Nathan Hager

All right, let's turn to markets now, Karen.

Futures are a little bit higher this morning, while the dollar is trading at a one-month high ahead of this morning's key jobs report.

Economists anticipate 70,000 new positions were added to the U.S.

economy in December.

We get more from Bloomberg's Michael McKee.

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Thursday morning trading officially underway on Wall Street.

That is the sound of the opening bell from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Stocks are opening in the red with the S&P 500.

Little change to the downside, a drop of about five points.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, though, is lower by 0.4%.

That's a drop of almost 200 points.

And the Nasdaq Composite opens lower as well by about a tenth of 1%, or almost 30 points.

We'll get back to the market in a moment, but we continue to follow the tense situation in Minneapolis.

Protesters are taking to the streets after immigration and customs enforcement shot and killed a woman during a confrontation with her car.

The city's identified that woman as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says this could have been prevented.