Im brian sullivan. Heres what else is happening at this hour. We are keeping a close eye on tesla shares. Why . Because elon musk tweeting, the company will make some kind of a big announcement within the next couple of hours. Kwou will hear it the moment it happens. Plus, the president just arriving in baton rouge. He will be touring floodravaged neighborhoods and is expected to make a statement later on this hour. And oil jumping on speculation that iran may be willing to overlook its feud with saudi arabia and actually back a production freeze from opec. Crude oil now up more than 1 , michelle. Brian, i am michelle carusocabrera. Three hours left in the trading session. Stocks are pulling off their session highs at this hour. Dow was up 102 points earlier in the day, while the nasdaq managed to hit a new intraday high. S p 500 came close too, still all three major averages are still in the green, 14, 19, five points roughly. Lets get a pulse check from bob pisani on the floor of the
Believe the jetliner was shot down by a surfacetoair missile. That plane took off from amsterdam with 298 souls. No word on whether there were any americans on board. Ukraines president blames prorussia separatists. They say they intercepted a phone call discussing the situation. Vladimir putin insisting ukraine is ultimately responsible. If it is results of the separatists or russian actions, i think theres going to be hell to pay. Israel has launched a Ground Invasion into gaza. The israeli army, one of its soldiers has been killed. So far 27 palestinians have died. The israeli Prime Minister has said hes ordered the military to prepare for a significant expansion of that ground offensive. What weve been hearing are explosions. Theres a rocket thats just been fired from gaza city. Dozens of homes have been burned by fastmoving wildfires in Washington State. An entire town is now being evacuated. A powerful typhoon is now heading for china. The strongest winds at the surface on planet
Out of conscious. Ive read about people and my father did it all stop and it was an extraordinary thing to do, to do it at a time in which i am in my last year of school, of college. My brother is in his first year of college, and hes going to walk away and im going theres the cash going to come from . He walked away and became an artist and went ahead and did what he wanted to do, probably from the very beginning of his life, which was to do art. But you dont come out of the depression and go im going to paint. Unless it was a house. It really affected choices that i made during my life. You choose what is you want to do. He was a much happier person after that. He started in stained glass and that was becoming too much and he said he could not get as much done and he studied acting. At the age of 83, he retired as a painter. At which point i said why are you quitting . And this is the greatest thing ive ever heard any artist say and the most honest ive run out of ideas. And my mother
It is important that the kids that age get the emotional and intellectual nourishment that they need, they will do much better. Despite all of that knowledge, today in New Hampshire, today in vermont, all over america, millions of working families are struggling to find affordable quality childcare. They cant do it because it is too expensive. The result is that millions of kids have inadequate Childcare Preschool education. The disgrace is that we are paying our childcare workers minimum wage in many cases. Low wages without benefits. What kind of priority is that . When we entrust little kids lives to them. We do not give them the training, we do not give them the income, we do not give them the benefits that they need to make that an important career. [applause] i think maybe we might learn something in terms of education in from countries like germany, denmark, sweden. They have said that in a competitive global economy, they understand, they need the best educated workforce possib
referee: good morning, i m amy hollyfield. where the victims in the blast in san bruno will meet with the head of the n.t.s.b.. he is going to tour the neighborhood where it happened and search for answers into what caused the explosion. eric: also this morning, angry neighbors blast police and firefighters for failing to do enough to stop a man from drowning. they call for an independent investigation into what went wrong. kristen: and helping fund schools for the poor. it looks familiar. marine layer clouds are back. warming trend are on tap for us inland and tell you how hot. thank you so much for joining us. i m kristen sze. eric: i m eric thomas. in a few hours, a chief of the national transportation safety board will tour the site of san bruno pipeline and explosion. they are investigating the cause of blast that killed 8 people. this is the first visit to the scene but homes are still boarded up. there is still empty places that are fenced in. it killed 8