the vehicle crashed into the rainbow bridge checkpoint structure and caught fire and exploded. the two occupants of the vehicle are now dead, and one customs and border patrol officer sustained minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. authorities did not find a secondary explosive or device. the white house says they are monitoring the situation closely, and the canada border service agency says it is working with the u.s. counterparts on this matter. the fbi is now investigating this cnn and whether or not the crash was intentional. joining us now, nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, former fbi counterintelligence agent peter strzok is back with us, and joining us by phone former assistant doppler radar for counterintelligence, tom figliuzzi. why don t you give us a talk about how this all went down. sure. basically, what happens here, there is a vehicle. the color of the vehicle is white, as you saw on screen in that exclusive video. and it s trav
Any questions for the fbi . Have you found any information that says that he did this in the name of religion or that or with all this ammunition as part of a larger group and a larger plot or maybe he was planning a different attack and got ticked off and decided, okay, im just going to turn on these guys. Again, if you look at the amount of obvious preplanning that went in, the amount of armaments that he had, the weapons and the ammunition, there was obviously a mission here. We know that. We do not know why. We dont know if this was a the intended target or if there was something that triggered him to do this immediately. We just dont know, and, again, thats going to take time to get to that answer. Was he in touch with subjects, international subjects, that the fbi or the authorities were interested in overseas by phone or by social media as cnn has reported. International subjects, were still working through that. We know there was some International Travel. They came into the u.
1. 97. Our road map begins with a rally in the markets. Coming off a volatile day. Futures in the green. Adp numbers higher than expected as well. Jcpenney is feeling the holiday cheer. The stock is up nearly 20 in the premarket. Bill ackman is still unimpressed. The shooting at a paris office of a satirical magazine has left 12 dead. Well continue to bring you developments on that. First up, futures up sharply as the s p and nasdaq look to snap fiveday losing st the s p is in the midst of its second worst threeday losing streak to start the year since at least 1950. Oil prices also higher after brent fell below 50 for the first time. Ahead of the friday jobs number, adp 241. Not bad as theyve realized december higher. I dont know. Blankfein on squawk today. I thought the adp was interesting. Looks like the firings in the oil patch are either not impacting or theyre just not as great as we thought. I also felt that when i looked at the difficulterent earnings we got, we got some good o
To expand opportunity for more american families, that is what im going to do. Thes in his fifth state of union, president obama vows to use his authority to act without u. S. Congressional approval including raising the minimum wage for federal contractors. He also repeated his plan to pull troops out of afghanistan this year, but admitted some u. S. Forces would stay behind to carry out counterterrorism attacks. We will get reaction from Jeremy Scahill whose film dirty wars was just nominated for an academy award. Also bob herbert and Lorella Praeli. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama deliver the fifth state of the union of his time in office with a vow to take action on his own should congress stonewall progress on key issues. Obama pledged to reform nsa surveillance programs and veto new sanctions on iran while there are germ nuclear deal is in effect. He also renewed his call for the
Facing opposition from both sides of the aisle, Larry Summers pulling out of the race for fed chairman. The onetime Clinton Administration secretary called the president to notify him. In a letter following the call, he wrote, i have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the federal reserve, the administration or ultimately the interests of the nations john gog economic recovery. Janet yellen seen as a leading candidate, seen by the markets as less likely to scale back the Stimulus Program as aggressively as summers would have had he become fed chairman. Is this all about summers or Something Else . Summers is a patriot. He knew this was going to tear the country up. I know he wanted the jobs. It is kind of a big thing for him to do. He did not press it. I dont know why the president would pick yellen, because she is everything he doesnt seem to want. Total dark horse, probably doesnt get it. Stanley fisher,