In syria holds. The s migration commissioner is warning that greece could receive another 100,000 refugees by the end of the month. There are calls to declare a state of emergency in the border area where some 13,000 refugees are waiting to enter macedonia. There is still no direction on how to handle the crisis. Germany Angela Merkel has criticized greece saying it should have been prepared to hold 50,000 deem under an agreement in october. Our correspondent is in the border with this update. Reporter it is a state of emergency in this if a state of emergency is declared in this area, it will release funds to improve the conditions in this camp. The money will help to compensate the local communities here. For example, many of the tents are now here and the farmers are are on private land and the farmers are losing business. These peop these the border is more shut than open because of the chaos and also because of the very stringent interviews happening on the other side. At the mome
The fresh rears, two the year yield now is at. 8 , just below that we are at a level we havent seen since april of 2011. What is that screaming for right now . The most interesting thing is this is happening, these yields moving higher even as we are getting this nice rally with the dow up 250 points and counting. Coming up Richard Fisher will join us at the Stock Exchange to give us his odds for an Interest Rate hike in a couple of days. He is the perfect guy to have on today. Tesla getting some high end competition. Could porsches electric concept car really give tesla a run for its money . Weve got the video, the super cool looking car and both sides of that story coming up. And Mark Zuckerberg fielding questions right now at a facebook town ham. We will bring you the late fres that event throughout the hour and you can choose to like or dislike. Yes, you may do that now. You will have a choice. Isnt that interesting . Lets get right to bob pisani who has been tracking this action a
Elderly person in her own home. Tthis morning, its a holiday record. Something predicted this year that has never happened before. Today in new york starts now. I assume what that is. 5 00 a. M. December 15th, middle of the month. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Chris . Starting out again in the 60s. We already reached our record highs today at 2 00 a. M. 68 degrees. Had a front come on through with a few showers. Most of the showers have moved to the east of us. There are a few sprinkles to the west. Were not totally done. For the most part any significant rain is over. Look at the temperature now in the city, 63 degrees. It will continue to drop a few more degrees. We slip to the upper 50s by 8 00 a. M. This afternoon forecasting the highs of 62. Emily west is here a little a few accidents. Southern state parkway eastbound on the ramp to the cross island, overturned vehicle there. That is blocking the ramp. We have an accident in new jersey. Another one there is at exit 16
Stage mass sick out and students have walked out of classes. Then to Rikers Island prison in new york. The adolescence in rikers are walled off from the public. Theyre not walled off from the constitution. Indeed, most of these young men are pretrial detainees, presumed innocent until proven guilty. We will look at how a 16yearold High School Sophomore from the bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at Rikers Island after he was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. Even though he was never convicted, the team spent nearly 800 days that is about two years and solitary confinement. And we will look at how one county in mississippi is being sued for holding prisoners for nearly a year without formal charge or access to an attorney. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Led Bombing Campaign in iraq and syria has seen its biggest day so far with british warplanes joining the attack. At
Seven civilians in an u. S. Airstrike in syria. Then we go to ferguson missouri. I want to say to the brown family, no one was not espresso loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. Im truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. As fergusons police chief issues his first apology to the family of Michael Brown, protests continue against the police force. Tension escalated this weekend when a Police Officer was shot in the arm while responding to a burglary unrelated to the protests. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Continues to expand military operations in iraq and syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, usled warplanes hit grain silos and other targets in northern and Eastern Syria. The syrian observatory for human rights says the attacks killed a number of civilians, though the toll is unknown. Videos emerged