Taking you to where the policies are debated and decided with the support of americas cable company. Cspan, 45 y in accounting, powered by cable. Next, defense secretary lloyd austin on the Helicopter Crash that killed irans president and foreign minister over the weekend. Secretary austen gives an update on the war in ukraine with general charles brown, jr. The secretary and the chairman will deliver opening remarks, and then well have time to take a few questions. Please note that i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. Due to time constraints, please limit the followup questions to give your colleagues a chance to ask questions. Secretary austin, over to you, sir. The speaker thanks. Good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining us. General brown and i have just come from a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Im grateful to the 50 countries from around the world that joined us again the Contact Group heard directl, including the minister. They gave a v
The secretary and the chairman will deliver opening remarks, and then well have time to take a few questions. Please note that i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. Due to time constraints, please limit the followup questions to give your colleagues a chance to ask questions. Secretary austin, over to you, sir. The speaker thanks. Good afternoon, everybody, and thanks for joining us. General brown and i have just come from a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Im grateful to the 50 countries from around the world that joined us again today. The Contact Group heard directly from ukraines defense leaders, including the minister. They gave a valuable update on ukraines defensive operations across the front line, including the new russian offensive. We met today at a challenging moment. Putins forces have opened another front to seize sovereign ukrainian territory. The kremlins invaders are obliterating villages and bombarding civilian infrastructure, including
Overdosed, we got them on friday. Reporter also among those arrested the father of barry baker, junior. He made headlines last month for an under provoked attack against a man with cerebral palsy. While his son was beating up a man, with a disability, barry baker, senior was settling as morphine, heck of a family. Reporter officials are working to quantify the drugs, seized most of which is believed to be laced with the deadly chemical fentanyl. The d. A. Demonstrated just how deadly that chemical could be. Have a saltshaker, all right. Take a little bit of salt out into my hand. If that is was fentanyl, that would be enough to kill four or five of news this room. Reporter again, while operation wild fire was sparked as a way to get that snapshot in the heroin, Opioid Epidemic here Law Enforcement says it should send a message to drug dealers about just how aggressive Law Enforcement is in combat ago this drug problem. Reporting live from west chester alycia nieves cbs3 Eyewitness News
Overdosed, we got them on friday. Reporter also among those arrested the father of barry baker, junior. He made headlines last month for an under provoked attack against a man with cerebral palsy. While his son was beating up a man, with a disability, barry baker, senior was settling as morphine, heck of a family. Reporter officials are working to quantify the drugs, seized most of which is believed to be laced with the deadly chemical fentanyl. The d. A. Demonstrated just how deadly that chemical could be. Have a saltshaker, all right. Take a little bit of salt out into my hand. If that is was fentanyl, that would be enough to kill four or five of news this room. Reporter again, while operation wild fire was sparked as a way to get that snapshot in the heroin, Opioid Epidemic here Law Enforcement says it should send a message to drug dealers about just how aggressive Law Enforcement is in combat ago this drug problem. Reporting live from west chester alycia nieves cbs3 Eyewitness News
All those gains and now we are back to where we started the day. The nasdaq, the biggest gainer, up about. 7 . Energy stocks have been the biggest laggard all day. Lets look at the smp year to date as we get closer to the end of the year. We are lower by a little more than 2 with just eight trading days left. Higher inhas finished the past three years, but we are on track to break that will stop this is the seasonality chart and we are on track for our worst december since 2002, when december ended down by more than 6 stop we are on track to be 3 . By a little more than david not many indications we will be making up that ground by years end ramy . Ramy especially with some new research coming out saying that a year rally for the s p is in doubt ill stop we would need to rally about 2. 7 by the end of the year. Weve got eight trading days and the s p has only done that in the last eight days of the year just five times since 1928. Days were only positive 15 times, thats about 17 of the