Thanks, simon. We begin this hour with trading troubles in the market. The three big areas were focusing on macro, fundamental and technical, and dominic chu will lay out the bull and bear case for each. Dom . Theres strong and theres a lot of them on both sides of the equation. Sure. Lets talk about the macro Bigger Picture scale first. First of all, you have at least whats perceived to be some economic strength or resiliency. Maybe not robust growth. Still, in the eurozone and the u. S. , yes, i know the eurozone is stepied at best and may be slipping back to recession but its holding in there and the u. S. Holding it better than most economies out there. Thats kind of the bullish case if you want to see it that way. Take a look at china though. Slowing growth there. Growing faster than any of us out here, but, still, that slowing growth may be a huge case for the downside of chinas economic woes really deepen as the market it your miles condition. Lets take a look at whats happening
And we begin with the search for answers in virginia after a tv reporter and cameraman were killed this morning. The gunman was vester flanagan, a former colleague of wdbj in roanoke, and he shot himself after killing them. Whats the latest . Reporter tony, good to see you as well, and good evening, and the latest, within the past few minutes, we have learned that the alleged shooter, vester flanagan, allegedly used a 9millimeter bloch pistol to carry out the shootings this morning at the plaza, and were told that he legally purchased the weapon back in july, according to his simple manifesto, which was released two hours after the killings. He said that he bought the gun two days after the shootings in charlton, South Carolina. The thing, tony, you have to remember that this is a very small community. Were in the town of monita. And its a Small Television station as well. So Alison Parker and adam wards work is known here, and the deaths are beginning to resident may. 6 25 p. M. , the
This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tropical storm erika is dumping five inches of rain on puerto rico, as it continues its path through the caribbean. Four were killed as erika dumped 15 inches of rain on that small island nation. Twenty people are missing there. Fastflowing rivers swept up cars, landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies knocked out. The storm now heading towards florida. Kevin joins us with details. This storm has been inconsistent and hasnt gotten its act together. Since yesterday, taking a look at the satellite and radar, you can see the rain showers in puerto rico. The radar ends here, but the satellite as you can see, the Actual Center of the storm is not here, its here towards the west. We do think that as randall said, puerto rico will be getting up to about five inches of rain over the next several hours, but my concern as we go through the rest of the morning into the afternoon is the Dominican Repub
Good evening, everyone. Bitter cold temperatures across the country in all 50 states, even hawaii, forced millions of americans into hibernation today. Freezing temperatures with below 0 wind chills shut down many companies, stopped trains, grounded planes and caused Power Outages for thousands of homes and businesses weather experts say the dramatic drop in temperatures today, as much as 15 degrees below zero in some sections of the midwest, may be the coldest day in the u. S. In almost 20 years. Its a phenomenon they call the polar vortex. One beneficiary of this deep freeze, natural gas. For the second day in a row, demand hit a record. Prices pulled back late today on hopes the cold snap will soon end. Jackie deangeles has more. Reporter yeah. Its cold outside. Teeth are chattering from the plains through the upper midwest and all the way to the east coast. Wind chills, though, are negative 20 or so. Reporter new york city hit a record low of 4 degrees. And even atlanta was feeling
All that and more on nightly Business Report for tuesday, january 7th. Good evening, everyone. Bitter cold temperatures across the country in all 50 states, even hawaii, forced millions of americans into hibernation today. Freezing temperatures with below 0 wind chills shut down many companies, stopped trains, grounded planes and caused Power Outages for thousands of homes and businesses weather experts say the dramatic drop in temperatures today, as much as 15 degrees below zero in some sections of the midwest, may be the coldest day in the u. S. In almost 20 years. Its a phenomenon they call the polar vortex. One beneficiary of this deep freeze, natural gas. For the second day in a row, demand hit a record. Prices pulled back late today on hopes the cold snap will soon end. Jackie deangeles has more. Reporter yeah. Its cold outside. Teeth are chattering from the plains through the upper midwest and all the way to the east coast. Wind chills, though, are negative 20 or so. Reporter ne