How long will it last . And the trouble with twitter. The u. S. Central commands twitter account, as you probably know hacked. Its not the first example. At what point does it make no sense for companies to have twitter . Which ones should stay on it . Well talk about that and more, but, first, lets check in with sue at the new york stock exchange. Hi, sioux. Hi tye. Stocks are surging as we kick off the earnings season. The dow up triple digits about 145 points on the trading session. Make that 147. We were up more than 280 points earlier on this morning. A lot of volatility in oil, and thats one of the factors in this market today. Many others as well and bob pasani joins me on the floor of the nyse to give me some details. We were up more than 200 points and once again, chevron and exxon came in and was a drag on the overall markets, but were Still Holding up pretty well, and tech is having a great day, including down stallworths. Cisco having a great day as well. These are big move
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
Pentagon with the prospects of avoiding war. We begin with ed henry and interesting comments from the president about terrorism. Good evening. The president dismissed Terror Threats as largely being media hype saying if it bleeds it leads. At a News Conference with german chancellor Angela Merkel dominated by threats around the world president obama barely mentioned Islamic State terrorists. With regard to isil germany and the United States remain united in the determination to destroy this barbaric organization. Reporter the president is down playing the threat declaring it a vox. Com interview the media is overhyping terror and Climate Change could be a bigger long term problem. It is all about ratings. And the problems of terrorism and dysfunction and chaos along with plane crashes and a few other things, thats the equivalent when it comes to covering international affairs. Climate change is one that is happening at such a broad scale and such a complex system that it is a hard stor
Let me give you more information. Measles is the most contagious of viruses. A prominent mayo clin ekic researcher says when the measles virus gets into the lungs, it hijacks a cell to get into the immune system. It replicates and uses the track trachea almost like a trampoline. The measles can linger on a surface, such as a doorknob for two hours. If one person has measles, get this, 90 of the people nearby not immune will also become infected. 90 . That certainly explains why its spreading so rapidly. 92 of doctors attribute the outbreak to parents not vaccinating their kids. We are about to get the first significant rain since middecember. In this live picture, you can see the sun peeking through. Do not be fooled. The north bay is expected to get the brunt of the weeks rain. Laura anthony is live with a look at the preparations there. Hi, laura. Reporter hi ama. The north bay got the bront in december. They are already up here. We have the sand pile here ready to go. Traffic is lig
Inches. A little over two inch at santa rosa. Other locations will see the rainfall totals increasing. The animation starting at 7 00 shows the heavier rain tapering to showers in the overnight hours. More to come in the forecast a little bit later. Thank you very much. The rain should taper off tonight, as spencer said, but its still coming down. No one knows that better than our reporters in the bay area. We have more live starting with wayne. Reporter ive got to tell you honestly, we looked around, not one single pineapple fell out of the sky and hit us on the head today. There were a lot of raindrops winds, problems. We drove a lot of miles. If you hit the streets or highways of the north bay, it could be you felt like a road warrior, a wet one. Most of us survived, but there were casualties. Be careful when youre driving because its very wet out here. Reporter heres lucas valley road at 101 in san rafael. A jeep versus a divider. Now forestville and sonoma county. The drive hit a