Leaders back the campaign for a brexit. He thinks britain should stay within the european union. Welcome to countdown. I am manus cranny. I hope your pad a good easter break and you are ready to tackle the markets. The dollar is the rally going to last . That is the question we will posture over the next bit. This is the bloomberg dollar index. A rising street. Six days rising. Can we plugin a seventh. E are on the cops the cusp the dollar rally stutters. We will wait to see what janet yellen has to say. Will she stepped back from the hawkish voices we have heard rising over the last you days. Is personal consumption used. The probability of a rate hike for june. For june. 38 . That is down from 42 despite all of the hawkish voices that came through the markets yesterday. Let us take a look at the commodities. Barclays brings the warning bell on the markets. They warned commodities may slump as we rush to the exit. Is that youg story have seen the most aggressive inuction in short posi
We all ran out. Went around the side of the building to be secure and we were relocated up. Police he is core cored us out e building. When you start to talk about it i hear it its anxiety producing here. Most stress ive ever had in my life. Congress is on recess. Height of the tourism system. All kinds of people were around. Police say a man opened fire to Capitol Visitor Center this afternoon. Officer fired back hurting the suspect whos in the hospital. Name not released yet. No the initial reports were that an officer was wounded but those reports are not correct. A woman again was injured lock down has lifted. More as it comes in. Right now at 5 00 the vein gone. Winds though are picking up out there this morning we had to deal witness rain. To night well brace ourselves against some wind. Well be getting hit with high winds for the neck several hou hours. Like look at old city. Officials have warned we could be dealing with Power Outages and you had to bring in lawn furniture you
Was, oh, maybe just 30 minutes ago when everything was on lockdown here, when the people in the offices were in a position of shelter in place, and the cops were out here with long guns and you know these embedded barricades they have in the street, they were all up to keep traffic from flowing immediately into the Capitol Grounds. Those barricades have been lowered now. The cops with the long guns have receded, and again people are walking about. Now, this happened, as you mentioned, around 2 45 when a man goes into the capitol Visitors Center, he goes through a metal detector. It goes off. Apparently he pulls out a gun, points the gun, and then Capitol Police officer opens fire and shoots him. He was taken to the hospital. His exact condition right now is unknown, but that is what sparked the lockdown here, the shelter in place here on both the senate side, inside the p house side. Now i am told that normal business is being conducted on the senate side and on the house side, that th
Five bullets for his freedom. Welcome to the lead. Im john berman in for jake tapper today. We do begin with the politics lead. And the president s thanksgiving eve twitter tear as he spends the holiday at maralago. President trump hit all the typical dinner table conversation starters, football, the economy, hillary clinton, and, of course, the fact that lavar ball is probably skipping the president when its his turn to say what he is grateful for. All of this weighing on the president s mind as he later tweeted about the u. S. Navy plane which crashed near japan with three people still missing. Well have much more on that story in just a moment, but first, we want to go to cnns senior White House Correspondent in jeff zeleny in west palm beach. And, jeff, the president says he will be working from what he loves to call the winter white house. Reporter good afternoon, john. The president started bright and early here this morning. Just about the same time the sun was coming up, saying