, got some more coffee, tried to wake up courtney, courtney didn't wake up and apparently she came back. >> as christy returned to the spa, said chris, they passed each other on the patio. he went in the house, stopped by courtney's room, make sure she was awake, then went right back outside and saw his wife floating face down in the spa. he called courtney then, he said, and they began a frantic effort to revive her. >> from what, a fall. >> tell me in your gut what happened. >> i'm thinking she slipped in, she slipped or something. i don't know. that's the only thing i can think of. >> but chris apparently hadn't noticed the nasty three-inch laceration on christy's head, and here suddenly the point of the police interview is revealed. >> the gash she has on her head, she's got a huge gash on her head. >> okay. >> something like that is not consistent with just falling down. >> not consistent with just falling down? why would the police think that? >> i mean, you've been around for awhile. >> i know where you're going. no, there's nothing. >> why was this ex-police chief being question

courtney, it has been a long night for you as well. you have been monitoring this the last several hours. what are your sourcing saying about the strikes in terms of the targets they went after. how successful is this mission purely from a military standpoint in terms of objectives stated? >> they went after three specific targets. the objective was to take out bashar al assad's ability to carry out another chemical weapons attack on his people. so what they went after. number one, a production facility, research development and production facility. this is a syrian military, syrian regime structure that they hit. they also hit a storage facility, chemical weapons storage facility. and took out a command and control structure. this is another syrian regime military building. so what is it? was it a success or not? they struck the targets they were going after. we don't know whether there was syrian military killed or civilian casualties. we were told late last night in a briefing that there were no u.s. hits. so all u.s. aircraft retur

here is courtney donohoe. courtney: the u.s. has thrown out a law used to deport foreigners convicted of serious crimes. the justices ruled that the definition of a crime of violence was so vague to be the on constitutional. able convicted are subject to mandatory deportation, meaning the government does not have to have the discretion to let him stay. will be on and trade the agenda today when president trump and japan's prime minister meet in florida. meeting -- abee saw the meeting -- president trump has run it, saying the country has hit us hard on trade for years. the economy will keep rising for the next two years. still, trouble spots ahead. at three point 9% this year and the next. beyond that, the ims is pessimistic. raise interest rates, the u.s. stimulus aside and china process gradual slowdown continues. british officials say today, a nerve agent used on a former russian spy and his daughter were delivered in liquid form p are authorities say it will take months to clean up the toxic trail the poison left around the

courtney donohoe has that courtney: china is warning that it will retaliate if the u.s.iffs because of the violation of intellectual robert he writes. the trumpet ministration plans to impose additional duties on $50 billion of chinese product. china's ambassador to the u.s. to the same respond intensity. the 2026 winter olympics, cities in austria, sweden,italy, japan, switzerland, and turkey have most expect is of interest to the international community. the vote is scheduled for swede, switzerland, and turkey 2019. after only two candidates for the 2022 gain. german prosecutors are seeking a leader toon of spain. he has been accused of rebellion for his role in organizing independent referendum. he was detained in germany last month. the best performing dollar-denominated debt in the world this year is default from puerto rico. they are up 95% since september. word has spread that it may have -- emerged with more money on hand than anticipated. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney donoh

i am courtney collins. this is bloomberg. betty: thank you so much, courtney.t markets right now and how trading is at this moment. 7/10 of 1%,is up at and the kiwi unchanged at the moment. futures in australia are looking to open. risk onutures -- that feeling than the into the australian markets, update hands of 1%. and also the dollar weakness filtering through into a stronger aussie dollar. that is happening as well with treasury yields coming down just slightly at this point after the risk on trade. let's get more on what is going on in asia. haidi: still a lot of uncertainty as we get the trade numbers out. expectations of a white house statement on syria, strategy there, as well as perhaps more about the tpp story. is get what we are watching from adam haigh. sentiment maybe not so strong. >> bear in mind we are coming off of a reasonable week of equities. some of the worst of the trade fears we have been the custom to over the last few weeks. it is worth noting on the great that we tell investors in the u.s. and how the massive swing from the positivity

courtney, thank you very much for being with us. what can you tell us about the president's decision, the timing and what do we know about the scale of this effort? >> we know very little, as you mentioned, rachel. a couple of things that he mentioned were these are precision strikes on president bashar al assad's chemical infrastructure. we don't know exactly what that means yet. but he also mentioned that the u.s. and the british and the french, who he said were part of this alliance, part of this strike package, that they were willing to -- or prepared to sustain this response. so what that means is it's possible this could be more than one night of targeting. we don't know exactly what the targets will be, though. we've been hearing for the past several days that military planners have been talking about hitting the chemical infrastructure. so what that means is potentially storage facilities. we're waiting to hear, the pentagon is going to brief at 10:00 p.m. tonight and hopefully give us some more specifics about exactly what

courtney: bank of england governor says the u.k.hould prepare for rate rises over the he hintedears, and the widely expected hikes next month is not a done deal. he's is policymakers will make their decision knowing there are more chances to act later in the year. carney also acknowledged recent soft economic data, saying that mpc will consider things in a wider context. says korean hesitant moon the north has dropped a major sticking point to a summit with united states. he says kim jong-un is not letter making the withdrawal of american troops from the peninsula a precondition for ending his nuclear weapons program. the us has almost 30,000 personnel in south korea. moon and can meet next week ahead of a potential summit with president trump in may or june. cyclist lance armstrong has reached a settlement with the u.s. government in a whistleblower law tech and rock $100 million. the deal comes ahead of a court case involving former teammates, the performance-enhancing drugs. the government was seeking compensation from the millio

courtney zubowski is in houston. courtney, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. outside the family home, people have been stopping by, dropping off flowers, and sharing memories of the former first lady. barbara bush has done so much for people here in houston, across the country, and around the world. as first lady barbara bush took up the cause of child and adult literacy. >> if more people could read, write, and comprehend, we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems that plague our nation. >> reporter: but it was her role as mother of six and wife of former president george h.w. bush that was most important to her. >> i'm the mother of wonderful children and the wife of the world's greatest man. >> reporter: a family spokesman took to twitter tuesday writing, the 41st president, to whom she was married to for 73 years, held her hand all day and was at her side when she died. her son, the 43rd president wrote, our souls are settled because we know hers was. the bushes have called houston home for decades. neighbors have been leaving flowers

courtney kube at the pentagon for us. courtney, thank you as always for taking our questions. courtny's been there at work all night. cal perry is our nbc news global editor. he is in our newsroom with what he's been able to see and gather and vacuum up regarding video and reporting from overseas on just what took place tonight. cal? >> brian, just off the phone with somebody in damascus in the western part of the city, and i can crystallize a little bit what courtney is saying there about the targets. three targets in and around damascus. the first, an airfield. the meza airfield, just south of damascus. this is where helicopters have been launched from over the past two years. of course it's been those horrible barrel bombs in addition to the use of chemical weapons that has claimed the lives of so many syrian civilians. that base central for that effort. in gem raya, a barracks believed to house what they call the 41 guard. that is the syrian republican guard. those are the sort of front line troops that assad has been using backed by russian forces. the final target in a n

i am courtney collins. this is bloomberg.on whatget you should be watching as australia gets underway. adam haigh is with us. googling at the moment of trade and uncertainties and politics, you also see a spike in libel, why are we seeing short-term aren't costs go up? adam: it is a story bubbling away for a few weeks. a lot of people were saying at the end of march that you might see libor come back again. that hasn't happened, and it kept thinking up in april. people aren't worried about this. one interesting observation made -- they over at tenneco are talking about this change in costs we have with companies over the years since the financial crisis makes the implications and significance of libor is less today than it was back then. this chart shows, as libor and have checkedtes up, yet relative outperformance of small-cap equities relative to large-cap, which gives credence to his argument that these companies can still have plenty of normality in the way they fund business without having any hiccups if rates go up in t

courtney kube, congratulations on your unbelievable reporting. it kept me up last night. i read it right before i went to bed. congrats. jill colvin, thank you for your extraordinary reporting every day from that place. can't be easy. when we come back, fox news is having a bad week over laura ingraham losing supporters. a former fox news contributor writes today he should have left sooner and claims he was blocked on discussing how the russians might have ensnared our president. >>> also ahead, the washington post pulls back the curtain on one of the most important white house offices, in details how the effort to hire the very best people may have been doomed before the president even took office. >>> and his friends and family mourn the death of stephon clark an unarmed black man fatally shot by sacramento police. we'll talk to our friend rev al sharpton about the message he delivered at the funeral and his advice for this grieving and divided community. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don't

tim alberta of politico, courtney kube, and karen tumulty of the "washington post".ng my cleveland browns tie because it is the start of the baker mayfield era in cleveland. i thought that was the story. the little known story with general mattis confirming he ordered the annihilation of scores of russian mercenaries. and the biggest story of the week the korean meeting between the two. how do they link up if at all? >> they don't really link up. but you're right, they both came out in the last 24 hours. the russian mercenaries story is something we heard whispers about for some time. what this was was early february in syria, a group came across the euphrates river where forces stayed on their side, russian-backed, you know, syrian regime stayed on their side. they crossed the river and started attacking in what the pent said was an unprovoked attack. they said we're getting hit. are these russians? the russians said, no, they're not. so the u.s. and syria responded. the number killed is somewhere between 1 and 300. we never got a good sense of that on the record ce

i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. mark: thank you.overnor of the norse bank discusses his fears of a trade war coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ mark: live from london, i am mark barton where the european close roughly 13 minutes away. vonnie: in new york, i am vonnie quinn. a deterioration in the dow jones, down 1.5%, 354 point drop and not even two hours into the session with the s&p 500 down 1.1%. 29 point drop. nasdaq is down 1%. -- waslar index is also higher earlier, following comments on trade. the nonfarm payrolls report. war, in a global trade trade dependent economies would be the most vulnerable, that is the view from oystein olsen, the governor of the norway central bank who i spoke to earlier. >> many are worried. more worried if that continues if that escalates. the tendency and the measures taken we have seen over the last couple of years, weeks, in particular. still, i remain relatively optimistic in the sense that i hope for and i believe in -- at the end of the day, common sense will prevail. hopefully it will domina

i am courtney collins. this is bloomberg. you so much.nt trump calling president xi jinping a friend, but says it is time to stop china from taking advantage of america on trade. u.s.resident touched on trading relationships all over the globe. >> you have to go after the people that aren't treating you write, and in many respects i think we will have a fantastic relationship long-term with china. we have to have some balance. >> our editor joining us now from washington. betty: trump giving comforting messages on trade. conflicting messages on trade. is he trying to dial back expectations here? >> he is going after china, and he also mentioned the eu treated the u.s. unfairly on trade. at the same time, his advisor larry kudlow was talking about putting together a coalition of the willing, other trading partners to go in with the u.s. and putting the squeeze on china , and that would presumably include the eu and japan and others that he has criticized in the past. there is something about expectations as well with other things going on,

here with first world news is courtney collins.ourtney: kim jong-un is set to become the first north korean leader to enter the south since the peninsula was divided nearly seven decades ago. he will make the short walk across the demarcation line and join president moon for the first inter-korea summit in 11 years. the talks will go a long way in determining if ken will go on to meet president trump in may or june. cia director mike pompeo has been confirmed as secretary of state after weeks of debate about the administration handling of the diplomacy, as it was about pompeo himself. the votes show he lost the support of many democrats who backed him last year for the cia job. the white house mike pompeo's confirmation with a tweet showing him meeting kim jong-un over the weekend. the nafta partners in to reach a deal in the coming days as the u.s. prepares for talks with china. trade ministers are in washington and safety have made progress on the more contentious issues. they hope to reach agreement by may 1, which is when tempo

matt, courtney kube, and alaina plot. courtney, i'm going to start with you.he week began with ambiguity about syria and ended with rock-hard sanctions against russia. three different entities slapped with sanctions even when the beginning of the week seemed like they were handing syria to beauty in. what gives on both stories? >> well, it has been an interesting week. we saw some of the strongest actions yet from the trump administration on friday when he sanctioned a number of the u.s. sanction russian oligarchs. 12 companies they control. the reasoning behind this is because of what the u.s. says was their malign and malicious activities both with respect to elections and cyber attacks. also for the invasion of crimea, which was several years ago. and then of course for russia's continued support of the bashar al assad regime in syria. as you mentioned, hugh, we had news out of syria this week. last week, president trump surprised a lot of people in ohio at an infrastructure speech when he said the u.s. military would be getting out of syria soon. he repeat

courtney could you be courtney ku courtney kube, allen gomez.hat is the latest from the incenting i know they tried to outline their plan in the last hour. let's listen. >> effective immediately we are establishing a new border security support cell lead by the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security. this is a 24/7 cell who will serve as the single conduit for information and coordination between d.o.d. and dhs. this is not business as usual. we will make sure we surge our capacity to meet the president's enhanced border security goals. >> courtney, give it to us in plainer speak how would this work? >> great question. we unfortunately don't have a lot of answers. it's going to be a group of planners. it's supposed to be 24/7. wee assume they'll be watching operations from the border, but we don't know what the 24/7 component is going to look like. so far the people who will be manning the cell are people in the pentagon. what they're trying to figure out right now is all the specifics. the capability request com

vonnie: courtney, thank you. quick check of the markets.a picture of the u.s., the dow is down almost 2%, worst level of the day, worst level for the s&p 500, and picking up steam are the losses for the nasdaq, down 2.8%, the nasdaq 100 down more than 3%, two stocks in the dow are higher including mcdonald's and united health. julie: i should mention volume is ramping up.below the 20 day average, but rising as stocks are falling over the course of the day. vonnie: i am sure some people are not around today, the continuation of the holidays, nevertheless those are sharp losses that we will continue to monitor. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. julie: i'm julie hyman. this is "bloomberg markets." vonnie: it is going to be another volatile day, as if we do not expect that. we have some losses for the s&p 500, the dow is down 2% and the nasdaq 100, down 3.1%. right now, the movers in the s&p 500, take a look among the worst performers are hunter resources, tyson. we of energy companies, also some that could be a

betty: let's get to first word news with courtney collins. courtney: president trump said the u.s. rejoin the transpacific partnership. in the light of progress and what he calls unfair trade deals . a week after threatening $100 billion with additional tariffs on china, he said the two sides may end up level you note new new dutiesevying no on each other. approved bynever congress. mr. trump: china has said negotiating with us very hard, very long in we have made a lot of progress for opening it up and for getting rid of those terrorists, and you will see -- tariffs and you will see tremendous business openings. courtney: the mood is darkening among u.s. retail investors and the american association of individual investors as a gap between those claiming to be positive and those with a bearish outlook is at the widest since last year. they turned from a bullish peak in january and it is blamed on trade war concerns, escalate intentions in the middle east and the fractious political landscape in washington. tesla's strained relationship with the u.s. highway regulators as boiled ov

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nbc news national security and military reporter, courtney cue be. we're waiting for the white house with something on syria. you've talked to the director of house intelligence and you're learning more about there right? >> that's right halle. the national security had a meeting this morning with reporters, when asked about syria's comment, he said the military is getting out of syria soon. dni coats stated there was a significant and insignificant meeting at the white house discussing this issue and there was a decision made and the white house would be coming out with a statement soon. my colleague, kera lee is now reporting that the decision was -- president trump reluctantly agreed to keep some troops in u.s. military in syria for a number of time to clean out the isis presence. i'm sure you know this, there's a area called the middle euphrates valley. that area still has quite an isis presence there. more than 90% of the isis presence have been eliminated from sir yar and iraq but it's not gone. military officials says there's still probably tw

it seems to be from carol lee and courtney's reporting, and your reporting, that the national security team had to scramble after the president said we're getting out. >> they did. they had to convince him, andrea, that that wasn't the best course of action, that it ultimately could leave a vacuum in syria. yesterday during the press conference, it was echoed by the statement of sarah sanders, the narrative that isis is almost defeated. military analysts, experts and the national security team essentially arguing that, look, the united states still needs to have a presence there to not only finish the job, but to make sure that isis doesn't come back in stronger form. this is also notable, andrea, remember as a candidate, president trump was very clear, he never wanted to show his hands on what he wanted to do militarily. now in fact he's doing exactly that, effectively saying that he wants to leave syria as soon as possible. during the campaign as well, though, he also did argue for less u.s. engagement in some of these -- what he would see as foreign wars. so it is not entirely at od

courtney, tell the story from the top, as we know it. you are right, brian. the strikes were from u.s. standoff weapons. there were both manned aircraft and missiles fired from u.s. navy ships in the mediterranean. this was an attack on the infrastructure. there were three targets. one was a chemical weapons storage facility. one was a research and development and production facility. sear yum regime. military. and then command and control. syrian military as well. we don't know a whole lot about specifics of how many weapons were -- were fired or anything. but secretary mattis gave us a hint when he said there were twice as many weapons expended as, as the april 2017 attack. of course that one included 59 tomahawk missiles fired from the med. so we can assume some where in the neighborhood of 120 or so. we don't know what the british and french military component was. but we are tstarting to hear mo from the capitals. there were two military attaches there briefing tonight. president trump talked about a sustained campaign. mattis and dunford said a wave of

i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg.ark: sox holding on to their losses, often lows of the day but still down again on concerns about a global trade war. stoxx 600. a similar decline for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ amnie: live from new york, i vonnie quinn. mark: live from london, i am mark barton with the european close in 15 minutes. vonnie: stocks trading lower on trade tensions. let's get back to steve englander of rafiki capital. of our markets live blog. what incentives are out there as this chess game progresses to checkmate? steven: it is painful politically. there is an incentive for them to come to a deal. chinese tariffs are still higher than u.s. tariffs in a number of areas and the principal of reciprocity seems intuitive, given the chinese state of development, far different than 20 and 30 years ago here in -- years ago. if they can take a first up, relatively easy, grab low hanging fruit, they can discuss the longer-term issues, intellectual property and investment policy, much harde

i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg.ark: thank you very much. eu is up next, the standing before the house of lords, how can they change the brexit situation? we will discuss. this is bloomberg. ♪ bloomberg. ♪ ♪ york, i ame from new vonnie quinn. mark: live from london, i am mark barton counting you down to the european close. prime minister may, another wrecks it brews. -- brexit bruise. they will try to keep the u.k. in a customs union. it they do both for this amendment, it goes back to the commons, what happens? >> one of the lords said it is put something in rather than take it out. once it is in the bill, it has to pass the commons, but once it is in the mix, these conditions that are not friendly to the prime minister, it is another piece of the anti-brexit campaign. mark: to backtrack and say, union,o a or b, customs she will have progress of years shouting at her -- brexit people shouting at her, creating new problems. >> they customs union does not solve the big economic issues for the u.k. a custom union relat

scott, back over to you. >> courtney, thank you so much that was such a great moment to see yesterday. >> very cool >> courtney reagan with the headlines for us >>> bulls are betting big, jon, what do you have first >> boyd gaming, judge. 33 bucks a share they came in today buying may call options so let's call it six weeks out into the future, they came scrambling in. and they actually turned it into a call spread. they were buying the may 35s, selling a strike above it. i bought these, and i'm just long these calls i expect that throughout the day, it will continue to build at volume. i like the stock it's consumer discretionary play likewise, consumer discretionary, take a look at norwegian cruise lines, nclh up $1.36 or 2.5% likewise here, they were buying i believe the 55 calls, 57 calls, selling the 60 against it bought 'em very quickly. i scrambled in, bought these, turned that one into a call spread so i'm naked long in the case of boyd, and i'm in a spread in the case of norwegian cruise line. >> interesting, good stuff doc, come back over here >>> ahead on "the halftime repo

let's get to first world news with courtney collins.ney: facebook search that are topping estimates in the first quarter despite a series at sales areies, your records and users keep logging on and revenues rose below $12 billion, beating forecasts. facebook says it has now almost 1.5 billion daily users. they can which analytica scandal broke towards the end of the quarter and its impact to be felt later. french president emmanuel macron has told america that turning its back on the wider world is a major risk. he appealedongress, to the u.s. not to look inward as he listed a range of threats, including climate change, nuclear weapons, inequality, and fake news. centurybuilt the 21st i'm a new type of multilateralism. war is notcial consistent with our mission, our history, with our current commitment for global security. at the end of the day, it will destroy jobs, increase prices, and the middle class will have to pay for it. iran has ruled out any renegotiation of the 2015 their deal after france just did a new agreement with keep t

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i want to bring in courtney qb with some of that exclusive reporting., love that you and i are in touch behind the scenes and now i get to have you on the show to talk through some of this new reporting as it relates to what russia is trying to do that has the military concerned, right? >> that's right. so this actually started several weeks ago. you know, we forget the syrian regime has conducted chemical weapons attacks primarily chlorine gets against its people on numerous occasions. this was one that was particularly bad several weeks ago and then there was a lot of outcry by the united states about it. well, at the time russia was concerned that the united states might respond. so they started using a new tactic there and that was jamming u.s. military drones gps systems. so basically what they do is they mirror or they mimic the signal that comes from a gps satellite that a drone receives that tells it where it's going and where it is. the practical implication of this on the ground is the drone operator may not know where the drone is, it may los

and on internationaljazz day, we have courtney pine. music. hello there.olitics has become pretty forgiving of huge great policy cock—ups — you don't have to resign for wrongly detaining legal immigrants. but mislead mps, and we come down on you like a tonne of bricks. and that is why amber rudd went. she knew, or should have known, that targets were used for deportations. having said something different to a commons committee, her position became difficult to impossible. the funny thing is that although she resigned for the narrow issue of inadvertent misleading, it has cleared the decks for a far bigger review of the whole approach to immigration. with sajid javid, the new home secretary, in place, seen as more liberal than theresa may, he now has to pick up the pieces of the mess, restore decent relations with the home office staff — there's a worry some of them were briefing against amber rudd — and he has to detoxify the tory party, with a reputation damaged by windrush. let's start by talking to nick watt. let's start with theresa may because a lot o

let's get the first word news with courtney collins.ays theup, facebook data of as many as 87 million people may have an improperly shared. it is the first confirmation of the possible size of the scandal, which was initially put at around 50 million users. facebook admitted scanning the links and images sent on messenger. posts to make sure content abides by those rules. >> i'm the first to admit that we did not take on those responsibilities, but there are billions of people who love the services we are building because iny are getting real value building relationships on a day-to-day basis, and that is something i am proud of our company for doing, and i know we will keep on doing that. >> apple working on touchless control for iphones to help it stand out in an increasingly crowded market. it will let users perform some tasks by moving their finger close to the screen. the technology is two years away, even if apple goes ahead. apple is said to be working on led screen that can be curved or folded, also two years away. and a discuss

i am courtney collins. this is bloomberg. ♪ courtney, thank you.h president emmanuel macron thankss the u.s. -- trump maypoles the u.s. out of the iran deal -- may pull the u.s. out of the iran deal. we have our team on the national security issue. let's take these comments from macron that trump is likely to quit this iranian deal. all that work the last few days for nothing? >> it would be a tough way to end the trip, for sure. he spent his third day pushing the administration and the irandent to stay in the nuclear deal after the may 12 deadline the president set. speaking to a small group of journalists here on his last he thinks trump was not persuaded and that trump will pull the u.s. out of the nuclear accord next month. he said that would probably lead period of heightened tensions and uncertainty, and the u.s. reaction to whatever iran does. probably not how he wanted to end the trip. i think european leaders got one more chance to work on the president. chancellor merkel is expected to lobby the president over this decision, but right now

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francesca chambers, courtney kube, and seung min kim. what is the verdict? >> so what was successful so far is they hit the targets they wanted to. there were three. they were going after syrian chemical women's and a command and control site. these were syrian regime targets. we can't forget that. but it seems we still don't have any good sense of how many syrian military may have been killed. it looks like they were not civilian casualties. part of of that was they did this in the middle of the night. command and control site, except for those at the pentagon is generally not going to be staffed in the middle of the night. one thing that is very interesting about this. on friday we started hearing these rumblings that president trump wanted broader options. he wanted something bigger. secretary is mat tuesday was concerned about the u.s. military. further into this very complex civil war that has so many players. what they did last night was larger than at least we saw april 2017. it was actually very targeted. it was not broad. it went after the syrian re

vonnie: here is courtney donohoe with news.co the senate foreign relations committee may vote tonight after confirming mike pompeo for secretary of state. republican leaders say they will bring the domination to the full senate where come pao -- pompeo -- in the last few minutes, joe manchin tweeted that he will vote for tom pao. theor trade officials from u.s., canada, and mexico will meet in washington in an intensified push to reach nafta agreements in the next few weeks. president trump has renewed his threat to tie in nafta deals with tighter controls on the border in mexico. merkel made the announcement today at meetings with the high commission for refugees. it was not clear which country the migrants would come from. a billionaire has asked the u.s. supreme court to keep people off his beach. costa believes he has the right to cut off public access to the waterfront property he bought a year ago. not havehat he should to open a private land for beach access without compensation. global news 24 hours a day on air, and ti

there was gold and silver for courtney colak and nile wilson.etres final after finishing second. the 2014 commonwealth silver medallist left the track holding his groin, sojusta medallist left the track holding his groin, sojust a little medallist left the track holding his groin, so just a little concerned there. action is ongoing on the gold coast. it has been a very special day already. a round—up of the day ‘s action from day four... sunday mornings don't get much better, a packed house and gold medals on the line. scotland taking charge of proceedings, but with home pride and top prize at stake the australians were fighting. an enthralling encounter continued, both sides moving in front of each other, until darren burnett, scotland's skip, put distance between the two. he thinks he has it. he has! tremendous stuff! with one more end to go, could australia fight back? it's all over! the fourth gold medal of these games for scotland. tom bosworth was looking to add to the treasure in the race walk. the first athletics event of this game. —— t

i'm courtney reagan.> i'm dominic chu brian sullivan is on assignment. let's get you up to speed on the market action. stock futures are pointing to a higher open. the dow over the last -- first, 320 points to the upside is what the dow would open up by theoretically if things held the way they are now the s&p up by 34 points. the nasdaq up by 113 the dow over the last 24 hours, you look at the movement there, that late-day selloff. we were up 440 points at the high in the dow yesterday before that "new york times" story and reporting came out about the raid on president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, his offices and hotel room that sent stocks moving lower. the dow closed up by 46 points as a result. in context, a 330-point move does not get us back to where the highs were yesterday something to keep in mind. let's move on to the bond market the ten-year treasury yields are moving slightly to the upside. 2.80% the last trade there up by almost 2 basis points. we talk about the bond trade, the st

thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you, miss courtney. >> good morning. i'm anastasai yanopolous, and i live in noe valley. it's been over three years since the building and planning commission met, and it's high time we discuss this topic. and i suggest before you leave today, you commit to the next -- a date for the next joint hearing. there's so many issues to be discussed between the two of you and demolition is only one. okay. i've read the supervisor peskin's letter to you all. i hope you've read it, and you said there's been a lack of will to do anything about this. so we have to light a fire under you to do something about this problem angus mccarthy, when i went before your commission a couple years ago to request something be done, you said, well this isn't a really big problem. i get a lot of calls, but there aren't really a lot of unlawful demolitions happening, and i big to differ, and so do many members of the public who have come here today. first of all, you've got a building code and a planning code with two different definitions. you've

bring up jane newton small and courtney cuby, national security reporter. courtney, start with you.eard the ambassador, she's saying no direct talks. counter example of that is north korea, something we're also very familiar with, begs the question how is the strategy being discussed in your space about how the u.s. will engage syria? >> the u.s. military strategy in syria remains the same that it has been for several years, and that is to go after and defeat isis. that mission is actually fairly far along, they've taken back 95% of land isis once held in iraq and syria. there's still a significant isis presence. in syria, there's also a presence. the u.s. military is not actively going after them at this point. so the military piece has stayed the same. what has evolved over the years from president obama's time to now president trump's time is what does that mean for regime change. we heard clearly president obama several years ago say assad must go. we don't hear it as clearly from the trump administration. that remains sort of a question, what is their policy. instead, the admin

. >> and courtney and bill, let's talk to courtney about what the military options might be. a year ago, april 6th, in 2017, hosting president xi at mar-a-lago, the president announcing those air strikes against a runway from which they believe their intelligence said that the bombers took off the planes that dropped those chemical weapons. at that point, the president strangely was describing the dinner that he was having with president xi, and the beautiful piece of chocolate cake, and those strikes were against a runway that we were told was repaired within days, if not within hours of those strikes. this time, courtney, it seems as though they are going to take a much stronger response. >> you're right, andrea. the april 2017 strikes were more to send a message. th u.s. intelligence knew that the aircraft took off from this base, they loaded the chemical weapons into a syrian regime aircraft, they flew -- they dropped the bomb that killed about 100 people with a vicious sarin gas attack. and they had proof that the syrian regime had struck that location. they also saw an

our own courtney, our military reporter is on duty there with what is known about tonight's strike. tell the story from the top, as we know it. >> you are right, brian, the strikes were from u.s. stand off weapons. we know they were both manned aircraft and missiles fired from u.s. navy ships in the mediterranean and you mentioned, you know, this is an attack on the syrian regime chemical infrastructure. there were three targets, one was a chemical weapons storage facility, one a research and development facility, syrian regime, so syrian military and a commanding control facility that was strike. that means syrian military as well. we don't know a lot, yet, about the very specifics of how many weapons were fired or anything, but secretary mattis gave us a hint when he said there were twice as many weapons expended as the april 2017 attack. of course, that included 59 tomahawk missiles fired. we can assume there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 or so fired in this. we don't know what the british and french military component was. we are starting to hear more from those capit

courtney, for five minutes. mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today, april 11, 2018, is a special day in southeastern connecticut. it marks the 150th anniversary of when the state of connecticut and the city of new london conveyed a deed of gift to the u.s. navy that today still stands as the naval submarine base in new london which has had a glorious, distinguished career in terms of our national defense. again, on that date in 1867, when the deed was signed and given to gideon well the secretary of the navy at the time, himself a native of the state of connecticut, glasstonbury, connecticut, it was the result of an effort by one of my predecessors, congressman augustus brandagee who got an appropriation that set up this conveyance. a ressman branndeghee, was member of this body a supporter of abolition, voted in favor of the 13th amendment, and he was somebody who was a frequent friend of president lincoln at the time, they rode horseback together in the morning and was a very strong ally of the president. again, after that deed of gi

i am courtney collins. this is bloomberg. ♪ betty: courtney, thank you so much. dimon warning of risks to the global economy from a potential trade war. he shared a solution with shareholders. rally a thirddid day. $100 billion worth of additional tariffs to punish beijing for what is seen as a lack of contrition by washington. that statement out the last 10 minutes or so. our guest joining us with his views. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ we are counting down to asia's first major market open this morning. japan futures looking shaky going into the tokyo open. the latest segment from president trump saying they have been asked to consider an additional $100 billion on tariffs of chinese goods as beijing's retaliation to the first set of tariffs. certainly a tit-for-tat situation underway. trump saying the u.s. is still open to talks. nikkei futures, this is how we are sitting on chicago futures, looking weaker to the downside. dollar-yen falling to that session low. certainly going to weigh on sentiment, as we go into the open of trading this friday in tokyo. i am haidi

let me ask you about courtney's robe report.ause we don't know exactly what these drones were looking at. give us a general sense of what kind of intelligence they bring. >> they're essential to our operations. but we ought to remember, chris, we have kind of low-flying small drones. we have high endurancendurance, altitude drones. we also have satellites as backup that are looking. we have special operators on the ground. we have layers of surveillance that we can put in place here. this is a development, particularly in this moment of crisis. >> where the president said what, about 21 hours ago that in the next 24 to 48 hours, he could be taking action. what are the likely options that he's being presented by the military? >> sure, well, the pentagon's been burning the midnight oil since the chemical weapons strike. what they will show him is a range on kind of a spectrum of violence that will run from intelligence gathering really hyped up at the lower end. that's why the drone piece is significant. but then very quickly, it

courtney what have we found out? >> well, my colleague ken dilanian and i have learned today the u.s. now has blood and urine samples from some of the victims in this attack in syria last weekend and those samples according to u.s. officials tested positive for chemicals, both chlorine -- the majority were chlorine but there were also some that tested positive for a nerve agent. they're not saying for certain whether that was sarin. but historically the syrian regime has used a combination of chlorine and sarin. there's also other intelligence that has come in now that is pointing to this. u.s. officials are now fairly confident that, in fact, this was the syrian regime that carried out this attack, craig. so one thing to keep in mind is a pattern that we've seen out of the syrian regime. when they're attacking an area, going after an area, they will pound it with mortars, with artillery, for weeks, for months, however long it takes to take back the area. when they get towards the end, when it look like the area's ab