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emma: it s very, very, very quiet today. clearly people, traders still enjoying christmas break. not many of them at their desk today. the they re going nowhere, and what we saw in the s&p, volume opened was at about half of recent averages. europe is closed, as you alluded to there. the next biggest market trading today is the nikkei, and that saw volume down about 44% f. we look for anything that may be dragging things down, it s the tech sector that s down about 1%, and that s probably why we re starting to see a few moves. and then let s look at apple, because that s one of the things that s been dragging things down this morning. we saw analysts have been lowering their projections for the iphone 10. they said shipments in the first quarter next year are going to be much lower than expected. they cited lackluster demand. so what we re seeing is a number of main apple suppliers falling today. and analysts see a 22% drop from their prior estimate in terms of demand f ....
influence over the government. 30% say they have been mostly bad. while benioff calls ceos complacent, he said they should self regulate and not get government involved. the washington post just reported google s first time outspending allocating more than $18 million to lobby lawmakers. facebook and apple all broke records as well. top democrats are calling out social media companies. senator dianne feinstein is demanding that facebook and twitter investigate russia for the release of a memo campaign online. it was about a legend misconduct in the russian investigation. in a joint statement it was written that if these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the russian government through social media actors intervening and influencing our democratic process. facebook and twitter have not responded. san francisco could soon have its third mayor in six weeks. reporter: as you might recall after mayor ed lee died, according to the city charter ....
more information for your vacation planning is available at aruba.com. and now, bbc world news. laura: this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. the head of the cia says russia s interference in u.s. elections isn t over, and leaves no doubt that his agency s tackling threats on multiple fronts. mr. pompeo: we are the world s finest espionage service. i m incredibly proud of that. we will go out there and do our damnedest to steal secrets on behalf of the american people. laura: the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, steps aside effective immediately. it comes after constant criticism from president trump regarding the russia investigation. an art restorer for the modern age. how window washer cleaned up a mural by the graffiti artist banksy. viewers onome to our public television in america and around the globe. the head of the cia warns that russia will try to interfere in america s midterm elections this november. ....
thousands of immigrants in the u.s. may face violence and murder in their home countries. what happens when they are forced to return. we will speak to sarah stillman. then as dodge ram uses the words of martin luther king to sell trucks in a super bowl ad, we will look at the whitewashing of civil rights history. messageduce dr. king s to a ploy to sell trucks is appalling. dr. king s message in this day and age under the circumstances that exists, given the we are up against as a people and where we look like we may be headed as a nation, is despicable. we will speak to sociologist and civil rights activist harry edwards and historian jeanne theoharis, author of the new book, a more beautiful and terrible history: the uses and misuses of civil rights history. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. global markets are tumbling this morning across asia and europe after the u.s. stock marke ....
catherine:now at 8 new details about the man suspected in the family massacre in modesto. police say he s also the prime child in 20-14. now questions are being raised about whether the massacre could have prevented.if police had arrested martin martinez earlier. kron-4 s jeff bush talked with family members. but first alecia reid joins us live from modesto where a memorial for the victims is happening tonight. summer evening behind me as a crowd gathers more the loss of five innocent lives. started walking in this park around 6:00 this evening and continued walking to show their respects one of the victim s 38 year-old amanda crews being remembered as a loving doting mother of her two girls sister elizabeth and 6 months old rituals. but the grossman cousin a time for one- on-one with each bird daughters and just two weeks ago many tells me a man had a couple of rough couple days a hard time dealing with the death of her two year-old son christopher who died last o ....