Hello on has him secret and know how the top stories on al jazeera in florida . How can ian has weakened to a category to storm since it may land full on wednesday . Officials have warned, it can still do catastrophic damage. More than 2 and a half 1000000 people are under mandatory Evacuation Order and over 2000000 are without power. How does your castro has more . With wind speeds, talking 250 kilometers per hour. Hurricane e and ripped across floridas gulf coast, wednesday afternoon, waves turn streets into rivers, Florida Governor warning the worst may still be to come. It is going to have major, major impacts in terms of wind, in terms of rain, in terms of flooding jobs. So this is gonna be a nasty, nasty day to days. Oh wow. Homes are without power. As utility workers from 27 states prepared to descend. As soon as the storm clears. About 2 and a half 1000000 people were ordered to evacuate, but some stayed behind risking everything is my home for a me and my mom, you know, i me t
Run by the Catholic Church. Ah, im good. How else as well come to the program . European Energy Ministers are now meeting in brussels to agree on a plan to cut gas consumption and reduce the blocks dependence on russian gas supplies. Theres debate between ear countries over whether the reduction targets should be mandatory, but gas use is already being throttled as russia is cutting flows through the north stream, one pipeline to just 20 percent of its normal capacity. Moscow blames the car on repair, works and sanctions. Germany rejects that is excuse maintenance, work, all war fare via pipeline. The linz has gas problems move to further tightened the screws on gas supplies comes as no surprise while the Russian Energy giants has the reduction is down to servicing a turbine. European politicians believe moscow may cut off gas as political leverage. Listener news . My. They dont even have the guts to say we are waging and economic war with you. We are just using our options. Monument i
We start in ukraine, where there are growing concerns another european Observer Team has been detained in the east of the country. The organization for security and cooperation in europe says it has lost all contact with team of four observers. This comes after a separate team of observers went missing on monday. It is believed they are being held by separatist rebels. Despite the volatile situation in eastern ukraine, the government in kiev says it is making progress towards regaining control. Fighting has left its mark in eastern ukraine. A mortar attack tore through the walls of this hospital friday morning. Kiev has vowed to press ahead with its military offensive until peace and order have been restored. Our military units have removed separatists from the southern and western parts of the donetsk region, as well as from northern parts of the region around luhansk. Europes top security watchdog, the osce, says prorussian militants abducted a second team of observers north of luhan
Hello, welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. Standing reporters are by ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Hans nichols in berlin. Choosing the next European Commission president. The chinawson has inflation problem and the potential deal between two french mobile carriers hit a snag a Caroline Hyde has that story. Jeanclaude junkers candidacy to head the European Commission. They have time as the Prime Minister of sweden set a summit will not lead to a speedy election. Hans nichols joins us. Time is not an ally, is it . It certainly is not. What junker needs is his extension to the had of the commission to be a foregone conclusion. You heard from Prime Minister brian felt that this would not be the time to discuss personnel matters. On headingis going into the meaning, cameron was quite critical. Craig, you spoke with reaching out trying to find a bloc. It is like matteo renzi is against junker. It is like the momentum is pushing back against ju
Years ago today. Happy anniversary to us. Im melissa lee with carl and jim cramer and david faber live from the new york stock exchange. Lets look at how were setting up after yesterdays rally. Particular strength in yesterdays rally. We didnt get housing starts, thats earlier today. As for the picture in europe, really the stand outout here is the euro. Greece getting a five notch upgrade at the s p. Our road map this morning starts with gm. Government motors no more. The treasury to exit its stake in the next 12 to 18 months, purchasing 2 million shares by the end of this month. Another challenging quarter for fedex with the blame squarely on sandy. But the stock is up premarket. Oracle posts a Strong Quarter with Even Stronger guidance. The season rebound in europe. No impact from the fiscal cliff. And ge gets boosted from ubss key call list on the weaker than expected macro environment. Still on the list is including well tell you in a couple of minutes. General motors is up sharpl