This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im erica pitzi. Police in ferguson, missouri will be out on the streets early this morning, trying to maintain calm after a second tense night there. Officers arrested nearly two dozen people during protests marking one year since the death of Michael Brown. At least one officer was seen using pepper spray on the crowd. Earlier monday, protestors shut down interstate 70 during the afternoon rush hour. St. Louis county is now under a state of emergency. Andy is live on the ground there in ferguson. Good morning to you, andy. We know police made dozens of arrests overnight. What can you tell us . Calm now, erika, but it did get hot last night. Much as it did the night before, but not quite as bad as the nice before. It started with these protests, we had a line of police and riot gear on one side of a majoring street and protestors on the other side yelling back at them. At one point, police moved in around midnight to clear protestors a
Perception that the fed is going to be more aggressive and stocks are going up. It is also a strange world because that perception has not change between yesterday and today. Stocks moved kind of sideways yesterday and they are rallying strongly today. Major can see, all three averages are pretty much at their highs of the day. The nasdaq has been leading the way because of strength and Technology Shares today. It is a cyclically led rally today. Though sectors most formidable to an economic recovery, so another words, if the us economy is recovering enough so the fed can raise rates, that is the perception driving stocks higher today. Making new highs gradually, just a gradual trend upward as it is up by 1. 3 . Software stocks have been doing well with and technology. Microsoft leading the way after upgrading shares to outperform at callan. Traders overreacted to the companys last trading report, but things are not going poorly at microsoft. Adobe in Electronic Arts are also on the ri
Reporter there is certainly an atmosphere expect yancy here right here on the tarmac of the airport in havana, cuba. Half of this duo is already here. The russian plane you can see behind me. Now were just waiting for pope francis to touch down. For a few hours, heads of opposing Christian Churches will meet one another in a spirit of good will. Pope francis of the Roman Catholic church and the leader of the Russian Orthodox church. 962 years have not healed the bitter split between the branches of eastern and wesrn christianity. Were told what happens today could make both sides change course. This meeting, its possible, perhaps, that the church will be breathing with both lungs. Reporter the meeting they are proud of the rolol their country, cuba, is playing on the national stage. At the same time, its ironic. A thousandyearold grudge is being settled in cuba. Its kind of weird but thats reporter both leaders are expected to make a joint declaration and cuban leader raul castro will
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
The appalling targeting of the police is going on in this country right now i hope that is not the message you want to send two brave men and women that wear the uniform to protect us. Police officers and Law Enforcement officials cant count on federal Law Enforcement officials to back them up who can they rely on . Seeing no other witnesses think you attorney general for your questions in her time today. Without objection all members have five additional days to submit additional records for the hearing. With that this hearing is adjourned. Next u. S. Senators talk about the terrorist attacks in paris. Several u. S. Senators went to to the center for disheartening to talk about the recent terrorist attacks in paris and their related security concerns at home. A year ago the gulf for the goal was to destroy iso. No one should take this as a criticism of the men and women and uniform as well as their civilian counterparts in the field doing the best they can under the strategic and oper