Right now on capitol hill, the house of representative is in session and expected to vote on their next speaker at and time. This would be second time congressman jim jordan, his name will be voted on in a rolecall vote after yesterday where he fell short by many votes. See if he picks some up or loses some this hour. Well follow the action and bring updates as they happen. Kayleigh President Biden leaving israel moments ago as stability of entire middle east hang in the balance. Tension erupting after a Rocket Strike destroyed a hospital in gaza, killing 500 people, some children. Based on Department Of Defense did thea and based on the meeting with netanyahu, President Biden says it was a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad that hit that hospital. Iran is threatening that time is up, unclear what they mean by that. Hezbollah calling for a day of unprecedented day of anger. V violent protest at embassies and pentagon is surging troops toward israel. This comes as president vow to stand by i
Congress to declare a war so this is a time when house leaders and Senate Leaders and the president need to get on the same page. Most of these countries, these countries dont have the United States best breast at heart and interest at heart and god forbid, i do not want in the worst of days for america to go through this. We have a president that declared war on American Energy and were pay ago high price in terms of economy and National Security. The theme for the market is continually ignorance is bliss. The market focuses on a handful of things and ignores everything else. Stuart good morning, everyone. 11 00 on east coast and monday, october 16th and ill call that a rally, a strong rally. Dow industrials up 400 points and nasdaq up 170, s p up 55 points. Show me big tech, please. I presume theyre all higher. I presume correctly. Microsoft, amazon, me taxer alphabet all up. So is apple. Microsoft up nearly 7 a share, 2 . The yield on the 10year treasury, wheres that going this morn
You lye from washington, d. C. New revelations of hamas atrocities on day six of the war in the middle east. Anderson cooper is live in tel aviv. More funerals as families bury their loved ones massacred in the Terrorist Attacks. A short time ago, Benjamin Netanyahus Office Released photos of babies who have been killed and burned by hamas. The Prime Ministers Office says the pictures were among the images that Benjamin Netanyahu showed Secretary Of State Antony Blinken earlier in jerusalem. Blinken, stand ing alongside th prime minister, compared the brutality to the worst of isis. Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated, young people burned alive, women raped, parents executed in front of their children, children in front of theis, how do we even understand this . To digest this . New warnings are now coming from the International Red cross saying gaza likely only has enough fuel for a few more hours, and it is needed to Power Generators for hospitals. Without power, quote, gaza hospit
Martha good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum in new york. Theres 22 americans who have been killed so far. We hope that number will not go higher at this point. We also now know that there are 17 confirmed missing americans and the white house now confirms that a number of them are hostages which raises a number of questions about the back and forth and the understanding that those individuals are indeed being held by hamas. So hamas is using at least 100 people as Human Shields or leverage for their cause inside of gaza city. These are the terrified Family Members of those that are kidnapped and those who are defined as missing. Watch this. Theyre not part of this war. Citizens and civilians should not be taken. The number 1 message were trying to convey is that time is critical. She was shouting, mommy, they shout at us. Were all wounded. Theyre taking children, women, back to gaza to use as Human Shields. Its appalling. The world be has to step up and get these hostages out. Martha th
For the upcoming fiscal year, a testimony from the secretary, jennifer granholm, live coverage here on cspan3. The chair will recognize himself for a fiveminute Opening Statement. Welcome to the hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities and to examine the departments fiscal year 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the committee, secretary granholm. The department of energy has National Security responsibilities to protect Energy Security and oversee the Nations Nuclear weapons program. They conduct an overseas taxpayerfunded research and development, providing loans and grants to help commercialize energyrelated technologies. These hearings are essential to ensure that the department is taking to its core mission and is a responsible steward of taxpayer resources. These hearings are essential. Members will also have an opportunity to examine the department of energys expanded budget request as this year they ar