Officer Randall Carrick said he was justified. Farrell played football for florida a m before moving to north carolina. According to aaa, gas prices have averaged over 4 a gallon, that has never been done before. The vercase mansion was sold, Gianni Vercase was killed in 1997. Thats your headlines history of Mental Illness leaves a country in shock after the massacre at washingtons navy yard. In the past few years there have been mass murders. Also as america weighs intervention in syria, is there a separate civil war now raging, this one within the ranks of assads opponents. How are alqaeda and other extremists affecting the fight against syrias governments. Plus ecigarettes have become a billion dollar business, and is this just another way to target kids . Welcome to consider this. We begin with the navy yard shooter. As authorities check in the background of aaron alexis. Reports on the details of troubled history that are starting to emerge. Flags flew at behalf mass, and another
Actions on victims families. A surprise on wall street as the Federal Reserve stunned just about every by leaving its Stimulus Program as is, stocks as you can see here rallying on the news. The dow slightly down before the announcement took off, and it is flirting with an alltime high. Patricia, what it always means. You can quantify ready, ready, readynot yet. Now this program is meant to support the economy by keeping Interest Rates low but apparen apparently the feds does not feel the economy is ready to stand on its own yet. A key concern, unemployment. While the Unemployment Rate has improved slightly over the past year a lot of people are dropping out of the workforce. Not all labor market developments are positive. The labor force rate fell, and real wages remained flat. And bernanke cited other concerns such as fiscal tightening and rising Mortgage Rates. Rates has jumped a full percentage point since may. Thats largely in response to bernanke saying in june that the feds will
Countrys political leaders seem capable of pulling off, a moment of silence, just as they have done every single time we have faced this horror. Members and those in the gallery will please rise and observe a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting at ft. Hood. A traumatized nation, observes a moment of silence. The president and first lady led. After aurora, congressman ed pearlmutter. And after newtown. Mr. Speaker, i would ask that the house now rise. The chairman asks all present to rise and to observe a moment of silence. But in the wake of newtown, the silence broke as president obama did more than just observe a moment of quiet reflection. These tragedies must end, and to end them we must change. The white house was ready to act. The president signed 23 executive order on Gun Legislation. The white house began a full court press on harnessing public opinion, moving lawmakers into their column. But the nra also went to work. Having developed a script for how to deal wit
Crashing down. And then the man responsible for 12 murders. You know he heard voices, thought he was being followed, reportedly suffered from ptsd but he still got security checks. Was it an oversensitivity to Mental Health issues that did that . Plus his mother today spoke out for the first time. Youre going to hear what she had to say. And police find two cars in a muddy lake with bodies inside. A lot of bodies inside. And these cars, you wont believe it. Have they just solved a 40yearold mystery . Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. We begin with the breaking news. A record high stocks surge today dow jumping 147 points. Dow and s p closed at new highs. I think this is so significant. Nearly five years to the day after the financial crash and crisis, when this country is still facing an unemployment crisis, a major milestone, and a good one for the markets. Well, the reason for the record, the fed announced it would not stop the flow of easy money. And it is t
Televised primetime president ial debate for 2016. Needless to say, donald trump is a sure thing. 23 of support among republican voter voters, nearly twice that of jeb bush his nearest competitor. Governor scott walker is in third with 11 , wild right down there on the bottom you have new jersey govern ror chris countrity, Ohio Governor john kasich just scraping in. And here are the candidates who will likely not make that cut. Some a surprise former Texas Governor rick perry in with this bunch. Joining me first up here, maif reston, our cnn National Political reporter. Mave theres always a chance another poll or two could drop before the 9 00 p. M. Cutoff. Fox news has set. Is there any chance they could widen the debate stage in that 11th hour . And what would happen in the case of that . Well, absolutely. I mean think about how much weve seen the polls fluctuate so far this cycle. It is a little bit surprising that perry didnt make the cut and kasich swept in there. Big win for Chri