And good morning everybody. Im shannon mulaire. Just 12 words into last nights debate and we got to its two biggest topics, terrorism and trump. Over the next two hours, candidates will go after each other like we havent seen yet. And a feisty jeb bush going after frontrunner donald trump. Donald is great at the one liners. But hes a chaos candidate. And hed be a chaos president. He would not be the commander and chief we need. He does not really believe im unhinged. Its because hes failed in this campaign. Nobody cares and frankly im the most solid person up here and all i want to do is make America Great again. But those two werent the senator rubio and cruz went headtohead on immigration. And how would the truce between trump and cruz play out. If im elected president , we will secure the border, we will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and ill get donald trump to pay for it p. Ill build it. He has a wonderful temperament, hes just fine. Dont worry about it.
Right. And no spoilers, but the reviews from critics are just in for star wars the force awakens. Five stars or a big bust. Hey, everyone, good wednesday morning. Im reena ninan. Im Richard Bacon and we begin this morning with the aftermath from last nights president ial keys debate. The nine top candidates on the stage in las vegas. Most of the action was right there at center stage involving and jeb bush. Bush and trump squaring off several times but shaking hands after the debate was finished. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details live from washington. Stephanie, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, richard and reena. Well, this final debate of the year focused on National Security and terrorism, and the verbal punches came out swinging almost immediately. Postgop president ial debate, i like jeb. I think jeb is a nice man. I really do but, you know, i think id do the same thing if i was him, id be attacking me. Reporter on stage the gloves coming off. Youre a tough guy, jeb.
Just over 6 1 2 inches of snow was officially recorded at Denver International airport. Mountain snonow total were in the one to twofoot range. Obviously good news if youre a skier. You might call this next one a ttenectomy. Firefighters in phoenix rescued two newborn kittens who were stuck in a home. One was inside the wall, the other in an attic. The owner had heard meowing inside the house even show she doesnt own any cats. The firefighters used saws to cut into the wall. Both kittensre doing fine. No one knows what happened to their mother or how she got into the attic. Glad there was a happy ending. Coming up [ meow ] theyre hot on the trigger, arent they . The sound department. Bam. Golden globe nominees taking on drakes latest hit. What could stop donald trump from becoming the gop nominee . Expert insight ahead for you. On your list who has everything. Onesies for all ages. But first the wednesday forecast. Youre watching world news now. Looks like hot in orlando. 85 down in di
Debate. Well debate the debate, coming up. Hi, 7 00. Good morning. How is everybody doing the 16th of december . Can you believe that, next week, next week. Week from friday is christmas, knock. My gosh. Ive never been not red year. I agree with you. Yes, just i dont know. Im just not into it. A lot of people you know what, it is because of the weather, a lot of people are saying. It could be. You know when i lived in Southern California we got into the Christmas Spirit there. Was no snow. True. Do you think because it started way material i like we started talking about christmas way too early . Before halloween. Kind of tired of it already . Im already thinking of valentines day. I like the warm weather. Oh, look at you, so romantic. Mikes got his whitmans sampler ready to go. How about nine out of ten, will that cheer us up . Do it. Weve got the nine. We have temperatures that are cooler than yesterday. But still, warmer than normal. If you know what i mean. It is do you have chilli
Lets head straight to the markets desk with julie hyman for the latest on this selloff. It has to dond with oil. If you look at the major averages we are seeing a deep decline of nearly 250 points for the dow and that is despite the fact that one very big company in the s p is actually on the rise. Market cap does indeed surpass apple. Up 4 today. Just around 543 billion dollars is where it is right now. That is not helping overall because as you take a look at the number of terminal, energy is such a big drag. Down near 3 are and financials are falling and industrials. So it is a broadbased decline. Energy may be leading but by no means is that exclusively accounting for the declines. Oil is down nearly 5 today and once again, we have a two day loss in oil. 2011 if west since hold at these levels. There is trepidation over the weekly inventory report. A couple of large cap oil companies. A 91 drop in profits. Exxon mobil reported a drop in profits as well. Earningspershare Beat Estima