More masked men are targeting ukraines Eastern Industrial heartland. Prorussian government have been Holding Government buildings and now they have seized a Police Station in the small town of slaviansk, close to the russian border. For theirare calling own peoples republic and want moscow to send in troops. Officials in p. M. Call them terrorists and are threatening a tough response. Arm demonstrators took control of the Police Station in slaviansk, the latest incident involving prorussian separatist taking over government buildings in eastern ukraine. The regions share a border with russia. They donstrators say not want anything to do with the. Uthorities in p. M. Kiev we want to be independent from kiev. The government has seized power through violence and is trying to force its will on us. We will not support them. Prorussian demonstrators were given a deadline to clear the buildings and that has passed. They are still here. I want a referendum to decide when the region will become
Eventually, it is going to be corrected. Set that, relax, this is the greatest nation on earth. After 100 years we finally have a congress and a senate and a president who have finally done something for the people. Host that is all the time we have for this mornings washington journal. We hope you will join us again tomorrow. We go live to the brookings institution, holding a panel on afghanistan 2014. The president ial elections and the planned withdrawal with general john allen and ronald nuemann, former ambassador to afghanistan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Thank you for coming to discuss afghanistan. We have ael ohanlon, very distinguished group of american and afghan individuals and officials to talk with us former officials and continued scholars and experts on afghanistan to talk about the transitions underway. This upcoming saturday is afghanistans
Misunderstand. Lets do this together, lets explore these areas, lets give people information going forward. And lets make the system work better, not create a parallel system that will make it work worse. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from michigan. Mr. Upton mr. Speaker, at this point id like to yield one minute to the gentleman from florida, mr. Bilirakis, a member of the health subcommittee. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. Mr. Bilirakis thank you, mr. Speaker, and thank you, mr. Chairman, for sponsoring this great bill. In my state of florida 300,000 individuals have lost their Health Care Plans due to obamacare, and hardworking americans like my constituent, mark, are being adversely affected by this law. Mark currently has a plan that he likes. Obamacare will take it away. His new equivalent plan on the exchange comes with a 12,000 deductible and 1,000 monthly premiums. He and his wife are ab
Target to the federal funds rate will be data dependal. All right. Seems confusing enough. But the bulls do seem happy enough with the fed at least for now. The dow closing at another record. You can see up by about 25 points. The s p rallying back above 2,000. If you take a look at whats happening with the futures this morning, you will see at this point the green arrows continue. About 57 points above fair value. S p futures up about 8 points. Appeared rue, over to you. Thank you, becky. Were going to talk today because it is what were calling alibaba day. The chinese ecommerce giant said to price the ipo after the bell this afternoon. The range has been listed to between 66 and 68 a share. Due to strong investor demand. Stocks then expect to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow with the Ticker Symbol baba. And not a bad symbol. If you havent gotten your shares, call your broker if youre going to get them at all. Anyway, the other big news happened late in the day. T
Coworkers. Paul chambers has the story. And you tell us that there was a juvenile that ate the dinner. We learned some of the coworkers took some of the food home which contained pot and the teacher unbeknownst gave it to one of their children who ate the pot also. Now well tell you we obtained this letter also that went home to parents today about the teacher. This is 47yearold teresa badger, a veteran first grade teacher here at turner elementary. This evening we spoke to parents who are surprised to hear that badger was surprised to learn someone laced food. On november 21st, badger attended a pot luck dinner. She brought food that had marijuana on it. Reporter the item made at least two of the people at the party sick. And they werent the only ones. One of the attendees took some of the food home and their 15yearold juvenile ingested this food and became ill. Still kind of flabbergasted and shes a great person and a great lady. So im just very, very surprised that that this has hap