Today alone. Brace yourself for more serious weather. Mudslides possible on the west coast. Rain and snow in the east. Lets go down to sue at the new york stock exchange. And you know we have another triple digit down day for Dow Jones Industrial. Part of that is linked to the drop in oil. Art cashin saying not only the Energy Stocks under pressure but that has spilled over to financial stocks. They are worried about the high yield debt that some banks own concerning energy. Right now the Dow Jones Industrial average off 103 points. The nasdaq is off 31. And the rus russell 2000 is off almost a third of a percent. Followed closely by the dow. Oil tanking hitting new lows of the trading session down almost 4 on wti and thats 3. 5 on brent. Bob pisani joins me on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Just the under pinnings of the market dont feel good today. Look at chevron. 50 of the 150 points in the down side. That is exxon and chevron. There are dozens of new lows in the Energy
Secretary Sylvia Burwell will speak at the center for American Progress today about the upcoming open Enrollment Period in the Health Insurance marketplace. Shell also discuss her departments efforts to insure the readiness of healthcare. Gov. Our live coverage begins at one p. M. Eastern on cspan. And now a discussion on Current International health and security challenges. Medical and defense analysts discuss the spread of the e ebola virus, Health Concerns related to warfare and the humanitarian crises resulting from conflicts being waged by isis and other terror groups. The event is hosted by the University Center for terrorism study. Its just under two hours. Okay. I guess were ready to start. I want to welcome everybody again to another very, very timely seminar, and i want to thank yona and all of his people really who put this together with a great deal of haste really considering the topic. The Health Challenges that we have, the security responses from ebola to terrorism. And
Going to the funny thing is in syria linking up with extremist the returning to the home countries including this one and other countries for which we do not require a piece of. Theyre rights as social media and of the use of internet to recruit and inspire is a new phenomenon compared to 30 years ago. Groups have the ability to recruit without an individual ever going to a terrorist training camp. Were to be trained from a command and control structure. And dc a rise of bill wolf attack in the australian ottawa a and here in this country from time to time. The lone wolf threat must be taken seriously because it could arise at any moment in a whole landors United States. Our Intelligence Community does a pretty good job but the nature of bill lowes wolf attack as such it could occur at any moment with little warning. Obviously there has been the military response as part of the International Coalition against isil and iraq and syria. Period and in response to the threats generally to a
Some of our very important Homeland Security initiatives until we have an appropriations bill. Its key that we get one. On the good news front the year ago there were a number of vacancies in the seniorlevel positions and we now have including myself over the last 12 months is to the hard work because 13 confirmed president ial appointments. We also have confirmed president president ial points and is the assistant secretary for legislative affairs in the new assistant secretary for public affairs. We have one nomination think an undersecretary for management to actually happens to be a former client of mine. The retired Vice President bird of Johnson Johnson russ dio who has impressed virtually every senator he has met. He will be a great addition to our team but im hoping he will be confirmed early in the new year. Its no accident that i selected somebody who was the Vice President for administration of Johnson Johnson which is a large decentralized Health Care Company with operating
Or cspan. Next, medical and military experts discuss Current Health and Security Issues from around the world. Topics include the sprefd ebola, ferksicts of biological and Chemical Warfare and humanitarian and refugee crises. This is hosted by the Interuniversity Center for terrorism studies. Its just under two hours. Okay. I guess were ready to start. I want to welcome everyone again to a very timely seminar. I want to thank all of the people who put this together with a great deal of haste really, considering the topic. The Health Challenges we have. The security responses from ebola to terrorism. Of course, i think its extraordinarily timely event. We have a super panel here. Im going to let yonah do the introductions at the right time. Our panel were blessed really by having a panel that has a lot of military experience, a lot of government experience, medical experience, a lot of all kinds of experience, if you will, that you need to talk about this topic, along with don and his I