Or was it the real economy rearing its increasingly ugly head every day that the average goes down, the dow slipped 102 points, s p shed 7 p. 8 , are we having Great Depression style unemployment 38 million jobless claims or another garden variety sell off in the wake of another major rally . Ill give you a hint its not the economy driving the bus. I know the markets incredible rebound the last two months seems totally out of sync with whats happening in the rest of the country. Wall streets become divorced from main street and were told thats unsustainable the thing is im not so sure this morning on squawk on the street, i kicked this idea around with david faber and carl quintanilla. David was incredulous i thought we were seeing a garden variety selloff, not some reckoning mass sell off in unemployment. Another 2. 4 Million People filing for jobless benefits this very week. Remember we get those claims thursday morning lets start with the positives that help stem the bleeding today
i wonderfor the flying i wonder for the flying weather will be like tonight. time for a look at the weather here s darren bett. it isa it is a fine and late spring day. for many parts of the country it stays dry today because we were close to the area of high pressure. more cloud coming in to bring rain to northern scotland tomorrow and that weather front has brought more clout from the north across scotland and this is actually where we have seen most of the showers. northern scotland should improve this afternoon and showers move down into northern ireland, northern england. further south you may squeeze a shower from the cloud but on the whole it is dry and a little bit warmer, not quite as breezy and the temperatures peaking at 17 degrees. some showers this evening and they could affect eastern parts of england before fading away, we are left with cloud across the east and more cloud coming into the north west of scotland. maybe not quite as chilly as last night, temper
Glad you could join us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 3am in syria where the United Nations says fighting has resumed in Eastern Ghouta despite a humanitarian pause. It was hoped that the daily five hour ceasefire, which had been ordered by syrias ally russia, would allow civilians to leave, but the un says it collapsed before it was due to expire. Nearly 400,000 people are trapped in the region, which has been besieged by the government since 2013. 0ur middle east editor, jeremy bowen reports. It was supposed to be a chance to get some aid into Eastern Ghouta, but the temporary ceasefire, at best, was ragged. No civilians left down the newly designated safe corridors. Once again in syria, the russians are setting the pace. This russian officer, stationed in the humanitarian corridor, claimed armed opposition groups were stopping civilians leaving. The day turned into a demonstration of russian power in syria. Theirjets were in the sky, and their soldiers, alongside the syria
With the airline offering refunds for inconvenienced passengers. Most want to get to their destination. Im going to try and get out today. Im going to hang out a little while. We are trying to get away on vacation. If we have to come back tomorrow, come back tomorrow. Reporter some passengers come plained the departure and arrival boards were misleading. The computers are back on line but things are very, very slow. They have no anything. Last minute they sent me a text stating they were delayed. This happened at 2 30 in the morning. They should have sent something a long time ago and they never did. Reporter people say they getting to the airport early because they have heard about the problems and hopeful at some point they will be able to get out. The best thing to do is contact the airline before you arrive 7 eyewitness news. New at noon, a car and a dump truck got in to an accident on the interstate if West Chester County in West Chester County as drives swerved to avoid a vehicle
Desert. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been handed a second mandate. He has been voted in to do exactly the opposite of what he was the first time. Scale of the triumph was much bigger than expected but as Barnaby Phillips now reports, the task ahead is pretty daunting. Reporter they game had i a Second Chance and Alexis Tsipras savored the moment. He lost his strug building greeces creditors and was forced to accept more austerity, he survived a party rah bell i dont know and, yet he appears to have emerged almost as popular as ever. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this great victory. For this clear victory. We gave a tough and difficult fight. Today i feel vicinity gated because the greek beam gave us a clear mandate for us to continues to battle and nba and out of the country to raise up our peoples dignity. Reporter this is a night of triumph for Alexis Tsipras and his party. Hes now the dominant force in greek politics. But in the months to think do, h