Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. We have two hours together. Right now on the wires, we are just looking at the ecodata hitting. And just a note from my producer, my wire has just gone down, so we are looking at the german Business Climate falling for the month of august. Revisions to july indices are seen as well, but the Expectations Index coming in at 101. 7 for the month of august. The Consensus Forecast was for 102. So the Expectations Index a little bit light. They are stating no revisions to the july indices. And again, the Expectations Index coming in just slightly light. Current conditions, 111. 1. Which means that were also looking at that particular reading being a bit light as well. Not by much, but we are still seeing a bit of a drop there. Lets talk a little bit about the markets. We are seeing the euro dollar at 1. 31, just shy of where we have been the last few sessions. Down the line we are at the hag hague. Good morning this morning, how are you . Good mor
Information about what just happened on monday afternoon as students returned to school. News 4 Megan Mcgrath joins us. Reporter in the last hour and a half, we received word from police that additional arrests have been made in the murder of 16yearold brandon wilson, a student here at wood Bridge High School. Three suspects including the man that Police Believe pulled the trigger are now behind bars and the search is on for a fourth suspect. A teenager who is still on the loose. Word of the arrest comes as wood Bridge High School students returned to class for the First Time Since the murder. I was shocked that he died. Reporter the violent loss is still sinking in. There are grief counselors on hand. People are crying. Going to the counselors. Reporter it is the first day back to school since 16yearold Brendan Wilson, a junior at wood bridge, was shot to death. But this morning, there is comfort in news that the man police say pulled the trigger and two others are behind bars. It mak
Im Melissa Mollet at the live desk. The funeral for the baltimore man who died after becoming critically hurt in Police Custody is just beginning. You can see right now lots of folks at the funeral for freddie gray. Were streaming this live on the nbc washington app. Thousands of people expected to attend 25yearold freddie grays funeral. You can see dozens of them in that shot right there. Of course gray died last week after stuffing a spinal injury. Baltimore police have not explained how or when that incident happened. The cemetery burial will follow this mornings funeral. Well have much more on twitter and facebook throughout the morning. Tensions remain high following a turning point in the freddie gray demonstrations over the weekend. Saturdays protests turned violent as night fell. Police cars damaged, businesses vandalized and looted 346789 people were thrown in jail. The Baltimore Police department launched an internal investigation into freddie grays death. The Six Police Offi
Snow, ice, record warmth with two days to go. The weather channels mike seidel starts us off. Reporter an emergency declared in parts of new england and upstate new york. Thick ice, freezing rain and high winds prompted the governor of new york to activate the state emergency center. More than 1,000 plows deployed to clear roads of up to two inches of ice. Downed power lines knocked out electricity to more than 300,000 customers in michigan. And tens of thousands more in new york, maine and vermont. About 2 30 this morning, we woke to the house shaking, transformers exploding, the skies lighting up, the branches crackling and trees falling. Reporter the storm stretches north to toronto. Hundreds of thousands of residents remain without power. Utility companies there describe the damage as catastrophic, the highest emergency level situation. Back in new york city, a very different scene. Visitors at Rockefeller Center shed heavy coats on this springlike sunday. Across the region, record
President , john f. Kennedy. For a generation of americans the death of president john f. Kennedy was a touch stone, every one know where they were in dallas 50 years ago today and the shooting and aftermath viewed by millions and carried the news around the clock and a half century later the nation is marking the moment that changed our nation and al jazeera will have continuing coverage of the somber anniversary all day long and later in the hour we will look at the final days of jfk and how reporters captured those moments. Plus we will focus on an unique photography exhibit that has snapshots of his presidency from beginning to end. Very good friday morning and welcome to al jazeera and stephanie si has the morning off. We begin with a historic power play in congress, Senate Democrats passed the so called Nuclear Option, the landmark vote limits the use of filibustering to block president ial nominees and democrats say the move will engridlock in washington and allow president obam