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Saying its throughout and prayers are with the students family. The dean urged students to reach out to their families to let them know theyre safe. Counselors are also available for students. Our fox 25s Sharman Sachetti has been gathering information on the story all day and will have a live report ahead at 5 00 p. M. In the studio, vanessa welch, fox 25 news. Blair breaking in hingham, crews are battling a large house fire on elm street. This is video of the scene given to us by Hingham Police in the last hour, you can see flames and thick smoke spilling out we understand several firefighters were hurt, but the injuries are minor. We have a crew on the way to find out how this fire started. Well let you know once we know. Elizabeth a second person has died from their injuries after a School Bus Crash in mendon. Richard drainville dried saturday in worcester. His mother cheryl was the passenger in the car. Authorities say drainvilles sedan collided with a school bus near bates street
A couple of questions that are important to dig into when you look at these numbers. The question of course what happened with u. S. Production, just under that level last week. Three weeks of declines in a row. We want to see if that continues. We did have the comments from the uae oil minister saying that oil prices are going to force production freezes. Thats a jab at iran here. A couple of reasons that you could see support for these. Back to you. Thank you for that. Its 8 00 a. M. At apple headquaters. Its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. And along with Business Insider ceo. Its good to have you back. And its google ceo supporting inkripgs on a series of tweets. We build secure products to keep your Information Safe and we give Law Enforcement access today at a based on valid legal orders but thats wholly different than requiring companies to enable hacking of customer devices and data. This has been kicked around
Lets head to where julie hyman has the latest. Julie fluctuating in a tight range. Maybe the tightest range of the year today. It will be interesting. So far, nothing unexpected has happened. We have seen gains and losses in the major averages as investors are weighing earnings and Economic Data this morning on inflation. Changinghat is really the macro narrative very much. First, i want to take a look at the s p over the course of the day and the narrow range. Happenedlike a lot has. A tight range as we bounced between gains and losses. Lets focus on individual movers we are watching where we are preliminary earnings that were below analyst estimates, saying it is seeing a weaker than estimated from china. Regulations out from the administration on offshore drilling are those shares are down seven sent. Mosaic is down as we got supply andsaying demand and the fertilizer and Agricultural Industries will remain there for the coming year h r block is declining after new proposal to have
We got through thanksgiving, got through black friday. I may be too tired to click for cyber monday. So i should. Have left my christmas list inside your office . I cant do it. Im not able. I know. Its a big, big day. Online sales are almost eclipsing regular bricks and mortar sales. 3 billion. More about that in a little while. Lets start on a monday morning with our top story. President obama beginning this week in paris attending Landmark Conference on Climate Change. That city, of course, still on edge following those deadly terror attacks. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is traveling with the president. Kelly, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Security here is already very tight with emergency measures in place. Just two weeks after the isis attacks here in paris. That is not what brought president obama to france, but it was the first thing on his mind. Arriving very early this morning, just after midnight, president obama took advantage of the relative quiet and the empty st