Closing bell. Im kelly evans. Im bill griffeths. Fourth time was a charm. This is our first rally of 2014 after declines. Pretty good Economic Data, the trade deficit number was strong enough. Thats 10 of our economy. So that bumped up the growth estimates for the quarter. The trade deficit figures were a big deal. Very excited about trade deficit. You can talk about the Immediate Impact to the Fourth Quarter gdp numbers. 2. 4 to 3. 3 on that report alone. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Energy story. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Dollar because the trade gap which is part of the current account is shrinking quickly. Were here to talk about the rally. The dow is up 114 points. Not far from the high of the day, but we got a ways to go before an alltime high. As bad a start as weve had to the year, were only 40 points off the closing high for the Dow Jones Industrial average. Were only 10 or 11 points for the s p 500. Its the Rolling Stone article that
Meaningful way. Yet now obamacare is becoming politically difficult for them. They are deflecting blame. Just this morning, we saw several imperiled obama democrats spin an oped that underscores the point. But americans are not going to be fooled by any of this. Americans agree that its time for washington democrats to work with us to remedy the mess they created, and that means repealing this law and replacing it with real reforms. Its time for them to work with us on a real jobs agenda, too, to take up the numerous bills the house has already sent over and get them onto the president s desk. Americans are fed up with the games and the tricks. They want serious solutions. You dont need a Campaign Pollster to figure that out, and republicans believe its about time the American People got those solutions. The presiding officer the leadership time is reserved. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , i havent yielded the floor yet. Mr. President , i want to pay tribute to a kentucky soldier who tra
Accelerately or with overtly or with indirect warfare, youre going to break things. And people dont like to be occupy toed by you. And they, you know, imagine if we had afghan troops walking down our streets. We, you know, wed resist. And so it kind of goes with the territory. In eisenhowers a case, they did a lot of they broke a lot of rules. The cia, people always think of the cia plot now long after the cia stopped doing those plots, everybody just assumes it was the cia. So that was a longterm harm x. Some of those plots were stupid and wrong. On the other hand, the western alliance and europe, the seventh fleet in the pacific have kept a kind of International Order to that has kept us from world war not little wars, but kept us from world war created a fairly free global trade zone and permitted the advance of democracy not everywhere by any means, but in many parts of the world. That is a great legacy. We have three minutes. I will take less than that for my question. Good. Can c
Extraction. Its also, fracking can be spelled with a c, its also the term is high volume hydraulic fracturing or hvhf which is really what were going to be talking to this afternoon. Next slide, please. So the thing thats important when were talking about fracking is that theres often a very important disconnect between what industry is saying and what is expected and understood in the popular press and the public. Of so when industry says there arent any accidents attributed to fracking, theyre talking about a very small portion of the shale gas extraction process. When the public and most journalists talk about fracking, theyre talking about the entire shale gas extraction process. So theres, its important to understand this distinction. Sometimes people are saying things that are technically true but are misleading in the context because of the disconnect between the language. Next slide. So this is what the shale gas extraction process looks like. And this is from a u. S. Epa study
Highest court says the marriages will come to a halt to give the state time to respond to a law that allows them. The Iraqi Military says it is ready to reclaim fallujah. And the pennsylvania woman know as jihad jane has been sentenced in ten years in prison. She was accused of being involved in a murder those are your headlines. Im tony harris. Real money is next on al jazeera america. Americas energy boom is is causing growth, but putting train on americas infrastructure. Plus a doctor makes a case against extending Unemployment Benefits. And what the brave new retail world means for your bottom line. Im ali velshi, this is real money. This is real money, you are the most important part of the show so join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitter, and on facebook. All right. The coldest temperatures in almost two decades in parts of the mideast or northeast, have me thinking a lot about heat. So i want. To take a hard look at americasen by boom and what it means for ou