Seventh. Some strong pmis on the continent. Our road map begins with the week to watch for 2014. The market is looking to turn around a twoweek losing streak ahead of the final fed meeting of the year that could set the tone for the taper insurance giant, aig, announcing the sale of their last business, Aircraft Leasing for 5. 4 billion in stock. Avago picking up lsi, 6. 6 billion and more rumors that sprint is mulling a move for e tmobile. With the dow and the s p coming off of two consecutive weeks of losses, investors are turning their attention to the final fed meeting of the year. Set to kick off tomorrow. The watch is on to see if they will scale back their bondbuying program. A new Associated Press poll finds that most americans see the market flat or lower by the end of next year. Only 14 believe the market will rise. 5 think it will crash. The poll suggests the general public is less optimistic than investment professionals. A lot of the targets we have seen, 2015, 2000 on the
Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. We start broadcasting with breaking news from spain where there are reports of at least 35 people that have been killed in a train crash in the northwest of the country. Their train was traveling from madrid when came off of the tracks near the city of san diego santiago compostela. We know that it happened at about 9 00 not time local time. It derailed right up in the north of spain, and area very popular with forests. The beginning of the summer vacation. If you look at the pictures, a lot of damage, considerable damage. Several coaches of the training derailed. One talking about hearing a big explosion. Clearly am a a lot of damage and destruction. This is coming from the head of the Regional Government in that part of spain as saying at least 35 people have died. What is the local media saying about what could have caused this . Theres is not much information coming out in this early stage about the p
Clearly it was reckless. Nutter responding to speculation that the engineer might have been speeding to make up for lost time. Im sure they would not have minded being another 20 25 30 minutes late as opposed to dying unnecessarily in a train wreck. Youre not going to hear the ntsb making comments like that. Still conducting their preliminary investigation the ntsbs taking issue with the mayors comments calling them inflammatory. But they do agree bostian hit the emergency brakes too late. In the next three seconds, three or four seconds, the speed of the train had only decreased to 102. This Surveillance Footage along with the initial examination of the data reveal the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour twice the appropriate speed entering the sharp turn. He was already in the curve at that point. Youre supposed to enter the curve at 50 miles an hour. Bostian spoke to Philadelphia Police the night of the crash. And according to a Law Enforcement source told them he couldnt recal
Steepest charge against him, the former Intelligence Analyst was convicted on 20 others and could face 126 years behind bars. Manning was convicted of leaking 700,000 secret documents to the wikileaks website. Prosecutors argued his revelations ended up in the hands of osama bin laden. But the judge ruling that while the 25yearold was negligent, there was no intent to share those secrets with the enemy. They hailed this verdict but many civil liberty advocates saw the ruling as an attack on whistle blowers. It is a serious precedent. It is a serious abuse. And it will mean the end of National Security journalism in the United States as we know it if it is left to stand. President obama is proposing a new grand bargain with big spending on infrastructure, projects while slashing the Corporate Tax rate. This was panned across town by a local newspapers Editorial Board who suggested the president take his jobs plan and shove it. They called it a further left version of a plan he already p
Im not going to go into the corner and curl up because someone found out something embarrassing about me. You see whats going on here today . If you become mayor of the city of new york, youd better put up with this every single day, people saying, you know what, you did something we dont like, cameras in your face, back down, quit. Thats not the kind of man im going to be. Sir, i say to you in all due respect, if you do not like to vote for me, dont vote for me, but dont deny these people the right to vote for me if they want to. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to morning joe. Little known fact, mika. Whats that . Before approaching senator barack obama in 2006, robert gibbs had been pressuring Anthony Weiner to run for president of the United States. Anthony said no, said he was busy and couldnt do it, and so he reluctantly went to barack obama. There you go. With us on set, former White House Press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs. Is that true, robert . No, i wou