For disaster . This is techknow. A show about innovations that can change lives. The science of fighting a wildfire. Were going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity, but were doing it in a unique way. This is a show about science. Oh oh my god by scientists. Tonight, techknow investigates oil in the arctic. Hey guys welcome to techknow were here with Cara Santa Maria and marita davison, because were talking about drilling for oil in the arctic. Now i got to spend twelve days aboard an arctic ice breaker the Us Coast Guard cutter healy. Let me just say, it was complicated. And phil, both weather and Climate Change are huge parts of the story because the sea ice in the arctic is receding. And i actually got to see that sea ice receding in action, and the scientists up there that were monitoring this are overwhelmed by the speed that this is actually happening. Well it seems that the more the ice recedes, the easier it would be to drill right . Yeah but what happens is act
A number of hostages in a popular cafe. Bureau,our Bloomberg Paul allen is covering events for us. What more do we know . There have been a few developments since last we spoke. The police have pushed their street,ack to hunter the block our building is on. You can see the high shot taken out of the window of our building. Building, you can see, is not a cafe. The cafe it self is about a further 100 meters up the road to the left. This is right across the street from the reserve bank of australia and directly across the plaza from channel 7, which has also been evacuated. Hourer development at this is the number of people inside the building. We have been saying it is believed to be up to 20. We have since spoken to the ceo of lindt australia and he said there were 10 working at the time and could be up to 30 customers. There could be up to 40, but that has not been confirmed by the police or any other agency. We have seen pictures of people with their hands up against the window. Two
Well have the numbers the moment they cross and the best analysis in Business News. Of course we are waiting for president obama during this hour to speak at the white house. Set to speak about his request for congress to authorize money and power to fight isis abroad before they infiltrate the United States. Well bring you, of course his comments live as soon as he takes the podium. Lets have a look at exactly where we are on the markets right now. The dow at its lows was down 109 points. Its quite a strong comeback although i guess for your Broader Market the s p still negative for now the third time in four sessions. We keep trying to make a hit at 2,068 and keep failing on that. Were five points higher than our recent range. The nasdaq is higher. This is the third decline in four sessions for the dow and the s p 500. Okay. Lets bring in our contributing panelists today. They include Keith Fitzgerald from money map press, Jack Bouroudjian with us from index Financial Partners jeff r
Closed up some 8 . And then the tenyear yield still below 17. Six more weeks of winter but a Second Chance for the markets this year. Investors looking to kick off february in the green after closing out of january. Represented the worst month in a year. Lower oil prices pushing exxon mobils Fourth Quarter down, 21 . But thats still better than wall street thought it might have been. And a controversial call on super bowl xlix rivalled by some controversial calls by advertisers. For two ceos, it gets personal. But first up hoping to get their mojo back up. They posted their biggest monthly losses in a year. Blue chips down about 37. Nasdaq down about 21. January was good for socalled safe havens. Treasuries, their best monthly performance since 2011. Gold an 8 gain. Interesting month. Things like netflix, merck, unh still working, jim. Yeah, it was one of those market where is the domestic stocks did well. A smattering of high growth did well. A couple of big caps. But in the end, it w
Hans nichols is in the french alps one mile away from the site of tuesdays crash. That evening. Has there been progress . Hans yes, there has appeared as the sun sets on this ground behind me were the last helicopter appears to be taking off we have three important development. The black box that contains the voice recording recovered last night, Forensic Experts in paris believe they can retrieve the voice recording for that. Progress will be yielded from that voice recording. Francois hollande says they have recovered the casing of the second black box. This is the part of the recorder they used to log every bit of information from every bit of every part of the airplane. Number three the crash site itself while over to have disco hectares is small enough that the plane did not explode before impact. Two hectares. The plane slammed into the side of the mountain here in the french alps and that is where most of the debris is. None of the 150 bodies have been retrieved. The are still i