This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitter, and facebook. Americas economy is kicking off the new year on solid ground. U. S. Factory activity held near a 2. 5year high. Also construction spending, reaching levels not seen in almost five years. Construction and manufacturing got hit hard in the recession, but both appear to be set to accelerate in 2014. And thats making big news on wall street. The new years optimism is being fuelled in part by the spectacular return of the stock market in 2013. The dow saw gains of 26. 5 for the year, and s p gained 29. 6 for the year. However, both indexes retreated almost 1 , following a negative economic report from china. The success of stocks in 2014 stands in stark contrast to the loss in bonds last year. Thats because making money on fixedincome investments is much harder when the Federal Reserve act to keep Interest Rates lower. The yield on tenyear treasury
Our community has been tweeting in. Yeah, that term gets thrown around a lot on both sides. Protesting for a green planet could land you in jail. Issues like fracing have brought protesters out in droves. At times resulting in arrested. Robert f kennedy, jr. Is a environmental lawyer, who himself has been arrested. When you have no recourse, we not only have the right but the duty to break the law to show our discontent and put political pressure on the president. However, a banner held by antifracing protesters in oklahoma have some concerned they are being unfairly targeted. Oregon is now allowing contractors to sue for disruptive and costly protest activity. When does the activism cross the line . Joining us is representative noel who has been fighting the Environmental Movement for years. In oregon we have lauren reagan, the founder and executive director of the Civil Liberties defense center. And in oklahoma mariah stevensons joins us. She is a member of the environmental group, a
Celebrating in times square, a tonne of confetti falling on the crowd. Close to a billion people across the world watching this. Hope you had a wonderful 2013. Lets listen in to some of the revellers in times square as they celebrate. Happy new year [ cheering ] a big smooch there. Happy new year everybody. Amazing 2013. Hope youll be with us for 2014. America tonight is up next. The nation east best known disaster agency, the red cross, springed to the aid of victims armed with hundreds of millions of dollars donate bed ashocked and sympathetic public. To help them recover from the disaster, but it turns out that many of those survivors have been left wanting, our exclusive investigation from america tonight correspondent sheila. One year on. This is breezy port. One of the new york communities most devastated when Hurricane Sandy churned up the east coast. Waves crashed into homes and then more than 100 houghses burns. People in new york beach touches like this one, at least those th
Obesity is a problem in the developing world. The United Nations say rebels in south sudan are marching on the capitol and as cease fire talks get underway in neighboring ethiopia and the u. S. Embassy is evacuating all nonessential staff from the city and lets get straight over and talk about this in the capitol duba and mohamed what is the latest there, how far away are the rebel soldiers . Well, according to officials of the United Nations, rebels are 150 kilometers away at a town called mcwhite and this is 150 kilometers north of duba and its causing jitters here in duba particularly among the Diplomatic Community with the American Embassy and they are taking nonessential staff from dub and and asking any of the citizens in duba to make it to the airport so they can be provided with flight out of town. However, a spokesman for the presidency who spoke to me minutes ago has denied the allegations and the reports that the rebels are advancing on the capitol saying that was pure propa
The northeast has survived the first big snowstorm of the year but what is coming next could actually be even more dangerous. Al jazeeras Erica Ferrari has more. Reporter the winter storm that dumped up to two feet in parts of the northeast is gone. Millions of americans are cleaning up, bundling up and brace forgive what is expected to be some of the coldest weather in years. Its a nightmare out there, its really cold and the winds are brutal. I have eight layers on under gleet the bitter cold temperatures in the northeast and mid Atlanta States is no laughing matter. So far the blizzardlike conditions have left at least 15 people dead. In new york city the new mayor three days on the job ising in anyone who may see a homeless person out in the freezing temperatures to call the emergency hotline. Its deceptively cold, its the coldest its been all year. If you stay out there too long it will feel bad and it will be dangerous. On icy roads its difficult to get around. Air travel is gett