Relative of confederate general John Bell Hood. He is the author of John Bell Hood the rise, fall, and resurrection of a confederate general. And the lost papers of , confederate general John Bell Hood. With an undivided interest in and past history, president of the board of directors of the confederate Morrill Hall Museum in new orleans. Without further do, sam. [applause] hello, and thank you. You mentioned my odyssey. My wife and i moved to myrtle beach, South Carolina, five days ago. [laughter] and if you think it is bad when the Airlines Lose your luggage, anyway we werent able to move , into the house we are buying so we are living out of boxes and crates and things. I drove appear to up here. It sounds strange to say i drove up from South Carolina. Im used to driving down there. This is i have been looking forward to this for several reasons. One is when the theme of the symposium is generals you love to hate, i dont have to worry about what peoples expectations are. Well, beca
And, the lost papers of confederate general John Bell Hood. With an undivided interest in Civil War History, and past president of the board of directors of the confederate Morrill Hall Museum in new orleans. Without further do, sam. [applause] hello, and thank you. You mentioned my odyssey. My wife and i moved to myrtle beach, South Carolina, five days ago. [laughter] and if you think it is bad when the Airlines Lose your luggage, anyway, we werent able to move into the house we are buying so we are living out of boxes and crates and things. I drove up here. It sounds strange to say i drove up from South Carolina. Im used to driving down there. This is i have been looking forward to this for several reasons. One is when the theme of the symposium is generals you love to hate, i dont have to worry about what peoples expectations are. Well, because i am a big fan of John Bell Hood, even though i am not as closely related as the name implies. You are probably wondering. I am a collateral
This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. U. S. Stock markets were reeling at the opening bell on fears that chinas economy is falling. Youre looking at the stock he can change, after briefly followin followfalling 1,000 points. Concerns that the world second largest economy is slowing, were sparked by the governments decision to revalue its currency. Joining us now, host of on targets, ali velshi. Ali, lets start with how worried should we be about a slow down here or abroad because of the turmoil were seeing in the Global Market . Its all relative. China is definitely experiencing a slow down, but its still in the 6 to 7 range. We still have new numbers. The u. S. Is growing. This isnt like 2008 where everything was slowing dramatically. Some economies were dropping 9 to 10 . That is not what this is. This is investors disappointment that things are not growing at a pace to which we have become accustomed to the last six years. The dow mirrors other market
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Investors seem to be catching their breath this hour. Reversing earlier huge losses on u. S. Stock exchanges. The dow right now is down 177 points. A big change from the open where the dow fell more than a thousand points. It was in response in part to the sell off in china. Oil prices plummeting, too, theyre now at a sixyear low. Ali velshi joins us to try to put son context and perspective on this whole thing. Down more than a thousand points. Now down 150normally we would not be talking about a dow that is down 1 . There have been a string of down days, that would make us want to talk about this, but when the market opened it opened in such velocity. Now as you said it was in response to what happened overnight in shanghai and asian markets. In america the dow closed down more than 500 points. I could tell that it was closing with such velocity and heading down that it was only the closing bell that would stop
Took breaking out of the prison. Their path through the tunnel system. Crawling on a tailpipe squeezing through a steam paper. Taking only 20 minutes. And out of control. The Good Samaritan who stopped a woman swerving wildly on the highway, putting everyone on the road in danger. Stop the car the entire incident caught on camera. How he finally got her to pull over. And good morning, america. We begin with the breaking news as we come on the air in the west. Wall street plunging this morning. The dow falling more than 1,000 points in early trading. Those fears about dhiens economy, quickly spreading all around the world. Abs chief business and economics it correspondent Rebecca Jarvis with the latest. Itch been speaking to those on the stocks floor and they are surprised how brutal it is for stocks. Its down 580 points at one point it was down 1,000 points. What is going on . Two things, fears of an economic slowdown and Federal Reserve on the verge of hiking Interest Rates for the Fi