Iran hostage crisis. On november 4, 1979, 52 american diplomats and citizens were taken hostage by a crowd of iranian students who stormed the u. S. Embassy, the combination of worsening relations between this country and iran in the wake of the iranian revolution in february 1979. Even though the crisis ended with the release of the 20, 1981,n january after an incredible ordeal that lasted some 444 days, it has had a lasting influence on the relationship between the two countries. Images of iranian students breaching the u. S. Embassy, shouting antiamerican slogans, detaining Embassy Officials and burning the american flag, traumatized a nation and a presidency. They live on in popular consciousness here with such movies as the 2012 movie argo and they continue to weigh on the public discourse. Here today, we want to explore the Lasting Impact of the hostage crisis a bit further, and we have convened a panel of distinguished experts which will be moderated by my colleague. Im very ple
I returned from the British Virgin islands where i saw the scale of destruction and the ordeal that have affected the people across the caribbean and in florida. To provide heavy lift for their aid effort. Theres help with overseas territories and in addition the government will match every pound to a maximum 3 million. Later today im going to chair cobra ii check on the progress of our response. The minister for the commonwealth is arriving tonight to assess the situation on that british territory. Once the emergency is over the overriding need will be for longterm reconstruction to get our caribbean territories back on their feet and in that effort written, france, the u. S. And the netherlands will be working sidebyside. I met with this the secretary tillerson and their colleagues from egypt United Arab Emirates and france. Libya is a frontline in our common struggle against terrorism and illegal migration and we all share of vital interest too countries stability. Our shared goal i
In line with the estimate of 35. 7 billion. The board is affirming all 2016 guidance. The incredible thing is north american operating margin 12. 9 . Global margin 9. 8 . Those are records for ford. They may be records in the Auto Industry in general. I am going to look through this. There is so much stock news. Jon it is very much risk off. Lets get you up to speed on what is happening in global markets. Futures in the u. S. , negative. Negative 16 on the s p. The nikkei to 25 deep in the red. The boj does nothing. Here is what happened to dollaryen. Hyeading much lower. Down as much as three percentage point. I can tell you where it is on my screen. Dollaryen at 108. 05. Lets cross over to matt miller. Matt we are getting more earnings out. A slew2 of companies. 181 of the s p 500 companies are coming out this week. Conoco phillips with an adjusted loss of 95 cents per share. I want to also point out viacom has come o ut. Viacom is looking like 76 cents for an adjusted eps. We were l
The ukraine. Hes also told the united nations, but russia has shamelessly violated the core tenants of the global body. Ah, hello there, im laura kyle. This is alexs are alive from doha. Also coming up, roches president announces a military mobilization and hence at the use of Nuclear Weapons, nato pulls that reckless rhetoric. Arc appearance strengthens as it moves up the Atlantic Ocean of destroying parts of puerto rico and the dominican republic. And rescue teams in australia, trying to save hundreds of wales stranded on a beach. Ah, as President Joe Biden has condemned rosss decision to call out more troops in ukraine widened, spoke a short time ago at the Un General Assembly. He says, moscow must accept the blame for the conflict. Rushes, calling, calling up more soldiers to join the fight. And the kremlin is organizing or sham. Referenda tried annex parts ukraine. An extremely significant violation of the un charter. This royal should see these outrageous zacks for what they are
sentencing for a montgomery county man convicted in a deadly deadlyly home invasion. health care debate kicks up with rhetoric on both sides. what they hope to do to regain control on both sides. are you ready for football? the redskins preseason begins in baltimore. hours away the kickoff. good morning. thanks for joining us. today is thursday, august 13th. kenny burns is in for vacationing angie goff. he will have the traffic in a moment. kim martucci is here and i love this time of the year because i m ready for football and fall. fall foliage and all the fun things that come with fall, minus the rogue crazy snowstorms. we will put those on hold. it will be 86 today. good morning, everybody. by the way, stay tuned later in the show we have adorable penguin video. yes. let s get started. look around outside. we have partly cloudy skies over us. more clouds to the east toward the delmarva this morning out there is a stalled front. i was talking to my friend at my live