And we begin with one of the wildest days on wall street in years. The Dow Jones Industrial average plummeted nearly 1100 points minutes after the opening bell sounded this morning. Stocks managed to recover some of take losses, but at closing bell the dow was still down 500 points. Financial markets have lost trillions in value over the last few days. The euro first index lost more than 521 billion. The Australian Security Exchange lost 60 billion of value. And it is estated that s p 500 companies lost about 685 billion in value today. Mary snow spent the day on the Trading Floor on wall street. Mary, how do you explain what happened today . Thats the one question everyone was trying to explain, and theres no one simple answer, but there was one overriding theme, and that was fear and uncertainty. And to get a sense of just the wild ride you were just talking about, take a look at this oneday chart on the dow. It was the singlebiggest point drop in the market ever. The market did reco
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. The World Markets seem to be sablessing this morning despite big sell off in asia. Futures here point to a big surge at the open, despite another sell off in shanghai and tokyos nikkei. In china it turned dramatically negative. The country is cutting the Interest Rates to try to stop the bleeding. Trading opened on tuesday across the Asian Pacific and they opened with baited breath wondering how the market would react considering chinas fall was so tract particular on a monday. The markets were shaky, most of them making losses in the early part of trading. They regained some of that ground as the day progressed, and made up in some cases on those losses. Markets that were in profess certainly saw themselves reach the black again, with taiwan, australia, singapore, but the shanghai composite perhaps the market that many global eyes were focused on ended at 7. 63 down on the day, tokyo said market was
To grab a cape hood if ner necessary, and to get away from windows and doors. Weve been told theyve lifted the shelter in place order on the capitol. Lets go to Kelly Odonnell. Kelly, what are you seeing where you are right now . Thats right, tamron. Weve just been given an all clear sign, so theres a message going out through the inhouse tv and message system on the u. S. Capitol grounds that there is an all clear. The incident has been concluded. So normal operations can resume. Neither the house nor the Senate Floors are back up and running yet, but this has been a very tense time over the last im not even sure how long the time has elapsed here. We have been in this lockdown mode. Thats become a word americans are all too familiar with of what that means. We have several United States senators who are saying that they heard three to five popping sounds. They were earwitnesses to this. Weve seen the evacuation of at least one individual who appeared to me to be wearing a u. S. Capit
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. 2014, the chair now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. No sooner had the United States recognized the failure of alcohol prohibition by repealing the 18th amendment than the United States embarked upon another failed experiment in prohibition, marijuana. For three quarters of a century, the United States has waged a futile attempt to prohibit marijuana based upon emotion and flawed science. Since 197
And now to london for Prime Ministers question time, live from the british house of commons. Every wednesday while parliament is in session Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from the members of the house of commons. Prior to question time the house is wrapping up of the business. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. Could she indicate to the house what discussion she had with the government and the republic of ireland around these issues ahead of any possible discussion . I had regular discussions about this matter, including a number of meetings both in Northern Ireland and in dublin. We are keen to Work Together to encourage a report to be found, to encourage the Political Parties in Northern Ireland to reconcile their differences. On question 10. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Does she agree with me, and i welcome her very much has been achieved and we should now proceed to element as much as possible reading the legislation and resolving the differences that are ther