belmokhtar.een lo the u.s. is flying drones in thehtar area.lying d the french are in the lead on the the ground along with african troops actively fighting islamicps act militants but the french government has not been able to confirm belmokhtar s death.govern if true, it would be a significant blow to al qaedad be which has been working hard toqaed control large parts of northar africa. jim. north axelrod: kelly, thank you. in seffner, florida temporary trying to figure out if athank sinkhole which swallowed an trying entire room of a house poses a threat to the rest of the neighborhood. one man died when the sinkhole consumed his bedroom thursday night with him still in it. and ashley porter from our affiliate reports that sinkhole is growing tonight.ng reporter: neighbors hauled away boxes as crews surveyed this small blue home in suburban tampa. county administrator mike ad merrill said the rescue was no longer possible. with all the equipment we lo brought in and
uncertain, a very fluid situation and i think we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility of bad news ahead. reporter: the worst, coming after the algerian military moved in with helicopters, reportedly fearing the hostage takers were going to escape. the terror group was holed up in the natural gas plant along with their hostages, the americans and other workers from britain, france, japan and norway. some reportedly forced to wear explosives around their necks. tonight, algeria is saying the raid left not only some of the militants dead, but some of the hostages, as well. but it is not clear how many. and the battle is ongoing. a u.s. official saying tonight it is believed that between 15 and 20 hostages still remain inside. the militants say this is in retaliation for the french-led assault against islamic rebels in the nearby country of mali. today, the secretary of defense, monitoring developments here in italy, spoke to us exclusively. i don t think there s any
capital of mali, a former french colony in west africa. terrorists stormed the radisson hotel armed with guns and grenades. malian and french special operations forces freed more than 100 hostages, but at least 19 people were killed. elizabeth palmer in france is following this. reporter: hotel guests were rushed to safety after an assault that began shortly after 7:00 a.m. they d been trapped in their rooms when gunmen drove up in a toyota s.u.v. with diplomatic plates and started shooting. malian special forces set up an antiterrorist cordon. and then helped by their french counterparts and one off-duty american special forces member, they moved floor to floor evacuating more traumatized guests and staff. those rescued included about a dozen americans, among many foreign diplomats and businesspeople, who were taken to a nearby sports center where embassy staff came to pick them up. at about 6:50, said this eyewitness, some men started shooting everywhere, shouting all
morgan chase a loss of two billion dollars was announced and time to cross over to young correspondent on wall street was much more on that big loss for citi group yes what is the strategy to cope with that loss. well it is a general a mess of charge and as far as i know it is the biggest quarterly loss in city s history but banks like city but also like dodge bank jointly morgan or goldman sachs heads to pay the charges sooner or later so now they re paying it rather sooner but in the long run all the big banks are quiet. that they will profit from the tax reform of the u.s. government of paying only twenty instead of thirty five percent in taxes so they re pretty certain that in the long run it will pay off and therefore wall street was a rather calm and the stock of citi even saw a slight uptick thanks to you will be back to short you talk about bitcoin because bitcoin the cryptocurrency that steve i did the financial world has once again taken the faithful on a wild ride