Of trading this week. The dax off by 0. 8 . ,f you lift out the stoxx 600 the biggest moving group is travel and leisure, perhaps no surprise. Switch up the board very quickly. Look at this. Dollaryen. Potentially the biggest weekly gain for dollar and in dollaryen in percentage terms in years. Treasuries having their worst week so far this year. 1. 54 of the u. S. 10year. David w. turning to the attack on nice, president hollande held an emergency meeting after 84 people were killed during a terror attack in the Southern City of nice. We turn to our bloomberg colleague who has been reporting on the story. Please bring us up to speed on what we know about this attack up to now. We know the name of the attacker now. Mohamed lahouaiej bouhlel. He has been identified as a 31yearold french tunisian national. Apparently, a family man with three children. His drivers license was found in the truck and police have man who was is the driving the truck into the crowd last night. He was not know
It is officially official, as you said, donald trump after a day of leaks yesterday now tweeting out the news that he has picked indiana governor mike pence as his running mate and potential Vice President of the United States of america if trump should win. Heres the tweet just a little while ago donald trump put out. I am pleased to announce that i have chosen governor mike pence as my Vice President ial running mate. News Conference Tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. That News Conference was initially scheduled for today. The trump folks have postponed it in the wake of the terrorist attack in france. But meanwhile, maybe not such good news on the polling front for the trump candidacy. Look at these battleground polls now in key states. Clinton versus trump headtohead matchups in colorado, 43 clinton, 35 trump. In florida, 44 clinton, 37 trump. North carolina, 44 again for clinton, 38 for trump. And in virginia, a state that once was reliablely republican, thats 44 clinton, trump 35 there. So,
Tomorrow, and we will have more in a few minutes. And now to france, where for the third time in the best 18 months, the country is dealing with the aftermath of mass murder at the hands of terrorists. 84 people are dead after a truck plowed through a crowd of people who were celebrating best deal day. More than 200 people have been hurt, many in Critical Condition it happened during bastille day. It is a French National of tunisian descent as the identified terrorist. He is not known to be part of a terror organization. Authorities taking the suspects exwife into custody. We do not know what this woman is being charged with. Lets get more from kenneth moton. Fear. Ic and cheers for celebrations turned into terror as thound french resort town filled with tourists. A semi truck plowed to this than 80promenade, more dead, including american Sean Copeland and his 11yearold son, from texas. Dozens of others were injured. I mean, i just grabbed my fiancee and we started running. The truck l
Certainty, now it is nices turn to be struck. But it is france in its entirety which is targeted by islamic terrorism. In such circumstances, we must demonstrate that we are very vigilant and our determination is unshakeable. French president hollande also announced that he has extended the nations state of emergency, this for the next three months. He has vowed to strengthen attacks against isis in iraq and syria. Now, the driver of the truck was killed by police immediately following this atrocity. Authorities say the man was firing on the crowd as he slammed into them. We have also learned that truck was loaded with weapons and grenades. Witnesses report the driver was purposely aiming that truck at the crowd, zigzagging so that he could kill as many people as possible. But so far, no group has taken responsibility for this attack. Police are still looking into whether there could have been an accomplice, but we do know this is the worst mass killing in france since last years attac
On top of the other with our hands on the head like this. I was terrified. I put my hands on the babys mouth so she wouldnt scream because i thought if the shooters close, hopefully he thinks wear laying dead and were not alive so he wont come and shoot us. The streets were close to empty. People had already ran and at that point, thats why we went on the floor, we were like, were sitting ducks. Its not like theres a bunch of people and we can run with the crowd. Everybody had already realize what was going on way before we realized what was going on and at that point the smartest thing to do was floor and hope. Now they survived. But this morning a family spokesperson tells nbc news that american father and his son, Sean Copeland and his 11yearold son brodie, this from lakeway texas, they did not make it out alive. The spokesperson said, quote, we are heartbroken and in shock over the loss of brodie copeland, an amazing son and brother who lit up our lives, and Sean Copeland, a wonder