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Good friday morning, everyone. We do begin with breaking news out of japan right now. A strong earthquake hit the northeastern part of the country this morning. And it has triggered a tsunami warning. The quake measured a 7. 3. It was centered in the Pacific Ocean. It was Strong Enough to cause buildings to sway in tokyo for several minutes. Abcs akiko fujita is in tokyo with the very latest by phone. High, akiko. Reporter youre right. This quake hit about 5 18 p. M. Local time. This is the largest quake we have felt in tokyo this year. To give you an idea of the intensity, in japan, they have...

Good friday morning, everyone. We do begin with breaking news out of japan right now. A strong earthquake hit the northeastern part of the country this morning. And it has triggered a tsunami warning. The quake measured a 7. 3. It was centered in the Pacific Ocean. It was Strong Enough to cause buildings to sway in tokyo for several minutes. Abcs akiko fujita is in tokyo with the very latest by phone. High, akiko. Reporter youre right. This quake hit about 5 18 p. M. Local time. This is the largest quake we have felt in tokyo this year. To give you an idea of the intensity, in japan, they have...

Creators of the hobbit for the past four days has changed me in ways i never expected. I mean its hard to put my finger on it. laughter i got to tell you, it is such high maintenance. I can never find the parts. And frankly my manipedi girl is on a suicide watch. But of course tonight a big story comes from my home state of South Carolina. Big breaking news in this town, senator jim demint, a Tea Party Favorite and conservative icon is surprisingly resigning his seat he had tend of the end of the year. Stephen thats right, South Carolina jim demint is dequitting. Now the decision on who will r...

Stocks fell yesterday after the release of the fed minutes. The dow dropping about 90 points. You can see right there, 16,040 is the final trade. The s p 500 traded within a point of a new alltime high before falling 12 points by the end of the day. The futures this morning, at least at this point, is weaker. Just barely, though. The dow futures down by 8. 5 points. Dow futures off by 11. 5 points. The Consumer Price index and the weekly jobless claims report, those will both hit the wires at 8 30 a. M. Eastern tim. Cpi is expected to rise by 0. 2 . First time claims are expected to come in at...

Around that cloud, if there is one, and democrats and republicans are still talking. They are still trying to reach a deal to stop the spending cuts and tax hikes that are likely or possible to push our economy back into the recession if we go over the fiscal cliff. But ali, neither side is budging much. You have been reporting on it for the last couple of hours. Friday though, president obama said that he was optimistic that the two sides could reach a deal. This morning, he sounded less positive though. If, you know, if people start seeing that on january 1st, this problem still has not been...