Leading to a serious discussion about race. Good morning, im alisyns could kosik in for christi paul. Were starting with the threat of terror attacks on u. S. Soil. The Security Threat level at u. S. Military basis is at bravo. That means an increase in predictable threat of terrorism. The pentagon raised security conditions after growing concern over jihadist threats. Lets bring in cnn National Correspondent sunlen serfaty. Sun len sunlen . Why raise the threat level if theres no imminent or specific threat . U. S. Officials say there were a number of recent concerns that when all pulled together contributed to making this decision do increase the threat level. One u. S. Official telling cnn that it just felt like the temperature was going up. With concern growing over isisinspired attacks being carried out inside the u. S. The pentagon has put all u. S. Military bases nationwide on heightened alert. The threat level now raised to bravo. Due do an increased and predictable threat of t
We just showed you, gas prices are low so everybodys feeling that no matter how much money you make, youre feeling the low gas prices. Job market is coming back. Higher income mostly higher income earners, theyre really feeling the stock market returns. Theyre more likely to be in the stock market. Great return to the stock market this year so for the first time in seven years, a majority of americans are feeling good, say the economy is doing well. So that gdp number, low gas prices, the stock market put it all together, theyre calling it the christmas rally. Even minimum wage were expecting to go up. There will be 20 states where minimum wage rises come january 1. So even though theres been consternation about how wages in general are not rising, wages are the part of this economic recovery that have the v not been there, the states are raising minimum wages in 20 states so people will have more money in their pockets. Christine, thank you for the good news, a Christmas Gift there. P
Fashion, there would be retaliation referencing the 9 11 attacks. But the owner of the plaza theater in atlanta says he is not scared to show it. Well, we certainly will be taking certain precautions, you know, a long time, and been a lot of controversial films. And when you do have Something Like this, you take some different precautions, and, you know, exactly what were going to do, i really wont announce on air. But you know, over the years, the last temptation of christ. All those pictures have, you know, controversial stories and things behind it. So were smart about it. You know the fear of a possible attack, it was enough to lead sony to pull the film. Here he was friday. Sonys a corporation. It, you know, suffered significant damage. There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. Lets talk about this with Brian Stelter, cnn senior media correspondent breaking a lot of this. And
Out for the first time, about him as a troubled man. This is an emotionally troubled kid. He needed help, he didnt get it. The loo family expressing gratitude to the Police Department and the public for their support. This is the difficult time for both of our families. But we will stand together and get through this together. Thank you. We are learning new details of the investigation, officers say they are looking through brinslys cell phone, and found thousands of images, one of them images of the protests in new york earlier this month. There are continued calls from city officials asking demonstrators not to protest until the office remembers laid to rest. Weve seen social media reports of plans of demonstrators planning to demonstrate. Milwaukee is bracing for protests after a cop killed a mentally ill man and will not face charges. Officer Christopher Manny shot dontre. Hamilton got hold of the officers baton and hit him with it officer manny was later fired from the force, not
The world. That does it for us tonight. Rachel now you have sobbing for the donovan brothers. I know. Welcome back from vacation and, by the way, all you missed last week was donald trump being sarcastic. Oh, good. Thats it, nothing else. Just a little joke between friends. Something like that. Thank you, rachel. New york times reporter who broke the story about Cash Payments to Donald Trumps paul will join us and explain how he followed the money to the ukraine. And well be joined by senator ron widen because he might have figured out a way for us all to get a look at Donald Trumps tax returns. But first the latest polls show Hillary Clinton surging now to a big lead in the Electoral College. Im not running against crooked hillary. Thats the guy who know hes going to lose. Im running against the crooked media. Hes not going to the win the election running against the New York Times. This is not a reality tv show. I am may be wrong and on november 8, ill say, oh, i guess i was wrong. N