Families in one nearby dublin neighborhood were forced from their homes for about two hours. This morning, theres still no word on a cause of that fire. We are in for hot temperatures all week long, increasing fire risk across california. Meteorologist kari hall of course has been tracking that for us and kari, the heat continues. Yeah, we talk about how dry the vegetation is. You dont need the weather conditions because just one little spark could ignite a hillside on fire and today we do combine our dry conditions with high heat and a heat advisory in effect for all of these areas shaded in orange as we get a closer look from the north bay down to the east bay as well as a lot of our hills that are included in that heat advisory. You want to make sure that between the hours of 11 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. During the hottest hours of the day, youre drinking a lot more water, youre reducing the Outdoor Activities and also looking for the signs of heatrelated illness. As we start out toda
Off with the fiscal cliff. The president meeting with more ceos today bringing his plan straight to the people culminating in an appearance in a factory later this week. Costco joins the dividend parting initiating a 7 a share payout on top of the regular dividend. And a shakeup at groupon. The board may be considering cofounder being released. Theres powerball fever. 500 million big ones in the pot. How would you spend the money and how does the fiscal cliff factor in . Well talk strategy with a former Lottery Winner. We begin with the fiscal cliff. This afternoon president obama is scheduled to meet with several Business Leaders including ceos of home depot, macys, caterpillar and at t but futures are falling with signs there are troubles with negotiations on capitol hill. A market credible deal to solve the cliff is key to economic growth. That annual growth idea, that prospect is real in my view if we actually did get a market credible 4 trillion plan. The markets would realize tho
Flush out production in just a moment. Parking lots, it is awesome. Two stocks are hitting record highs. Dollar general betterthanexpected earnings moving up 4 and a 3rd . And shares from yesterday to buy from neutral all it took, of 1. 5 . Samsung finally takes the stage beating apple to the pump by unveiling his brandnew galaxy smart watch. It has the orange wristband, as you see. They started to display it on the big screen making calls, having wifi, all kinds of things. We are watching this very closely because they did this a full week in advance of apples expected presentation. Either one, will you be lining up for this . We break it down with the allstar panel later. Apple not sitting quietly after sending out invites to a big event next tuesday. Today the Company Announced an event in beijing on september 11 affected apple will debut the iphone 5s after its launch. Talk about shares of jc penney heating up as more hedge funds take interests. Nicole petallides on the floor of th
Liz countdown to the countdown. Currencies gone wild. Just 24 hours after g20 ministers tell japan and other big missions, no currency wars. If a weaker currency helps their economy, plummet against the dollar and the euro. Wheres the trade for you . Top currency strategist helps you dig for the treasure. Are your mutual funds socking you in dividend taxes . A morningstar analyst teaches you how to countdown starts right now. Liz good afternoon everybody. Im liz claman. Happy president s day. Yes, the u. S. Markets are closed, but we are open for business. And good thing at that, breaking news in just the last hour and a half, the wall street journal reporting that office max and office depot are in talks to merge. Sources say the talks are fluid, could still fall apart, but an announcement could come as early as this week. Office depot is the bigger of the two with a market value of about 1. 3 billion dollars. While office max, about 933 Million Dollars. Both have pretty much skyrocke
I need you to say no, its going to be okay. Its not going to be okay. Its not. Omarosa, oh, my, oh, brother. Can we really take her seriously . But we begin with a live picture of capitol hill, where democrats are pushing back on the president s refusal to authorize the release of their intel memo, meant as a rebuttal to the gop memo that was released last week. Here is what congressman rubin gallego, who was here last hour, told me. The republican memo has a lot of false assertions and in general leads the reader into a false direction. The democratic memo blows the cover that donald trump and his complicit partners on the House Intel Committee have trying to create, which is an excuse to fire the Deputy Attorney general. President trump tweeted this morning that the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods and more, would have to be heavily redacted, where upon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. Wer