Of networks provided. It was reported that comcast all ofto so al gore got the oil in carbonbased money. Beck off thenn air of comcast. The blazerecently, has been trying to purchase another network that was owe 20 million to comcast. The feeling by some within comcast was so strong about airing glenn beck off the that some, reportedly, were willing to forgo 20 million that they offered to pay of this Networks Debt owed to comcast just to keep him off the air. Now, i have no idea who the network is. They wont say. They have some deal about that. I was given a blurb from an email that indicates, and this is an email from somebody at whatever network it is. I want the ability to argue for comcast, trying to get the deal accepted. That they will not have to put glenn beck on the air prior to the 24 teen election cycle. 2014 election cycle. There are some people who will see it for that. December 1 would get the deal after the november elections. There was too big a risk, in my view, of ge
Over a year. The s p closing at a 3 1 2 month high. Thats, by the way, just three points away from ending the day at a fiveyear high that came in at 1462. U. S. Equity futures this morning are indicated slightly lower. Slightly because of the Massive Gains that we saw yesterday. You might have expected to see a bigger pullback. The s p is off by just over three points. So the nasdaq futures are down about five. In europe, the markets there are coming off some of their gains, as well. The ftse is off by just ov over. 1 . In germany, the dax is down by about. 3 . In asia overnight, markets in japan and china remain closed. They will reopen tomorrow. The other major asian indexes, as you can see, are slightly higher. The one that really stands out there, though, is the korean kospi. That up by 4. 7 . So a major gain in the korean market. Among the headlines that have been driving action there, growth in China Services sector accelerating in december at a fastest pace in four months. Two o
Lets start with china, because in the past few hours the worlds second biggest economy has just released its latest Economic Data. The countrys economy grew by 6. 5 in the Fourth Quarter compared to a year ago. That was slightly higher than many analysts had been predicting, with the markets forecasting that figure to be around 6 . And for the whole of 2020, the chinese economy grew by 2. 3 , which is its slowest pace since 1976. However very few countries are expected to show any signs of growth at all, given the damaging effects of covid 19. Were nowjoined by beijing by yue su whos an economist at the Economist Intelligence unit. This intelligence unit. Figure, will it be seen as success , this figure, will it be seen as success, relief, disappointment . Success, relief, disauointment . , disappointment . You ust mentioned i disappointment . You ust mentioned that i disappointment . You ust mentioned that this h disappointment . You just | mentioned that this figure disappointment .
When you to it underwater its really cool except you cant hear the music when youre watching the video. This from the National Marine resort in cancun, mexico. The divers who performed it said its the first time the shake has been filmed underwater. The craze started the internet people breaking out the dance went viral and about 4,000 new harlem shake videos get posted each and every day. Jon is going to do this and i tell you brand new video out of southern israel, there have been swarms of locusts that have moved through egypt and through southern israel after moving through europe. Apparently this year, jon, its pretty bad out there. So they say 30 million of them. I dont know how you count. laughter we might have to fact check that, double source it, but say thousands and thousands, and millions . A lot of messed up windshields, thats for sure. So be careful out there with the storm and locusts and everything else. Thanks, everybody. America live starts right now. Megyn fox news a
laughs laughs captioning sponsored by cbs nsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Who knew that breaking out of prison could be so easy . Prison officials in florida admitted today they released a convicted murderer after receiving a forged court order. And if you think that kind of thing could never happen again, it did with another murderer less than two weeks later. A manhunt is now under by that the orlando area for these two escapees and we have more on this story from our Senior Correspondent john miller. John . Reporter scott, this scheme involves someone with knowledge of the law, legal documents, and the audacity to use the name of a famous judge. It was a lessthandaring escape. In fact, on two occasions 11 days apart the guards walked the killers out the front gate. Joseph jenkins and charles walker, both 34, were serving life sentences at this florida prison when officials released them. It happened after the prison received these f