But was he asked to intervene in the fbi inquiry. Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. 12 hours from now pollings stations will open in the uk. Its an election the ruling conservative were expected to win in a landslide over labour. But during the Six Week Campaign the polls have narrowed. Were going to focus first on the front runners. Theresa may has her final event in birmingham whilst Jeremy Corbyn has two events in london before the campaign closes at midnight. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Morning. She called it to win it, but its not her choice. Its all of ours. A few hackles at 5 30am, following her trail like the missteps in the last few weeks. Jolly photo ops arent quite her style, and theres not much jolly about this campaign. With security and tighter terror laws on her mind. At eight oclock in glasgow, Jeremy Corbyn enjoying his time in the sun. I signed up just for you. With his long held views on security, cautious about the
S p 500 having their worst day since may 17th. So youve got to go back weeks just for even modest declines like that. This morning dow futures indicated up by 15 points. S p futures up by 2 and nasdaq up close to 10. Overnight you did see gains in the chinese markets. Japanese nikkei was flat as well. In europe this morning in some of the early trading there. Lets get a look at whats happening in the u. K. Ahead of the elections tomorrow. Stocks are slightly higher. Up by just under. 2 of a percent. The cac is up. Take a look at the treasury market. This is the one thats been causing so much consternation. The ten year note sitting just above 2. 15 but hovering around this level even though we do expect the fed is likely to raise Interest Rates next week. A lot of people wondering whats going on. Some of the weaker Economic Data including the jobs report leading market watchers to assume that the fed, even if it does raise next week, that it wont do it again in the near future. Lets ta
Game three nba finals. The countdown officially on. We are excited. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday, june 7th. President trump just tweeted that he is nominating Christopher Ray as the new fbi director, so i am looking on getting more information and his back ground and we will have that store coming up. Its coming 24 hours before james comey is going to testify in front of congress, so interesting timing. Lets talk about the weather this morning, mike. Yeah, clouds are on the way and you can see them on live doppler 7. Not dropping rain or drizzle this morning. You can see right above the fray over towards mt. Diablo as we look at the east bay hills camera. The temperatures about the same as yesterday, and high clouds and our spread at 4 0059 to 75 with the sun becoming dimmer as we head throughout the day. And 58 to about 68 degrees. When we come back, we will talk more about the wet weather and how its going to impact your thursday. First, how about your wednesday morning
But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I hear he had a good reputation. I think its more than a little curious that it appears that the president is trying to change the topic. The president nominates a new fbi director. Just 24 hours ahead of the testimony of former director comey. Its possible trump is going to be sitting there live tweeting this event. It seems like its the super bowl in washington. Every time you tweet, it makes it harder on all of us who are trying to help you. Dont get in the way of an investigation that could clear you. Russian hackers may be behind the diplomatic crisis between qatar and other key u. S. Allies in the persian gulf. In a controversial tweet, President Trump appeared to take credit for the crisis. Deadly attacks in the capital in iran. The first in Irans Parliament, the second at the sloo shrine. The woman accused of leaking nsa documents once called President Trump an orange fascist on twitter. Prose
Then we see the cloud cover and 60s and 70s for most. We give this forecast credit here, they told us this a week ago and lo and behold here it is, it picked up on this and its a pattern that will take us into the weekend and were hard pressed to get to the 70s and, even inland. That breeze is cranked up here. Near 60 and its going to be cooler and rainy tomorrow morning. 60s, 70s to near 80 degrees. The firefighters said theyre watching us in clear lake. I love that area, theyre probably sitting around the firehouse now. Probably making breakfast. A little sausage, well, anyway, lets not start that. Westbound bridge on the span here, the traffic is moving along okay. Theres a back up here, not a bad commute all in all, but you will wait for a little bit as you make your way on the bridge here and even the carpool lane is busy. We have a crash reported on 580 on seminary, its report ed in both direction, but i dont see anything. The police have arrested a woman for putting meth in a ch