Talking about if nowol the news other parts of the world where political leaders will insist that the values we take for granted, they say thats culture imperialism. Thats your system but we dont live that way. Well, its not clear that those leaders have always consulted their own people about how they feel about those pronouncements from the top. So thank you for that question. Are we out of time . Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next up from the bill of rights day festival. Mary sarah bilder talks about James Madisons note on the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Well, good morning. Im mike earhart, the scholar in residence at the National Constitution center. A great privilege for me to do that. Normally teach at unc chapel hill, which is not that far, at least by airplane, and its terrific to be here today with mary bilder to talk about her terrific new book, which is called madisons hand. Revising the Constitutional Conventio
12 months. Check things out this morning, if you want to see the knee jerk reaction to some of these things, youll see already the futures are indicated higher. We knew the republicans were likely to whip, but if you take a look, there were some this was what you would absolutely call a wave with some races that hadnt been expected to go their way going their way, as well. Dow futures are indicated higher. S p futures up by close to 7 points. Nasdaq up by 16 points. As for the bottom, weve been watching oil closely once again. It is down again this morning, down by about 31 cents. 76. 88. Thats about where we were yesterday at this time. This morning, the tenyear looks like it is yielding. I cant see it because theres a line over the one place where it says 2. 35 . The dollar this morning at this point looks like it is up against the yen, up against the euro, up against the pound. Euro is trading at 1. 2484. Dollar slrn yen, 1114 and change. Gold prices look like they are down, as well
Veterans deaths. Celebrations in the streets of gaza city seconds after israelis and palestinians announced a ceasefire agreement. The agreement ends 50 days of violence. Humanitarian aid and Building Materials are expected to start arriving through reopened border crossings. Palestinian president says rebuilding gaza a longterm peace are now the priorities. Translator i would like to announce that the Palestinian Authority accepted the Egyptian Initiative to agree to a permanent ceasefire in gaza, starting farm 7 00 pm local time, and we hope this will be the beginning of the ending of the suffering of our people. Egypt is backing the ceasefire deal. Delegations from both sides will continue negotiations next month on some of the larger issues, but this deal seems to have worked out a previous sticking point. Jackie has the latest from west jerusalem. Reporter spokesmen for the Israeli Government have understoodably sought to present this as a victory for israel, and they are saying t
Michael brown. This week, the grand jury looki looking at criminal charges against the Police Officer who killed the missouri teen. They have a lot of cleanup to do. A lot of people dont have anything to cleanup. Shattered lives and livelihoods, the monument al cleanup. The full scope of the damage hits wallets out west. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. I am stephanie sy. I am del walters, the president authorizing surveillance flights over syria. Could pave the way for u. S. Air strikes against fighters from the Islamic State group. Group already in control of keyboarder crossings in syria and iraq. The pentagon says it will use drones and manned flights to collect intelligence on the Islamic State group and will do it without the syrian president s approval. Lets head to Randall Pinkston in washington this morning. Randall could these flights be in danger because they are in syrian airspace without permission . It is quite likely u. S. Flights would be in danger since
Tensions flair in ukraine ahead of a key meeting between kiev and moscow. And where appeasing the gods is helping to heal risks of the report, we report from sri lanka. We start the news hour in syria over which u. S. Planes are now flying, the aim to gather intelligence on the Islamic State group. I. S. Fighters are continuing to take ground there and control the city and raka and on monday they said they have taken over the entire providence. And syria said it will work with the International Community to fight the socalled terrorist and says damascus must be asked permission first. Lets go live to ruler our correspondent who is following developments from neighboring lebanon and the capitol beirut and ruler so can we assume given the instance there there is some kind of communication going on between the americans and syrians in order to allow for these surveillance flights . Officially there is no direct communication happening. Unofficially we have been seeing these statements fro