painting a complex picture. Brutal attacks inspired by rival groups. The first last wednesday. 12 were killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical french newspaper. Police identified the gunman as brothers said kouachi and cherif kouachi. They had known ties to al qaedas branch in yemen. Reports say one of the brothers had weapo
Up th andeis going vix is going up. At 2. 13. Res are lower crude is 92 which is low. In spite of the headlines coming out of russia and iraq and syria, oil is down because we are not growing to the extent we were. The supply issues in the u. S. , we have plenty of it. Lets go to the russell 2000 index. This is a 10 year chart. You can see would get annualized gains of about 4. 8 which is better than the s p 500 but here is that correction. People warned that that might be the canary in the coal mine for big caps. Start in weve got small caps down four percent and you look at in hart can we bring i want to show you on the 10 year chart, this is the scary thing we are seeing. In the long term that is not scary. That says we can go further down. Our twitter question of the day is the u. S. Stock market on the verge of a correction . You can tweet us. We dont want to be alarmists. It has been three years since we have had a correction of more than 10 . Some people say we are a long way of