welcome to countdown. i am anna edwards. manus: i am manus cranny. it is a big day for the bank. hsbc profit falls 545%. we have seen the stock open portrayed in hong kong. they are planning a $2.5 billion buyback. the removed the timetable. the headline, pretax trough it $3.61 billion. last year it was $6.6 billion and the estimates were for $3.9 billion. a recession potentially in the u.k. impacting hsbc. if you want to think about it on this scale, since 2011 they slashed 87,000 jobs. that is a bank in restructuring. downng in hong kong, 0.75%. anna: this is from the third-largest bank. net profit for the second quarter is 1.1 6 billion euros. that is above the estimate of 994 million euros. the bank also telling us the gain they have made on the sale of euro state. that bank went deal went through. many banks booked a gain on that. they are all but facing headwinds from the low interest rate environment. what will be key as we go through these numbers is the bread and
sot: (governor) stay off the roads if you don t need to be on the roads and spend some time with your family. the city is thankful many heeded the warnings.and stayed home. today s snow and ice is really just the start of the travel nightmare this storm is creating. it s beginning to paralyze air travel along the east coast.. with a ripple effect across the country. airports in several major cities have already canceled all flights for tomorrow. flightaware reports more than three thousand flights canceled and more than six thousand have been delayed so far. sound from presser: if you re planning to fly on saturday don t come to the airport because your flight has been canceled. the best travel advice from officials? don t travel anywhere if you don t have to. but while other parts of the country are dealing with severe weather, things in siouxland are a bit calmer. let s toss it over to chief meteorologist ron demers to see what siouxland can expect tonight and this weeken
seen for the very first time as mediators work for their release. plus, calling a foul, the nba investigates the racist comment attributed to the owner of the l.a. clippers. a historic day in vatican city where for the very first time in the entire history of the catholic church, two popes were elevated to sainthood in a joint canonization ceremony. thousands filled saint peter s square to witness the unprecedented event while millions watched from all over the world. pope francis led the ceremony for john paul ii and john xxiii. in fact, john ter bennett has reaction from newark, new jersey but first with nick schifrin live in vatican city. nick, what is the emotion there like? what is the reaction where you are? reporter: morgan, i think the people i talked to it s not just thousands. it s nearly a million people who witnessed this ceremony is three-fold. one, they are awed by the sense of history. they are sense by the awed by the sense, as you said, two popes beco