What investors are thinking. Nicole this is a big deal because last time the fed met, popularly doing some tapering, which they are not. Now the question is while we have seen some improved economic numbers, although they are not looking at the numbers, looks great, is it enough to stop the tapering . Will they taper. The s p 500 down by four. The fear index has had an interesting day, pulling back in the morning and moving to the unchanged line as we eagerly await on the fed. It will guide the market at least the next hour and a half or so. Back to you. Adam cheryl. Cheryl lets get to our man who will bring us latest news and said the fed, peter barnes live from the Federal Reserve. 55 minutes and counting, peter. This one is a coin toss. I have been reading so Much Research going into this meeting, starting yesterday, whether or not they will start to taper now or wait. The taper is going to come, just a question of will it come now or in the new year. The indicators are pretty mixed
Some of the contractors who built it are going to have some explaining to do. Were going to bring that to you live in just a few minutes. First we explain just how we got here. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal Website Health care. Gov. House republicans long opposed to the penaltys Affordable Care act are expected to grill the definiteliors of the system. The rollout is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with c. E. O. S of Insurance Companies at the white house. The initial high jam of users clogged the system, which failed early testing. The Vice President of the company that built the website will say today the Obama Administration acknowledged the website was not tested enough before going live. We did not expect or anticipate the scale of the problems that has occurred. Thats on us. Some democrats claim the investigation is political and the go
My inspiration was the idea that i wanted to explain how totalitarianism happens. We do know the story of the cold war. We know that the documents we have seen the archives and described relationships between roosevelt, stalin and truman and we know the main events from our point of view. What i wanted to do was show from a different angle, from the ground up, what did it feel like to be one of the people who were subjected to this system and how did people make choices in that system and how did they react . Its interesting that one of the things that has happened since 1989 is the regional used to call at Eastern Europe has become very differentiated. These countries no longer have much in common with one another except the common memory of communist occupation. Russian president Vladimir Putin this week gave his first eight of the nation speech since being reelected. His nationwide address is a little less than an hour and a half. Translator of the Federation Council just a few mont
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment
Behind this monstrous act and a second crime scene tied to the first. What investigators found when they went to the suspects house. It is saturday, december 15th. I want to say good morning to everyone. Its not a good morning, its a difficult morning, but we are spending it together here. Im john berman. Youre watching our special coverage of the Connecticut School shooting live from newtown, connecticut. And i want to bring in my colleague, ali velshi. Hey, ali. Reporter john, its a sad morning and will get sadder in a few moments. Just a few moments from where we are standing, a press conference is about to begin where they are going to release the names, we think, of many of the people killed. David arioso of cnn was one of the first on the scene. David went to the firehouse you keep hearing references to where parents were thinking they were going to meet their kids. David, what happened yesterday . Well, between the Early Morning hours, parents would file towards this firehouse a