For the nikkei in japan. Half a percent loss in honk song. The biggest move in oil. Crude died almost a buck a barrel. We will head to the cme to find out what is driving the trade. New concerns over nsa spying could not impact our relationship with israel. The washington journal of reporting agency targeted israeli theaters even after president obama announced he would cut back on monitoring friendly heads of state. Also reporting surveillance picked up private communications with u. S. Lawmakers. More on this coming out. Philadelphia eagles need a new coach. Chip kelley fired yesterday after nearly three seasons. The season was 2621, lost five of the seven games. One can left in the regular season and kelley is out of there. Hoverboards in the meantime a popular gift this Holiday Season. Plenty of People Struggle to master riding them, including mike tyson. Mike tyson posted that video of himself on his program, including the hash tag, i am too old for this. This is me making fun of
D he gives grant basically a twopart requirement, first to Bring Organization to the union war effort. And secondly to defeat the army of Northern Virginia. And grant goes about making it possible to carry out that charge with a vengeance. First he put together a Program Unlike any the war has yet seen. He realized up to this point battles would last a couple of days and armies would pull apart for months. Grant would not let that happen anymore. They would fight them until they were destroyed. He also realized the old goal of capturing territory didnt make sense anymore. Hence the goal would be to destroy them and only by doing that could the rebellion be brought to a close. And finally he realized they had to move together so the confederates couldnt shift from one theater to the other. We are going to see opening campaigns in the east grant riding with the army and in the west under the direction of grants close friend and subordinate general sherman and these will be bat thals will
I appreciate it. As i told you folks i talked with his morning, it is an honor for me to be here. There is Something Special about the battlefield here at cold harbor. I came about my interest in the american civil war, im sure like most of you did. I got it from my father. My dad was born in 1901 and a little town on the tennesseealabama border that was only 35 years after the end of the american civil war. As you might imagine, most of those old men sitting around the Grocery Store were confederate veterans. He grew up listening to their tall tales and talking with them about their battles. I was born in 1945. When i grow up, what all of my friends were hearing fairy tales and stories from their parents, my dad was reading the books with names like lees lieutenants, stuff like that. We visited the battlefield. We did not make any trips to cold harbor, though, because there really was not that much here. The overland campaign, which is the campaign that brings grant and lead to where
Home runs. Pablo sandoval helps the giants tame the tigers in game one of the world series. Will detroit even things up tonight . And her tv career has spanned decades. Melissa joan hart will join us live to talk about her latest projects. Its thursday, october 25th, and starting point begins right now. Welcome, everybody. Our starting point this morning, the high stakes struggle for eight mustwin swing states. The president obama and governor romney tapping into their travel budgets, both men crisscrossing the country, targeting those tossup states that will decide this race. Ohio could be the most critical. And a new time poll has the president ahead there by five points, largely on the strength of early voting in his favor. But the Romney Campaign has something to celebrate this morning as well. Cnn shifting the state of North Carolina from a tossup to a leaning romney column. Lets get right to cnns chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. Shes in tampa, florida, this mornin
Phil Whiteway, who was ousted in August at the age of 71, alleged he experienced age-based discrimination and retaliatory actions for his refusal to voluntarily retire.