You can make a comment on our facebook page. And finally, send an email. The president will be holding a News Conference this afternoon at 1 30 pm eastern time. It will be live on cspan. Obviously, this will be one of the areas he addresses. The front page of the wall street journal this morning for response ggles to hack. The u. S. Government is looking retaliate to north hacking of arent Sony Pictures, according to familiar with discussions u. S. Officials have evidence that could point to north korea as directing the attack. Officials are still investigating who is responsible. North korea has denied responsibility. One of the coauthors of this story is Devlin Barrett of the wall street journal. Mister barrett, how close is the u. S. White house to naming korea government is responsible . Guest they are pretty close. I think it will name her later today, and it would be pretty awkward if you didnt answer that question today he ddidnt answer that question today. So much of this has h
Greenpeace. Plus why doctors now believe the art of preventing allergyies in children may contain nuts. Scientists from the Islamic State in iraq and the levant have kidnapped at least 70 people from christian villages in syria. Activists say that isil raided the province where the Syrian Kurdish forces have launched a major offensive against the group. Now these pictures appear to show battles on monday. Well in neighboring iran the army released this video after recapturing the town offal baghdadi. And in mosul isil mens destroyeddestroyed 8,000 manuscripts. We have this report on the abduction of 70 christians by isil. People have been forced to move by isil. This time its the christians, they were overrun by the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. They struck our church, our social club, our houses, other areas, this is why we had to leave. We were scared. Inin these difficult times we ask for help. Isil has captured 70 people. Their whereabouts are not known. They dont know if t
Star state reporting on the impact of low oil on jobs and the economy in the great state of texas. First, lets get to bob in the heart of all the action down at the nyc. I can hear smashing in the background. All those records being smashed again today. I believe its been the best twoweek gain for the s p in three months and im just looking at the leaders here. Energy and materials are on fire. Once again. At that level this will be a new historic closing high. Well see if we get there here. Intraday inteks for new highs, theres a bunch of them. The s p 500 is an at intraday by semiconductor index, i mentioned this all week its been at historic highs. Midcaps have been historic highs. The nasdaq is at a 15year high. The russell is close to new highs as well. Well be keeping an eye on that. Leading the charge as mandy mentioned is energy and will we see brent up very strong this morning and close west texas intermediate. We get some of the more volatile names up. Danbury, halliburton, b
President obama made a big announcement today on the future of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. He laid out just how many service men and women will remain there at the end of this year. At the beginning of 2015 we will have approximately 9800 98009,800 u. S. Service members together with n. A. T. O. Allies and other partners. Reporter Mike Viqueira live at the white house. Take us through the specifics of the troop withdraw. Reporter you know, its been a long time coming. This is a promise that he had made on the campaign trail. And he has been saying all along that the u. S. U. S. Combat role s going to end. However, the agreements he hoped to reach with the afghanistan government, how many troops will be left there, and exactly what their mission will be. At the height of mr. Obamas afghan surge, the sift had 100,000 troops on the ground. By the time of sundays surprise visit in afghanistan that number was 32,000. You heard the president say that there would be 9800 troops with that num
We havee do you think made the farthest inroads to protect ourselves, and which of the three do we need to work on . That is a good question. It resembles a question i get a lot as secretary of Homeland Security. What threat, what vulnerability do you worry about most . Where have we made the most progress . Difficult to rank them. As secretary of homeland forrity, i am responsible counterterrorism, and your question has elements of counterterrorism. Im responsible for aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, protection of our critical infrastructure, protection of our national leaders, response to hurricanes, tornadoes, natural disasters, and Cyber Security, which is what we are here to talk about. Correct thatutely the cyber threat has those different components, different characters, motivated by different designs, and routinely, we assess threats in the nature of all three. I would have to say that we need to be vigilant in both the. Gov world with and.