His lead widens on the field. Hill Hillary Clinton weighting in with comments last night on late night with seth myers. I have to say, seth, i no longer think he is funny. Yeah i carted stash. Maria well have latest developments in San Bernardino, california. Fbi focusing on a lake near the terrorist attack. Divers looking for missing exciter hard drive. In sports, Arizona Cardinals clinch ad trip to the playoffs. They beat the Minnesota Vikings 2320. Back to our top story right now. Islamic state militants stolen up to one billion dollars from bank vaults in syria and iraq. They made another half a Million Dollars in black market sales of oil. This according to a top u. S. Treasury official. What is more, syria and president Bashar Alassads government are merging in millions and millions of dollars in oil trade with isis, despite being at war with one another. Want to bring in congressman lee zelden, good morning to you. Good morning, maria. Maria what is the take on relationship betw
Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at 10. Antwan very had that santacon has come to town. Christina a siera santos fill the streets of manhattan for the annual santacon pub crawl. Getting im christina park. Anncomack im antwan lewis. Thousands of say next visiting the bars to show their holidays. But us jessica for musto explained with santacon comes controversy. Reporter you can be knotted but yet to be nice. Santacon was different because organizers werent working with police and they release this days before the santa came to town. Santacon 2015 kicked off in brooklyn this morning to music. Warm for the santas in the reindeer but they didnt seem to mind it one bit. This sea of red and green along the bars. Gets a good experience. Santacon has been criticized over the years by bar owners and residents who say the event is all about drinking and leads to the incidence of public. Everyone is all over the place and out of control. Report of those who participa
It has just gone 6 00 in the morning. The chinese stock market a little less volatile today as a result of some of the government actions. They seem as if they are wanting to take on the speculators in the offshore market. That means the cost of borrowing surged hong kong, that to another record. It seems the intervention by the liquidityaining yuan in the offshore markets. Murderous ins terms of stamping out the speculation. The whole point about this is trying to bring the offshore yuan and the onshore yuan. This is the start of the day, offshore yuan and onshore yuan are coming together. The first time they have been at the same level since october of last year. Lets take a look at your morning market check. Where is the money flowing . It is flowing into the yen. By 2. 8 e yen increased versus the dollar last week. 7. 53. T around 11 today, a little bit stronger for the japanese currency. Manus oil is moving. We are precipitously close to the 30 level. Contract, volumes nearly 50 a
Supplies of public goods and services. This will ensure that we will adjust without weakening momentum and will underpin with greater quality. Olivia in the past, premier li has said that lower growth is tolerable as long as jobs are created. The u. S. Ambassador in south korea is recovering after being slashed in the face by a north korean sympathizer. There was blood on his face and hands and he needed 80 stitches. Authorities say the wounds are not lifethreatening. Authorities say the man also once attacked the japanese ambassador. Hillary clinton is trying to end the controversy over emails she wrote will secretary of state. She tweeted late last night that she wants the public to see her emails and she is urging the state department to release them. She has been criticized for using private email to discuss state department business. Abvii has won the battle and will buy the company for 21 billion. Johnson johnson had been on the virgin of buying pharmacycl ics before abbvie toppe
Sector as well. Shares in sky moving ahead amid reports vivendi is eyeing a take over. The nikkei hits a 15 year high as the bank of japan maun tans maintains its massive spending program. Greek Prime Minister set to meet Vladimir Putin one week before athens is key to make a payment to the imf. Lets get straight to our top story this morning. Shares in bg group are soaring after the company agreed to a 47 billion pound takeover bid by shell. The merger is one of the biggest in a decade and comes amid the tumbling price of oil. Earlier our colleagues on squawk box europe spoke to the ceo of shell and asked him what prompted the deal. We have been looking at bg for a few years to be perfectly honest. Its a company we admire for the strength of its portfolio in integrated gas and these are the areas where we are strong at shell as well. It makes a lot of sense to put the two companies together and really accelerate dramatically the financial Growth Strategy of shell and at the same time