Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe and melissa lee, becky is off the s p looking to open about 12 points higher. Well explain why some of this is happening and lets show you treasury yields as well the ten year note right now looking at 0. 931 . But maybe a little bit of an explanation coming up here, melissa . Yeah, some optimism Mitch Mcconnell said that compromised deal was within reach and well get a live report from washington at 6 30 a. M. And we heard it before, but it seems like btoth sides are comig a little closer. On a much lower number. And im just thinking about, i dont know, andrew, what did we do to deserve this i mean we are living right or i mean, who ushered in the new week on squawk box on monday who is helping us usher out the week that was on squawk box . A monday and a friday. Is this46 w was this planne melissa, what did we do to deserve this not wouldby not by me how long has it been, stimulus vaccine i guess the election, although we do
Nursing homes. We are joining this hearing in progress. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. As one basis for work authorization. U. S. Cis has used deferred action in medical and humanitarian cases for decades. The idea is longstanding, and, in fact, customary. In one data set i received in 2011, nearly half of the cases i could identify involved serious medical conditions. And many of the cases involved more than one factor. For example, deferred action was granted to a 47yearold schizophrenic who overstayed his visa, was the son of a lawful perm resident, and had siblings who were u. S. Citizens. Over 100 of these cases involved people whose homes were destroyed by an earthquake in haiti. In another data set, a 578 cases obtained from u. S. Cis in 2013, 336 were based on medical issues. One case involved a mexican female who entered the United States without inspection and had two u. S. Citizen children. One of her children had down syndrome, and the other child had serious medic
Much more than a written reprimand. He is continuing to stalk her. Reporter in the weeks since Nicole Mittendorff took her life, several firefighters are contacted her. I talked to one firefighter who observed harassment of nicole based on this alleged affair in the Fire Department, not just online but in the firehouse. Reporter what does the Fire Department need to do. If you want to root it out, you need to have true no nonsense zerotolerance policy that no officer can engage in Sexual Harassment and continue as an officer. Reporter she said the firefighter son about an affair. That firefighter says she has not been questioned or interviewed about nico nicole was having an affair. The problem is harassment that they may have been even during. Thank you. We did contact the Fairfax County Fire Department but have not heard back with a response. We did not name the captain. We want to give him a chance to respond. Tracking metro, the feds are ordering metro to make urgent repairs on thr
Taiwan. This is Al Jazeera America. Good morning t i am randall pinkston. This morning, americas plan to defeat isil will be front and is noter at the United Nations. On top of the agenda for the counterterrorism summit on the sidelines of the u. S. General assembly. The president will sit down with more than 100 World Leaders at the summit. Its still not clear if russias president will be one of them. During face to face talks on monday, president obama and Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their differences over the war in syria. And as mike vaqeira reports, the tense relationship shows few signs of resolving. We are face extraordinary challenges today, ones that test our capacity to work together. There was a cordial moment when mr. Obama and mr. Putin toasted the united neighborhoods but moments later, a metaphor for the disconnect when putin took a phone call at the table [applause. ] in his speech to the General Assembly, mr. Obama chastised putins actions in ukraine and syria. Th
And fighting the winter blues in australia, sidneys famous landmarks are lit up for the festival of light. But first the army general who is now in charge in thailand has summoned the former Prime Minister as well as political opponents for talk and shinawat is banned from traveling abroad and we have the story from bangkok. Reporter once the stage for the Antigovernment Movement in bangkok taken down and removed the morning after the military coup. The protesters left thursday night, most felt their effort of more than six months paid off because of the goal of removing the current government had been reached. And he goes by one name went to work as normal on friday. She is relieved the army is in control. Translator personally i support koodata and if they didnt do it the country would turn into a message there is a compromise to make the situation better. Reporter 100 people from both sides of the political divide have been summoned by rulers to discuss the situation and its a spot