Fact, 121. 3 degrees fahrenheit in south australia, feel like a weather girl. They have had to add new colors to the weather map in australia and its purple. Thanks for watching street signs, everybody. It is warm. Closing bell is next. Welcome to the closing bell. Im Bill Griffith at the New York Stock Exchange where the dow is trying to start off this shortened holiday trading week on a winning note. Yeah. Were at the highs of the session right now. We are, a pattern weve seen for the past couple of days. Im Michelle Carusocabrera maria is in davos. Well hear from her in a little bit and huge earnings due in one hour. Topping the list, google and ibm. These are the numbers that could drive the entire market tomorrow. Were going to have what you need to know the moment they come out tonight. Also, look forward to Texas Instruments numbers out tonight as well and a new tax on every share of stock you trade. She loves this story. Looking more likely in europe. Could it be a coming to wa
Duramax channel. Going to buy the story. With exclusive. And of course see concerning our claims culture to europe. To be full curious minds. Do it yourself networkers. Subscribe dont miss out. Yet i just got a should feel a read on television covering the National Primary election of israels conservative liquid. About One Hundred Twenty Party Members on choosing candidates for the list that liquid will run in the countrys parliamentary election on april ninth. The party. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likud top candidates and he also has
a good chance of winning the parliamentary election. But im inspired music is something to give him but in a time young he was facing tough competition. Also dealing with several Corruption Investigations highest this election and the Coalition Negotiations afterwards promised to be dramatic extreme of wanting to be out for the next tough how well be talking with several guests about the election and what it means to them and i was just let him
Disembarking from a bus. And as you can imagine, it sent everybody in the area into a panic. You can see those pictures there of people inside the museum that were trapped there, trying to escape. Security there was also trying to usher tourists out of the area. The gunmen also then went into the museum and took a number of people hostage. The standoff went on for about two hours. Ultimately though however, Security Officials ended up killing two gunmen and say the operation is over in the area. But up to three attackers may still be at large. So there is a manhunt ongoing in the city of tunis. These were terrorists militant islamists as theyre being described by the tunisian government. Do we know if they were directly affiliated with isis or al qaeda or some other terror group . Reporter no group has claimed responsibility. All we have is that description from the spokesman of the interior ministry saying theyre islamists. And there are a number of groups this could be. Ansar al shar
Destruction there and that the humanitarian needs will be enormous. The storm is beginning to subside after tearing through the Pacific Island nation with sustained winds of up to 165 Miles Per Hour or 270 kilometers per hour. Unicef tells us at least six people are dead from the storm. An estimated 260,000 are in the disaster zone. It may take time to fully assess the impact since Communication Systems in many of the areas remain down. We are not yet clear on the impact and scope of the disaster. We fear the destruction and damage could be widespread. Reporter lets hear from Alice Clements in the capital city of port villa. Shes with unistef unicef and joins with us more details. Thank you for taking time with us. What is the condition now . Are you on the back side of the storm . I know youve seen the worst of it. Reporter yes. It feels like we really are finally the storm is starting to leave. The winds are elevated but the galeforce winds that we were seeing through this morning an
We have cnns anna coren in hong kong and we have tom fuentes. How seriously is the white house treating these threats, michelle . Reporter we know theyre treating it seriously as they have any threats concerning ambassadors over the last few months with the other incidents weve seen most recently the attack of the u. S. Ambassador to south korea earlier this month, but on this case i mean its interesting because these Death Threats happened by phone from an englishspeaking man to the embassy in tokyo happened last month allegedly. Were only now hearing about this starting in the asian press. So the white house is not confirming these threats. Neither is the National Security council. Neither is the u. S. Embassy although we are expecting to hear something soon from the u. S. State department. These threats by this man allegedly were threatening the life of Carolyn Kennedy as well as a u. S. Consul general also in japan although based in okinawa. We dont expect the threats to affect the