Investors are taking note. A big test is next week when gdp comes out for the final three months of last yore and a january jobs report. That could change things around a tad. Now at the new york stock exchange, there is the bell. Thank you very much. That does it for us. Im Victor Blackwell for brooke baldwin. The situation room with wolf blitzer starts now. Wolf . Thanks very much. Happening now, dont let todays pictures fool you. President obama is deciding to give top level white house jobs to women. We are also looking at how the pentagon is planning to respond to north koreas new round of threats including Nuclear Tests and the Vice President s sneaky strategy to try to pressure gun owners to support the administrations. Pushing for new gun control laws. You are in the situation room. We begin with the reshuffling at the white house. A few hours ago, president obama announced he is moving the deputy security adviser do into the position of white house chief of staff. Todays big n
After pyrotechnics set that building on fire. Most victims were trampled to death or died from the smoke. For more on the fire in brazil, im joined on the phone by chasta darlington who is there for us. What do we know right now . Well, randi, you brought up important points. What we found out from officials on the scene from firefighters, is the vast majority of the people that are pulling out of the rubble did die of smoke inhalation. They arent finding charred bodies and they arent feep finding people who were killed by the fire itself. Some people couldnt find the exit in the darkness. There was a pyrotechnics show going on, but the people we talked to said they dont think that is causing the fire. They say the investigation is just beginning but the insulation caught on fire and filled the establishment with smoke. A huge nightclub that could fit up to 300,000 people. They do say that the death toll will likely be over 90 by the time they pull the bodies out and they count them. O
The resolution is agreed to. Mr. Reid mr. President , could we have order . The president pro tempore the senate will be in order. The senate is not in order. The senate will be in order so the majority leader can be heard. Without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , could we have people stop talking . The president pro tempore i ask senators to please cooperate so the majority leader can be heard. If the conversations in the well and throughout the senate could cease. The majority leader. Mr. Reid were going to have one more vote tonight. The next vote will be on sandy and matters related to sandy monday night at 5 30. We expect i have spoken to the chairman, new chairman of the will soon be the chair of the Foreign Relations committee, and Ranking Member corker. Were going to have a vote after the business meeting sometime on tuesday on the new secretary of state. The presiding officer the question is on Senate Resolution 16. Are the yeas and nays requested . The yeas and nays have b
Exactly what motivated the shooter, 20yearold adam lanza. Were going to begin our coverage with the spokesman for want connecticut state police, lieutenant paul vance. Lieutenant, thank you so much for finding time for us. You said something yesterday that you thought the search of the various crime scenes had been successful, and you might have found something that would help us understand the why and the how of this. What can you tell us about that . Well, i can tell you, certainly, the major crime detectives of the state police have been working continuously since this tragedy unfolded, searching not only the initial crime scene at the school, but a secondary crime scene that we also discovered during the investigation. Investigators have executed a number of search warrants and many, many different locations, and i cant detail whats been recovered, but i can tell you that a significant amount of evidence has been recovered and is being cataloged and processed that will certainly as
Want any part of it and we dont want to legitimatize it, because we want to be there because if they subpoena people like susan rice, john kerry, and hillary clinton, the presumptive 2016 president ial nominee, we have to be there to debate them. And so that has been going on, and the last look that we got is that they were leaning towards participating, but it remains to be seen what nancy pelosi is go ing the stay and do. And they have a little bit of the time, mind you, but they are saying that they want the Republican Leadership to respond to the demands of the possibility of equal representation which the republicans said they would not wa want to do and to figure out how authority tative the subpoena power will be and if they will have an ability to counteract that, and whether that is going to happen remains to be sceeens and we are going to look at that, and we have jim clyburn who said yesterday, we want no part of it, and Elijah Cummings said, no, i want to go there and play