Have become the first palestinians in modern time to become Roman Catholic saints. Reports are coming in that a key city in iraq has fallen to isil according to al jazeera sources. They say troops have left the citys Counterterrorism Center and regrouped west of the city. State t. V. Is reporting that the iraqi premier has ordered troops not to abandoned their positions in ramadi. This amateur footage shows what appears to be Government Forces fleeing. The men filming say this is the futile military the failed government. Watch their tank leave. Earlier, isil fighters attacked a government buing with suicide car bombers killing 22 security officials. U. S. Led coalition, meanwhile, is hitting isil positions with airstrikes in ramadi as well as elsewhere in iraq. Anbars provincial council, sunni, is allowing shiia muon lim officials to join the fight. Ramadi is in the center of iraq the capitol of Anbar Province which has been mostly under isil control since last year. It is 100 kilomet
Of people displaced by the fighting in afghanistan. The Islamic State of iraq in levant is claiming a major victory. The group says it has taken control of ramadi where iraqi forces have been filmed fleeing. The Prime Minister has asked forces not to the abandoned their posts the capture of the city could allow isil to establish display lines from syria to iraq. Aiding the group to bring in weapons and fighters from the de facto capital. Ramadi is 110 kilometers west of iraqs capital, baghdad. Its capture is the latest victory which continues to dominate large swathes of land. The group controls three major cities. Mosul in the north of the country, raqqa and from washington here is kimberly halkett. Still visible high above the ramadi skyline. Down below gunfire wriningz out in the city streets. The city undertac from isil fighters using car bombs to reach the center of the city for government buildings where they are located. The battle with iraqi forces is intense. Army and police u
About even for the quarter. It is in danger of snapping an eightquarter win streak. The final hour of course usually has some accelerated moves so dont go anywhere. Were still positive right now but not by a whole lot. We have seen that the last couple sessions where we hit the lows going out. Something for traders to keep an eye on. Youll want to stay tuned for my exclusive interview with chevrons ceo john watson. He says oil below 50 could be with us for two more years. Youll hear it all coming up in just a few minutes. Prices down rather sharply today. Maybe they heard about that comment. If you thought you could shut it down for the weekend when the bell rings for an hour think again. Fed chair janet yellen not only speaking later but also taking questions. It all starts at the top of the next hour. Well have the news of what she is saying and we will show you the question and answer session live. It could determine stocks for next week. In fact, ahead of all of that treasury yield
Not moving it these days. Also fed chair janet yellen shes already required to appear before the house and senate twice each year to test a Monetary Policy. Apparently thats not enough. Coming up, House Financial Services Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling to explain why he wants to see her double her appearances on capitol hill. Hewlettpackard and gap, well have the incident analysis of all the numbers as soon as they are released. Both those sectors. Hewlettpackard has turned out some great numbers the last cup of quarters. Gap, retail been very mixed. And hewlettpackard. David faber will join us on that one as well after the bell. First, lets get right back to this market. The dow up 17. The s p adding six points. The nasdaq 20 points. The nasdaq by far the outperformer today. Lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange for this thursday. Joining us cnbc contributeor heather hughes. How are you . Good. James lu is with us here at the new york stock exchange. Joe duran from United Capital Fina
In houston. Energy is a big story today as it has been every day recently. We will get to brian in a minutes time. First we begin with the growing fears of how vulnerable airlines are to hackers and whether a plane can be brought down by a cyber attack. In San Francisco, live at the largest Information Security event in the world, what are we hearing . This is as you say a big Cyber Security conference. They are just about to open the doors for the beginning of the conference, but controversy and researcher Chris Roberts was on the way to the conference last week. He tweeted out information alleging that he can hack into airplane cockpit systems based on some of the infrastructure inside an airplane. He tweeted that out on wednesday when he arrived at his destination on wednesday. He was met by security at the airport and detained by the fbi for several hours of questioning and conversation. He also said that on saturday as he was on the way here to San Francisco to come to this event,