Following the devastation of the two storms, the 60 damage to the agriculture sector, there is the possibility if not handled well that in a couple of months time there is a food scarcity issue. Food price going up or by simply not being a table. That can create a distraction. Im using a very soft term of distraction because socioeconomic conditions can you terminate deteriorate. So we have to keep that in mind. I think the government is very much aware of that. The holding of the elections. Im very pleased that things have fallen in place, for now. We stand ready to assist in that process. And in terms of the message to the International Community, i think we must be prepared as an International Community to adjust our approach. And to be critical of ourselves. And to learn from the experien experience. There is need for reflection. There is need for an assessment. May be now is the time to assess three years of assistance to haiti and to see what weve learned over the past three year
Ten points off session lows. Ill call it gets set to kick off Fourth Quarter earnings season tomorrow. Melissa is washington in need of a new perspective . Are you ready for some football . The title up for grabs. Do you know who is playing . Melissa sure. I have a lot of notre dame friends that are at the game. Lori do you know the point spread . As we do every 15 minutes, it is back to the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole lets take a look at the major market averages. We did it a fiveyear high on the s p 500. We are pulling back here. The Dow Jones Industrials down about 80 points right now. There has been selling across the board from sector to sector for the most part, it has been selling across the board. Bank of america is one of the banks. They will pay 3. 6 billion over to fannie mae. Part of that is that bank of america will actually do some repurchasing. 6. 7 billion that were spilled over to fannie mae. It is a done deal. We did see them hit a 52 week high. Back
Jodi williams. Discussing her rented recent auto biography. My name is jodi williams. Jodi williams, what role did a pamphlet play if your life . I was living here in washington, d. C. It was february of 1981, i was rushing to the metro trying to get on the train early and get home to virginia. Some scruffy looking individual shoved a policeman threat pamphlet at me. You and i are old enough to remember the ink came off my hands. I was getting a tad irritated. I looked and it said el salve so when i saw juxtaposition, i was curious and instead of throwing it away, i read it. The next thing i knew a week later i went a meeting. I was stunned to hear about u. S. Intervention there. I ended up volunteering shoving those same brochures in to peoples hand in d. C. Gloition who handed it to you . Guest it was an organization. I volunteered for eight months, then decided that our philosophies to dealing with the region were slightly different. I thought since the Reagan Administration was tak
Information. Youre absolutely right, alyson, there have been many instances in the past where the wrong information has been set out, particularly in the early weeks, the first couple of weeks where there were a lot of red herrings and confusion regarding the flight path of mh370. And that really has built up this wall of distrust between the families and the government. We saw it in beijing today when the announcement came out that the link between the flaperon and 370, families in beijing were saying, we just do not believe this. Families here are saying, why are they rushing so much to tell us this when there is still a slight element of doubt, which was voiced by the french prosecutor that this flaperon could be linked to 370. Yes, theres a lot of distrust here and it is going to take a lot more to convince the people here and in beijing that this is, actually, linked to 370. All right, andrew. Let us know what you find there on the ground and if theres more detail relevant. Get to
Trump for the fifth time this week, the fifth time, using fiery language to make it clear the United States stands ready to strike north korea militarily. Speaking from his new jersey golf resort, heres the president of the United States. If anything happens to guam, theres going to be big, big trouble in north korea. So is this situation heading to war . The president was directly asked that question today. Heres what he said. We think that lots of good things could happen and we also could have a bad solution but we think lots of good things can happen. Reporter what would be a bad solution, sir . I think you know the answer to that, sir. Reporter tell us more, mr. President , please. When you say bad solution are you talking about for whwar . Is the u. S. Going to go to war . I think you know the answer to that. Nobody knows the answer to that and just over four days the president has issued threat after threat. Its now become the question every american is asking because of this. N