Intelligence director as a woman avril haines. And toeny blinken to be the secretary of state. Biden announced why he announced these cabinet picks first. President elect joe bidens cabinet is taking shape announcing today his intention to elevate seasoned advisers from the Obama Administration into new history making roles. Why did you go with National Security first . Because its National Security. Reporter before a Virtual Meeting with the u. S. Conference of mayors, biden unveiling key members of his National Security team, including alejandro mayorkastorun the Homeland Security secretary the nations tasked with the immigration follow. Avril haines the first woman to lead the nations Intelligence Community as director of national intelligence. And john contrakerry, long time senator and former secretary of state to serve as an International Climate czar a new post underscoring bidens commitment to fighting climate change. The president elect is wasting no time filling his team and
Bloombergs headquarters in london. We begin with the worlds biggest air show. Airbus dominated the firstday. The deals gave airbus an early lead. Could boeing be on the fight back for more announcements today. Todayy expect from them what can we expect from them today . Is it a banner waving dealmaking day . It could be to some extent. There will be something of a fight back from boeing. We can expect to see some big deals at boeing, in particular, with Leasing Companies. Look out for boc aviation. Valued in more than 9 billion. That is something on our radar. As cnbc is the company we have in our focus. We could see deals from both. Show in termshe of the numbers yesterday and with the announcement offering a new engine margin on an older aircraft. He is certainly one of the things we have been talking about here at the air show. Overcapacity is also a big scene. They have announced the markets they have issues. He thought it was really just a european legacy of carrier issues. That w
So, its the largest nonnuclear bomb that the u. S. Military has in its arsenal. Its 21,000 pounds. It was dropped from a u. S. Aircraft. As far as we know, this is the first time that this specific munition was dropped on the battlefield. Its been tested before, but actually on the battlefield. It was targeted targeting a tunnel complex, going after isis fighters and potentially some leaders. We were told, ive been told by u. S. Military officials it was a large contingent of isis fighters in this tunnel. Isis has been a problem for the u. S. Military in Nangarhar Province where we saw the strike today. Its been a problem that general nicholson has addressed several times and has now there is now an active specific offensive meant to deal specifically with isis there. We saw that was in the news just recently when a u. S. Military special Operations Forces soldier was killed as part of that fight, not far from where this munition was dropped. Courtney colonel jack, let me bring you aut