Good monday morning great to be with you and great to be back with my partner phillip. Yeah, i am so happy to be back been gone for like a week. Cant wait to get right back into it. We begin this morning with a lifethreatening flood putting millions at risk as tropical depression barry churns its way inland officials concerned the flash flooding could dump more than 20 inches of rain in louisiana and wash out six other states. The coast guard rescuing 12 people this weekend who are left stranded in flooded homes. Nbcs Dan Scheneman reports. Reporter barry has been downgraded, but is still dangerous. Much of the southern portion of the state is still experiencing heavy rainfall. And it could lead to flash flooding reporter up to 6 inches of rain possible in some areas, in baton rouge, roads are flooded and creeks are overflowing the forecast has rain again all the way up the Lower Mississippi valley that rain will get into the valley and come back down to louisiana, so we want to make s
Good monday morning, im philip mena. Im frances rivera. President trump igniting a firestorm with a tweet and he suggested they go back and help fix the totally broken and crimeinfested places from which they came. While he didnt mention anyone by name he appeared to be referencing four freshmen democrats, none of whom are white, and all but one from the United States. Craig boswell has more from d. C. Democrats denounced the comments as racist. Reporter good morning, everyone racist is the key word and the four progressive congresswomen have fired back at the president as reaction from the president s tweets continue to add up this morning. Targeting a group of democratic congresswomen. The president saying they should back to the crimeinfe places y came from. All four are u. S. Citizens all but one born in the u. S. A sad state of affairs when the president of the United States is going to use race in a way that the divides the country and then be ignorant about who all these people
Prince harry and Meghan Markle are engaged. The pair has been dating since last year and they made their First Official public appearance appearance at the invictus games. We have more. So matt, good morning. What else do we know about the engagement as the details are trickling out . Reporter good morning. Yeah, were not hearing all that many details. But we understand that the prince and Meghan Markle are sitting for a photo shoot and were probably going to hear more of these details kind of trickling out. But its really exciting. Any engagement is exciting but this is a royal engagement. Thats very special. You know, this is an american. This is one of the major firsts for this royal family. So were starting to hear that its going to be in spring 2018. Thats kind of a Pressure Cooker wedding especially for a royal wedding. Now any wedding would take months to plan but this one well see a lot of pomp and circumstance. We dont know where its going to be. We dont know if its going to b
Picture coming off that selloff for the nasdaq yesterday down 1. 3 . It dipped lower in the afternoon, frankly it was pretty soft all day the dow was up half a percent. The s p was flat, but within the s p, some very big sector divergence tech, as we expected, down the most it was down 3 telecoms up 3 a big swing there. To be fair, telecoms up largely because of at ts gains yesterday coming off more positive comments from Ceo Randall Stephenson to becky quick in terms of his hopes of his side winning that ongoing dispute about whether or not to take over time warner. Tech very much the laggard yesterday. This morning the nasdaq is flat. The dow up 54 points the s p up 3. 5 points. Tenyear treasury note, we did see yields tick up yesterday the tenyear starting to inch higher but a bit closer to the 2. 4 level. 2. 38 today this morning yields pulling up a bit. In general the move over the last 48 hours has been yields picking up a bit asian equities, a soft session there. The tech sector
Good morning a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Great to have you back at headquarters its great to be back lovely to be alongside you thank you lets quick off with that big breaking deal news comcast making a 31 billion cash offer for british broadc t broadcaster sky. Sky shares shooting higher on the news sky up to 1,332. The bid price was 1,250. For most of the last year or so since the fox deal for sky had beenagreed, it traded below that bid price on expectations that regulators could block the deal now there may not be regulatory hurdles, but also now a bid war. Comcast lower in the premarket comcasts bid does rival the current offer from fox well have much more on the breaking story straight ahead. Great analysis and guests coming up throughout the show. Lets check Global Markets following yesterdays big rally. It was a strong start to the week with the dow gaining 1. 5 futures indicating a higher open for the dow which is up 18 points in the