The breaking news. Florida bracing for what could be one of the most powerful and destructive storms on record. The state trying to keep Gas Stations supplied as people rushed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton. All right. Just in to cnn. Donald trump had, quote maybe as many as seven calls with russian president Vladimir Putin since he left office the Bombshell New reporting by Bob Woodward and two of the countrys biggest music Stars Country Music stars joining forces to help with Hurricane Recovery efforts. Sara is out today. Im John Berman with Kate Baldwin. This is cnn News Central that is what officials in florida tell us that they are doing right now as Hurricane Milton takes direct aim this hour nearly the entire West Coast Line of florida has been tampa are warning that miltons extremely dangerous strike could bring impacts not seen in over 100 years. Orders to evacuate. They seem to be working. Officials on the ground seem to be happy with what theyve seen so far. Because t
He is the governor of iowa. He said dont say bad about china. So i had to rip up about half of my speech, right . I said why . We do a lot of business. Etf been dealing with china for 35 years with corn and all the Different Things and he told me a story that is amazing. 35 years ago when i started, i met a man named xi. He wasnt president then. He was a young man. The governor came back and he told his wife and it is documented, i just met the future president of china and nobody thought much about it. And you know what . 28 years later, you turned out to be right, you have been an incredible ambassador and they like each other so much. When it came time to pick the important position of ambassador, i said havent you had enough of 24 years being governor of iowa . He said if you want me to do that. Thank you very much, ambassador. I appreciate it. Another great job. [applause] nobody could have done that job better. Man i could go on the opposite side of the spectrum from the governor
Sector of the year and the decade the Investment Committee is ready to go, Halftime Report starts right now welcome, good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee today, joe, jack, steve and liz, director of Market Strategy and margaret reed, senior Portfolio Manager with union bank. Lets begin with the jobs blowout, the reaction in the stock market perhaps the belief is that we can have the yearend rally after all. This says to me phase one. You just need the economy to keep humming. If we can have it, we are having it. And i think like the biggest lesson of 2019 is the industrial data is just so misleading and so unimportant for people to obsess over. But a lot of the Economic Data points that we traditionally Pay Attention to, they come from the 1950s, the 60s, the 70s. The economy has changed and its become more globalized and consumer centric i cannot stress enough how important it is to look at price versus listen to economic opinions if you listen to opinions
Alltime low territory. Earlier in the day we had inventory numbers on crude oil look theres the 40year. I feel like bringing Rick Santelli in this moment but well bring in in a second. Theres crude oil. Inventories were higher than expected for crude oil, so it pushed prices lower. Were almost at a sixyear low. They keep pumping oil. An hour from now another huge Earnings Report. Its from facebook this time. The social networking giant trading higher ahead of the closely watched numbers. Well get them to you first with top analysis from the street. And hes a billionaire who flies on private jets. He has a huge home and hes made headlines when he do this last week. Americas lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. Were talking about jeff greene. Hell be here exclusively to clarify those remarks. You certainly dont want to miss that coming up. A lot to watch out for. And the markets right now, the Dow Jones In