Im glad you found a little smile because its International Happiness day. Happy friday. A little friction in the first ten minutes. We had a fight over the twitter question, which is still to come. But you must get involved. A loving fight. We havent worked out what the twitter question is yet. Anyway, back in the black. The dow positive on the year. Extraordinary turnaround when you think about where we were a couple weeks ago. Blue chip index on track for its best quarterly comeback since the end of the great depression. A weaker dollar and stronger oil helping to propel stocks this week. U. S. Ek wiquity futures right n lets take a look. They were broadly flat earlier. The s p and nasdaq called open by a small amount. The dow similarly called open but only by 25 points into positive territory. A big reason for the stunning turnaround in stocks, the correlations with other assets. Lets show you the price of oil right now. Wti topping 40 a barrel for the First Time Since december 7th,
From new york city. Im tony harris. House republicans are set to vote today on their choice for the next speaker. Paul ryan is expected to get the nod, but as weve seen lately from the g. O. P. Leadership anything could happen. Libby casey joins us live now from capitol hill with the latest on this. Libby, what is happening . Its been awhile to get to this point, but the republicans are now going behind closed doors, and we expect them to emerge with the new nominee for the speakership paul ryan. We have seen them get close to this before. Youll remember that Kevin Mccarthy bowed out at the last minute. But paul ryan has been able to get together enough republican coalitions to show that he is likely to have the vote today. Barring from huge curveball he should be set to get this green light from the republicans. Its not a job that paul ryan sought, and it is one of the most powerful jobs here in washington, especially with russianwithespecially with the republicans polling with the se
Change of heart. It is particularly a crisis in the evangelical christian community. I hope i can make some progress. Reporter an evangelical christians reversal on gun rights. A surprising about face. Plus jon stewarts last hire before leaving the daley show. How this long comic is using humor and honesty to make us laugh and think. Did a Russian Airliner break apart over egypt or was it taken down . Two days after a crash claimed 224 lives in the sinai, that question is still unanswered. The Egyptian Government says it is too soon to happen. Peter sharp reports. Reporter in the early hours of monday morning a russian government plane carrying the victims of the air disaster touched down in st. Petersburg. All passengers and crew on board died. The bodies had been brought to a city mortuary where relatives are now tasked with identifying their loved ones. At the crash site in egypt, experts have been searching for clues as to the cause. An armed group linked to isil claims it shot dow
House republicans set to vote today on their choice for the next speaker of the house. Paul ryan is expected to get the nod, but as we have seen lately from the g. O. P. Leadership, anything can happen. Libby casey joining us live now on capitol hill. And what exactly is happening today, libby . Reporter del republicans will go behind closed doors, and we assume it will come out with a speaker nominee, and we expect that to be paul ryan. This process has been very rocky, but ryan was able to secure the support of some key coalitions even if he didnt get a firm endorsement from the most conservative caucus, he got the endorsement from enough republicans. This is one of the most powerful jobs in washington, so it was a little surprising to some that he was reluctant to take the job, but he will have a tough job ahead of him. Watch for republicans to come out this afternoon and then the process can move forward. There are already reports that the Freedom Caucus is angry with paul ryan so
This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. There are new questions but few answers this morning about what caused the Russian Airliner to crash in egypt. The Egyptian Government saying International Experts and officials from airbus are now examining those black boxes. Meanwhile the kremlin says items not found on that plane have been discovered. Always u. S. Satellites reportedly detecting a heat flash. Peter sharp is in st. Petersburg russia where the bodies are now being returned to their familiar list. Reporter they have formally extended the crash site now. They are looking at an area of more than 30 square kilometers, and its such a large area that they are using drones to try to search for more bodies and decree. They found more decree and wreckage but no extra bodies today. Meanwhile here in st. Petersburg, the awful task of identifying the dead continues. The families in and relations are taken by car to the crematorium and the mortuary, where they will