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Host good to have you with us. We begin with turkeys turkeys growing aggression against the Kurdish Military group, the pkk. Turkish planes have reportedly hit pkk targets in Northern Iraq including shelters, daves, and storage units. The bombings came after and it caves, and storage units. An estimated 200 kurdish fighters have died in airstrikes in recent days. Lets pull in our correspondent, dorian jones. He is on the story for us. What more do we know about these latest attacks against the kurds . Dorian they follow the killing of three kurdish soldiers in an ambush in turkey. They are backed up by turkish artillery targeting 100 20 targets. This follows a bombardment two days ago which involved 17 jets hitting targets in turkey and iraq. That number could be surpassed, as further attacks are expected to night. Fohe purpose of context, this and the Islamic State. There were 75 strikes against the pkk and only three against Islamic State. It doesppear the military is totally focused
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. We saw something today we havent seen since the dependents of the great recession. The price of oil fell below 50 a barrel. It ended the day at 50. 04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. Have a look at this. Just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. No one knows when the slide will end. On wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. The s p nearly 38. In beth cases a loss of nearly 2 . Elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. Reporter today marked the worst drop in the dow and s p since october. Analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason, but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. Bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. Why are the markets tanking . Oil did breech a kind of psychological barrier going below 50 a barrel. When you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with
Pelley good evening. We saw something today we havent seen since the dependents of the great recession. The price of oil fell below 50 a barrel. It ended the day at 50. 04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. Have a look at this. Just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. No one knows when the slide will end. On wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. The s p nearly 38. In beth cases a loss of nearly 2 . Elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. Reporter today marked the worst drop in the dow and s p since october. Analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason, but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. Bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. Why are the markets tanking . Oil did breech a kind of psychological barrier going below 50 a barrel. When you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a significant economic downturn. The difference
Nearly 40 interviews. Let me paerdread part of this statement. A couple of points as i have skimmed through this we heard tom brady talking yesterday in that News Conference the headline there, he said he had no idea about these under inflated balls. And he said he had yet to talk to the nfl. One of the key lines here they are not saying they talked to tom brady. But the nfl does say over the past several days nearly 40 interviews have been conducted, including of patriots personnel, game officials and third parties with relevant information and expertise. Here is the other point that i want to bring to you. While the effort supports that footballs that were under inflated were used by the patriots in the first half the footballs were properly inflated for the second half and confirmed at the conclusion of the game to have remained properly inflated. So this is the first time we are hearing this confirmation this acknowledgement from the nfl saying yes, in that first half balls were un