Im guy johnson. Here is whats coming up to you. Turkey headed for its first ever direct president ial election. Well be headed do i stan bull. First, our top story, president obama has authorized air strikes against militants in iraq as well as a humanitarian operation. Today i authorize two operations in iraq. Targeted air strikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water anding almost certain death. U. S. Aircraft dropping supplies to iraqis threatened by fighters from Islamic States. 60,000 people have been stranded there after advance fwiss Islamic States. President obama said the u. S. Would proceed with air strikes against islamicbased militants if they move toward the kurdish city of erbil. A significant shift from president obama. Yes, this is definitely something that people will be worried that it would mean reengagement for the u. S. Military in iraq after preside
Against fat cat bankers. We will break it all down for you. And also bill go an hour contributing editor will be joining us. But first, ending the year in an appropriate fashion, yes falling again. Intercept and down almost 2 in new york today, bringing the loss in 2014 to 46 for oil. It has not fallen this much since the financial crisis six years ago. Mean time, in the meantime and search crews have recovered more bodies and debris in the java sea from that crash. The airbus a320 crashed on its way from indonesia to singapore. Indonesias president spoke at a briefing. My deep condolences to the families of the passengers and crew. I am feeling their loss and i am and i pray that they are given all of the courage and strength to base this tragedy. Like they were 162 people on board there were 162 people on board. A couple of weeks ago the fbi said it had enough evidence to link the attack on sony to north korea. But every connection it looked that turned out to be a deadend. At least
Agencies in america that are also engaged directly or indirectly in the administration of our tax code as well. Please join me in thanking senator lee and senator rubio. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Next week the United States will begin chairing the Arctic Council, a group that sets policy for the arctic, regarding drilling and other issues. Eight countries are members of the Arctic Council, the u. S. , canada, denmark, finland iceland, norway, russia, and sweden. And this morning at the center for strategic and International Studies the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, police leesiae ia Lisa Murkowski of alaska, is speaking. Some of the issues also facing the arctic such as Climate Change, pollution and the health of the Indigenous People who live in the arctic the discussion expected to last several hours should get under way shortly. This meeting happening, this International Meeting happening as a number of other International Ministers and lead
Multiagency strategy for understanding and working to develop the science to mitigate the impacts of Unconventional Oil and natural Gas Production and this is with our office and usgs and epa and like wise you see the l recommendations that are pointed to doe. And this report really points back to that role for the arctic as well. In one way the way i think about the work of our office is were the office of science for federal and state regular lay to rs. We were in alaska last week and i can tell you state regulators in alaska are very much focused on these questions and understanding what the science says in an unbiased and neutral manner about this activity can proceed. And those are the same questions that our partners are asking at other federal agencies, and were the the office that they turned to understand what the center of the science understands. And its a vital role that Government Research plays and providing policymakers with an unbiased view of science, technology, and i
Looked less likely. The dow shot up 206, the nasdaq 45, s p raced up 24 and is back above 1,700. Gold and oil fell slightly. Also helping to prop up the market the fed sees modest to moderate economic growth. In earnings after hours ibm earnings beat wall streets view but revenue came up short. Ebay dissappointed the market. Earnings were up but the outlook as down. Microsoft releases its windows 8. 1 upgrade as a free downgrade starting today. The software is attempting to bridge the gap between tablets and pcs. Gm is offering motorists a gas choice the new impala can run on regular gasoline or compressed natural gas. Its a first in the Auto Industry and goes on sale next summer. In trader talk this morning, our favorite gloomy gustodd horwitz of average joe options. Good morning. Are you feeling gloomy . We dodged a bullet here. Good morning angie. And the oscar goes to washington d. C. For the best acting ever. Telling us they werent gonna solve it and of course they solved the prob