Gunmen have taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Hotel in malis capit capitol. Europe has no time to waste. Theyre calling on ministers in brussels today to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. Shares in nike are on a run after they reveal a 2 for 1 stock split and 12 billion buy back program. Good morning, everyone. It is friday. Lets take a quick peek at what u. S. Futures are doing early hours. What we saw yesterday was a pretty flat day of trade. We saw the dow jones off by a couple of points but this morning expecting slight gains. The s p 500 seen up by 4. 5 points and the nasdaq seen higher by 11 points. Look, health care, that was the big outperformer yesterday on the back of United Health care warnings and Energy Stocks underperforming on the back of weakness in Energy Prices but for the weak we want to tell you that we are on track for hefty gains. Some 3 for the major averages. The dow and s p 500 on pace for the best week in six. Quick check on what european trade is doi
Criticized from his response to paris and the refugees. He said were monitoring the situation. Investors from all over the world are pouring money into america, this is the safe haven, the dow up 487 points since paris and it will open up again today after this latest outrage. The money is coming here. And the terror plague rolls on over there. Varney company is about to begin. All right, lets bring you uptodate, exactly where we are now. 124 guests, 13 staff held hostage in the Radisson Hotel. And they include, turks, indians, french nationals, chinese nationals and its confirmed, americans are in the hotel, we do not know if they are hostages. Malian forces clearing floor by floor and terrorists reportedly are on the 7th floor. One of the escaped hostages said they heard terrorists speaking in english and southing allah akbar. Come on in, christian whiten, the former state department official. If there was any doubt there is no doubt this is a global war and terror right at the cente
Working in mali. Nicole well delve into this. Were going on this developing story. Fox news terrorism expert, walid phares joins us this morning. What can you tell us on this latest development . Basically the early information you covered. The information in mali a few years ago, tells us this is most likely the jihadly organization but we dont know which. Northern mali is basically inhabited by a different ethnicity. The took over empire is the was linked then to al qaeda. That was a couple years before the rise of isis. Later on that organization shifted its affiliation to isis. This is happening in bama co, the capital. Or are the jihadists operating in bamako in the other part of the country . Al qaeda in africa that boko haram in nigeria and other organizations have inside of that area. Certainly from what we heard so far, this is hostage taking operation. Which means it is different from what happened in paris and in terms of going into a different cheryl walid, let me break in
This hour a mixed picture there. Very much a flat situation. Cac is down a fraction and dax index as well, right around where it opened up 17 points. Overnight in asia, slight gains across the board there, very much a fractional situation with markets not moving much overnight in asia. Our top store as many as 10 gunmen in mali apparently attacking a luxury hotel taking a number of people hostage including foreigners, including french citizens. Identity of hostage takers are not known but believed to be islamic militants. We want to bring in former pentagon official, aei scholar Michael Rubin and Washington Examiner reporter, David Drucker in washington. Michael, you actually stayed in this hotel. What should we look for in the active hostage gun situation . Maria there is precedent here. If you remember back in 2008, there was terrorist hostage taking in mumbai, india. That didnt end well. One of the problems we have if these terrorists are intent simply causing carnage, inspired by t
That waitress peeking out, then coming back seeing the gunman still outside. She inches back, the two Women Holding one another. Moments later, the waitress takes antoher look they decide to make a run for it joining others in the basement. Another camera shows diners diving under tables as it all unfolds . Racing to hide themselves. As the gunman circled in red there walks slowly just outside the windows. You see him shooting from his hip . More than 30 bullets fired . He then disappears from sight for a moment . Then reemerges spotting a diner, crouching in fear under her table outside. He moves in to shoot . Pointing the Assault Rifle down at pointblank range. But something happens . His gun appears to jam. He races to that black car on the street. And then you can see the moment they realize that everyone in this restaurant would survive. First one woman rises. And runs then another. All playing out in less than 40 seconds. A man comes inside and appears he tells everyone the shoot