Political uncertainty grips spain as no party emerges a clear winner after that crucial election. After an accounting scandal, toshiba is expected to report a 4. 5 billion dollar large. Theyre likely to cut nearly seven thousand jobs. Top stories so far today. F. I. F. A. s Ethics Committee has banned blatter and platini. Blatter arrived in zurich and is expected to hold a News Conference shortly. We will keep those pictures in case. He was suspended in october. F. I. F. A. Says his explanation of a payment made to the Vice President , mr platini, in 2011 wasnt convincing. Both had denied any wrongdoing. Lets talk to our correspondent as we monitor those pictures out of zurich. When they decided to say no, enough is enough, they didnt pull their punches on this one. Reporter no. Frankly, we had been hearing the sort of details of this a few days in advance. The fact that both platini and blatter about a month ago had asked for this process to be suspended while platini runs for the f.
Inked a deal. Analysts say it could be worth billions of dollars annually. Red card for fifa for blatter and platini after an ethics probe into past payments. All right. And mentioning whats taking place from within fifa, seth blatter now expected to kick off a News Conference any minute now. Weve got some live pictures coming through from there. The conference arena. Thats taking place in zurich. Well bring you that live when it begins. Just glancing at the u. S. Futures, still a couple of hours away, but were being called a little bit higher on the open this morning following on for a pretty sharp selloff on friday. The dow suffering significantly on fridays trade with a bit of unwinding from some previous gains that otherwise had been made. Here in europe, of course, this morning were looking at just some slight gains on the stoxx europe 600. Our main European Equity markets also, indeed, reflecting this as we head into the shortened holiday week with christmas upon us. Ftse up by.
Weather appears to be the new norm. Events like superstorm saturday which came to my shores and our shears in the mid atlantic a year or so ago, recent wildfires in ore parts of the country other parts of the country, dangerous tornadoes, historic droughts. They may well be just the tip of the iceberg of whats to come. And even today the east coast is preparing for yet another snowstorm while the west coast is experiencing a historic drought. And increased fire danger with no end in sight. I have a friend of mine who is from australia, and he tells me theyve had the hottest weather in their history, so go figure. Its just sort of a crazy world that we live in right now. For years, ive been working with a number of my colleagues, our colleagues to address the root causes and unfolding effects of what i believe is one of the Biggest Challenges of our generation. Thats Climate Change. According to the u. S. Global change research program, extreme weather events have increased in frequency
Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities, and just to underbehind this, and save money. Save money in the long haul. We have deficits coming down, theyre still too much. Down from 1. 4 trillion, i think, four years ago, this year expected to be down to about 550 billion. Only 550 billion. Thats still way too much and we have to continue to look in every nook and cranny and figure out how do we save more money. Thats the focus of todays hearing. But, i will try to take about five minutes for my Opening Statement and yield to senator joh
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