Are about to hit some record breakers. Temperatures will be well into the triple digits. So concord should be 103 degrees. Today 98 the record set in 2005 so the records are just beginning. Come tomorrow, things will be dangerous out there. Excessive heat warnings friday and saturday up to 115 inland. Even the coast at the 80s. So the coast will be the place where you can cool off a little bit but even there, its going to be hot. Well let you know when well get a break from the heat. The weather will be hot as the workweek winds down. Jessica flores reports from livermore on safety concerns ahead of the record temperatures. Reporter good morning. I got to tell you right now its really cool in livermore. This is the time of day you want to go out and do your gardening or exercise. It is going to heat up to triple digits later today. Tomorrow, looking at 114. Thats why the National Weather service has issued the advisory today and the heat warning into tomorrow through monday. So all thr
The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the lord of the harvest, we acknowledge that only by your might can we live productive lives. Inspire our lawmakers in their daily work to labor for your glory. Give them the desire to please you even with their motives, so that their thoughts, words, and deeds will honor you. Keep them from avoiding irksome and unpleasant issues, as they arrange their priorities to accomplish your purposes. Lord, guide them in the paths of justice and cooperation. As understanding and forebearance prevail among them. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read
Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Im mike santoli in for wilfred frost. Good to see you great to see you. World is a busy place already when you see it this morning record day. We didnt close goabove 23,000, but we did hit it. It looks like the open we might get there. Lets check on the Global Markets. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. They were leeaning slightly to the upside the dow indicated up almost 50 points that would put it above the 23,000 mark if we stayed around there. The s p 500 just modestly above the s p hit an alltime high yesterday. The slow, steady grind continues higher nasdaq also pointed slightly higher seems like the action for the dow, most likely ibm that had the stock popping lets look at the rest of the markets. Tenyear note, we see modest upside to the yield. Back above 2. 3 on the tenyear. Its been kind of compressed people have been talking about how weve not been able to liv state t levitate the tenyear note yield. As the do you tries to exceed 23,000 once
Week look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei eking out another gain a gain of 9 points, but thats the 14th day in a row that weve been looking at gains for the nikkei these are the highest levels weve seen in 21 years nikkei closing at 21,457 the hang seng with a gain of 1. 17 . And the shanghai up by 0. 28 the dax is up, the cac in france is up by 0. 21 spain is up, but just barely look at crude oil snapped a fourday winning streak. It is still above 50s a b s a on the wall street agenda just one piece of economic data, september existing home sales out at 10 00 eastern time. Well watch that carefully after getting some week housing numbers lately fed chair janet yellen is the keynote speaker this evening at an event at National Economists club in washington ge, honeywell, Procter Gamble, suntrust reporting results before the open. Later today an exclusive interview with ges chairman and ceo, John Flannery 10 00 a. M. Eastern, squawk on the street. Just to give explain why
Quorum call mr. Merkley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Merkley i ask that the quorum call be lifted. Without objection. Mr. Merkley i ask that my intern sara finley be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Merkley thank you very much. Mr. President , i am coming to the floor to talk about the challenge we have with forest fires that have been raging in the west, from montana and idaho and washington and oregon and california, and periodically we have devastating fires in colorado and new mexico, nevada. So we have to figure out how we do a better job in a multitude of ways. First, its very important that we quit treating terrible fire year, enormous fires as if theyre some ordinary event, because there is currently no femastyle reaction to terrible forest fires. We respond with fema for for neigh tows and for tornadoes and with floods and hurricanes and with earthquakes but not with f