Chairman ben bernanke offered no urgency ending the Bond Buying Program. Gold lost 16. Oil moved up 55 cents. Also in the session, the feds beige book noted the economy is growing at a modest to moderate rate. A trio of tech earnings came in after the close ibm profits fell, but big blue lifted its forecast. Ebays earnings were in line, although its outlook was weaker than expected. And intel earnings fell 29 . And the filibuster in the senate has ended, allowing president obamas nominee to the labor deparment, thomas perez, to move forward with his confirmation. Todd horwitz of average joe options is all over the Trading Market for us this morning. Good morning, todd. Good morning. How are you . I am doing wonderfully well. What about comments from the fed. Stocks moved higher as ben bernanke was on capitol hill yesterday. What will it mean for todays trading . You know, i dont think he said a lot, and hes still got another full day of testimony today. I think yesterday he accomplishe
Lets all honor what barack obama said. Whether youre the mayor tried to address the crowd, praising president obamas speech on race, but she was heckled and intoed. Unlike protests when Oakland Police admit they were unprepared and vandals smashed windows and injured people, this time there were many officers quietly watching the event, which went from noon until 3 00 this afternoon. There were in arrests, peaceful. No damage. Theres a candlelight vigil at 7 30 tonight at lake merritt. As a precaution, several businesses kept their windows boared up in downtown oakland. Bank of america and California Bank and trust both kept plywood in place. The tribune building installed security cameras and lighting. Across the bay in San Francisco supporters of Trayvon Martin rallied peacefully. Passionate but Peaceful Protesters rallied in front of San Franciscos Federal Building against George George george ges acquittal. A real attack and neglect of young black children in this country. One day
Areas of fog this morning. It may be a impacted your visibility. Pretty much clear elsewhere but the temperatures this morning are on the chilly side. 45 degrees for a bottle. Oakland is at 48 degrees. About 43 degrees currently in livermore. We are expecting another springlike day today. We have changes to talk about coming up. Our top story this morning. A Malaysia Airlines boeing 777200 is missing over vietnam. Kron fours mike pelton is in the newsroom with the latests. Mike . Marty, this plane carrying 239 people, was headed from kuala lumpur to beijing. It took off around 1230 this morning. It then lost contact around 240 local time with air traffic control. Search and rescue crews from several countries are searching to locate the plane. Here is a map of where the plane reportedly crashed. Vietnamese reports say signals have been detected about 140 miles southwest of vietnams southernmost coastal province of ca mau. A vietnam official has since denied this report. A crash scene h
Delegation, tennis great Billy Jean King and 1988 Gold Medalist brian boitana what could they expect. Plus analysis on all of this from peg knee noonan of the wall street journal, legendary Washington Post reporter bob woodward, conservative William Chris tall of the Weekly Standard and former white house chief of staff now cbs contributor william daly. 60 years of news because this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs schieffer good morning again as you probably know by now there has been another mall shooting yesterday, a 19yearold police have now identified as Darion Marcus Aguilar of college park, maryland, took a shotgun and two homemade explosive devices in to a suburban mall in maryland, shot and killed two people then apparently turned the gun on himself. Plus there is a new threat against the sochi olympics that is surfaced this morning from the same group that claimed responsibility for the bombings in volgograd, rusha those killed at least 34 people. For latest on
Clerk read the verdict. State of florida versus George Zimmerman. Verdict, we the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty. Schieffer cbs news correspondent has been covering this case over the last year he is in florida this morning with the latest, mark . Good morning, bob. Not guilty in the end jury of six women, five of them mothers decided that George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in self defense. His face was impassive. He shook hands with his lawyers as his wife cried in the gallery. Prosecutors looked drained in defeat they lost in both the murder and manslaughter conviction they pushed for, Trayvon Martins parents who watched every day of testimony from the courtroom were not present for the verdict. Zimmerman never took the stand but jurors watched lawyers use a man can to recreate his no independent witness saw the fight before he was arrested. And by then, the martin familys private outrage had gone national. There are no winners here in sanford. Zimmerman is a freeman but m