Im michelle carusocabrera, heres whats happening right now. Stocks are trading near their session lows with the dow currently sitting down 99 points. Were going to have full market coverage coming your way. In the meantime, evacuations are under way in california as a Massive Wildfire tears through parts of los angeles county. We are live on the scene ahead. And, take a look live at the floor of the Wells Fargo Center in philadelphia, thats where the Democratic National Convention Kicks off today. Full coverage coming up in just a few minutes. Brian. Well, as you can tell, folks, from michelle and tyler theres a lot going on today including more on this incredible heat wave smacking much of the country. But we begin with apple. And a big call on that stock that is pushing apple shares to session lows, lets get right now to cnbcs josh lipton with more. Josh. Well, brian, thats right. Those apple bulls are getting tougher to find. The reason for the worry, the health of that iphone franc
Of African American history and culture. We will have live coverage during the course of the morning here on cspan. It is saturday, september 24. Congress returns on monday with a looming deadline. Lawmakers have until the end of the week to pass what is known as a continuing resolution or cr to keep the governmentfunded after october 1. Democrats in both the house and senate demanding money for flint, michigan in the agreement. They deal with issues surrounding lead in their water. We will have live coverage on cspan, the senate on cspan 2. We begin on this saturday morning with the state of Race Relations in america. This has the nation prepares to open the africanamerican museum on the mall and washington, d. C. Headlines in charlotte indicating another night of some unrest. What do you think as we look at this time lapse photography of the building of this museum . Our lines are open at 202 7488000 for democrats. Republicans, 202 7488001. If you are an independent, 202 7488002. Com
Hillary clintons flurry of town halls, there were two issues on which she seemed to be on offense. The first one is gun control. In manchester, clinton talked about her new proposal that has four main points, tightening loopholes for gun shows and online sales, closing additional gaps in background checks, stopping domestic abusers from buying guns, and repealing immunity for gunmakers and dealers. She rounded all of that out with rhetoric like this. Hillary clinton when the nra was on one of their tirades and calling the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms enforcers jackbooted thugs, president h w bush resigned as an nra member and said, no, im not going to be associated with that. I mean, ideally, what i would love to see is gun owners, responsible gun owners, hunters form a Different Organization and take back the Second Amendment from these extremists. [applause] john the second issue where clinton went on offense was in her interview with the today show, benghazi, fueled by Kevin Mccar
Congressman eliot engel of new york. That is followed by a house plannedt hearing with parenthood president richards. And later remarks around Vice President biden at yesterdays Human Rights Campaign dinner in washington dc. Newsmakers this week is congressman eliot engel of new york. He is the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs committee in the house of representatives. Congressman, thank you so much for being with us. Rep. Engel thank you. My pleasure. Let me introduce the two reporters who will be introducing you. Is a Foreign Policy and eight a Foreign Affairs reporter. We were interested to know what your initial take is on the developments in syria with the russian airstrikes, if you can give us your First Impression of that . Rep. Engel it is obviously very serious. It is another instance, in my opinion, of fusion putin being blustery and irrational and irresponsible. We shouldve expected it. I think it is also ironic that as soon as the iran talks with russia supposedly was
Opinions about that. I think the thing that i would observe is that there is one fundamental question that has the answer before you can consider a whole range of other technical questions, and the irst is about her own desire and commitment to running the kind of campaign that we all know take a significant personal toll. Life on the campaign trail is arduous, and it is a difficult ienge that is true of have fun at the existence of some republican candidates occasionally but this is true thatose candidates, too, they spent a long time away from their families, spend a lot of thaton the road, in cities in which their day and is rather late and start rather early. That is difficult. It is why it is important for a bunch of personal questions to be answered before you start considering a range of other things. Another thing i would say that i think is also important and i think this is something that the Vice President has considered as well which is that those kinds of questions are far