Northern ireland could have a very tough play off draw tomorrow. And all eyes are on todays weather. Ican hear and all eyes are on todays weather. I can hear in kent. This area was devastated during the storm is 30 yea rs devastated during the storm is 30 years ago. I will be talking about the weather today and also looking back at what happened 30 years ago. More details throughout the afternoon. More details throughout the afternoon. Thanks. Coming up on afternoon live we stay with that theme. If youre being affected by 0phelia, then tweet us your stories and pictures. And lets also have your memories of the great storm 30 years ago. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. Ireland has been battered by storm 0phelia. One woman has died, thousands of people are without power, and hundreds of schools have been forced to close. Whats described as a violent and destructive storm with winds of 100 miles an hour is now heading for Northern Ireland, parts of scotland, and west wales. In the
As Iraqi Forces Advance on kir kuk. Road m as we kick off a busy week for earnings. Plus a win for workers, the white house pitching the tax cut plan countering democratic criticism and seeing middle class americans would see incomes rise. Eye on subs, netflix after the bell and is expected to hit another record today stocks are looking to hit record highs, dow and s p 500 coming off five straight weeks of gains. Yellen saying the ongoing strength will warrant a gradual increase in rates. Meantime oil prices are higher this fighting between iraqi and Kurdish Fighting escalating and wti up almost a buck. 600,000 barrels in play and you also have to believe the area being destabilized has made it at least for a couple of days you get over 50. Ive got to tell you, ive got at least a dozen Oil Companies i monday ter that will be in there selling again today. They have to sell because they are exceeding their cash flow. So when you see 52, you need to see a breakout to like 56 to realize th
Rally straight ahead and buying homes with bitcoin. Sound crazy to you its actually happening in some major Real Estate Markets. Well tell you how it works and the potential pitfalls right now on power lunch. As tyler said, new record highs. We are now on dow 23,000 watch we were about 55 minutes away from it earlier, but weve backed off just a bit. Here is something random but interesting. The major averages have gone up in both september and october in only five of the last 20 years most recently, four years ago. And were on track do that this year what is moving right now etf tracking tech is on the move netflix hitting new alltime highs ahead of its earnings later on today, but nordstrom following 6 more on that in a few minutes. President trump having lunch right now with Vice President mike pence and the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Earlier he had a cab kninet meeting, comments he made sending stocks down a bit especially Health Care Companies as he lambasted Drug Comp
Going to thaerhear a little about that over the next couple hours. Hes going to join us, famed economist Robert Shiller, cnbc exclusive, to find out what he thinks about people using, yes, bitcoin to buy real estate thats a story were going to cover and ask the professor about it. Amongst other things as well. Geeky valuation questions. No. Yes i studied cfa for exactly this reason i con not rate. Were going to start with health care and a number of health cares from President Trump today on Drug Companies. Health care stocks taking a hit on those comments. Eamon javers is live at the white house if more on that. Reporter here at the whouit house the president of the United States scheduling an impromptu surprise press conference, brought a normal of us reporters to the rose garden, gathered around the podium the president came out with Mitch Mcconnell, republican leader in the senate the purpose of this gathering was for the president to say his relationship with Mitch Mcconnell is be
Gop establishment over the weekend. And Hillary Clinton in response to a question about Harvey Weinstein says, quote, we have a Sexual Assaulter in the white house, unquote. And, oh, by the way, her foundation not return weinsteins 250,000 in donations. Well get into that. Big day as always for politics and money. Varney company is about to begin. Ashley but we begin this hour with some breaking news. At least seven people are now reported injured and one person is missing after an oil rig exploded last night in louisiana. Lauren simonetti joining us for three hours today. Whats the latest from louisiana . Look at that picture, ashley. This happened about dinner time last night. Lake ponte cher train upon cher train, basically, that oil rig exploded. They dont know exactly why right now. The thinking is cleaning chemicals on the platform caused the explosion. Either way, you have seven people injured, at least seven, five of them were hearing are in pretty bad condition, and theyre sea