The incident. Not causing a backup yet but something to watch out for. 95 around the vine street expressway and ben franklin bridge no problems northbound or southbound but the total drive times here on 95 southbound from wood haven road to the vine street expressway where see that delay in the morning. Northbound on 95 as well 11 minutes. Blue route cars moving. 15 minutes at the most heading southbound up to 95 from the schuylkill expressway. We are following breaking news in the holmburg section of philadelphia where one person was hurt in a fire. It started on oakmont street. We are working to find out how it started and how badly the person was hurt and new information as soon as we get it. Preparing for the pope and the papal shutdown. Commuters and neighbors are bracing for major road closures when pope francis visits philadelphia next month. Lets begin with the ben franklin bridge. No cars will be allowed on it from friday, september 25th, to monday, 28th. If you need to cross
Cci up one point today. Oil is just above 42. In our road map this morning, target with a beat and a raise while lowes misses. Issuing words of caution, and11s years ago today google went public. First up target posting better than expected numbers. U. S. Comps up 2. 4, driven by items includes apparel. And then theres lowes a Quarterly Earnings miss beating on revenue. Comps up 4. 3 but issuing guidance slightly above consens consensus. 25 straight quarters of underperforming depot. Everyone underperforms depot. That Conference Call yesterday, its like they had this comp average, okay, about what aisles are doing better than others, and there were almost everything. Big ticket stuff and big ticket appliance for lowes. In my many dealings with home depot, were excited about the outdoor. You get spring planting season. Thats historically their christmas. In huge parts of the country, they had bad business. They still blew away the numbers. I have to tell you i feel bad for lowes. Lowes,
Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Carlson his way to florida and that is our top story, of course, of the morning Hurricane Irma the National Weather service downgrading the storm to category 4 earlier this morning, still packing devastating winds up to 156 Miles Per Hour Team Coverage this morning with nbc meteorologist back at hq jackie is in ft. Lauderdale. What can you tell us about the path of the storm . Its on track, continuing to move to the westnorthwest at this point between the bahamas and cuba over the day to day and looks like its on track to make a land fall in south florida early, early sunday morning. So well start by looking here off to my right. Because not only do we have the category four storm of irma, but we also have jose now category 4. So back to back category 4 storms in the atlantic at this point. But, of course, our main folk us is going to be irma. So if we look at the alerts that are going on throughout the area, its going to be right around south flor
4 we have some early delays and a new hazard reported. Westbound 4 near willow pass road but as you get through pittsburg and bay point you can see some delays. This morning 1,000 people still under evacuation in the santa cruz mountains. The bear fire burning near Boulder Creek grew to 300 acres yesterday and is just 15 contained. Seven firefighters have been hurt since the fire started monday night. That rain expected to help firefighters make more progress in containing the north bay fires. Now 80 contained. The sulfur fire 94 contained. Atlas is 84 contained and the nuns fire is 80 con taped. The pocket fire is 63 contained. The tubbs fire at 91 . Cal fire now expects to have the sonoma and napa county fires fully contained by tuesday. And new this morning cal fire has just release this had new interactive map that allows people in Sonoma County to look up the status of structures impacted by the fires. All of those red points mean destroyed homes. We do have a link. In santa rosa
Santelli. Just as a note to viewers, we are monitoring fbi director comey testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary committee. Hes already made some emotional comments defending his decision to make public that investigation before the election last fall. Any further comments into russias role into the election, the trump campaign, the clinton campaign, well bring them to you. In the meantime, its 8 00 a. M. At at apple headquarters and 11 00 a. M. On wall street. L squawk alley is live. Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Post 9 this morning. Jon is on assignment. Jo guys, good morning to you both. Watching tech stocks closely here today. Worst day for the nasdaq in several weeks. Shares of apple are slipping after reports after the close last night. Continued weakness in china. Our josh lipton is watching all of those details. Good morning, josh. Good morning, carl. Iphone shipments might have disappointed wall street but apple ceo tim cook telling me in an interview t