Action when your favorite tv shows could be back in action. And baby owe da, how it made the day for firefighters glad youre with us im Frances Rivera im phillip mena. The nation will begin to pay respect to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg today just down the street Senate Republicans are forging ahead to fill her seat in record time and now it appears the gop has all the votes it needs to approve a nominee. Tracie potts has the latest. Mitch mcconnell has secured a key swing vote here. Reporter right that key vote is mitt romney of utah he says he will side with the president on this. He was the lone vote for impeachment, the lone republican in the senate. This time he says he thinks President Trump and the Republican Leadership is on the right path to replace Justice Ginsburg where a nominee of a president is from a Different Party than the senate, then more often than not the senate does not confirm. When there is a nominee that is a party in the senate they do confirm. We have tremend
President trumps criticism . Yesterday the president called for lower Interest Rates just like our foreign competitors. Event that far from now the market opens, interesting on the day impeachment hearings to start, stock prices are out at record highs in the dow jones will be down about 80 points. Closed unchang. Statistically unlikely, but it happened and s p 500 down about a, nasdaq down about 20, no serious selloff at the opening bell a halfhour for now and then there is this, extraordinary scenes from hong kong overnight. Battles on the streets. The city, paralyzed the Central Business district shut down. Schools closed. Its open warfare, a revolt against beijing, serious stuff. You are about to see a important day. We will find out if the democrats really can convince voters that President Trump should be thrown out of office and we will find out if the economy can keep growing in the stock market keep rallying. Varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart moments ago we set it, its open
In the wake after sweeping indictment from georgia. One trump ally makes moves for more lenient jury as the former president tries to push the trial beyond the 2024 election how the political world is reacting dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal. Death, destruction and anger sweeping across the Hawaiian Island of maui we go step by step through that fateful day to answer the question could the deadliest wildfire in a century have been avoided . A minnesota small town left scrambling after the entire police force walked off the job. With two weeks notice, the 1200persontown must find a way to replace the police or up the cops pay. A sports car will join the electric revolution. How the lamborghini model is touting perform the without the gas. Rep how one surfer swam 20 miles for help, and why rescue crews are still searching the waves. Its wednesday, august 16. Early today starts right now and good morning, and thanks for joining us im Jessica Layton good to be with you im Franc
playing field that even with the quote, even after squandering all those even afte squandering all thos elon musk is still the second richest human being on the planet. and on that note, that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back on monday. alex will be back on tuesday, and my own show, here on msnbc, we ll be back on sunday night on 8 pm, but now it s time for the last word with ali velshi and lawrence o donnell. that was a segment after my own heart. what a world, right? a guy can lose 182 billion dollars, 182 billion dollars and just man in the world. i mean, that says it all. one doesn t need any more. with which tells you he had too much in the first place. no human being should have that much money even on paper. i am glad know about your segment about how folks are getting worried about the gas stoves in the culture wars and dr. seuss. and i remember donald knew trump talking about not enough water coming into the shower and asked to flush several times t
Read about hackers i know there was a tesla that was hacked from a number of miles away i read so is it possible in the future were going to have to worry about self driving cars be hacked and essentially cars being weaponized perhaps and you know support of some terrorist activity told you it was weird its not a weird question youre actually spot on the reason we dont have Autonomous Cars on the road today because of some of these factors we have Insurance Regulations government regulations the hackers and the attorneys who are just waiting for someone to hack so the Current Administration has stopped what they call v. To v. Which is vehicle to Vehicle Communications and the reason that is thats going to actually slow down this Autonomous Cars and im currently today in buffalo we just had a seventy five car pile up because of a white out there is nothing an Autonomous Car could have done to save you it probably would have been worse and the reason for that is when those cameras which