affiliated groups as well as business groups, farm associations, parent groups, young professional organizations, religious groups and conservative advocacy organizations. guests of mr. ramaswamy and grand view university are here tonight but they won t ask questions. we have asked everyone here to be respectful to each other and mr. ramaswamy so the voters in the room and at home have a chance to hear from the candidate. please, welcome vivek ramaswamy. [ applause ] i want to get right to the audience and bring simone from cli clive, iowa. she served on the board of a christian school. she s undecided. thank you. first of all, welcome to iowa. merry christmas from iowa. thank you. thank you for really adding some important conversations to the campaign. some local commentators refer to you as maybe the younger trump, not a politician, which would place you running in the same lane as president trump for getting votes. other than being younger, how would you differentia
Crowds everywhere he goes. The polar prank that has everyone talking this morning. And good morning. A lot to get to this thursday morning including new details on that plane crash. Remember we saw it clipping that bridge before going to the river. Well some amazing and harrowing survival stories are emerging right now. Every time still when you see that piece of video. Well begin with that bitter cold moving across much of the country. Temperatures in a freefall plunging more than 30 degrees. Ginger is back and tracking it all for us. Yeah, not bad out there right now along the east coast but let me tell you in a couple of hours things will bottom out. Let me bring you to westchester where the front has made it and thats whats happening. So its about to snow here. Thats just north of new york city. And what well do is move that front through and then the arctic blast settles in. Chicago is already feeling it. 14 below the windchill this morning. 19 below for minneapolis. Look at st. L
Mac moment. It is a key check on the help of the global consumer. Figures come out later this week. And the president will leave for south africa this morning. He will be attending Memorial Services for nelson mandela. George bush and Hillary Clinton will join the president and the first lady. Jimmy carter and bill clinton will fly separately. They will join dozens of other dignitaries and tens of thousands of mourners at the service being held in johannesburg. That is your morning brief. It was a subtle weekend. Particularly in bitcoin. That will be a feature during the week. Futures are up. The 10 year yield is that 84. The currency market is on the move. Crude is at 111. The 30 year bond tries to migrate higher. 103. 05. It was really quite important to see strong keep it going. We scoured the papers. Some of the Biggest Tech Companies are joining forces. They are demanding reforms on the nsa surveillance program. Names include cap apple, google all of the Silicon Valley companies.
Alisyn good morning, everybody. Thanks so much for joining us bright and early on this very Important News weekend. So much is happening now that investigators have left syria, anything could happen at any moment. Lets get to a fox news alert and the latest on syria for you. The u. N. Team investigating the chemical attack has left the country as the Obama Administration the syria carried out a chemical attack. Elizabeth prann is live for us in washington. Completed four day investigation. The team collecting and carrying various samples for lab analysis to determine if chemical weapons were used to kill Syrian People this while secretary of state john kerry made it clear yesterday u. S. Officials already have the answer to that question and there will be action against the rogue regime after telling the American Public the administration has classified intelligence which is both clear and compelling and shows the Regime Forces are behind the latest chemical attack which is said to hav
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