Partially restored in north korea following a ninehour outage, but u. S. Officials deny any action against pyongyang. And another defeat, the greek government is once again tested as lawmakers head into a second president ial vote that could bring the country closer to snap elections. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Glad youre with us here on the next two hours on worldwide exchange. Weve seen another volatile saegz for the ruble. Its given up exchange against the dollar, but trading a little higher against the dollar at the moment. In the last hour, a report emerged that the countrys Prime Minister told the largest state exporter to sell part of their forex reserves. If its in an effort to try to stabilize the currency. It intends to hold consultations with these exporters on these particular measures. The ruble has lost almost 70 against the greenback against the dollar. The worst performing c
Sell dollars. There had been a lot of people calling for that. It turns out it is actually happening. Pay attention to greece. Stocks falling as the second round of a approximateliat volley takes place. Antonas samaras failing to get enough votes from parliament in greece. The analysts say early elections could derail and some of the reforms and raise the risk of another economic setback. Andrew, back over to you. Thank you, becky. Some stocks to watch this morning, Chesapeake Energy failing in a deal to sell southwestern energy. That company okaying a stock buyback plan of 1 million. The company says its small to medium sized business continues to show growth. Vanda pharmaceuticals, those shares surging after the Company Agrees to sell with novartis. And then theres confidential resources, feeling the impact of its own oil prices. The producer announcing plans to decrease its capital budgets to 4. 6 billion from 5. 2 billion by the end of next year. Other Corporate News close to home,
Chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell. But first, do no harm . We will look at the central role the Health Professionals played in the cia torture program. Ddid doctors violate the nuremberg code banning human experimentation . Then to the 25th anniversary of the u. S. Invasion of panama. Clear this invasion was illegal. It is not debatable. The goals of the United States have been a safeguard the lives of americans, to defend democracy in panama. How in the world do restore that which has never existed . Panama customer been a democracy since we created panama for own purposes in 1903. Thiss did was go down american control and dominance in panama. We will speak with former panamanian diplomat Humberto Brown and latin american historian greg grandin. His latest piece, how the iraq war began in panama. And colonel wilkerson. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New york city mayor bill de blasio
Another day. The detective wrote back quote, yeah, but you shouldnt have had sex with me after i was knocked out. Mcdonald then texted that he did nothing wrong. He has not been charged in the case. The tide was unusually high across the bay area today and that was a very big concern for residents of a peninsula Mobile Home Park that is still waterlogged after heavy rain earlier this month. Thats right. Abc 7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana is live in belmont with a look at whats happening there. Reporter belmont mobile home residents were able to get back into their homes in the last few days but they have not been able to get there using this main entrance because as you can see, there is a series of cubes that have been set up. This is the temporary drainage system to help address one of the problems as to why the mobile home flooded. Cal trans crews and San Mateo County crews are still trying to address some of the other problems associated. The drainpipe leads back to this contrapti
With a big boulder to bring Specialty Equipment in to break it u they will have to do some pavement work, as well, but it is also a foggy drive. I want to show you the delays we are dealing with, 32 members away from larkspur right up to the scene of the mudslide. Eric and cheryl . Thank you. It is not ride slides but nothing messing up the drive for the rest of the people in the bay area. It is thick as you can see from the camera on Mount Tamalpais barely able to see the financial district through the clouds. Here is how it looks for drivers, a look at the bay bridge toll plaza and you can see the fog is hovering rights them with a sign to warn drivers of thick fog on span. It is thick at the embarcadero and tourists were trying to enjoy the sights but they want to know how long the fog will last and what is ahead not rest of the week. Meteorologist mike nicco is here with the answer. A couple more hours. It has take an long time for the sun because we are at the lowest sun angle the