Two more french hostages have been identified. If Nicolas Henin and photographer Pierre Torres went missing over three months ago in syria. The information has been kept confidential but today their families decided to make a public announcement. Our International Affairs editor Douglas Herbert joins us now. What do we know more about the state of these two men and why the families decided to release the information . First, lets go viewers who they are. Two more hostages have been added to the growing french toll of hostages throughout the world. Most of them today in africa, specifically west africa dating back to 2010. At least 10 or 11 french hostages held. We found out these two new hostages, we found out about them through a Statement Released to their support committee, hostages in. One of them is Nicolas Henin basically a journalist with many years of experience across the arab world and africa as well. He has covered somalia, he has been to yemen, he has been in egypt, he was
Toward another b. A. R. T. Strike at midnight tomorrow night. Progress is being made, though, as talks resume in two and a half hours. More on that coming up shortly. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets check weather, traffic. Steve, take a sweater, jacket, maybe . Maybe a light jacket. Sierra nevada, widely scatters rain and or showers. Some of this cloud cover could wrap around us. Partly sunny, partly cloudy. We have some low clouds as well. Some of the low cloud deck. Chilly, mild, the breeze picking up. A cooler and breezy pattern today. Mainly 50s. Very low. Upper 40s. Everyone is close. Everybody is inching to get colder. But it probably wont be until friday morning until the wind dies down. Most of this here is rain. Snow will be around 6500 feet. We expect that to come down. Last check it was raining at tahoe and blue canyon. Upper 30s. Not cold enough yet. But theres some turning. Watch how the cloud cover is heading back towards us.
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Across 18 states. And, the federal Aviation Administration called back hundreds of safety inspectors and others, allowing a boeing plant in South Carolina to resume delivering its 787 dreamliner planes. Woodruff there was word later that the Labor Department will not issue its september Inflation Report next week, due to the shutdown. That, in turn, will delay the calculation of next years costofliving adjustment for Social Security recipients. On wall street, bluechip stocks eked out small gains, despite ongoing jitters over the impasse in washington. The Dow Jones Industrial average added 26 points to close at nearly 14,803. The nasdaq fell 17 points to close at 3,677. The United States is cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to egypt over the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi, and the militarys violent crackdown. The state department announced the move late today. It gave no dollar figure, but said the u. S. Is halting shipments of major weapons and some cash assistance.
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