Some parts of northeast iowa saw rain again this morning and state leaders now are trying to get more money to help the areas hit hard by last months flooding. Flooding. Governor Terry Branstad has requested a federal disaster declaration for eight counties from president obama. Its not clear when the white house will announce the president s decisi. Congressional delegation has reached out to the president urging him to act quickly. State assistance is available to anyone trying to repair damage from the flood waters. A developing story overnight police in Charlotte North Carolina say at least 12 of their officers were injured during protests after another Deadly Police shooting of a black man. One of those officers was hit in the face with a rock. Protesters were shown breaking the windows of a Police Vehicle and destroying other demonstrators started throwing rocks at their van too. Early this morning protesters blocked a portion of interstate 85 before officers cleared the roadway
A lot of Corporate News this morning. First, lets get a check of the bigger market picture. U. S. Equities closed out of correction territory yesterday. A good rally weve seen over the last ten days or two weeks. Sparked, perhaps, some say, when jamie dimon stepped in and bought some shares. The dow called to open down by about 110 points. The nasdaq by 34. Lets have a look at european trade, where we are seeing some red there as well across the board. The ftse 100 is in the red today. Its down 0. 7 , led lower by Standard Chartered, which reported a fullyear loss for the First Time Since 1989. Asia also showing some red today. Nothing too pronounced. 0. 8 declined for shanghai. There are still concerns lingering about china, about the state of global growth, about the state of earnings, which hasnt been all too bright. Well see what the guidance looks like on the consumer names. In other words, the fundamental problems that have been with us since the beginning of year are not complet
The stand, he told jurors he happened to be at the Dollar General store mathis was killed and he had never been there before. Prosecutored said it wasnt random and that shields was tracking mathis. 2015 was a record year for the number of travelers at the asheville airport. Lauren joins us live. How much of an increase did they see . Airport representatives say they saw more than 30,000 additional travelers compared to the previous year. That is a 4 increase which is nothing but good news there. As far as the reason behind this growth, airport officials tell me some Airlines Continue to expand with nonstop flights. Asheville regional is an airport used for connector flights as well. Airport Officials Say the growth is an indicator more are choosing asheville. They say the additional travelers can mean continued go anywhere you want to in the world. We enjoy some of the best connectivity in the entire country. We see that trend will continue. The growth is a reflection of our vibrant re
Helping them fight for their own freedom in the sense that we are giving the military aid . Are we still talking about that or actually doing that . In the last 14 months we have provided over 108 million in Security Assistance. I can you do a rundown of what would be included in that, but it would it would be things like medications equipment emergency medical, those kind of things. We will look at what more we can do. That is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . No, sir. Why not . They want to defend themselves. As i said we have continued to look at other request from the ukrainians on the lethal side, but note decisions have been made no decisions have been made. So the russians arent each in ukraine, besides being in crimea, which i dont think they will ever try to leave crimea and other nations are very concerned they are next in the russian aggression. I meeting with some ambassadors today. I meeting with some ambassadors today. What is our policy on russian agg
Know, i have to say that i presumed that over time in these three years, we are going to stop transportation to private after School Programs. So, i need to see why we are not proposing to do that. And if it means that we are giving up any, you know, that we are trading that off, against busing to our own after School Programs or other, or maybe transportation to or from school to Home Transportation from some school, because of the capacity of the buses and the system. So, that is the main thing i would be interested in. And also i want to say that again, i have not seen it, but particularly i am interested in that we are expanding transportation for middle schools to support the feeders. I think that is probably really a good idea. I dont know that i understand enough, i would like to understand more about how that is going to work and what that might mean. Commissioner fewer . Yes, you know, what . Since commissioner wynns brought that up, i thought that we did have a conversation a