I am Francine Lacqua. We have tom keene. We have mario draghi tomorrow. Lets get more on euroarea inflation. Lets go to our international correspondent, hans nichols. Pointthe survey was 40 two, this is below, 0. 1. It shows no inflation and will increase pressure on draghi to do Something Big and bold with quantitative easing. One of the guys at talking about his expectations and sees it expanded to another half a billion euros for a longer duration. Will they do about the deposit rate . This will be talked about when they meet in frankfurt tomorrow. Erik what do you see in the of europe as it knocks on what mario draghi will do. Is it improving or slowing . Hans when we look at all of the eyes, it seems the German Economy is a little stronger than the Inflation Numbers filtering through. Wage increases in germany. We have not seen that happen with the headline inflation number. The core inflation is up a looke, that they like to through that as well. The core was one point one, facto
Now wmur news 9 at 5 00. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] three people are hospitalized tonight following a crash on 93 south in salem. Good evening. I am adam sexton. Stephanie i m stephanie woods. Three people were taken to boston with lifethreatening injuries. Kristen carosa has all the details. Kristen this is where the car came crashing through. It tore through the guard rail of trees, making it hard to pull the people out of the car and to safety. Firefighters are calling this one of the most extensive extrication s they have ever had to perform. Firefighters were called around 5 30 by People Living off the highway who said they could see headlights in the woods. Once they arrived, they saw that the car had punched through the guard rail and had gone more than 150 feet into the woods. The car was upside down and suspended in the air by trees. Three people were trapped inside.
Stories this morning. Deal news dominating this morning. Valeant ends the buyout deal for allergan. They made an unsolicited deal last spring. It looks like the soap opera could end, 210 is more than they expected. Hackman and valeant are going to share the profits that ackman has reportedly made with the stock at 40 . This is a winwin situation because of the way he structured this. But valeant shareholders effectively split the profits with ackman. With the purchase there. Thats pretty interesting. We will see what they can do. I think that 210 is sort of a knockout blow. But because the expectation was that valeant could only go to 200 or 205. Valeants ceo said they were going to be getting great tax benefits out of the deal. So the question is, what does ackman get out of this . Did you just say that the stock is at 213 . I could be wrong. There could be a higher bid potentially. Wow. There it is. Look at you. Always good to be right. Well, i dont know. Maybe theres more to be had
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The Holy Cross Lutheran church tonight. Because of the chilly temperatures, their intake is up more than 1 3, with 21 people here getting out of the cold. The livermore refuge handed out more blankets than usual tonight. Its difficult for the homeless to find a safe and warm place to be. You know, when the temperature drops into the 20s. We had one lady the other night show up, and say she actually had frostbite. Reporter in san ramon, the cold weather has made a broken water heater, an urgent matter. I started having my teenagers and wife complaining that the showers werent very warm, and the water wasnt very hot. Reporter business has shop up 50 this week. Supply lines to homes breaking as well as the demand going up. Reporter workers either covered sensitive plants or moved them indoors. Limes are really tender. But any of your citrus plants, especially young plants are really important to cover. The first thing we always do, and recommend doing, especially when weve had the dry wea