The last few moments we moved higher and we are positive for the week. When you check it out and industrials we are up 44 points and most of those names on the dow are in the green, names like hewlettpackard and caterpillar and bank of america and United Healthcare doing well. The fiscal cliff headline after headline continues to be in the forefront and on everybodys mind that this is what we are seeing, a decent market and the u. S. Dollar being weaker today has been a factor in the strength we are seeing as well. Connell treasury secretary tim geithner meeting with congressional leaders and doing so as we speak. Dagen peter barnes live from capitol hill. Peter treasury secretary tim geithner arriving at our or so ago to hold meetings with top congressional leaders. Senate democratic leader harry reid, now he is meeting with House Speaker john boehner, that meeting just getting underway, after that meeting with Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Democratic leader nancy
Wood burning fireplaces but cigarette smoke is what the Fire Department thinks happened in this case sending a family to the hospital. Did they check you out . 3yearold tino was taken to the hospital last night in a Carbon Monoxide scare. An alarm went off in the family home, they called 911. Turns out the alarm was a Smoke Detector not for Carbon Monoxide, firefighters tested for signs of the gas. They found nothing. And neither they, nor pg e have been able to find a leak in any appliances. Our thought is that there is probably a secondary source, maybe. Heavy cigarette smoking. Not that time. They usually smoke they go into the front and smoke. Smoke there. Whatever the cause, some family members did have elevated levels of Carbon Monoxide. By law, january 1 you have to have a Carbon Monoxide defector like the one this family lives in. A San Francisco sheriff deputy accused of robbingp< ÷ a bank went before a judge today. The 56yearold is a veteran of the force, today pleading not
We want to introduce to you Robert Oharrow who is an investigator reporter at the Washington Post and has been writing an occasional series on cybersecurity threats for that newspaper. Mr. Oharrow welcome to the communicators. Guest thank you for having me. Host what is a zero day . Guest a zero day is the name that hackers give to a gap or vulnerability in the software that lets a bad guy into computer system. These gaps take a lot of forms. They have not been previously discovered and so there is no way to block them. When a hacker has zero day with the right tools and skills, that hacker can break into a system and take control. Is zero day also known as an oh day. Host how would you describe the series you have been writing for the post . Guest its really the mission i should probably describe. We were looking into cyberin cybersecurity and cyberwar. The pentagon had declared cyberspace the environment of people and machines and networks as the new domain of war and yet, we realize
See . This is the brilliance of the show. I say always keep them running. All the time running, run. Run. Run, yasmine, run like the wind. In the 90s, were going to revolutionize Human Communication using desktop computers. Youve got mail. What is the worldwide web . In the world of computers its Kill Or Be Killed. Please welcome bill gates. Do you agree or disagree you have a monopoly . Check out windows 95. This is imac. Its a technological revolution thats taking the way we do everything from making friends to falling in love. When the new millennium arrives so will a technological tidal wave. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. St
President trump has signed into law a 2 trillion emergency spending package to relieve the impact of the coronavirus on the us economy. It is the largest such programme in modern american history. The us has now reported more than 100,000 cases of the virus. More than 900 people have died in italy as a result of coronavirus in a single day, pushing the number of dead to more than 9,000. Pope francis has spoken of the thick darkness that has enveloped italy as it is stricken by the pandemic. The british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has said he will continue to lead the governments handling of the coronavirus crisis, despite contracting the disease himself. Mrjohnson said he was suffering mild symptoms and was isolating himself. Britains Health Secretary also has the virus, and the chief medical officer is showing symptoms. Now on bbc news, its time for click. The race to make more ventilators. Robots on the frontline. And how to look sharp on a digital date. This week, the uk went into