Late friday night as a category four hurricane and has lingered off of the coast bringing heavy rain as a tropical storm. Rob roth has been following the latest and joins us from the newsroom with more. Reporter the houston area is getting a years worth of rain in less than a week. Hurricane harvey has caused massive flooding and the worst is far from over. The flooding of her houston is widespread, looking like a river dotted with land. For those on the ground, its much, much worse. Boats rule the roads in houston there are rivers where streets once were. Our first floor is flooded and is crazy its crazy. Its never been this high for 40 years. Reporter rescues are numbering in the thousands, the coast guard has been bringing up residence in buckets and people who could no longer risk thing home. Some are volunteer. We are here to help. Reporter the rescue effort included text, dogs and cats. There could be more water coming, i decided i needed to leave. Reporter some water was release
This weekend. What will it mean for the soft commodities market . Trade tensions. With no breakthrough on nafta to my and tensions over north korea, what is trumps next move . We speak to the former president of the u. S. Export and import bank at 8 30 a. M. U. K. Time. 30 minutes to go until the start of your trading day. Lets show you how the markets are shaping up and it is risk off. There is no consensus, that is the issue for equity markets. Rise and itstocks was the u. S. That had to do the heavy lifting. 20 percent. Making up for lost ground. There is no consensus. Mr. Men will speak with mr. Putin today. The head of south korea warned of uncontrollable north korea. If we failed to stop could sinks they into an uncontrollable situation manifest inions are markets. Lets have a look at gmm and asian sweep of equities. Credit now seeing the default swaps were south korea exceeding that of china on a fairly consistent basis. Hence the reason why youre seeing a little bit of move in
Numbers 3 to 5 degrees warmer than yesterday. Carolyn . Lisa, thank you. From football to basketball and now baseball, pro athletes are taking a stand against President Trump. Oakland as catcher Bruce Maxwell said it was a decision that was a long time coming. He knelt during the National Anthem yesterday after the president blasted nfl players for doing the same thing. Maxwell is the First Major League baseball player to join the protest. He said mr. Trumps rhetoric on twitter took the movement to a whole new level. Yesterday the catcher tweeted, inequality is being displayed bigger than ever right now as our president shows that freedom of protest and speech is not allowed. Maxwell talked to the media after yesterdays game. This was the right thing for me to do personally, just from the endeavors that ive been through myself and from where im from and the people that i d do know that are victims of ra alindifferencecis. If he wants to take a knee, let him take a knee. The athletes do
Is now 60 contained. Now up to 40 fire deaths, 22 were in sonoma county. Forty more victims were identified yesterday. They were 82 canyearold colleen reynolds, share roadway robinson, 72yearold Lee Chadwick Roger and Daniel Martin sather. Lee roger was from glenn ellen. The others lived in santa rosa. We want to show you the cal fire map. You can get a sense how close some of these major fires are to each other. Crews say each of the fires present their own conditions. Of the 3 largest fires, the nuns fire has the lowest containment. It is at 40 . It is still moving north. It is driven by steep slopes and very dry brush. Our time is 6 01. Steve is here to talk about how hot it is going to get today. Alex savage out in sonoma, he has about 87. For the First Time Since hes been covering, he didnt see any orange glow. And hes not wearing the mask. Hes not wearing the mask either. Temperatures will be very warm. Theres no red flag, theres no wind advisory. Well focus on the positives. Sti
Investigating what happened. Last friday at sfo when an air canada pilot came close to landing his air bus 320 on a taxiway where three jets were sitting. Kate larsson explains how close we came to a deadly disaster. Hes on the taxi. Pilot sounding the alarm friday night when air canada flight 759 came close to the landing where four other jets where were waiting to take off. He heard the engine noise. This man says his son was on one of those four planes. Pretty scary. It definitely makes you stop and think. It got confused. Air canada flew directly over us. Thanks to the united pilot on the ground, the air canada pilot was told to abort the landing. The Transportation Safety board of canada says the air canada flight flew 29 feet the site of one of the four planes on the taxiway. The board also says the air canada flight flew just 100 feet above those first two planes on the taxiway. Any number of factors can contribute. Could be crew fatigue. It could be proximity, airport lighting.