Is expected to touch on this evening in the state of the union. Lets check on u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Youre seeing implied open for all major averages here. S p 500 would open up by 8 points. Dow up by 50 points. The nasdaq up by 21 points and a lot of that is based on firming in the markets over in europe. Better than expected gdp numbers out of china and of course thats helping move Global Markets in a vastly different direction than we have seen for much of the month. Breaking news overnight too. Isis releasing a video early today which has been verified by nbc news consultants. It shows two japanese hostages and the now notorious isis militant seen in previous videos. Hes now demanding 200 million from the japanese government within 72 hours or the hostages will be killed. Japan reacting with anger demanding a release of the hostages and saying it will not yield to terrorism. Quite a stunning release of this video and looks similar to past videos released from isis that