strong security presence there at the scene as you might expect. we re still trying to get some clarify as to to what is happening, twho they re in pursuit of. and the skyline building we ve been watching a great deal. we will leave this story for the time being as we try to work out what s been going on. if we get updates, we will bring them to you. in the meantime, another major story. financial markets have been slidi sliding further into negative territo territory. in tokyo, the nikkei took a big hit. look at that, down almost 2.75%. it was a little bit worse during the day. hong kong down by a third of 1%. the shanghai up and down, all over the place for most of the day. now it looks to be up by more than 1%. and in australia, the asx 100 closed down by 1.5%. all new york indices are down
pursuit and should have him in custody. do we know who the suspect is? he is, we believe, a disgruntled employee. i don t want to release the name or anything, but a disgruntled employee from the tv station. pete williams joins me now. a lot more information, pete. it does seem when we re listening to the words of the governor that this situation is coming, hopefully very quickly, in short order to a close on 64. they are in pursuit. they know who the person is, pete. reporter: well, they certainly have the name of a suspect, let s put it that way. i think it s the safest way to say. governor terry mcauliffe had a previously scheduled live interview here in washington on the all news station here, wtop. and that s the sound you just heard, is the governor getting updates from his staff. they have a car, specific car that they re in pursuit of. they know the make and model of the car. they have the name of a suspect.
who were injured, one of them a chattanooga police officer. let s learn more from the chattanooga police department chief, chief craig fletcher. good to have you with us here. thank you for having me. tell us what you know about the officer who was injured. thanks for your concern about him. despite this vicious assault, members of our arms service and a member of my police department, he is doing as well as can be expected. he s receiving tremendous medical care from erlanger hospital and this community in chattanooga, our police department and nationwide has provided by outpouring of support for him and his family and our broader community. reporter: there are some elements of the timeline coming together. we know there are calls after the initial shooting. was there any pursuit of. abdulazeez after the calls here?
commissioner. he slipped it out, if you will. i m not sure that it was something the feds out there at this moment, but that this was a terrorist. as the commissioner said, they had come here to kill. and they are trying to explain right now to the people of watertown and those five or six other parts of boston, to stay inside because that suspect and terrorist is on the loose. i can recall, bill, when i first started following the scanner traffic on the police radio earlier this evening around, just around midnight when that black mercedes, an ls-50, was carjacked at the gas station. police said at that time there was a 5 7 , slightly built male of middle eastern origin that they were in pursuit of. that s when this chase began. we don t know which suspect they were referring to, but that s what we were hearing in realtime.
longer, more resources and you want to take even more and you people do not know how to do a good job. neil: sometimes people reveal how they really feel without saying it. and we put out a call to nancy pelosi s office, so hope springs eternal. having said that, do you get a sense, here, that is what is really at stake here? that the argument not necessarily we for bigger government but for more money, to fund it, and they realize there is a limit you can get tapping just rich folks, that this is pursuit of, look, we get all the people jobs and we are going to make our job easier and more spending easier. guest: when i quote the ten most entitlement statements this year i have heard that is it. that was an entitlement. neil: but it surpasses what you have to pass to understand what is in it. guest: this is it hands down. go work harder and i want you to pay me more. go work harder, i want you to get a raise so i can get more money and she is representing