cnn's jomana karadsheh is joining us live from amman, jordan. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. in about 24 hours time from now, that is the deadline set for the various groups fighting on the ground in syria with the exception of isis and al nusra to confirm participation in the cessation of hostilities that is set to go into effect at midnight saturday local time. as you mentioned, there is still more questions than answers at this point. about how it will be implemented and enforced and who is overseeing it. lots of details still missing. one component is trust. that is something that is extremely lacking in the conflict. also, we are hearing this, christine, from u.s. officials. the pentagon voicing real suspicion and skepticism with russia and intentions here. what russia is doing is working with the united states to get the cessation of hostilities in place versus what russia is doing behind the scenes and on the ground with u.s. officials saying they have been seeing evidence over the past few weeks of russia backing the

jomana karadsheh in amman, thank you. >>> time for a look at your money. futures are down, but these losses are modest. oil prices are in lock step with stocks. crude is slipping after a huge gain yesterday. stock markets in europe opening slightly lower. tokyo and other asian stock markets with slim gains overnight. it has been a rally recently in stocks. it has some market watchers saying the worst is over. check out the s&p 500 in 2016. you can see the steep drop to begin the year. that was the worst start ever. since finding a bottom two weeks ago, the trend is higher. s&p is still 5% away from breaking even for the year. what is causing the rise? investors no longer fear a recession in the u.s. oil prices are really the driver in the stock market. crude rebounding. stocks rebound. when crude falls, stocks fall. >>> starbucks changing the popular rewards program and some customers are not happy about the details. do not mess with coffee drinkers. instead of giving customers one star per purchase, it will give two stars for every $1 spent. to reach gold

jomana karadsheh, thanks. >>> time for an early start on your money. investors taking a breather. a solid rally yesterday. futures right now with modest losses. you can see why. when oil goes down, stocks go down. that is why oil is on the chart. we keep putting oil on it because they are stuck together. stock market in europe opening lower. tokyo and asian markets with slim losses overnight. the recent rally in stocks has market watchers saying the worst is over. check out the s&p. the steep drop to begin the year. the worst start to the year ever. and the s&p 500 still 4.6% away from breaking even for the year. what is causing the market to move higher? it seems investors no longer fear recession in the u.s. crude oil is rebounding. stocks rebound. it may take a while for the relationship to change. watch oil and commodities. >>> starbucks is changing popular rewards program. some customers hate it. instead of giving customers one star per purchase, it will give two stars for every dollar sent. to reach gold status, it will take 300 stars. the new free drink threshold, 125 stars

cnn's jomana karadsheh is in amman, jordan with details. good morning, jomana. >> reporter: good morning, john. violence in two major cities on sunday. in homs, two cars packed with explosives detonated in a commercial and residential area. in the center of homs there, more than 30 people killed in the attack. the same neighborhood, this is a neighborhood which is the same neighborhood sect where bashar al assad belongs. this is the fourth attack in the last few months. later on in the day, john, we saw attacks taking place in damascus in the southern outskirts in the shi'a area. a major shi'a holy shrine in the area. a car bomb detonated and as first responders and crowds gathered, two suicide bombers struck there. more than 80 people killed in that attack and more than 100 others injured. we have seen several attacks also in that area. the last one we saw three weeks ago. repeated attacks claimed by isis. this coming on the same day as we saw secretary of state john kerry here in the jordanian capital speaking saying that russian an ameri

jomana karadsheh reporting live from amman in jordan. many thanks to you. >>> want to turn now to the u.s. state of michigan where new details are emerging in a deadly shooting rampage. the suspected gunman was an uber driver, and a source says he was still picking up passengers even between shootings. mourners gathered in kalamazoo sunday to honor the six victims killed. eight people were shot at three separate locations, seemingly at random, over the course of several hours on sunday. nick valencia reports. >> reporter: it is sickening when you consider the details. investigators saying that this suspect, a 45-year-old male from kalamazoo, casually carried out this shooting spree. he was working as an uber driver, and in between each shooting was still picking up fares. that suspect was eventually taken into custody at around 12:30 in the morning. investigators seized a semi-automatic handgun from his person, and in a search of his residence were able to discover even more weapons. they're working on figuring out if any of these weapon

we have jomana karadsheh with more from jordan. you hear more about the attacks on hospitals and on a school. essentially hitting children and sick. it makes you wonder if anything is off limits in syria. >> reporter: absolutely, alison. devastating attacks on monday in syria that have drawn a long list of international condemnation. human rights groups saying attacks on medical facilities amount to war crimes. doctors without borders, msf says the facility it supports was struck several times in idlib. it killed and wounded several people. as you mentioned, they are saying it is a deliberate attack. this is the fifth time msf has been hit in syria since the beginning of the year. no one is taking responsibility for this attack, but a lot of blame being pointed toward the syrian regime and their russian allies. we have not heard anything official from either country at this point. the syrian ambassador to moscow coming out and saying it was the u.s.-led coalition that caused this attack saying it was an air strike, but coalition of

we have jomana karadsheh with us. jomana, mnf hit again? how did this happen? >> reporter: it drew a lot of international condemnation. attacks on medical facilities would amount to war crimes. you mentioned msf was hit in a span of several times in a span of few minutes. this is the fifth such attack on doctors without borders since january. there is no claim of responsibility. it is not clear who was behind the attack. there is a lot of blame pointed toward the syrian regime and russian allies. the syrian ambassador to moscow came out and blamed the u.s.-led coalition saying it was an air strikes by the coalition that hit the msf hospital. officials dismissed that. saying they did not have operations in the idlib area. in aleppo province near the border with turkey, there is a school housing displaced people and hospital for mothers and babies also struck in an attack there. several people killed and wounded. again, not clear who is behind that attack, but the turkish prime minister came out with a statement saying that it was a ballistic missile fired by rus

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