Afternoon. The fbi secretly arrested an nsa kr contractor for stealing contract materials. He worked just like Edward Snowden. Another black eye for the firm and shares are moving slightly lower. We have details on what was allegedly stolen and the potential fallout here coming up. Meantime, salesforce. Com is reportedly getting more serious about this bid for twitter. Shares of both stocks moving in opposite directions, although there has been a comeback of sorts for twitter. Jim will get more on this. A possible bid for twitter by it sales force. The weaponization of finance. Thats when countries like the u. S. Use the power of banks to impose its will on other countries. Ian bremmer will explain the risks of this strategy. Its a lot to think about. Hes calling it after the gzero. Youve got the imf meetings tomorrow. This will help get us in the mood for global conversations. Lets start with western crude at 50 a barrel. Plus this discovery, more oil off the coast of alaska. Jackie d
We have emergency officials from the Fire Department telling people to leave. It is in evacuation zone after all. Obviously, it is closed today. Sandbags outside. Lots of tourist there incidentally taking pictures. Getting a little more than they bargained for with their trip to new york. There are a few shops open. Down here in battery park, you cannot even find a starbucks or mcdonalds that is open much less one of the local dailies. They are all closed up. It will be a large impact. I heard from the president of bliss at the spot, i am sure you know it well, melissa, it is really unfortunate that they had to close. This things always seem to happen at the end of the month. What would they rather do than go to the spa, but unfortunately, he could not get his workers in. So many of these places are closing down, including the restaurant we are standing in the backyard of, really. We did have water coming almost all the way up earlier at high tide around 9 00 a. M. This morning. Rain i
What is it doing right now and how is it affecting businesses in the United States . We have Team Coverage following the path of Hurricane Sandy. Steve harrigan has the impact from ocean city, maryland but right now lets take it to jeff flock in Point Pleasant beach new jersey. Jeff . Jeff a little bit of ground zero for you, liz, at this hour south jersey really in the sights of this and for the worst of the storm. Its extraordinary in i have not covered a hurricane that has been the on set of which has been like this, which is just steady blowing, raining, coming at you, a sandblasting you, and no letup. Usually theres a letup. Usually there are fingers, there are ribbons of intensity that come in. This is just all blow coming straight at you. Take a look at this sea foam on the beach, and i will tell you, we are not that far away from low tide. The key is going to be tonight when we get to high tide here because you see that surf behind me, the wind that has been pushing that surf b
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