A five star hotel in kabul at least fifteen people are reported to have been killed or injured. Turkey says it started an offensive against kurdish positions inside syria. Deep political divisions in the u. S. Where a stalemate between republicans and democrats forces a Government Shutdown plus. As women take to the streets to mock President Trumps first year in office we take a detailed look at his turbulent twelve months. Gunmen have stormed a five star hotel in afghanistans capital and taken hostages the Afghan Interior Ministry says special forces are battling attackers at the Intercontinental Hotel it comes just days after the u. S. Embassy warned of possible strikes against high profile targets jennifer glass has this update from cup. Afghan special forces have been clearing the hotel floor by floor trying to find the gunman and get and evacuate staff and guests from the Intercontinental Hotel the siege started about nine oclock on saturday night when at least four gunmen attacke
Up, burned black, bleeding. Parts of the bodies were missing. The skin and flesh were hanging from the bones. And some carrying their own eyeballs, hanging from the eye socket. And they collapsed on to the ground, their stomach burst and their intestine stretching out. You girls escape to the nihearb hill. Thats what we did, by stepping over the dead bodies, injured bodies. It was a strange situation. Nobody was running and screaming for help. They just didnt have that kind of strength left. Simply whispering. Everybody was asking for water. We girls were relatively lightly injured. By the time we got to the hillside, we went to the nearby stream and washed off the blood and dirt and we took off the gloves and soaked them in the stream and dashed back and put them to hold them over the mouth of the dying people. You see, the place we escaped to had the military training ground, huge place, about the size of two football fields. The place was packed with dead and dying people. We wanted
This month, the National Cable until locations association hosted an internet and tv expo in boston with journalists, cable industry officials, and members of the fcc. That is next here on cspan. Then, a look at the economic state of silicon valley, with Technology Investors and venture capitalists. Taxlater, a hearing on policy for businesses of the provided share services. Moderator good morning, everyone. And to i andston cx 2016. On behalf of we are happy to greet you. We start out this mornings session and the atlantic will be a great show. Moderator absolutely. The letter to be here, as well. It is exciting to be at the intx. Ever moderator this year we look at disruption, and how to embrace it for creativity and innovation. It should be excited. Moderator when you look at webster, it tells us disruption is to break apart, to throw into disorder. But in our business, it is so much more. It is changed, opportunity, growth. It is the state of our world today. This week, we will tak
Let us take you to scarlet fu. Scarlet new home sales was makes up 7 of the Residential Market but it is counted one contracts are signed a being more timelier and they saw a drop of 11. 4 , the first the client in four months that follows three straight months of gains. It is 481,000 on a net basis. Additionally, the february numbers were revised lower as well. Recent home cells have been constructive at the upside potential is limited by a lack of inventory. They were projected to soften but this is a bigger drop than what economists have been looking for. This doesnt seem to have much of an impact on Financial Markets on u. S. Stocks. U. S. Stock indexes are moving higher. The actual change is negligible because the s p 500 has little change. You are seeing the leg higher here for u. S. Stocks. Evidence perhaps that the Housing Market is under pressure. Erik thanks very much. We are waiting for statements from president obama. He will be speaking to reporters in the White House Brie
Low. Our road map with stock futures in the red. Exxon and conocophillips moving some of those stocks. Sales force surging on the news it hired advisors to look at takeover offers. More of the apple watch dlis. A defective component to blame. Apple announcing another partnership with ibm. Well get to that in a minute. First up a lot for investors to digest on this final trading day of april. Consumer spending up 0. 4 last month. Claims down last week by 34,000 to 262,000. Thats a 15year low. Employment costs up 0. 7 . On the earnings front, exxonmobil did top estimates despite a 46 drop in First Quarter profit. Exxon revenue, i love these figures. Last year 106 billion. This quarter, 67 billion. You have to understand exxon had good production growth. People say no one got hurt buying the stock of exxon. This is why. Because exxon really hasnt done anything during this period. When oil was flying exxon did good not great. Oil goes down, exxon shows you the breadth of its products and w