Points. Oil is about the only asset thats not participating today. In our road map this morning tech trifecta, amazon, microsoft beating expectations. And jack dorsey taking onethird of twitter shares and dishing them out to employees. Futures up sharply as Chinas Central Bank cut Interest Rates. Lowered by 25 basis points. Reserve requirement reduced by 50 basis points and comes a day after a rally which included a jump in the dow hints of further easing by the ebc. Look the communist mean business they wont let this economy slow that much more. They are trying to change thing. Were getting hints consumer is spending more in china. Chinese stock market, we used to talk about it every singling day, had a nice rally. Europe, draghidraghi. He manages to get the dollar to soar on just talk. Hes the pied piper of higher stock prices. Last night some quarters that are thinning like the new york mets. I talked to mr. October last night. Saw him at a party. The actual mr. October. Daniel murp
And weve only just begun as a community to grapple with a world in which even nonstate actors will be able to get anything the internet. Second, the sizes of battlefields will expand. The proliferation of precision munitions and the isr network that supports employment are increasing the effective range of military units. Our adversaries will not only be able to get what they can see but also strike u. S. Forces actually over longer and longer distances. Third, concealing military forces will become more difficult. More actors are developing sophisticated capabilities designed to find and target their adversaries. On future battlefields find the enemy will be much easier than hiding from him. I believe these features are the operating environment, ubiquitous munitions, larger engagement zones a more transparent battlefields are clearly apparent today. For instance, the obvious hesitancy on the administrations part to assert freedom of navigation rights in the South China Sea in my mind
With respect to safe zones, we have thought about that. Ive thought about that a great deal. Ill begin and describe the concept of a safe zone would be to create a patch of syria that wearing people who are inclined to go there could go there and be protected. They would need to be protected because you can foresee that at least isil and other radical groups, and quite possibly elements of the assad regime would undertake to prove that it wasnt safe. And so it would have to be made safe and that takes us back to the question of whats and appropriate force of that size to protect a zone of that size . In our estimate it is substantial, and again i dont see as much as i wish otherwise offering to furnish that for us. I also think we have thought about who might want to reside such a zone. I think would be undesirable if you became a place into which people were pushed, say, from turkey or europe, expelled so to speak into this zone. I dont know what people who now live in the zone we thi
Much more on that coming up, but first check with the rometeorologist shiri spear in the fox25 Weather Center watching rain that will be moving in today, shizi. Shiri could start as a little bit of freezing rain. This is what we have showers for way out west. We still have time before this reaches us and i want to take you through it and point out some spots like orange, fitch some spots like orange, fitchburg, up to nashua, New Hampshire. We have 20s on the map, though temperatures are going to continue to warm this morning 37 morning my concern is when we have a little snip place could start as a little freezing drizzle here, and the time on that will be between 7 and 8 00. On the 3457 on the map at 7 on the map at 7. Boston at 37 degrees. We dont see showers in boston until noontime and the focus of that heavy rain is well off to the north and west through much of your wednesday here. 48 to 58 when that heavy rain hits southeastern massachusetts coming up. Right now Julie Grauert st
Action on the floor of the senate. There are a couple of groups that dont like this or dont like that. Weve been prepared and look forward to receiving your comments. The staff has received them. David granus is here today, our staff director, and jack from the Minority Side as well. And so to we are open, but we do not want to produce manager that cannot get something that cannot get a vote. What we have done is an entire voluntary system. It essentially are moves essentially moves to let companies do three things; to monitor their networks, to identify cyber indicators, to use countermeasures to protect against Cyber Threats and, third, to share and receive information with each other and with federal, state and local government. Companies who use the authorities to monitor and share information are provided full Liability Protection for doing so as long as they do so with the bill, within the bills parameters. And those parameters are pretty clearly spelled out. The bill has a numbe