Lets get straight to one of our top stories. It is Hurricane Irma. This is the hurricane go function on bloomberg. It charts the path of the ongoing story. That northward shift we have been waiting for. We are getting a better indication of what will happen when it comes to that. The projected path right now as the hurricane approaches the u. S. Coast is for a direct hit up the west coast towards tampa. Buti might be squared, tampa looks to be the big loser here. Meanwhile, we are talking about a storm surge of about 13 feet up tampa. It is headed towards the north. We are not expecting it to come in to beaumont, louisiana or oil refinery hub towns in texas. One more things before we leave the hurricane go function, take a look at hurricane jose. It is coming up right behind Hurricane Irma. One of the forecast models has jose moving up the east coast and making landfall as a category three hurricane. Lets talk about some of the Market Impact we have seen. If you pull up the gmm irma hu
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Twoday fed meeting begins tomorrow. Crude prices, bouncing off the new 5 1 2 year lows. Looking to come back since their worst week since 2012. Consortium led by bc led by petsmart. Latest on the continuing hostage situation in sydney, australia. Futures on the rise, so are crude prices which fell to 5 1 2 year lows stock markets seven week winning streak ended with a thud and the selloff on friday. Last week the dow fell 3. 8 . S p down 3. 5 , almost every major average, jim, every major sector, was down except utilities, barely got into the green for the week. I went over the chart this weekend and they were amazing. The number of companies, stocks rolling over here, maybe it can be reversed but i see the oil futures hanging by a thread. We go to 57, 56, s p futures will be down. Were just not in a moment right now where people are actually distinguishing between winners and losers. Utility move was part because people feel u. S. Will need more power because they are bond market equi
Desperately needed. We were happy to do that. I think the record the record will stay open for 14 days for questions and comments. I want to thank the full panel here, especially mayor nevarre, via teleconference. Youre here, which is good. We appreciate that. Especially because youre dealing with a real live issue on the ground. We thank the panel here and thank you for your written testimony, theres a lot of suggestions that you placed in there that will examine. This committee that deals with emergency disaster first responders, fema and others, this is an important issue and i have a feeling as you described very well, mr. Hubbard, that the summer is just beginning and were already seeing a lot of issues. Thank you all very much. The meeting is adjourned and record will be open for 14 days. Thank you. On the next washington journal well focus on president obamas threecountry, fourday trip to europe. Our guest is stephen szabo. And well mark the 70th anniversary of dday from the wor
Steele. General, if i may go to you first, sir. One of the big headlines, as you may know, russia to ukraine, surrender crimean forces or face a military storm. That storm is scheduled at 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow, about 10 00 tonight. Whats your take on that, a military storm coming . Well, the only one thing im sure of in this entire crisis is the russians will never end a military stronghold to crimea. I dont hear general mccaffrey. Let me go to studio, have you got this . Im sorry. Im disconnected from general mccaffrey. Let me go to nick byrnes and see if he can answer well go to ben steele whos right here with me on set. Do you think this deadline is for real and do you think theres going to be a military storm . I dont think the deadline is necessarily for real in terms of the exact hour. But theres no doubt that moscow is ratcheting up the pressure, larry. And the west has very little leverage here, financial sanctions, trade sanctions, diplomatic sanctions. These arent things moscow