Record highs for stocks, jobless claims out. Mario draghi speaking now in frankfurt. Cbs revealing terms of live treeming. Tesla reports record deliveries. Losses mount. Both stocks are in the green before the open. A lot for investors to digest this morning. The ecb keeping its benchmark Interest Rate at record lows. Ecb president draghi says the central bank expects to increase the size of its Balance Sheet toward 2012 levels. Opec cutting its Production Forecast project the it would fall by 2017. In the states, did fall. The Second Lowest level this year. Comes ahead of tomorrows key october jobs number. Between gas prices, jobs market, the market, politics, things are suddenly working in ways they werent a month ago. I had the ceo of Marathon Petroleum on. He is the best keeper of the number. Has 8,000 gas stations. What was so incredible was he said youre just not being bullish enough about what happens in this country when gasoline goes down. Maybe youre not bullish about whats h
Flames as it crashed in Eastern Ukraine this morning. All of the nearly 300 people on board killed this man watching it all. Saying i knew it was an airplane right away. Fell over there. White streak raining from the sky. Debris from the boeing triple 7. Falling into fiery masses spread across 10 miles. U. S. Officials say it is clear the plane traveling at 33,000 feet from amsterdam to kuala lumpur shot down by a sophisticated missile. Not an accident. Blown out of the sky. Reporter Officials Say still unsure who launched the missile and from where. Russia and pro russian rebel who have been in a growing battle with ukraine deny any involvement. Ukraine officials claim they have evidence. What they say are 2 intercepted phone call including this one. Separatist at the scene reportedly tells Russian Military intelligence we have just shot down a plane. Tonight the wreckage still smoldering. Very grim scene that we are seeing here. Reporter u. S. Urging rebel not to move anything includ
Situation. The secretary is of course aware of these reports. Were seeking additional information. Good evening. Im ama daetz in for cheryl jennings. Im larry beil. A missile fired from the ground brought down flight 17. 298 people on board, 3 infants have just been added to the death toll. We do not have confirmation of how many, if any, americans were on board though the guess is somewhere around 25. Most of the passengers were europeans, on a flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. Witnesses reported seeing a rocket blast hit the plane when it was above eastern ukraine. Parts of the plane and bodies are scattered up to ten miles from the main crash site. Ukraine security blames russian separatists for the attack and they plan to submit phone calls reported as evidence of a plot and emergency United Nations meeting tomorrow. Russian president Vladimir Putin said today, ukraine is to blame because of the unrest in that area. President obama talked to putin as well as ukraines president
If it turns out russia is involved the president will are v. To consider a stronger stance. Wayne freedman has more about the crash and its implications. Reporter the flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur takes more than 11 hours. It is a journey so long the plane would have landed just about one hour ago, the passengers might not even have their bags yet. Instead, we have an International Airline disaster with big ramifications. This is the first image most of the world saw from todays tragedy in ukraine, a plume of black smoke destined to become as iconic and repeated as lockerbie scotland or Korean Airlines 007 or any other airline disaster. An event playing out on multiple levels worldwide. Horrified. I thought it was a tragedy of enormous proportion and the next step in the evolution of this conflict. Reporter for ukrainians, even local ones, its the we told you so coming back to haunt. A conflict between ukraine, the kremlin, and russian separatists costing 295 innocence lives, a
Those warm remnants of christmas feelings. Mission accomplished, the protesters told us. This is a small tarnishing compared to a body of a loved one laying in the street for four and a half hours. Reporter there you have it. The day after christmas in union square. You cant always get what you want. Even when someone else insists its really what you need. A huge point of this movement is to disrupt. Reporter can a cause and christmas coexist . Not really. Reporter from union square, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. The wife of a Police Officer in the bay area is taking to facebook saying she fears protesters will attack her or her family. Kgo radio reports she posted you thug, we are ready for you, bought thousands of rounds this weekend. She wants to remain anonymous. We are all on heightened awareness. I now have a guard dog in my yard. I have my own gun. Our alarm system, our lighting on the exterior of our home, are all things we now pay very close attention to. I am perfectly comforta