in custody were not immediately available but according to the chief of haiti s national police they were in possession of automatic weapons, pistols, satellite phones and drones. haiti s capital has been rocked by deadly protests with demonstrators demanding haiti s president resign in the face of soaring inflation and corruption. global stock markets mixed leaning lower, trade talks this week center stage. you can see global markets there, asian markets have closed, loen don has a few more hours of trading. wall street reopens today after being closed for president s day and they ve turned down a little bit here, but i would caulk that directionless, you are not even talk being a nth it of a percent move for the dow futures. a big walmart earnings report this morning and that retail giant is a barometer of consumer spending because it is so big and has the pulse of the paycheck to paycheck consumer. december retail sales surprisingly fell 1.2%, that was the biggest drop since 2009.
on both sides of the border will no doubt be hanging onto every word of president trump s speech. especially when he said yet again nothing is off the table. he also said there ll be no going back and to many people that means the united states is in for the long haul standing next to venezuela. we have also heard from nicolas maduro in a very fiery speech today when he said he s not intimidated by the comments made by president trump. and he said they are ready for whatever comes at us, with the force of the venezuelan armed forces. christine, boris? isa, thank you for that. there s a crisis deepening in haiti. the identities of those americans in custody were not immediately available, but according to the chief of haiti s national police they were in possession of automatic weapons, pistol, satellite phones and drones. haiti s capital has been rocked
the haiti right now over the eight arrests. five americans. a russian and haitian local. police chief saying they were arrested when the cars were spotted by police. they were suspicious. the suspicion they didn t have license plates. they had taken them off. when they first started to talk to them they were evasive and didn t cooperate. they started to search the cars and found weapons. those are illegal here. that s the reason they are held. they found handguns and satellite phones. drones. what some haitians refer to as weapons of war. they found on the individuals. it is not clear who they are. who they were working for and what they are doing here. or were doing here. the police chief saying there is now an investigation into those very questions. haiti government remains in crisis mode. protestors have been out in force accusing the leadership of corruption and demanding they
here she was. there are no words. no, there s not. there is so many memories here. reporter: can you tell me what mexico beach was like? it was beautiful. everybody was just kind. if there was a need, they d help you. i just knew everybody here, just about. reporter: and to see this feels like what? i can t describe it. it s terrible. i just can t describe the feeling, and i know i m not the only one here that feels that. reporter: after our conversation, john, we made sure to give her and her other friends our satellite phones so they could, because there has been zero cell service in that area, gave them our satellite phones sat there as they called sisters and husbands to tell them if they were okay because
called storm of controversy. here s a peek. one of the primary missions of the federal emergency management agency is preparedness. but a federal review has revealed that their supply warehouses were empty. every tarp and could the had been sent to the virgin islands for irma. fema had only a handful of satellite phones and less than 100 generators on a blacked out island in need of thousands. we re running out of food and water. leyla santiago and bill weir join us now on the ground following this crisis every step of the way. it s a job that will to be done because it s not even close to over down there. bad before. worse during. worst after. what is the big point for you, bill, in terms of what you ll